From lowering blood pressure and reducing inflammation to improving heart health and relieving stress, laughter has the power to trigger a number of positive chemical and physical benefits. View on eu ...

(RNS) — Wearing a bright pink tank top, Celeste Greene enthusiastically pops off the Zoom screen, clapping as she chants: “HO HO. HA HA HA. HO HO. HA HA HA. YAY,” each smack of her forceful hands ...

Ever wonder why we react to the same things over and over again in the exact same way? Since birth, our eyes, ears, and brain have been influenced to create movement patterns that our central nervous ...

A good laugh might help lead you to a good life. That's the notion compelling older Tucsonans to follow the mantra "laughter is the best medicine" in new yoga classes that follow an easy syllabus: All ...

Melanin Bee arches her spine like a stretching cat and releases a loud, exaggerated laugh. It begins as an awkward, ...

Cardiac surgeon Dr. Gulshan Sethi is unfazed by the scowly-faced skeptics who show up to his laughter yoga sessions, arms folded across their chests. The way he sees it, those are the people most in ...

When Betty Brown first read about Laughter Yoga in 2008, it was only beginning to grow in the United States, with the nearest program online showing up in California -- a distance not easily traveled ...

Marilyn Fogelquist truly believes laughter is the best medicine. She has attended conferences and run workshops on the topic and spent 10 years working as a clown. Now at age 83, she is spreading the ...

Six in the morning is way too early for the kind of raucous guffaws that are echoing around a sports ground in central Bombay. Walkers and joggers are frowning at a group of 40 people hooting and ...

Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh. The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles —“oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha”— soon ripples into genuine ...