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.
Queensland Mental Health Week kicks off today yet there’s a year-round social prescription supporting positive mental health: laughter yoga’s laughter clubs.
Laughter yoga is more than a bit of fun for university students, research finds: it’s a valid natural intervention that can be applied to beat daily stress.
The Laughie has evolved from hand-held tool to a therapy nurses and other health professionals can prescribe for more laughter daily.
Laughter clubs, practising laughter yoga in community, could be part of the solution to Australia’s loneliness epidemic.
Laughter Yoga can help develop confident eye contact, a key nonverbal asset in customer-facing roles.
Laughter clubs, practising laughter yoga in community, deserve to be part of the solution to Australia’s worsening loneliness epidemic.
Laughter yoga, done regularly and continuously, can wind back negative psychological effects of cancer treatments, recent research confirms.
There’s cause to celebrate International Day of Yoga, June 21, with laughter, harnessing the practice of laughter yoga.
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.
This article shines the spotlight on evidence-based reasons for Laughter Yoga supporting people with Parkinson’s disease, and their carers.