Workshops for Organizations, Embassies, and Private English Speakers Groups

Would you like to add more laughter to your life?

Would you like to throw all inhibitions away and feel free and joyful?

Children laugh 400 times a day, Adults only 20!!!

What is Laughter Yoga?   

In Laughter Yoga you can laugh, without depending on jokes or humor, the same way a little child doesn’t rely on any reason to laugh. In Laughter Yoga we use laughter as a form of exercise (we treat laughter as a kind of sport) so in a group of people having eye contact with each other, Laughter becomes infectious and contagious. Indeed, in laughter yoga we don’t need to be happy before we start laughing. The soul follows up when we trigger Laughter from our body.

Laughter Yoga enables us to transcend acquired inhibitions (which prevent us from laughing), thus boosting our laughter capacity and promoting our creativity, self image and self confidence. Laughter is also the best “ice-breaker” between people.

The workshop includes different Laughter exercises and games like: Lion Laughter, Monkey Laughter, Handshake Laughter, One Meter Laughter, No Money Laughter and so on. Some of the exercises require a partner so we always keep changing partners, and other exercises are done in a circle, in eye contact with one another.

At the end of the workshop we have a short laughter meditation, lying on the floor and laughing or keeping silent to observe the benefits of laughter.

What is Yoga in Laughter?
When we laugh in Laughter Yoga we stimulate our diaphragm muscle enabling it to contract and expand. This type of exercise is similar to the Yogic Breathing Exercise called “Kapalabati” (“kapalabti” is exhalation from both nostrils stimulated by the contraction of the diaphragm muscle). In other words, laughter coming from the belly is yoga by definition. However, laughter coming from the throat is not yoga.

In addition, Yoga means “integration of body and soul”. In Laughter Yoga we start with moving our bodies accompanied by laughter, thus enabling the soul to follow in. So the integration between body and soul is practiced.

How can it be beneficial if we laugh from the body only?
The body doesn’t know how to tell the difference whether you laugh because of a good joke or whether you laugh because you want to laugh. No matter how you laugh, the brain produces endorphins (natural pain killers) and bone marrow produces white blood cells, immunoglobulins and natural killer cells. Your immune system is boosted and the level of stress hormones is cut down.

Contagious Workshop & Public Seminar “Laughter is the Best Medicine”
The workshops include a story on oneself, a short movie on Laughter Yoga Phenomena, a lecture, “Laughter is the best Medicine”, and a contagious-dynamic workshop where people laugh their heads off. The workshop provides us with practical tools so the participants can use different simple techniques during the day in order to add more laughter to their life, in the workplace or at home. For corporate and IT companies, the public seminar will include an introduction about the role of laughter in stress-management.

About Alex:

• Initiator of Laughter Clubs in Israel
• Laughter Yoga Leaders Trainer who Conducts Workshops Privately and For Companies
• “LAUGHTER AMBASSADOR” AND “GIBBERISH MAN” as granted by Dr. Madan Kataria, for 2006
• Initiator of Peace building Projects and Interfaith via Laughter and Gibberish
• His workshops were presented in a Video-Art Exhibition in Darmstadt, Germany
• Alex has studied Laughter Coaching with Dr. Annette Goodheart in Denmark

Alex Sternick initiated the first Laughter Club in Israel (Jerusalem, August 2004) and brought the method to Israel. Alex was one of the two organizers of Dr. Madan Kataria's visit to Israel on December 2004.

On October 2006, in Berlin, Alex was proclaimed “Laughter Ambassador” (for his contribution of bringing Arabs and Jews to laugh together), as well as “Gibberish Man” for the year of 2006.

Since May 2005 Alex has been training Laughter leaders with permission from the International School of Laughter Yoga.

Alex is a Clinical Nutritionist and is about to finish his Masters degree in Public Health (Health Promotion Division), at the Hebrew University. In 2003, Alex studied Laughter Yoga in Bangalore, India where he also taught nutrition to high school students. Alex practiced Laughter Therapy with HIV\AIDS Patients in Bangalore and later, the same year, he moved to Ethiopia to work as a volunteer nutritionist and team supervisor with the Humanitarian Support NGO “Save the Children”. In 2004 Alex conducted Laughter Therapy in Mother Teresa’s -Missionaries of Charity in Addis Ababa in 2004.

Nowadays, Alex runs different workshops, Laughter Yoga and Gibberish workshops, in Hebrew and English, for companies, organizations, embassies and private parties. Alex works with parents and children as well as with teachers and students in order to bring those societies closer, and overcome the gaps, using Laughter. Alex is also involved in Conflict Management and Peace Building through Laughter Yoga and runs workshops between Jews and Arabs in all peace, spiritual-oriented gatherings. In the summer of 2006, his workshops were presented in a Video-Art exhibition on Laughter Yoga in the World, in Germany- Darmstdat Museum, after two video artists (in cooperation with the Goethe Institute) visited Israel and covered his workshops for the Installation presented in the museum.