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Happiness in the Workplace
An essential component of a thriving, productive workplace. Creating a happier organisation through positive teambuilding activities.
What to Look For When Searching For Team-Building Companies
team-building companies what to look for, a checklist for teambuilding activites to boost morale, fun, emotional intelligence, and team bonding
How to Help Your Interns and Apprentices at the Induction Stage
Starting a new job can be an overwhelming experience, filled with insecurity, uncertainty, and immense pressure to prove oneself. How to Help Your Interns and Apprentices at the Induction Stage During the summer months, interns and apprentices navigate their first...
Is it true that Laughter is the best medicine?
Is it true that Laughter is the best medicine? Would you or your employees participate in Laughter Yoga to keep well and help combat all the office germs? You've likely heard the popular phrase "laughter is the best medicine", but is there scientific...
How Laughter Yoga helps the Mental Health of your Employees
How Laughter Yoga Helps Mental Health and Resilience Building Mental Resilience for Busy Professionals Work demands seem to pile up endlessly, and personal time often takes a backseat in today’s fast-paced world. Maintaining good mental health...
How much does a Laughter Yoga workshop cost?
This article provides a clear and transparent breakdown of the costs for Laughter Yoga workshops delivered by Serious Laughter. We believe in open communication and want you to feel secure and informed about your investment. The cost of a Wellbeing Laughter...
How to Boost Corporate Wellness with Laughter Yoga
In today's competitive corporate workplace, prioritising employee well-being is essential for maintaining a productive and thriving workforce. Laughter Yoga is a game-changer in corporate wellness, offering a multifaceted approach to enhancing physical and mental...
The difference between Online vs In-person Laughter Sessions
Online vs In-Person Laughter Yoga Sessions: Which is Better? Are you considering trying Laughter Yoga but unsure whether to join an online or in-person session? This guide will help you choose based on your preferences and needs. What is Laughter...
The Impact of Stress on Employee Retention and How Laughter Yoga Can Help
Stress has become a common problem affecting employees across various industries that require a fast-paced environment. High-stress levels impact individual well-being and affect organisations with decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, and higher turnover...
World Laughter Day
Sunday 5th May 2024 is World Laughter Day - an annual event on the first Sunday in May - it's not "just" laughter as in a giggle that is celebrated. Deep and hearty belly laughter is often simulated initially. Simulated laughter becomes genuine within 3-5 minutes,...
How to Prevent Employee Burnout Using Non-Sleep Deep Rest
“I’m tired” are words that most employees say on a Friday or Monday, but employee burnout is significantly rising. Burnout impacts a significant portion of the UK workforce, with one-fifth of employees experiencing its effects, as the number of long-term...
What happens in a Wellbeing Laughter Yoga session?
What happens in a Laughter Yoga session is often the first question at the enquiry stage. Let us answer this for you. First, let us share this big secret - you do NOT have to be happy to attend a Wellbeing Laughter Yoga session. Secondly, you may be relieved...
Compassionate Communication
Compassionate Communication for the Relationship Win, 366 days of the year. Awareness Days Love them or hate them, “awareness” days help us to bring conscious focus to a specific topic. This then allows us to think more deeply about this topic, and perhaps look...
The Key to Enhancing Children’s Mental Health
Unlocking the Power of Laughter Yoga: The Key to Enhancing Children's Mental Health In the realm of mental health, innovation is key. As we navigate modern complexities, effective interventions for children's wellbeing are paramount. Laughter Yoga, blending...
Fostering Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
The Transformative Power of Laughter In the fast-paced world of work, where deadlines loom, and pressures abound, the need for emotional intelligence has never been more crucial. Imagine a workplace where laughter isn't just a fleeting moment of...
What is Laughter Yoga?
What is Laughter Yoga? Is it Yoga? Laughing Yoga? Do we laugh whilst doing Yoga poses? Yes and no… Simply put, officially named Laughter Yoga (sometimes referred to as Laughing Yoga) is intentional laughter combined with deep Yogic Pranayama breathing. The History...
How to Survive the Christmas Party Season
Prioritising wellbeing in December amongst the festive season chaos As the holiday season approaches, so does the flurry of Christmas parties and gatherings. The air is filled with the promise of merriment, but amidst the joy, it's crucial to prioritise your...
How Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) can Impact Work and Life
How Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) can Impact Work and Life As the days grow shorter and darkness settles in earlier, many individuals find themselves grappling with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a type of depression that occurs at a specific time of the...
Boost Team Morale and Productivity: Why a Laughter Session is the Perfect Team Holiday
Is it time to give your team a holiday? “We’re all going on a summer holiday, you sing”. Except it’s not it’s coming up to autumn. It’s getting cold and there’s little to look forward to except the big C word (Christmas) which you either love or loathe. That...
8 Ways Laughter Yoga Helps Boost Your Energy Levels
Do you feel constantly tired? Worn out with your world filled with stress and exhaustion juggling work, life, and family? We all crave a little more energy to get through our busy lives. While many turn to caffeine or energy drinks, there's a natural and enjoyable...
Beyond your Comfort Zone
How to go from your Comfort Zone to Growth Zone As humans, we are creatures of habit. We tend to stick to what we know and what feels comfortable. The thought of stepping outside of our comfort zones can feel awkward, and intimidating, and become sceptical...
How to use Awareness Days in your Caring Company
Awareness days give prompts to help the wellbeing of your team. A reminder to bring to light the impact of taking care of the vital components in your business - the people who run it. Practical tips for implementing Wellbeing Awareness Days: 1. Plan in advance:...
The Cumulative Benefits of Laughter Yoga in the Workplace
The benefits of Laughter Yoga in the workplace are cumulative Laughter Yoga is great as a one-off session to give a big positive boost to corporate teams and communities. But why do businesses now need to focus on the compounded and cumulative effects that...
What is a Sound Bath and how can a Sound Bath help you?
As Dr Nicholas Peters and I collaborate in delivering wellbeing sessions including Laughter Yoga, Yoga Nidra and Sound Baths, it seems perfect that I should invite him to write this article: What is a Sound Bath and how can a Sound Bath help you? As a...
Stress Awareness Month
Being aware of our stress levels is incredibly important. The older we get the more we are susceptible to its effects on us. The observance of Stress Awareness Month every April started in 1992 to increase the knowledge about the causes and how to decrease stress...
Puppets for a Positive Impact
World Puppetry Day takes place on 21st March every year. Puppets have been featured in my life since I was probably about 8 years old. Do you remember Sooty and Sweep? Rod Hull and Emu? Nookie Bear? Pelham puppets? (my older sister joined me with that craze!)....
International Day of Happiness
The International Day of Happiness happens on 20th March every year. Why should we celebrate this day? The Laughter Yoga ethos teaches us that one of the greatest inner tools you can have is to know that every day should be celebrated. The International Day of...
How did Laughter Yoga start?
How did Laughter Yoga start Dr Madan Kataria and Laughter Yoga exercises to try for morale boost, happiness and stress relief
How to prevent Quiet Quitting
How to prevent quiet quitting Are you aware of the phrase quiet quitting? I used to be a disengaged, unmotivated, miserable team member. Honestly, I practiced quiet quitting back in 2002 – in an admin job which diminished my soul faster than ice melting in hot...
7 Tips to Keep You Positive on Blue Monday (and beyond)
7 Tips to Keep You Positive on Blue Monday (and beyond) You may already be aware that Blue Monday was initially a marketing ploy in 2005 by a British holiday company to make us buy more holidays after Christmas - on the back of psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall who...
The Comedian vs Laughter Yoga
Comedians have their place.. there's often a work "joker" - they're fabulous in-house comedians. Or there's Peter Kay... Were you in the LOOOONG queue for Peter Kay tickets? Honestly, I clicked to see how long I would have to wait - when the number 426,574 flashed...
The Incredible Benefits of Kindness
I'm writing this blog ahead of World Kindness Day (13 November) and personally I always strive to do random acts of kindness whenever it’s possible. But what I didn’t know was how many health benefits this has on the mind and body! So in this blog I thought I’d...
5 Ways to Prevent Burnout in Employees
As burnout is on the increase in the workplace, let’s look at 5 ways to prevent it, and help totop up inner energy levels. As you may be aware, burnout is a unique work-related stress. This can be recognised as having:– Severe lack of motivation and energy–...
5 ways that Laughter Yoga helps the mental health of employees
With the number of adults reaching out for mental health support and wellbeing increasing rapidly, it’s good to know that Laughter Yoga supports mental health – and there is no need to be happy to participate in a session. Here’s 5 ways that Laughter Yoga helps the...
Why Using Our Phone Less Can Help Us Live A Happier Life
Why Using Our Phone Less Can Help Us Live A Happier Life Smartphones have become a huge part of society and, subsequently, something we struggle to be without. We’re rarely more than a metre away from our phone! They go everywhere with us, and the result is we...
Grief and Laughter
IS IT POSSIBLE TO COMBINE GRIEF AND LAUGHTER? Let's chat about grief firstly… When my stepdad passed away there was a huge empty void but I was also looking after my tiny then 6 week old daughter. I'm a great believer of a life ending and a new life beginning. It’s...
5 Ways to Boost Motivation and get some Real Oomph
Motivated to get back to your work routine? Or lacking motivation? Perhaps you’re feeling distracted? “Not yet I’m busy doing something else…” It’s hard to get back into routines after schools go back – we’re often more on a go-slow and need to wind it up. That...
Work your Creative Brain with Laughter
Companies are enjoying Laughter sessions in more ways than just fun - Brainy benefits. They are getting ahead of their competitors with the creative brain which Laughter Yoga gives them. Why? Laughter and Play - 2 of the key elements in Laughter Yoga - work the...
Boost Your Immune System to stop Covid
How strong is your immune system? Sometimes you may not know until you get poorly. Frequently. As Covid keeps doing its rounds in variants, I want to raise awareness of how Laughter. I mean hearty laughter (as in Laughter Yoga) helps to really boost your immune...
Why Your Well-Being should be Your Priority
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the definition of wellbeing is “The state of being or doing well in life; happy, healthy, or prosperous condition; moral or physical welfare (of a person or community).” Is that how you are both being, and feeling, in your...
Why Carers have a Good Laugh
Since 2016 carers groups have come to me asking for Laughter Yoga sessions. At first, even I was a bit sceptical whether they would be able to laugh openly, knowing their circumstances. But you know what? People who struggle most, like unpaid carers, benefit the...
Why Laughter Yoga is needed for Wellbeing in Companies
Laughter Yoga acts as a social connector, a stress buster and a positivity boost. And so much more as you are about to read. Our bodies cannot tell the difference between intentional laughter and genuine laughter and very soon intentional laughter becomes...
Mental Health Awareness Month
We're now in May - Mental Health Awareness Month It's about time I shared the extent of my mental health journey. It will never end for me, it's about mental strength nowadays. I wasn't always happy - still dip several times a month even now. What I do know is...
The Yoga in Laughter Yoga
People ask me this all the time. In fact, people ask me this so often that my answer is very straightforward. The only yoga in Laughter Yoga is the deep Pranayma breathing after we have taken part in a laughter exercise. If we didn’t use deep breathing, we would...
12 Amazing Benefits of Laughter Yoga
12 Mental and Physical Health Benefits Of Laughter Yoga Laughing your way to good health – and mental strength – is definitely possible by practicing Laughter Yoga. The saying “Laughter is the best medicine” is actually true! Laughing on purpose (Laughter Yoga)...
What is Bollywood Laughter Yoga Dance?
What is Bollywood Laughter Yoga Dance? Way back in July 2019, at the Laughter Yoga Teachers reunion, I was introduced to a new offering from the founder of Laughter Yoga – Dr Madan Kataria. Bollywood Laughter Yoga Dance. Many teachers were uncertain. It was new. ...
Blue Monday or Monday Blues?
As you'll probably be very aware, Blue Monday was devised by a UK travel company to sell more holidays. Of course holidays are really beneficial to us when we have low mood! However there's real evidence that after Christmas, with little to look forward to we do...
Boosting Your Brain Power and Creativity
My vision is blurry – I need glasses. My brain is foggy – what do I need? What with varifocals, special computer glasses, reading glasses, blue light glasses. The opticians can give us so much “equipment” to help our eyes. What about our brains...
Thinking Creatively – Outside of the Box
Did you know that I’ve been self-employed since 2005? That’s over 15 years of experience, 5 years of which have been in Serious Laughter. During all of those 15 years I’ve not grown with expertise massively until the start of the Pandemic of 2020. Luckily, I love...
Looking after yourself at Christmas
Being alive and healthy is more important than Christmas. Than anything else I believe. You know the saying "You can’t pour from an empty cup". And one of the times we are so tempted to do just this is at the run up, and during, the Christmas holiday. There’s the...
Smile for Your Selfie
The Selfie has a healthy side to it... You know I had a profound thought the other day – Since selfies came out, most people do pretend smiles for them don’t they? Yes, this is faking a smile. Faking a smile creates feel-good chemicals inside you. Do it for long...
Love Everyone
What is love anyway? Does anybody love anybody anyway? So the Howard Jones' song goes. We love our friends, relatives and partners in all different ways. Each deserving our loving attention. We can really feel we're being pulled in all directions. So what's...
Do Schools Need More Laughter?
At the time of writing this blog, school children are spending a significant amount of time being home-schooled and on computer screens. There may be little social interaction which is light-hearted and designed to let off steam for both school children and their...
Importance of Warming up Your Laughter
Laughter sessions… with deep belly laughter. Slightly scary? Of course it can be a tiny bit challenging… it's stepping out of your comfort zone and into your growth zone. The only challenge is making the first step - going online to a session. You’re invited to...
The Story behind Seriousness… Serious Laughter Yoga
It was easy to think of a company name for my Laughter Yoga business. I had become a focussed, serious human being for a very long time prior to 2016. You see, the last time I remember my belly hurting, cheeks aching and eyes streaming through laughing was when I...
The Daily Giggle Channel… any place, anywhere, virtual laughter….
Being resilient and creative are some of the benefits of practicing Laughter Yoga regularly. Physical Laughter Clubs and Workshops are magical, not only with the laughter but also meeting people face-to-face. Back in October 2019 I started chatting with another...
Serious world, serious people?….
I’ve come to the conclusion that many people are serious and work to live. Is anyone thinking the same? Do you know anyone who is playful and positive, who makes you want to be with them like a magnet? Rewind… For the past 50 odd years I’ve searched for this...