Don't Miss The Most Important Laughter Yoga Event Of The Year In North America!

Join many kindred spirits, fellow happy human beings, and the most senior figures in the North American Laughter Yoga movement.

5 Good Reasons To Attend:

Add To Your Personal & Professional Expertise. Discover how laughter helps many lead better lives and achieve more, better.
Get inspired! This event will fill your positivity cup to the brim.
Grow. Laughter Yoga is not about finding laughter, it's about being joyful. Learn how to properly manage negative emotions.
Make new friends.
Reconnect with the joy inside you experienced as a child, whithout fear of judgment (it will be fun!)

"I was amazed with the 2009 program. It was excellent, comprehensive, educational, creative and experiential - all at once. I'm thrilled and will use my skills at every opportunity."

Kate Altieri,
LCSW CAC III

Key Things You Need To Know

What, When

Posted On February 21, 2010 In Category Announcements, F.A.Q.s

Certified Laughter Coach Training Program | Register
(36h total, starts with 3 days 8/24 until 8/26)
Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training Program | Register
(2 days ─ 8/24 until 8/25)

STARTING THURSDAY 8/26

Laughter Yoga Intensive, Refresher Course | Register
(1 day ─ 9am until 4:30pm)
Main Conference Event (20 workshops) | Register
(3 days ─ From 7pm on Thursday 8/26 until 12 noon on Sunday 8/29. You can buy a day pass only.)

SUNDAY 8/29

Create Your Own Vision Board & Manifest Your Most Heartfelt Goals | Register
(4 hours, 2:30pm until 6:30pm)

STARTING MONDAY 8/30

Games That Make People Laugh: A Workshop In Playfulness As A Life Skill | Register
(2 days ─ From 9am on Monday 8/30 until 12 noon on Tuesday 8/31)

How To Get There

Posted On February 21, 2010 In Category Announcements, F.A.Q.s

The 5th Annual 2010 All America Laughter Yoga Conference will take place at the Sandia Courtyard Hotel and Convention Center (www.sandiacourtyardhotel.com), 10300 Hotel Avenue, NE Albuquerque, NM 87123 (see map).

By Plane: we suggest you check for best airfare at www.kayak.com. Your destination airport is ABQ (Albuquerque International Sunport). Click here for a list of all the airlines flying into ABQ.
By Train: visit Amtrak or New Mexico Rail Runner
By Bus: click here to plan your bus trip within the Albuquerque city limits; for interstate travel see www.greyhound.com
By Car: click here for a list of all the car rental companies in Albuquerque
Need A Travel Agent? click here for a list of travel agents in Albuquerque

2010 Conference Program

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8/27 ─ Laughter Yoga in Integrative Medicine

In this workshop Caroline A. Meeks M.D. otherwise known as “Dr. Funshine” will share some stunning highlights of the History of the use of Laughter Yoga in Integrative Medicine; sort out facts and fiction regarding the science of laughter; share time-proven techniques she uses in her own medical practice for instant stress ...

8/27 ─ Laughter Yoga as a Conflict Management Tool at the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Tonianne Baca-Green has used Laughter Yoga in the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, as a tool to teach employees and managers how to manage conflict by focusing on peace, not war, love, not hate. She has incorporated a LY segment with ppt research slides into a training ...

8/27 ─ Bringing Light to the Darkness: Laughter Yoga in Prisons

Learn how you can bring Laughter Yoga into the prisons! Almost nowhere is laughter needed more than in prisons. Jane Davis and Debbie Ellison, through HOPE-HOWSE, a non-profit organization based on service as a path to peace, have worked with inmates for years. Their work is based on compassion and seeing the ...

8/29 ─ Journeys on the playful path

In this keynote address funsmith Bernie DeKoven will talk about the psychology of fun and journeys on the playful path that enrich people's lives. During the course of their working lives, most people lose touch with the sources of their personal power. Thirty-five years ago, while developing a curriculum in theater for ...

8/26 ─ Opening Keynote: Laughter Yoga In 2010 And Beyond (Free Event!)

Sebastien Gendry is the C.E.O. of the American School Of Laughter Yoga (oldest and largest provider of Laughter Yoga education in North America), and a leading Laughter Yoga expert in the world.

8/24 ─ Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training Program (2 days)

Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training Program. Learn To Provide Genuine Help and Hope, not Hype. With Sebastien Gendry, C.E.O. of the American School Of Laughter Yoga

8/29 ─ Create Your Own Vision Board & Manifest Your Most Heartfelt Desires

Vision Board expert Vicki Howie will guide you through a hands-on process of creating your very own Vision Board - one that will help you clarify your dreams and inspire you to manifest your most heartfelt goals. You will learn how to incorporate Feng Shui techniques to make your Vision Board more ...

8/29 ─ How to break a Guinness World Laughter Record

Merv Neal will explain and show how he got more than 10,000 people to a public event to establish a world record for a laughter group. He will go through the strategy and steps he followed, the hurdles he had to overcome, and then the outcomes in regard to raising the profile ...

8/30 ─ Games That Make People Laugh: A Workshop In Playfulness As A Life Skill (2 Days)

Join funsmith Bernie DeKoven for this special 2 days intensive, highly instructional, ultra-pragmatic and profoundly fun laughter training where you will explore and expand your own sense of fun to enrich and bring a new level of vitality to your own life and that of the people you work with. This event ...

8/26 ─ Laughter Yoga Intensive, Refresher Course (1 day)

Laughter Yoga Intensive, Refresher Course, with 2 of the most seniors figures in the international Laughter Yoga movement. AM: Refresh and hone your Laughter Yoga group facilitator's skills with one of the world's leading laughter yoga teacher. PM: learn how to create a “killer business presentation”, how to deliver the same without ...

8/26 ─ Laughing, Breathing and Relaxing your way to Joy (Free Event!)

Experience the joy of an embodied Laughter Yoga session with playful introductions and animated benefits exercises, in-depth diaphragmatic breathing information and exercises, some laughter yoga exercises that work with serving the homeless population, and some techniques for enhancing the laughter meditation and deep relaxation (the icing on the cake!) Bring a blanket ...

8/24 ─ Certified Laughter Coach Training Program (3 days)

The Levity Institute’s Certified Laughter Coach Training Program is a 36 hour Certificate Program which is comprised of both face to face training retreat hours and follow-up phone and video conference hours.

8/27 ─ Bursting Forth with Laughter: Learn Lasting Techniques To Boost Your Self-Confidence With Laughter

Join Rita Skelly for a fun-filled liberating laughter experience. Hear about her personal challenges to stay sane while dealing with learning difficulties ( ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia). We will breathe and laugh our perceived weaknesses in energy that can be used to help us relax into the warm nurturing safe surroundings of our ...

8/27 ─ New Developments in the field of Laughter Coaching

Laughter Coaching is the practice of working with individuals one on one and in small groups to introduce and re-establish the energy of laughter in their lives. In this session, we will be looking at new practices and niches in this new branch of life coaching. The participants will get ...

8/27 ─ Laughing the Trauma Away

In this workshop discover how various laughter exercises, pranayama, and visualization techniques have transformed children and adults who have been victims of war, are dealing with life threatening illness, have been abused or have post-traumatic stress. Fif Fernandes has helped many children and adults heal from deep wounds and find peace in ...

8/27 ─ Hasya Yoga as a Spiritual Practice: Integrating Laughter with Traditional Yoga

In this workshop we will explore ways to integrate Hasya Yoga with more traditional Yoga/dharma practices to both deepen and (en)lighten our spiritual understanding. We will play specifically with asana (postures) as well as other essential elements from the traditional “eight limbed” and “eight fold” paths. Using interactive exercises we ...

8/27 ─ Group Activity: Favorite Laughter Yoga exercises, songs and games

This workshop is a group sharing session where all conference participants are invited to share the Laughter Yoga activities that they most like / recently discovered / have had the most success with (laughter exercises, songs, dances, games...).

8/27 + 8/28 ─ Festival Of Entertainment + Dances Of Universal Peace (Free Event!)

Part 1: Celebrate and Play as only Laughter Lovers can! Part 2: Dances of Universal Peace

8/28 ─ The Levity Project: Creating Social Change Through Laughter, Play and Celebration

Learn more about the Levity Project, a social movement designed to create a more buoyant society through engaging in public acts of levity. It's also a powerful way to take a form of Laughter Yoga to the streets. Join us as we tell an animated story of The Levity Project through a ...

8/28 ─ Growing a Laughter Community

Many Laughter Yoga Leaders accomplish their training and often find themselves alone. When there are questions or doubts who do you turn to for support and resource? Wouldn’t it be great to have a ready community to tap into to find new and unique ideas, like minded people who understand and brainstorm ...

8/28 ─ Freeing the Joy in Body and Voice with The Laughter Yoga Warm-Up

Participate in this fun & interactive presentation to receive valuable information regarding techniques for protecting, strengthening, & maintaining healthy vocal hygiene. Teachers, presenters, Laughter Leaders & laughter students all benefit from learning and implementing this 5 minute full body/voice warm-up program created by Kathryn Burns & Jeffrey Briar of the Laguna Laughter ...

08/28 ─ Women in Business: How To Have A Full Time Laughter Yoga Career

Are you thinking of taking the “next step” and start a full time Laughter Yoga career? Linda Leclerc will share insights from her own experience about how she did it.

8/28 ─ Laughter, Trance and Hypnosis: Deeeepening our Ha Has to rediscover our Original Mind

Since life too important to take seriously we must learn to deepen our laughter. Understanding and utilizing basic hypnosis processes in laughter yoga help create truly deep laughter that returns us to our "original mind" and restores our neural functioning, resetting our brains and bodies to healthy optimum states. Learn how to ...

8/28 ─ How To Use Laughter Yoga As A Powerful Educational Tool

Learn how to use Laughter Yoga as a tool to help engage children; Discover how activating the right hemisphere of the brain can give you access to greater human potential! Lean why Laughter Yoga is an asset to the Whole Brain Educational movement and how you can use that knowledge to better ...

2010 All America Laughter Yoga Conference

5th Annual, All America 2010 Laughter Yoga Conference

Don't Miss The Most Important Laughter Yoga Event Of The Year In North America!

Join many kindred spirits, fellow happy human beings, and the most senior figures in the North American Laughter Yoga movement.

5 Good Reasons To Attend:

"I was amazed with the 2009 program. It was excellent, comprehensive, educational, creative and experiential - all at once. I'm thrilled and will use my skills at every opportunity."

Kate Altieri, LCSW CAC III

Key Things You Need To Know

STARTING TUESDAY 8/24

STARTING THURSDAY 8/26

SUNDAY 8/29

STARTING MONDAY 8/30

The 2010 Celebration Of Laughter Starts In

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5th Annual, All America
2010 Laughter Yoga Conference

Kate Altieri,
LCSW CAC III