Laughter yoga as a social prescription for better mental health
Queensland Mental Health Week kicks off today yet there’s a year-round social prescription supporting positive mental health: laughter yoga’s laughter clubs.
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Prescribing laughter for disaster survivors
The Laughie has evolved from hand-held tool to a therapy nurses and other health professionals can prescribe for more laughter daily.
How Laughter Yoga is easing Australia’s loneliness epidemic
Laughter clubs, practising laughter yoga in community, could be part of the solution to Australia’s loneliness epidemic.
Laugh Your Way to Better Diabetes Management
Mounting scientific evidence supports the practice of Laughter Yoga as part of the lifestyle changes and health interventions critical to good diabetes management. Here’s why.
Depression and exercise: could laughter yoga help?
Newly-published research that exercise ought to be part of core treatment for depression has laughter yoga practitioners celebrating. Find out why.
How Laughter Yoga is easing Australia’s loneliness epidemic
Laughter clubs, practising laughter yoga in community, deserve to be part of the solution to Australia’s worsening loneliness epidemic.
Playfulness key to adult health and happiness
New Australian research says regular group play activity makes for happier, healthier adults.
Laughter-infused therapy helps cancer patients
Laughter yoga, done regularly and continuously, can wind back negative psychological effects of cancer treatments, recent research confirms.
The Laughter Effect is a must-read
If you’ve ever questioned ‘laughter is good medicine’; If you’ve ever thought laughter yoga was ‘just a bit of fun’; if joy, positivity and resilience are something you would welcome a little more of, you need to read this book.
Why do Laughter Yoga? The benefits detailed
28 reasons or benefits of doing Laughter Yoga are detailed in this article as we celebrate 28 years of its being!