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Medical research has found that laughter strengthens our immune system, lowers blood pressure, reduces stress and relieves depression and sadness. It also relieves pain as well as having many other profound healing benefits.
The idea of starting laughter clubs came to Dr. Madan Kataria ten years ago when he was writing a medical article about the health benefits of laughter. Since then, laughter yoga has grown into a social movement, with thousands of laughter clubs around the world. Kataria travels the globe training new laughter club leaders. In April he conducted workshops in Boston and New York.
This radio story introduces the laughter club idea and producer Vicki Farden leads the listener through a typical laughter training session, loaded with the rich sound of laughter.
Kataria believes that laughter not only improves health and happiness, but can also create world peace.
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Medical research has found that laughter strengthens our immune system, lowers blood pressure, reduces stress and relieves depression and sadness. It also relieves pain as well as having many other profound healing benefits. The idea of starting laughter clubs came to Dr. Madan Kataria ten years ago when he was writing a medical article about the health benefits of laughter. Since then, laughter yoga has grown into a social movement, with thousands of laughter clubs around the world. Kataria travels the globe training new laughter club leaders. In April he conducted workshops in Boston and New York. This radio story introduces the laughter club idea and producer Vicki Farden leads the listener through a typical laughter training session, loaded with the rich sound of laughter. Kataria believes that laughter not only improves health and happiness, but can also create world peace.
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TRAX: What’s so funny? Well, actually, nothing... That’s the training strategy of yoga laughter guru, Dr. Madan Kataria.
AX: (Nat group sound under) Kataria: Laughter club is an idea where a group of people gather, just to laugh, doing laughter as a form of exercises combined with yoga breathing. And when you laugh in a group it turns into real laughter, you don’t need jokes; you don’t need comedy to laugh. ( Nat laughter sound up and then down and under).
TRAX: The laughter club idea came to Kataria, a Bombay physician, when he was writing an article about the health benefits of laughter. ( Nat laughter sound up and then down and under, fade out).
AX: Kataria- After finding so much of research and benefits of laughter, idea flashed in my mind, if laughter is so good, why not start a laughter club. And, in the beginning we started the laughter club by telling jokes, which did...
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Posted on December 26, 2005 at 10:56 AM | Permalink
Review of Certifiable: Laughter Club Training
I believe one needs to be skeptical of any story that presents its subject in a 100% positive manner. There is no questioning on the part of the producer/reporter about any of the claims made by the subject of this piece. I find that troubling. If Dr. Kataria were selling a new massage chair or new skin cream and making all kinds of claims about their physical, spiritual and existential benefits, wouldn't it be expected that a reporter would ask questions like, How much do you make off of this? What tangible benefits can you point me to? These answers may exist and it's possible that if they were addressed, they would make the doctor's claims more valid (and make the story stronger). But because they are not asked, this story comes across a little bit like an info-mercial.