BBC and Google have used it in their offices. Oprah Winfrey promoted it on her show. Mira Nair filmed a documentary on it.
Laughter yoga is a revolutionary idea: simple and profound. It’s a practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter, based on scientific studies that have concluding that such laughter offers the same psychological and physiological benefits as spontaneous laughter.
Today, laughter yoga has become popular worldwide as a complete workout. It is practised in more than 100 countries. This comprehensive book by the founder of the laughter yoga club movement, Dr Madan Kataria, tells you what laughter yoga is, how it works, what its benefits are and how you can apply it to everyday life.
‘Laughter yoga is a perfect way to laugh and get exercise at the same time…I’ve tried it, and it works.’ – Oprah Winfrey
‘Laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.’ – John Cleese, after visiting a laughter club in Mumbai during the filming of BBC’s TV series The Human Face
‘Laughter yoga exemplifies a form of ‘right-brain thinking’ that managers should promote.’ – Daniel H. Pink