In September, I traveled to Chicago for the All America Laughter Yoga Conference. It was the fourth one at which I’ve presented. This year, my contribution was primarily laughter dances. I’ve been experimenting with combining laughter with various dances—both folk and popular. My presentation was called “Laugh Deeper: How to Harness the Spiritual Power of Laughter Yoga.” Within that presentation, I taught a laughing Hora dance (from the Jewish faith), led a laughing drumming circle (from the Native America tradition) and a laughing labyrinth (and ancient spiritual practice from many world religions). I also collaborated with Anne Timpany since she and I were both working with the spiritual realm. That way, I also got to experience her Embodying Joy exercises as part of our joint break-out session. The whole conference was uplifting as always. Here are some fun pictures from the event. Some are borrowed from Laughter Yoga Amerca and the rest are my own. Enjoy the pics and consider attending next year’s conference. More information at: www.LaughterYogaAmerica.com.
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| The whole group (mostly) |
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| A circle dance I led |
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| During my presentation |
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| At the costume party |
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| My morning session of breathing and laughing and singing and blessing |
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| The laughter blessing in my session |
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| Another laughter blessing is being given |
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| More laughter blessings |
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| Ha ha ha! |
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| The closing part of my morning session |
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| Lyrics to a simple laughter dance I taught |
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| With the AMAZING Sarito Sun |
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| With the AMAZING Christine Bills (wearing her You are Amazing shirt!) |
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| Laughing with Anne Timpany and Sarito Sun |
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| Laughing with my new friend from Russia |
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| with Christine, one of my many HA HA sisters |
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| with my pink feathered friends |
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| With the AMAZING Merv Neal from Australia |
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| Merv, Anne and Sebastien |
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| Merv and Sebastien taking their own picture |
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| With my HA HA Sister, Linda Leclerc from Canada |
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| With my roomie and gelotologist friend, Hilary Licht |
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| Laughing with Sarito and Linda |
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| Go Merv! |
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| With Laughing Jodi Hart |
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| Christine and I with our friend KO from Japan! |
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| with Linda Tourlukis |
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| Sarito's presentation |
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| During the HA HA Sisterhood ritual led by Linda Leclerc |
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