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Use the fun atmosphere generated by our high energy, high impact experiential laughter sessions to relax and motivate your employees!
Laughter Yoga is a radically different approach to fun, healing & stress management that combines simple laughter exercises with gentle yoga breathing techniques. Nothing strenuous! If it’s not fun, we don’t do it.
What is unique about us is that we do not use jokes or comedy. Participants get to experience free-flow laughter on their own terms. You do not need to be happy or have a sense of humor to laugh.
Laughter is not only good medicine, it's good business. People who have fun on the job are more creative, more productive and get along better with co-workers.
When To Consider Us
When you are looking for "something different" – in any meeting where you need to motivate and / or energize people.
Conferences
Energize your group with laughter. Use our engaging sessions as a dynamic, fun-filled opening activity; as an after lunch or mid-conference energizer; or as high energy, send-them-home-with-a-bang closing session.
Workshops
Have people working cooperatively and collaboratively from the start.
Training Days
Create memorable, enjoyable events that encourage everyone's participation. Laughter Yoga is a fun and powerful way to help participants leave their inhibitions at the door and get into serious creative & learning mode.
Meetings
Revitalize staff.
Quarterly Review / Kick-Off / New Anything
Laughter sessions help to dissolve tensions within a group. Just after the session may prove to be the best time to promote new initiatives and strategies.
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Laughter Makes Business Sense
Up to 90 percent of the doctor visits in the USA may be triggered by a stress-related illness, say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Today's business demands have put a tremendous strain on our global workforce. Longer hours coupled with fewer resources are pushing more and more management and employees to their breaking point. Combined with the need to achieve work-life balance stress is taking a tremendous financial and personal toll on US business profitability:
- $300 billion per year or $7,500 each employee is paid out for stress-related compensation claims
- 1 million workers went on stress-related disability in 2004
- 75% of doctors visits are for stress-related conditions
- Eight of the top 10 prescription drugs marketed today are for stress-related conditions
- Stress is directly associated with depression, anxiety, asthma, alcohol/drug addictions and other conditions that affect the nervous and immune systems.
- Approximately 100 million Americans suffer stress related from chronic health conditions: heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancer.
Laughter is a logical part of the solution
Leadership that encourages self-esteem, cooperation, creative thinking, job satisfaction, and a place where people want to be is the emerging demand from today's work force.
Leadership that increases productivity and profit is the emerging demand from today's corporate owners and executives.
Laughter is a logical part of the solution.
In addition to helping employees cope with change, laughter is the only management tool you'll ever find that will do all the following:
- Bolster eroding trust
- Boost morale and motivate employees
- Build resilience
- Create rapport with customers
- Deflect criticism
- Get and hold attention
- Make communications less awkward
- Manage conflicts
- Persuade others to see (and perhaps adopt) your point of view
- Reduce burnout
- Reduce tension, frustration and anger
- Remove intimidating barriers between management and non
- Management employees
- Stimulate creative problem solving
- Strengthen bonds between co-workers
- Strengthen memory of the points you want to be remembered
- Sustain a positive attitude on the job
- And most importantly keep everyday hassles and problems in perspective.
Laughter is natures most economical and instant stress buster and regular laughter sessions lead to scientifically measured stress reductions of 50% or more. It also helps in coping with psychological problems like low self-esteem, depression and phobias.
The effects of Laughter Yoga are described by some companies as "revolutionary", and yet a typical program consists of inexpensive weekly sessions lasting 20 to 30 minutes.
Laughter Yoga exploded from just 5 to hundreds of thousands practitioners in 53 countries in eleven years with no marketing or advertising campaigns. It is set to grow even faster as businesses, governments and multinational corporations discover the benefits and excellent return on investment.
Quantifiable Business Benefits
Regular participation in Laughter Yoga sessions can substantially improve the physical and mental condition and health of a company's workforce. For maximum benefits and team building improvement all members of the organization from top to bottom should participate.
- Mental and Physical Stress Reduced
Laughing substantially reduce negative stress hormones including beta-endorphin, corticotrophin, cortisol, growth hormone, prolactin, and the catecholamines. Stress levels are often reduced by 50% or more.
Highly stressed employees may experience a catharsis during the initial intensive laughter sessions as major causes of stress are dealt with and laid to rest.
Laughter Yoga also provides staff with a way to deal with stressful situations without becoming stressed.
Decreased stress allows staff to work more effectively and efficiently
- Increased Energy Levels & Productivity
Laughter Yoga provides a light aerobic workout and focus on breathing.
There is a substantial increase in oxygen supply to the body, especially to the brain cells which require more oxygen for optimal functioning.
Participants experience a surge in energy levels leading to peak performance.
- Positive Feelings of Hope & Optimism
The release of stress that comes in Laughter Yoga sessions stimulates feelings of hope and optimism. The high levels of oxygen provide feelings of wellness and vitality.
In the workplace this translates to improved morale which improves all aspects of company performance.
- Improved Communication & Teamwork
In Laughter Yoga sessions participants are encouraged to communicate with all other group members. Group laughter is a team experience that reduces ego and overcomes inhibitions and shyness.
The shared positive experience creates bonds between all participants including managers and staff and reduces barriers to communication.
Laugh as a team, work as a team!
- Improved Leadership Skills
Improved teamwork and cooperation allows leaders to manage more effectively.
It has been noted in many companies that leaders become more effective.
- Increased Creativity & Innovation
Laughter Yoga sessions foster creativity and innovation by creating a conducive environment for creative expression.
People who feel at ease, secure and happy achieve more. They suffer less stress and are better at constructive problem solving.
Daily chores are less burdensome when we laugh while doing them. We aren't always having fun, but we do have a lot more fun with laughter than without. Laughter puts anxiety on a back burner for everyone. We can't laugh and worry at the same time.
- Healthier Staff and Reduced Sick Leave
Regular Laughter Yoga sessions have a powerful positive effect on the immune system.
Participants who practice on a regular basis often notice that they become sick less often and a feeling of health and wellness ensues.
This can impact dramatically on absenteeism and medical costs with large saving to the organization.
- Improved Performance & Profitability
Laughter Yoga leaves your staff feeling happy, healthy, revitalized and energized. It improves communication, teamwork and productivity. It decreases stress and illness.
This means all-round better performance and a healthier bottom line.
Contact us for more information about our engaging, high-energy, high-impact workshops as well as keynotes on laughter in the workplace.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: I have had a traumatic [this or that] in my life and I can't laugh anymore. I just don't have it in me!
A: How long do you want to keep punishing yourself? We say you can laugh. You say you can't. Such a contradiction cannot exist. Leave your mind at home and just bring your body to our presentation. We guarantee it will know what to do.
Q: We want our managers to model and motivate hard-working behavior toward common goals, not to run around having fun. There's no place for fun on the job
A: Think again. People who feel at ease, secure and happy achieve more. They are better at constructive problem solving, suffer less stress and take less sick leaves. A playful approach to everyday things is a key factor in keeping healthy. Daily chores are less burdensome when we laugh while doing them. We aren't always having fun, but we do have a lot more fun with laughter than without. Laughter puts anxiety on a back burner for everyone. We can't laugh and worry at the same time.
Q: We have serious anger issues at work between individuals that are very inappreciative of one another. Will your program help?
A: There is only one condition for our program to work. People have to be willing to play with us. Skepticism is fine. Refusal to cooperate is not. Anger is a personal choice that has inherently nothing to do with our environment. Its root cause is within. If you choose to be angry you will get precisely that no matter what people say or do. Work with us and you will quickly discover that anger and laughter are mutually exclusive. You simply cannot be angry with someone and still laugh with him/her at the same time. We get people to laugh for no reason, and as such force them to leave their rational mind to enter the creative realm that is the present. The "here and now" knows nothing of who has done what in the past and doesn't care about what will happen in the future. It is a space of unlimited potential where any challenge can be constructively and positively approached and resolved.
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