Let's Laugh Today
News
November 18, 2021
We trained 7 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders
in a Zoom training and also 2 new Certified Laughter Yoga Teachers!
March 18, 2021
We trained 4 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders from 3 different states
in a Zoom training!
March 18, 2021
We trained 9 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders from 5 different states
in a Zoom training!
October 4, 2020
The Laughter Yoga USA Zoom Conference was a great Success! Our Pair Share presentation went very well and all the presentations were very professional and informative.
September 9, 2020
We celebrated the 25th week of our Zoom Laughter Club!
March 16, 2020
We welcomed 5 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders from 4 different states
this past weekend!
July 17, 2019
We welcomed 10 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders from 7 different states
this past weekend! Also 1 Laughter Yoga Leader retook the
training to re-energize her Laughter.
June 15, 2019
We welcomed 4 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders into the world this past weekend as part
of our very first laughter yoga couples training.
March 15, 2019
Bill and Linda have now been
certified Dr. Kataria as Master Trainers! This means that they
can certify new Laughter Yoga teachers. Below is a picture of
Bill and LInda holding their new Master Trainer certificate.
March 11, 2019
We welcomed 5 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders into the world this past weekend! Also 2
Laughter Yoga Leaders retook the training to re-energize their
Laughter.
November 1, 2018
We have just returned from the
Second Annual Laughter Yoga USA Conference. It was a lot of fun
and also very informative. Here we are with Madhuri Kataria who
we spent some time with after the conference.
October 15 , 2018
We welcomed 5 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders into the world this past weekend!
July 15 , 2018
We welcomed 7 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders into the world this past weekend!
March 12 , 2018
We welcomed 5 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders into the world this past weekend!
October 9, 2017
We have just returned from the
First Annual Laughter Yoga USA Conference where we gave a
presentation titled "Play is the Way". 100 people attended with
3 other countries being represented.
July 17, 2017
We welcomed 12 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders into the world this past weekend! They
will be spreading joy & laughter in three different states!
It was a fabulous training here in Walpole, Massachusetts!
March 16, 2017
We graduated 10 new Certified
Laugher Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic March 2017 training.
Below are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
Oct 16, 2016
We graduated 4 new Certified
Laugher Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic October 2016 training.
Below are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
August 15, 2016
We had a great time attending
the Laughter Summit August 13 - 14. We received many
compliments on our presentation on Laughter Yoga with Props.
July 30, 2016
We graduated 5 new Certified
Laugher Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic July 2016 training. Below
are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
March 13, 2016
We graduated 5 new Certified
Laugher Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic March 2016 training.
Below are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
November 15, 2015
We graduated 5 new Certified
Laugher Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic November 2015 training.
Below are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
September 10, 2015
We had a good time leading a
laughter yoga workshop at the Live Happy, Live Healthy, Live
Green Expo in Woonsocket, RI. A reporter from the Woonsocket
Call was there and joined in the laughter. He wrote a nice
article about us which was on the front page of the Sunday
paper. Click
here to see a copy of the article.
July 18, 2015
We graduated 5 new Certified
Laugher Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic July 2015 training. Below
are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
November 10, 2014
We graduated 5 new Certified
Laugher Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic November 2014 training.
Below are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
July 27, 2014
We graduated 15 new Certified
Laugher Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic July 2014 training. Below
are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
July 7, 2014
Lately Linda has been doing
laughter yoga in a lot of different senior centers including
Framingham, Brockton, Easton and Marlboro. Click here to see a terrific article about
the events in the Brockton Senior Center. She loves working
with seniors and will be doing more in the future including a 4
week laughter series at the Acton Senior Center starting
Monday, October 27th.
The other exciting news is that
there was an article about us in the print edition of the
Boston Magazine! Click the picture below and then scroll down to the bottom of the
page to see the article. In the print edition the
article is prominently displayed taking up half a page!
March 13, 2014
On March 7th we were interviewed
on Walpole local television show "Artspace". We are doing Part
2 of this show tomorrow. Look for these half-hour shows to
appear in their video on demand section soon.
We graduated 15 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic March 2014 training.
Below are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
December 28, 2013
We were excited to write an
article titled "Spreading Laughter Yoga" for the Innovations
Excellence on-line newsletter. The Innovations Excellence web
site has visitors from 170+ countries! Click here to see the article.
We also had a story about us
printed on the front page of both THE WESTWOOD PRESS and THE
WALPOLE TIMES this week! Click here to see the WESTWOOD PRESS
version of the article and here for the WALPOLE TIMES version.
November 11, 2013
We graduated 13 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic November 2013 training.
Below are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
November 2, 2013
We had a great time at the 2013
New England Laughter Yoga conference in Bellingham, MA. Our
workshop on "Improving Your Gibberish" was well received.
August 1, 2013
There is a great article (A
Healthy Dose of Laughter) about us in the August Norwood Life
magazine. Click here to see the article.
We graduated 7 new Certified Laughter Yoga Leaders at our
FUNtastic July 2013 training. Below are the new leaders that
will be adding more joy to their personal and professional
lives and to the lives of others!
April 6, 2013
We had a great time
demonstrating Laughter Yoga at the Walple Health and Fitness
Fair. Below is the poster for the fair. We were the first event
in the morning.
March 12, 2013
We graduated 9 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders at our FUNtastic March 2013 training.
Below are the new leaders that will be adding more joy to their
personal and professional lives and to the lives of others!
February 20, 2013
The Westwood Patch covered our
Westwood Laughter Circle on February 20th and here is the
article:
Laughter
Yoga Lets Participants Chuckle Their Way to Health
Thank you to everyone who allowed the pictures to be taken by
the Patch. You all look MAR-VEEEEEL-OUS!
December 13, 2012
HA HA HAppy Holidays to
everyone!
It's been a busy few weeks. In
addition to all our regular laughter sessions we had three
special laughter sessions!
On Nov. 30th we led 30 students in a laughter session at
Brandeis University. On Dec. 6th we led a laughter session as a
FUNdraiser for Hurricane Sandy Relief at Get-In-Shape-For-Women
in Westwood. And then today, December 13th we led about 70
people in laughter for a Holiday Party at the Milford Senior
Center!
November 11, 2012
We graduated 8 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders at our Funtastic November 2012 training
with students from 4 different states! Below are the new
leaders that will be adding more joy to their personal and
professional lives and to the lives of others!
November 3, 2012
We were excited to have a front
page story about us in the November issue of the Franklin
Hometown News. Click here to see the article.
Also on November 2 we led a laughter session at The Overlook Life Care Community in a
beautiful auditorium there.
October 22, 2012
We enjoyed spreading the word
about laughter yoga at The New
England 50+ Expo in Marlboro on Saturday Oct, 20th and
Sunday Oct. 21st. We did two sessions a day and everyone loved
it.

September 22, 2012
We had a wonderful time leading
55 laughers at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Charlton, MA.
Kudos to Father Bob Gratt for doing a fantastic job of
publicizing the event in his congregation and the community at
large.

July 28, 2012
We graduated 7 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders at our wonderful July 2012 training plus
one of our former graduates attended in order to join in the
week-end of learning, laughing, and inspiration! Click the
pricture below to see the new leaders that will be adding more
joy to their personal and professional lives and to the lives
of others!

March 25, 2012
We graduated 9 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders at our wonderful March 2012 training.
Click the pricture below to see the new leaders that will be
sharing laughter with the world!

November 13, 2011
Here is the photo of us in the
Milford Daily Times leading the Laughter Bubbles exercise. Our
thanks to Dan for stopping by to take pictures of the second
anniversary of the Franklin Let's Laugh Today Laughter Club.


October 22, 2011
We had a great time helping out
Jeffrey Briar with his Teacher Training in Concord, NH. Three
of the students we trained as Laughter Leaders have now
graduated to being Certified Laughter Yoga Teachers! Below is a
picture of us with Jeffry at the training.

October, 12 2011
We took a trip to San Antonio,
TX and while there we did a laughter yoga session at a business
conference. They gave us this nice plaque in appreciation for
all the fun the participants had laughing with us. If you are
planning a conference and would like to include a fun and
healthy break, give us a call at 508-660-2223!

September 25, 2011
We graduated 9 new Certified
Laughter Yoga Leaders at our wonderful September training.
Click the pricture below to see the new leaders that will be
sharing laughter with the world!

August 1, 2011
We are excited and honored to
have received the Laughter Ambassador Certificate from Dr.
Kataria and Laughter Yoga International for our work in helping
to spread Laughter Yoga!

July 1, 2011
It rained the day of Our
Laughter Under the Stars event in Westwood so we laughed
together indoors instead. Vanessa McManus from the Westwood
Patch was there to take pictures and a video and wrote about it
here: Westwood Patch .

June 4, 2011
Our April training was a
FUNtastic time where we joyfully certified 15 more Laughter
Yoga Leaders from 5 different states. We are working on getting
a group together now for this lifetime certification on
September 24th and 25th.
 
We continue with the successful
laughter club in Franklin and the Westwood Laughter Circle and
have done laughter sessions for several private events. A
highlight last month was creating a whole series of laughter
exercises to compose a story about our cruise vacation! We have
also added a few new techniques to our sessions to turn
"simulated laughter" into "stimulated laughter". There is
always something different going on at Let's Laugh Today!

March 26, 2011
On March 7th we presented
Laughter Yoga to students at the Westwood High School. Here is
a newspaper story about it from the Westwood Patch: Westwood Students Take Time to 'Chill Out'
and the associated video. There was also a cover story about
it in the Westwood Press. Click
here to see it.

February 20, 2011
The new Westwood Laughter Circle
is doing very well. Our thanks to Matt Perkins for a nice
article about it in the Westwood Patch which includes a video and
some pictures.
We are looking forward to our
second Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training on April 2nd.
There are only a few slots left so if you are interested don't
procrastinate! We are pleased that our graduates from our first
training have been spreading the laughter.
We held a wonderful laughter
yoga session sponsored by the Medfield Council on Aging at the
Center in Medfield on January 19, 2011 and hope to do more in
the future. Of course we still love our club in Franklin on the
4th Monday of each month!

November 20, 2010
The big news is that we held our
first Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training with 11 wonderful
students from 4 states. It was a joy-filled weekend and a great
success. We feel like proud parents giving birth to our first
group of laughter children! They will help spread joy and
laughter in their communities. We are already looking forward
to having another rewarding training in the spring.
Since our last news reports
we've had a number of laughter yoga events. Our October Monthly
Laughter Club in Franklin was lots of fun as always and we had
events at the Sweet Sue-renity Holistic Center in Rockland, MA
and at The Center at Westwoods in Westwood, MA. We
also had an uplifting session at the Stoughton Unitarian Church
as part of their Free Market of Ideas Program. and Linda
brought laughter yoga to the Annual Womans Retreat at the Haven
for Healing in Hanson, MA.

October 15, 2010
On October 9th we were
interviewed by All The Rage Radio. Our thanks to Dr. Paula
Scully for the excellent interview and for creating this
valuable website. Click here to hear the interview.
The one year Let's Laugh Today
Laughter Club anniversary party on September 27th was a great
success! Everyone enjoyed the laughter exercises and the
delicious anniversary cake. 26 laughers attended!
Since our last news update we
have started laughter yoga at The
Center at Westwoods in Westwood, MA. It is a beautiful
spiritual learning center and we hope you will check it out.
See our home page for upcoming laughter dates there and in
other towns.
We are excited to be planning
our first Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training class on
November 13-14, 2010. Check out our Training
page for more details iif you are interesting in learning to
bring more laughter into your life. It promises to be a lot of
fun!

September 4, 2010
We have now graduated from being
Certified Laugher Yoga Leaders to being Certified Laughter Yoga
Teachers! We are just back from spending 10 amazing days in
Aubuquerque, New Mexico where we trained with Dr. Kataria
himself and also attended the annual American Laughter Yoga
Conference. Now we can help spread the joy of laughter by
training others to be Certified Laugher Yoga Leaders!
We shared ideas with other laughter leaders from 7 countries
and 30 states. We can't wait to try some of the new exercises
at the one year anniversary of the Let's Laugh Today Laughter
Club in Franklin, MA on September 27th. Click
here to see some pictures from our trip.
Since our last news update we
have had 2 more laughter workshops at Sweet Sue-renity Holistic
Center in Rockland, MA and will have additional workshops on
Oct 21, Nov 4, Dec 9, 2010

July 23, 2010
We have done a lot of laughing
since our last news update. The laughter club sessions in May
and June were great fun and we are looking forward to our July
session on Monday. For the June session we laughed through the
story of our recent vacation in Orlando! We are taking a break
in August, but will be back in full swing for the one year
anniversary of the club in September.
The Cumberland Rhode Island Public Library laughter session on
June 15th went so well that another one was scheduled on the
spot! It will be on September 9th.
We have led three laughter
workshops at the Sweet Sue-renity Holistic Center in Rockland,
MA and will have another on August 12th. A reporter and a
photographer came to our June workshop and wrote very nice
article which appeared in the Living Well section of the
Patriot Ledger and The Enterprise on July
21st. Click
here to see the article on line.

April 29, 2010
Everyone had a great time at the
April 26th laughter club session in Franklin. Since it got
warm, we opened all the doors and the peepers outside were
laughing with us!
We also led laughter sessions at the Franklin YMCA on April
21st and at the Sharon Community Center on April 12th. There
will be another laughter session in Sharon on Monday, May 10th.
See our home page for details of this and other laughter
opportunities.
We were excited to have an great
article about laughter yoga and Let's Laugh Today in the May
issue of the Fifty Plus Advocate. Look for it in
stores or click here
to see the article on line.

March 30, 2010
Much has happened since our last
news update. Most exciting was our March 22nd monthly laughter
club session celebrating Bill's 60th birthday and the club's
6th month anniversary. About 50 people attended and everyone
had a great time. The lemon filled cake was delicious! Click here to see all the pictures that
Jake Jacobson took of the event.
Linda led an amazing private
laughter session for 21 men and women from the Son's of Italy
in Walpole on March 23rd. Everyone felt very energized
afterwards! We also gave a private group session a part of a
Live, Love, Laugh women's event on Saturday, March 13th at the
United Church of Walpole .
We just had our second laughter
session at the The Healing Moon on March 29th. It was a small
group but everyone enjoyed themselves.
We finished up our 5 week "Let's
Laugh for the Health of It" adult education class in Franklin.
The class learned about the health benefits of laughter and how
to bring laughter into our lives on a daily basis. We plan to
have another 5 week class in September so mark that on your
calendars!

February 23, 2010
Our laughter session on Feb 20th
at The Healing Moon in Norwood was nearly full and everyone had
a great time. We will be having sessions there approximately
once a month with the next session on March 29th. Check out our
home page for details on this and other laughter opportunities
as well.
We can still feel the laughter
from the February 22th Laughter Club meeting in Franklin! Next
month's meeting will be an extra special one because it is
Bill's 60th birthday and also the 6th month anniversery of the
club. A local singer/ songwriter, Mike Dakota, will give a
short concert of fun songs after the laughter session and there
will be cake. We are hoping for the biggest laughter session
ever, so invite your friends!
We are preparing for the
Franklin Adult Education class starting Thursday, February
25th. It should be both fun and educational. So far there are
14 people registered. You can still sign up and get in on the
fun!

February 5, 2010
Our laughter session on February
3rd for Working for Work in North Attleboro went very well. We
all got to laugh in celebration as we showed our big job offer
letters to everyone. Thanks to all the club members who joined
us there and helped make it a success!
Also thanks to the all those who
braved the wet weather for last laughter club meeting on
January 25th. We played singing in the rain before the
session!
There is still plenty space for
the laughter session on Saturday February 20th at The Healing
Moon in Norwood, Ma. We hope some club members will join us
there.
And don't forget the Franklin
Adult Education class starting Thursday February 25th. Here's
you chance to laugh on a weekly basis and learn more about
laughter yoga.
See our home page for details on
all the upcoming laughter opportunities.

January 15, 2010
We had a very busy day on
Friday, January 14th. We held a laughter session for the
employees of a private company in the morning and then we had a
special evening session at Blackburn Hall in Walpole. Both
sessions were great fun and we had so much positive feedback!
We were so very excited to get
an early morning phone call from India on January 3rd. It was
from Dr. Madan Kataria, the creator of Laughter Yoga! He
congratulated on us our success in bringing Laughter Yoga to
the south of Boston. He also told us that he was very busy in
India working on creating a weekly Laughter Yoga TV Show and a
Laughter Yoga University .

December 31, 2009
Our fourth laughter club session
celebrating the New Year was great with over 30 people
attending. There's still plenty of room for more!
There are some other laughter
opportunities coming up including a free laughter session on
Thursday, January 14th at Blackburn Hall in Walpole and a
laughter yoga class on Saturday, February 20th at The Healing
Moon in Norwood. See our Home Page for details.
In addition we expect to be
teaching adult education classes in Franklin and Walpole. Watch
this web site for more details.
Happy New Year to everyone. See you on January 25th!

November 27, 2009
Our third laughter club session
was a blast with over 30 people attending. There's still plenty
of room for more!
There was a nice article about
us in the Living section of The Valley Breeze on
Wednesday November 24, 2009 (click the link below to see
it).
Laughter is the Best Medicine
Bill and Linda will be giving a laughter yoga demo class at the
Franklin YMCA on Wednesday December 16th. The class is only
open to Hockomock Area YMCA members. For more information, the
website is: www.hockymca.org.
Happy Holidays to everyone. See you on December 28th!

November 2, 2009
Our second laughter club session
was another success with 40 people attending!
We got another front page
article about the second session, this time in The
Walpole Times (click the link below to see
it):
Local couple starts laughter yoga club –
Let’s Laugh Today
There was also another article
on the first session in the Attleboro Sun Chronicle
Sunday November 1, 2009 (click the link below to see it).
Laughter is the Best Medicine

October 13, 2009
Our first laughter club session
was a great success with 40 people attending!
The Milford Daily News
had a wonderful front page article about the first session:
A laughing matter - Milford, MA - The Milford
Daily News
There was also a front page
article in the Franklin Country Gazette.
|