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Is laughter yoga therapy?

26 August 2019 | HeatherJoy Campbell | Wellness

Is laughter yoga therapeutic? The experience is invariably joyful, playful and uplifting. say it improves their quality of life. The decision is as individual as you are.

Laughter Yoga included in Workplace Mental Health Symposium

15 July 2019 | HeatherJoy Campbell | workplace

Laughter yoga plays a part at the upcoming Workplace Mental Health Symposium, a gathering of HR professionals, business leaders and mental health workers from across Australia, in Brisbane in September.

Laughter yoga facilitator Heather Joy Campbell stretches and laughs sitting on rocks in front of the ocean in sunset

Meditation through laughter

7 February 2019 | HeatherJoy Campbell | Wellness

Science shows laughing and meditating share similar brain wave patterns.

A gemstone held between thumb and forefinger, found in Queensland gemfields

How laughter became a gem for Central Highlands’ wellbeing

2 March 2018 | HeatherJoy Campbell | Community, Mental health

Laughter yoga proves a gem of a practice for Queensland’s Central Highlands and Isaac regions, rolling out Wheel of Wellbeing.

Teachers reminded play and laughter defuse stress, boost learning

26 October 2017 | HeatherJoy Campbell | children, schools, training, Wellness, workplace

No play, no learning. Know play, know learning. There’s a place for playfulness and laughter in classrooms and school staffrooms notes The Happydemic’s HeatherJoy.

Stock image. Illustrative only, Mature woman hugging her old mother.

What’s to laugh about in Carers Week?

17 October 2017 | HeatherJoy Campbell | Health, Laughter Yoga, Mental health, Wellness

Carers Queensland’s latest Quality of Life report suggests there’s nothing to smile about, let alone laugh, yet laughter as an exercise could be a key to carers’ well-being.

R U OK - four letters in text-talk that check in to see how someone else is

Check in, say hello, share a laugh on RU OK Day

31 August 2016 | HeatherJoy Campbell | Health, Laughter Yoga, Mental health, workplace

Connect with family, friends and workmates in reality not virtuality this RUOK? Day implores laughter yoga teacher Heather Joy who’ll be applying the social glue of laughter in the Rockhampton community on 7 and 8 September 2016.

Hosiptal staff are in a training session, arms outstretched and laughing, with Dr Arul Kumaran.

Malaysian health turns to laughter for stress management

3 May 2016 | HeatherJoy Campbell | Health, Laughter, Laughter Yoga, Wellness, workplace

Medical and nursing staff in Malaysia are being prescribed laughter as hospital management grapple to contain burn-out, The Happydemic’s Heather Joy reports.

man on his knees, looking under a couch seat for something he has lost

How can we lose something as natural as breathing?

7 January 2016 | HeatherJoy Campbell | Health

Getting caught up in the seriousness of life, somehow we can forget something as natural as breathing: laughter.