Podcasts about laughing yoga

Is there an Irish birthday song? There is now. It's by Marc Gunn with the song “Happy Birthday From Ireland”. Cedric of the Bedlam Bards hypnotizes with wit and charm. Then he shares how laughter is the best medicine, especially with something called Laughter Yoga. This is Pub Songs & Stories #289 0:21 - Marc Gunn with Rimbo “My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose” from Soul of Harper and The Secret World of Celtic Rock 2:56 - WELCOME TO PUB SONGS & STORIES I am Marc Gunn. I'm a Sci F' Irish musician and podcaster living in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're new to the show, please subscribe. You can do that PubSong.com or Just send me an email to follow@celtfather Listen: Soul of a Harper Poll: What's your favorite song on Soul of a Harper? Merch: Buy Soul of a Harper on Patreon Plastic Free July. Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics? 5:17 - CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends.  But at the end of September, we're invading Scotland's Whisky distilleries in between hiking throughout the country. It's gonna be epic. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ 5:52 - MY FAVORITES OF CELTIC TOP 20 Every week, the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast asks fans of the show to vote for your favorite songs in the podcast. Those votes are compiled at the end of the year to create the Celtic Top 20, your pick of the best music of the year. I don't just make the podcast, I'm a fan of it too. So here is another favorite from recent episodes. 6:54 - Melanie Gruben "Water Charges Song" from Like a Tide Upon the Land From Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #659: No Place Like Home 11:52 - THE STORY OF HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM IRELAND Written around the same time as The Leprechaun Musically inspired by Bing Crosby 19:48 - Marc Gunn “Happy Birthday From Ireland” from Soul of Harper Happy Birthday from Ireland lyrics and music by Marc Gunn On St. Patrick's Day, I was born. American by birth, my heritage unknown. Twas two years ago on a musical journey My heart flew to Ireland on the wings of a note. * O Ireland, how I long for your valleys and mountains! How I long to see your hills and streams. From my home 'cross the ocean, I hear your voice singing, "Happy Birthday from Ireland, my child of the green! La la laa, la di la laa, la laa di la la Happy Birthday from Ireland, my child of the green!" My Da played the tunes on squeezebox and fiddle. And the songs they were tuned to the harp in my soul. St Paddy, ye never told me that I was Irish. 'Till I heard your voice singing, bringing me home. Now two years have passed and Ireland sings with me. In every song that flows from my voice and from harp. But I see your eyes smiling and your arms wide open. From the way your children open their hearths and their hearts 22:46 - SUPPORT THE CLUB The show is brought to you by my supporters on Patreon. If you enjoy this podcast or my music, please join the Club. You get something new every week. It could be bonus podcasts, downloadable songs, printed sheet music, blogs, or stories from the road. Plus, you'll get access to videos like my Coffee with The Celtfather video concerts. You get it all ad-free when you listen and on Patreon. Email follow@celtfather ! If you can't support me financially, just sign up on Patreon for free. Special thanks to our Superhero Patrons: Janice G, Cecilia F, Not Higgins, C.J.T. M, Sarah C, William M, Carol Bl, Eric R, James R, Troy R 23:58 - HYPNOTIZED WITH FUNNY MUSIC Cedric is the fiddler and one of the singers of Bedlam Bards, a comedic Celtic group from Austin, Texas that was one of my biggest influences when learning how to put on a show. This weekend, I sat down with Cedric to get an in depth interview about how he escaped Lubbock to join the SCA, form a Celtic band, and  hypnotize his audiences with charm and wit. 54:44 - Bedlam Bards “Crayfish” from Take Out the Trash 57:53 - LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE James Hazelrig is not only a funny fiddler, he's also a certified hypnotist in Austin, Texas with a lot of funny advice on laughing. I chatted with him at the Sherwood Forest Faire where I start the show with him using some of his hypnosis training and marketing prowess to promote his shows. Then we go into a wonderful discussion of his life as a hypnotist and Laughing Yoga. This is a funny and informative episode you will enjoy. Find more about James Hazelrig, aka Cedric the Fiddler, at hypnosisaustin.com. 1:30:49 - Bedlam Bards “Johnny Jump Up” from Furious Fancies 1:34:04 - CREDITS Thanks for listening to Pub Songs & Stories. This episode was edited by Mitchell Petersen. You can follow and listen to the show on my Patreon or wherever you find podcasts. Sign up to my mailing list to learn more about songs featured in this podcast and discover where I'm performing. Remember. Refuse, Reduce, reuse, recycle, and think about how you can make a positive impact on your environment. Have fun and sing along at www.pubsong.com! #pubstories #famousefemalemusicians #middleearth

Nicole trains people to look for laughter in any situation. And, if there is nothing particularly humorous or joyful about the situation, she will force herself to laugh on purpose.

I'm excited to begin our core classes for the Zodiac Energy Empowerment Series™!! Our fifth In Person (only) class for Aquarius ♒️ will be adjusting our frequency Laughing Yoga for this class w/ Elizabeth Faubert & Katriel. *What to Bring to Class ~Self Scope of Today's Class: We will be guided through a unique experience that will allow us to step outside our comfort zone.  Even if you are not in the mood to laugh, it's actually the best time to come.  We will be encouraged to laugh at things that may normally make us cry.  The key is to stay open-minded.  As we laugh our frequency shifts and we create new thoughts & emotions connected to what we are laughing about.  I encourage you to bring your struggles to this class and watch the medicine of laughter take effect. The Big Picture: Watch your intention from the class & the series be shaken up & shift frequency.  Notice where you might be feeling heaviness in regards to your intention before the class become lighter & send a clearer message to the Youinverse/Universe of what you are calling in.    Laughter Yoga Has Many Proven Benefits More oxygen from exhalation: From a medical point of view, the most important component of breath is oxygen. Deep breathing techniques increase oxygen to the cells and are the most important factor in living a disease-free and energetic life. Connecting People: Unconditional laughter connects people from different cultures and countries, no matter what language they speak or how they live. Laughter Yoga promotes a strong union between those who laugh together resulting in family like bonds, providing the social interaction and networking essential for happiness. Immune System: Quickly boosts our immune system. Childlike Playful Behavior: New research shows that playful adults continue to learn social skills and improve their emotional intelligence. Anti-aging: Facial exercise of laughter reduces wrinkles and sagging by firming and toning facial muscles, making you look younger. Laughter Yoga is a fun, easy exercise for all age groups. Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Benefits: Laughter makes it easier to cope with life and it's challenges. Laughter puts us intensely in the moment. The ability to live life fully and experience the "now" is so important because it is only in the "now" that we can experience joy. Laughter Makes Us Feel Good: It defuses painful emotions like fear, anger and boredom by releasing them. Creating Positive Energy: When people laugh together in a group, it creates a positive group energy originating from positive thoughts, emotions and feelings. Build Self-Confidence: Laughter makes us feel safer and more self-confident, it eases our awkwardness. Improve Communication: When we laugh with others we are fun to be with and provide good company. Regular doses of laughter and play take the work out of staying in love with life. Overcome Pain: Science and research demonstrate that laughing improves heath and shortens recovery time following illness. For more information please visit the official worldwide Laughter Yoga website: www.LaughterYoga.org or locally contact Elizabeth Faubert at phone/text 727-736-1100 or email her at BookSnob@msn.com. Also check out the book "Laugh Your Way to Happiness" by Lesley Lyle This series is to give you the sacred space to explore each zodiac energy individually through an activity and on your own time integrate your experience to go deeper on your journey. We are experiencing this series over 12 weeks (the 12 core classes) with also several intro classes and the last celebration class/ festival. Through these 12 classes its important to set an intention and watch your intention grow into your manifestation as you nurture your intention through each class.   Class Tickets Here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/m9kex22/lp/6efb123f-8630-48e7-ae81-c8a3dc7e539c *Email: katriel@energyspeaksbykatriel.com with any questions!

On a drizzly Monday morning, 40 women are cackling with laughter in a community hall in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

On a drizzly Monday morning, 40 women are cackling with laughter in a community hall in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

On a drizzly Monday morning, 40 women are cackling with laughter in a community hall in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

World Laughter Day is coming up so Tod spoke with Merv Neal, a laughter yoga expert and founder of Laughter Yoga Australia. Merv has spent over a decade teaching people the power of laughter and the benefits it can bring to our physical and mental health.Tod and Merv explore the science behind laughter and how it can be used to reduce stress, improve relationships, and enhance overall well-being. They also discuss Merv's journey to becoming a laughter yoga instructor and the work he does to spread this practice throughout Australia and beyond. Whether you're looking to add more joy to your life or simply interested in learning more about the science of laughter, this episode is sure to leave you laughing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Teatime with Miss Liz joining and bringing a couple of giggles and chuckles is the fabulous Cathy Nesbitt. Cathy Nesbitt Multi-award-winning entrepreneur Cathy's Crawly Composters, Cathy's Sprouters, Cathy's Laughter Yoga, Organo Gold January 19th, 3 pm EST LIVE SHOWS AND MULTIPLE PODCASTS, APPS AND PLATFORMS Bio: Cathy Nesbitt is a Health and Wellness Advocate. Founder of Cathy's Crawly Composters (est 2002), Cathy's Sprouters and Cathy's Laughter Club. She is a multi-award-winning environmental innovator who uses workshops and inspirational speaking to motivate people to live more sustainably. Cathy is a certified Laughter Yoga Teacher. Appointed Laughter Ambassador in 2017 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga. Cathy Nesbitt Multi-award-winning entrepreneur Cathy's Crawly Composters, Cathy's Sprouters, Cathy's Laughter Yoga, Organo Gold https://www.cathysclub.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathynesbitt/ https://www.facebook.com/CathysCrawlyComposters https://twitter.com/Squirm https://www.youtube.com/user/rhgn2112 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/misslizsteatimes/message

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Is there a difference between laughter yoga and laughing yoga? Honestly, this is where we say the difference is the same. The two words mean the same thing. If you are listening to today's episode, you must be curious to know what laughter yoga is.Laughter yoga is all about laughing for no reason at all. We don't need jokes. We don't need humour when we laugh. When we do laughter yoga or laughter yoga, the premise is that the body doesn't know the difference between fake and real laughter. We do these different laughing exercises and various breathing exercises to trick the brain into thinking that we are genuinely laughing. Before you know it, you are genuinely laughing, especially when you're in our group of people. It's highly contagious.  Last week I was on stage with about 250 people. When we started, some people didn't want to laugh. By the end of the session, the whole auditorium was laughing, and the energy had been lifted. With laughter yoga, we incorporate yogic breathing. We don't necessarily use yoga poses. A study shows that, when we breathe, normally, 20% of oxygen sits in the bottom of our lungs, and like this residue of, of stale oxygen that we hardly ever breathe out. But, when we do laughing yoga or laughter yoga, we exhale it.Listen to this episode to learn more about laughter yoga.Would you like to share a laugh with me? Find me on Clubhouse every morning for a 10-minute laugh, or find me on my website, and I promise you we'll have a giggle.What did you learn from this episode?Please leave us a review on iTunes. It will make it easy for more people to find this podcast.The Laughter Man, Pete Cann, is on a fun-filled mission to bring the positive benefits of laughter to the world. Since discovering Laughter Yoga, company owner Pete has transformed his business and family life and now wants to share his infectious secrets and get the planet laughing along with him.You'll find Pete, his trademark red hat, and his happy vibe on the following channels.pete@petecann.comwww.petecann.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/thelaughterman/https://www.instagram.com/petecannthelaughterman/https://www.facebook.com/thelaughtermanhttps://www.youtube.com/c/petecannthelaughtermanhttps://www.tiktok.com/@petecannthelaughterman https://clubhousedb.com/user/thelaughterman  

We move to the humanitarians, the people, and the stories of those who believe in a better future for humankind and our planet. Today we have Cathey Nesbitt, an environmentalist who, in the past 28 years, worked to perfect the best worms for composting garbage. It takes a small act to make a big change, and sometimes as people, that's all we need. Be sure to check out Cathy's social links below:

There are so many wonderful people that care enough to talk about what they love most. Cathy Nesbitt chats about simple solutions for some of today's challenges. Solutions such as; Worms for amending the soil, sprouts for eating (grow your own) and laughter for overall health and wellness. You can reach her to learn more about her extraordinary passion @ http://www.cathysclub.com/

#17 Laughter Can Heal the World. Our guest, Professional Comedian Mel Austin has shared some great information on the business of Comedy, and how he can provide events, shows, trainings, including Laughing Yoga.  Mel's contact information: https://laugh2success.com/index.html  phone number 909-519-5118. Mel also has an ebook, Teach Yourself To Be Funny. My commitment is to make a diiference Healing Humanity one episode at a time. Get on the journey with me. You can start by telling all your friends to listen to my podcast on Spotify and GooglePodcast. Visit my website https://www.masterfesto.com Remember, you can read Mel's story in my book, Masterfesto, The Joy of Mastery. If you want a FREE copy, send me an email isabel@masterfesto.com. I'll get the book to you ASAP but hurry I'm running out of books. Only pay postage and packaging $5.99. Thank you for supporting the show!Support the show (https://paypal.me/ElizabethApodaca311?locale.x=en_US)

Laughter Yoga, mindfulness, and wellness coach Annie Harvey chats with host Ellie Angel-Mobbs and shares her journey with chronic pain and grief. Annie teaches Ellie how to use laughter to combat chronic pain and negative body image, with a some short and fun exercises that are sure to get you laughing along too. 

In this episode, Mo sits down with two very special guests Lauren & Alik who are both Certified Laughter Yoga Facilitators. Best known as the Laughing Love Bugs these two share and break down how they came to be apart of the Laughing Yoga experience, to eventually taking the lead and becoming facilitators. A very educational episode that discusses the role that laughter plays in our Mental Health & Wellness. Tune in!

Join us as we “dive” into shipwrecks. Big Waz attends a giant head therapy group while Luke discusses the movie Reanimator and wonders how many famous people are called Patrick?

Laughing Yoga and Laughing Meditation. Listen to episode 14 of The Unlearning Podcast With Leslie Cottle (previously known as This Empowered Life Podcast) to have a roaring good cardiovascular workout by using laughter as your guide. Laughing Yoga is scientifically proven to release stress, increase endorphins, activate your rest and relaxation mode, strengthen your immune system, and helps release pain. Sending you peace & laughter, Leslie - - - - - - - - - - ❤️Watch our videos on our YouTube Channel at Unlearn With Leslie SUBSCRIBE to the UWL channel for free unlearning videos every week and to support spiritual growth and transformation for all! https://www.youtube.com/@unlearnwithleslie - - - - - - - - - -

It's a sweet 16 eclipse party, and we're leaving our psychobabble at the door. Join Remington and Jeana as they indulge in the tangential workings of numerology, the scam of big flora, laughing yoga therapy, necessary brainwashing, standup philosophy, the nuptial dream, and the circumambulating of the scarab. What genre is this podcast anyway?Get the deeper wisdom of tarot, numerology, and astrology here. @themysticalarts

Laughing yoga has been practiced by Yogis for self-healing in India for over 5000 years. Modern research explains pumps pain-..reliving, mood enhancing - endorphins into the blood streams while reducing stress related toxin. Yogi will show you laughter for instant healing & happiness. Yogi Ramesh is an International celebrity Guru and a laughing icon of You Tube . He is the founder of Laughing Yoga for the last 20 years in Palm Springs,CA. Yogi says Be happy & live life laughing.

In episode 529, I chat with Lauren and Alik Colbert, certified laughing yoga instructors, adorable couple and the owners of Laughing Lovebugs.  Listen as they chat about: Why health became something they realized they needed to focus on How they met and how they got into laughing yoga The health benefits of laughing yoga How laughing yoga can help your relationship What a class is like A 5 minute demo of the types of exercises you can expect Try our voice skill on Amazon Alexa here or Google Assistant here or by saying "Open Extraordinary Mindset."  Like our page and check out our LIVE video interviews here.

In this episode I speak to 'The Mayor of Improv' Mark Turpin. We find out how Mark earned his prestigios title and how he tried a variety of hobbies including Laughing Yoga before he settled on Improv Comedy. We discuss comedy influences and the positive community that exists in the improv world and how that positivity can spread into all aspects of our lives.

Marla sits down with Yogi, International celebrity, Yoga therapist, Actor, Founder of Laughing Yoga, and Spiritual Healer Coach. They discuss his Laughing Yoga and how he created Laughter Therapy for the Covid-19 to prevent and help with stress reduction. Now is the time to laugh off your stress and boost the immunity from the fear of Covid-19 and be happy.

In this episode Rena talks to renowned voice trainer and laughing yoga instructor Pamela Prather about laughter as a stress releaser, confidence builder and immune system booster. Pamela teaches Rena some laughing yoga exercises, inviting listeners to share in the healing gift of laughter.

Here's some treatment for Coronavirus depression: Join the Dancing with Myself Movement, try Belly Dance Chi Gong, and relieve stress by laughing like crazy Laughing Yoga style.

Laughter & breathing can boost your immune system and prevention from Coronavirus forever.

Laughter is the best medicine.Laugh more and get rid of depression & corona virus.Be happy and stress free.

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, but I started a podcast as an excuse to sit down with creative people to talk about the crazy stuff they're building and doing. Episode 1 of Destination: Different sits down with New Zealander, Nick Corliss, to talk about how he built up his own organic smoothie company before packing his bags and moving to Bali to work on the social good side of a cryptocurrency startup. We covered everything from the power of community, to laughing yoga, to making efforts towards physical and mental health every single day. Nick is a big-time legend and if you listen for no reason other than to hear Nick's Kiwi colloquialisms, you'll have made a good decision. Hope you enjoy! You can keep up with what Nick's up to on Instagram @nicholas.corliss For more info on the music used in the podcast, be sure to check out @checowave on Instagram or just search for the artist "Checo" on Spotify. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yopro/support

Earlier this week my friend Emma put up a post on Facebook saying that when we are children we laugh 400x a day. And now as adults, we laugh an average of 15x a day. Quite simply, laughter makes us feel good. It also improves our physical health and it can definitely improve our mental health. Why do we need to laugh more at work and what can we do to encourage more laughter at work? According to research from Wharton, MIT, and London Business School, laughter relieves stress and boredom, boosts engagement and well-being, and spurs not only creativity and collaboration but also analytic precision and productivity. Laughter at work also enhances morale, resilience, and effectiveness—which leads to a happier, more productive work environment. Leaders who use laughter as a form of communication, are more connectable than those who don't. CEOs such as SouthWest Airlines Herb Kelleher and Virgin Group's Richard Branson are often seen laughing. They have also built highly successful and profitable companies based on laughter and humour.Basically we all need to laugh more at work.But how do we do this?We can start by smiling more. Smile at your colleagues, smile when you're talking on the phone. Do some fun activities togetherhave a lunchtime dance-off to cheesy 80s music have a hula hoop contest start team meetings with a dad-joke at lunchtime play short episodes of comedy tv series in the lunchroom On International Talk Like a Pirate Day (which is next week on 19 Sept) give everyone in the office a Pirate Name and only call them by that on that day Invite someone in to lead your team in Laughing Yoga – yes, it's a thing! There are loads of options – let me know what you choose. Executive Coach, author and podcaster Peter Bregman, reckons we're not laughing as much as we used to because we're distracted. And when we're distracted, we don't laugh. So we also need to think about that. In my last minisode, episode 8, I talked about how much our phones cause us to be distracted, and how we should create a tech plan so we use them less automatically and more intentionally. It seems that another reason we should put our phones down is so we can laugh more with the people we're with. Or even laugh more when we're watching something on Netflix – who else watches Netflix with a second screen in their hands. Peter suggests that we should create a laughter metric and set a personal challenge to increase the number of times we laugh in a day. Count how many times you genuinely laugh each day and then try and double that. And why not count each time you make someone else laugh and then try and increase that too. Mostly, however, we need to laugh more because laughter makes the world a better place. Maurice Chevalier said “you don't stop laughing because you grow older, you grow older because you stop laughing.” What are you going to do this week to increase your laughter? I'd love to know. You can connect with me on LinkedIn or twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #thisconnectedlife and tagging me @melkettleOr you can email me – mel@melkettle.comIf you enjoyed this podcast, I would love you to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify or via the podcast app on your smartphone.If you REALLY loved it, please leave me a rating and review on iTunes.

On this episode of the Nocturnal Nerds Podcast Soul & Lycan talk about their weeks, Did you know that Laughing Yoga is a thing? and also something that can make someone so MAD & also cry?… With Spring break coming to an end we say goodbye to freedom and resume normal adulting. Pokemon Competition update and well gonna be honest with ya only one of us is making progress. We finally get back to reading some articles we found (YAY!) one is about a woman asking the internet about her newly wedded husbands micro-penis the other is about a woman who’s orgasm was so strong that she had a god damn stroke! CHECK OUT RPG GOLDEN YEAR PODCAST: https://rpggoldenyears.podbean.com/ ALSO CHECK OUT MATERIALOCKDOWN: http://materialockdown.com/ ARTICLES Teeny Weeny Peeny: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/man-to-sue-his-wife-after-she-exposed-his-micropenis/news-story/96de6b540385045a645eaf90b1e7b87c OG Reddit Thread About Micro-Penis: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/anyom1/aita_newlywed_husband_32m_wanted_to_wait_til/ OSS: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/orgasms-strokes-british-medical-journal_n_5c89665de4b0450ddae6eb2a (Oral Sex Stroke) SECRET LINK https://www.fishcam.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/NocturnalNerds Discord Channel: https://t.co/ea0Kjo3kOK Nocturnal Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nocturnalnerds_ Nocturnal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNocturnalNerds Website: https://www.nocturnalnerdspodcast.com/ Soul’s Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/soulfullofhope Soul’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/soulfullofhope Lycan’s Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/LycanOfLight Lycan’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lycanoflight/ Lycan’s Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/lycanoflight Intro/Outro Music: Unwritten Return Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/fsf

Another Mask Off in the books. This week Wood and Keith bring in Julie for a very happy interview. Julie attempts to teach them what Laughing Yoga is all about. This episode will have a lot of laughs, exercises and usual rowdiness. Join Wood, Keith and Julie P in this interview as we try and make sense of a relatively new yoga routines. Listen and learn about how this all began in India, and you too can try it along with us as you listen. give it a try. anchor.fm/sowhutchusayin Sowhutchusayin.com sowhutchusayin@gmail.com Don't forget to check out Julie P's youtube channel, here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sowhutchusayin/support

Singing, laughing and the feel good factor. Pain Management, the fun way. This edition was funded by the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust. The British Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) allows the multidisciplinary nature of the society to be reflected through seminars, scientific programmes, lectures, and workshops. Participants can attend various exhibitions, social events, and seminars to have well-rounded experiences on the subject of pain. In 2017, the BPS presented their Wellness Zone, coordinated by the Dorset Community Pain Service, to allow ‘wellbeing’ focused topics to have a platform. At the Wellness Zone, Paul speaks to Sarah Sturman, Dorset Community Pain Service physiotherapist, about Laughing Yoga. Sturman proposes that we are increasingly finding that emotional health is just as important as physical health, and that Laughing Yoga allows us to celebrate socialising and the natural human attributes of silliness and fun. Paul also speaks to Pain Concern’s own Renée Blomkvist about how pain can affect the way we project ourselves into the world, and how self-management can help find an identity. Going even further back to the BPS ASM 2016, Paul talks to psychologist Dr Brock Bastion on the nature of happiness and pain. Dr Bastion’s speaks about his work looking into the nuances of pain and negativity, and how society's view that you 'should' be happy creates more pressure and stress. Contributors: Sarah Sturman, Specialist Pain Physiotherapist, Dorset Community Pain Service Dr Brock Bastian, Pain, happiness, and morality Psychologist, University of Melbourne Renée Blomkvist, Medical Anthropologist & Pain Concern Researcher.

The power of laughter and finding your joy

I met Brittney Hiller at Wigwam Festival in Atlanta last year, and I had the privilege of taking a laughing yoga class with her. It was my first experience with laughing yoga, and it was both awkward + fun. I immediately signed up for Brittney's newsletter and I've been following her along ever since. On this episode, Brittney shares how she got into laughing yoga (it's different than you would expect!), how she expanded her teaching from laughing yoga, to teaching children, to teaching chair yoga, to offering entirely donation based classes. Brittney and I also chat about moving from being strictly a yoga employee to being a yoga entrepreneur. She shares how she has built her own business, how she has differentiated her business, and has created a successful newsletter, book and online business. Enjoy! Do you enjoy the podcast? Join the community on Facebook, Instagram + join the newsletter. Also, a quick reminder about the webinar with Julie Zuzek from RetreatU on the 5 steps for planning a successful retreat on March 23rd at 1pm EST. Register here!

James Hazelrig is not only a funny fiddler, he's also a certified hypnotist in Austin, Texas with a lot of funny advice on laughing. I chatted with him at the Sherwood Forest Faire where I start the show with him using some of his hypnosis training and marketing prowess to promote his shows. Then we go into a wonderful discussion of his life as a hypnotist and Laughing Yoga. This is a funny and informative episode you will enjoy. Find more about James Hazelrig, aka Cedric the Fiddler, at hypnosisaustin.com. Complete shownotes can be found here. --- f you enjoy this episode, then please post a review on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher. Subscribe to the show at www.celtfather.com where you can join my mailing list to download a free album of Celtic and comedy music. Special thanks to my Patrons. You can support my craft for as little as $1 per month. Become a Patron at www.marcgunn.com/patron. Then post feedback in the shownotes, use the hashtag #celtfather on social media, or email me marc@marcgunn.com

Tune in as we discuss Laughing Yoga, Power Poses, and the motivational story of a well known Harvard professor Amy Cuddy. You can see the entire TED Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d2WLGkBtvI Sponsors: Audible: We’ve partnered with Audible, an Amazon company to get you guys a FREE audiobook of your choice, claim your free audiobook by going […]

Tune in as we discuss Laughing Yoga, Power Poses, and the motivational story of a well known Harvard professor Amy Cuddy. You can see the entire TED Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d2WLGkBtvI Sponsors: Audible: We’ve partnered with Audible, an Amazon company to get you guys a FREE audiobook of your choice, claim your free audiobook by going […]

Welcome to Part 2 of my experience with  and , in which you’re going to get as many tips and tricks as possible for the SEALFit Academy. Even if you don’t plan on attending any SEALFit events, there are plenty of takeaway gems here for anyone who wants to achieve challenging feats of physical or mental performance. In the next article - Part 3 of this three-part series -you’ll learn exactly what happens at SEALFit Kokoro, and some my own takeaways, tips and tricks - but in the meantime, let’s jump right into what you need to know for the six days of the SEALFit Academy. Even if you don't plan on ever going to a SEALFit event, you're going to learn a ton of useful information about how to get physically and mentally stronger! ----------------------------------------- SEALFit Academy Day 1 Day 1 abruptly began at 4pm with a very brief orientation from Coach Dave (most of the coaches here go by “Coach”, followed by their first name - so don’t call them Sir or Mr. or anything like that), during which we introduced ourselves and selected a team leader. We then went straight into the coach barking orders at us as he led us through the initial PT test on “The Grinder”, which a hard, textured concrete surface at the US Crossfit facility in Encinitas, California. The Grinder looks like this (fun, eh?): During the PT test, which is performed in highly stylish black pants, white t-shirt and combat boots, myself and the 10 other Academy attendees were tested for the SEALFit Academy physical standards, which are: -50 pushups in 2 minutes -50 situps in 2 minutes -50 squats in 2 minutes -10 dead hang pull-ups (6 for women) -1 mile run in 9:30 or less Here’s a photo of the PT test from Academy. As you can see, based on my physical training for the Academy (read about it in Part 1 of this series), I did just fine. But come prepared, because the candidates that failed (red circles) were pretty severely reprimanded for it. Take the standards seriously. Other quick tips for the Academy PT test include: 1. Pay attention and be mindful, especially if you have a creative mind that wanders (like I do). Reign it in! Focus. Every tiny little detail matters at the Academy, especially when a coach is giving instructions for a WOD (Workout Of The Day) or any other activity. For example, I incurred a 50 burpee penalty for our whole team by simply running on the sidewalk rather than the road during the run portion of the PT test. I thought this would be safer, but it turns out that at SEALFit Academy and Kokoro, they pretty much avoid the sidewalks and almost always run on the road, even at night. 2. Suffer in silence. No grunting or weird workout noises. Be careful with grimacing too. Practice keeping a stone face, or better yet, smiling even when the going gets tough. Deep breathing helps with this. 3. Don’t show off or be a Rambo. Be a team player. As soon as I finished my run well ahead of most of the others, I was instructed to sprint back out and bring the rest of the team in. Unless instructed otherwise, always prioritize helping your team vs. just showing off your fitness. 4. If you can lay down a strip of duct tape or  vertically down your spine, it will help you not get back blisters from situps on the hard Grinder surface. This helps because if you start the week with a chafed back, it’s going to hurt a bunch during the rucks, leg levers, flutter kicks, and pretty much any other time something is rubbing against your back. I learned that lesson the hard way. 5. Practice strict pull-ups to an above the bar chin position and full extension at the bottom, along with a hook grip in which your fingers wrap around your thumbs. Avoid“suicide” gripping on the pull-ups (a thumbs off position). After the PT test, we sat in on a lecture with Coach Mark Divine - the owner of SEALFit, in which he introduced the core principles of , adapted from concepts in his book by the same name. I’d highly recommend you read both  and  well in advance of showing up for any of the SEALFit events. You will be way ahead of the game if you read them and do both the mental and physical activities in the book. Following Coach Divine’s talk, we were cut free for a team dinner on our own. As the team leader, I was given $100 to divvy up among the team, so we went out for some team bonding at a restaurant across the street from the SEALFit headquarters, then an early bedtime. When you get a chance to sleep at the Academy, plan to do it - as you don’t get many chances for a solid night of sleep and you never know when you may get ripped out of bed and thrown into the ocean or shoved into a midnight workout (seriously - keep reading for more details on that). ------------------------------------------- SEALFit Academy Day 2 We awoke to a glorious breakfast on Day 2. Unlike Kokoro, you don't get crappy  (stands for "Meals Ready To Eat"). Instead, the Academy is catered by a trained chef named Kathryn, who is also a nutritionist, yoga teacher and meditation expert. For breakfast on Day 2, Kathryn served us scrambled eggs with vegetable, gluten-free raisin nut muffins, and an assortment of fruits and yogurts. Of course, the only downside is that as soon as your glorious breakfast ends, you can expect to be rushing to a hard workout - during which you'll often get the unique experience of tasting breakfast a second time, especially if you overeat on proteins and fats. As a matter of fact, at the SEALFit Academy you can pretty much expect to be rushing from the moment you awake - to breakfast, to a workout, a lecture, another workout, lunch, another workout, a lecture, a skills clinic, etc. Sometimes the rushing seems intentionally programmed to keep you slightly outside your comfort zone. For example, for lunch on Day 2, we had a fantastic but extremely filling chicken sausage and squash casserole - which was immediately followed by a 1 mile fast run in the heat. This takes me to an important lesson: the use of digestive enzymes to help digest meals more quickly. I used this trick many times during Academy week and even during Kokoro - popping just a couple digestive enzymes with or immediately before meals to help things get through my digestive system more quickly and to help me absorb extra nutrients. After breakfast, the first workout of Day 2 was "Grinder PT" with Mark Divine. You can get an idea of what it looks like in the video below. We did movements like this for a solid 2 hours, and finished with a sandbag run to the top of Lookout Hill, which sits about a quarter mile from the Academy. At the top of Lookout Hill, Mark finished by bringing us through a Warrior Breathing session, which involves hyperoxygenating the body with sharp intakes of oxygen through the nose, then very quick exhales. During our Warrior Breathing, we practiced visualizing our "internal warrior" (Coach Divine's is King Leonidas of the Spartans). But I was baffled and slightly frustrated during this exercise, as I simply couldn't find or visualize my internal warrior. Images that floated through my head included a wolf, an archer (like Robin Hood), and even a shark, but none of these seemed quite right. I know this sounds cheesy and woo-woo, but being able to picture your warrior before a hard workout or intense physical challenge can give you a huge advantage. On Day 4, which you'll read about below, I had my first intense emotional breakthrough of the Academy, in which I finally did discover my internal warrior. After the workout, Coach Divine gave a lecture on the principles of SEALFit, adapted from the book . Then we moved on to a 2 hour clinic that covered sandbag skills, kettlebell skills and barbell skills, in which we learned 8-10 different exercises and movements for each of these tools. This doesn't sound like much of a workout, but 2 solid hours of practicing with sandbags, kettlbebells and barbells adds up pretty quickly. After lunch, we had another lifting clinic, this time with Coach Adam, who taught us proper form for deadlifts, cleans, overhead press, push press and bench press. As you are probably noticing, you can expect to spend a lot of time with a barbell in your hands at SEALFit events. Next, we settled in for another lecture with Coach Dave, during which Dave discussed training principles and the SEALFit components of Endurance, Strength, Stamina, Work Capacity and Durability. At the end of the lecture, he abruptly announced that we'd go do "Cindy" - a relatively famous Crossfit workout consisting of an AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) in 20 minutes of 5 pull-ups, 10 pushups and 15 air squats. After 26 rounds, my hands - already a bit rubbed raw from the amount of barbell holds - were ripped open and bleeding. So I'd recommend you bring  and  to clean and cover bar blisters on your hands and rucking blisters on your feet, and also bring Duct Tape or  to cover your hands during any workouts that involve sweat and lots of time on the bar. Or get very, very calloused hands before Academy. As soon as we finished Cindy, we were rushed into another lecture with Coach Lance Cummings. Despite his stern demeanor and constant sneer, Coach Cummings is an extremely impressive dude. He recently retired from Active Duty Navy Service with 30 years of combined Active and Reserve service. After graduating BUD/s Class 124 he deployed overseas in support of US Foreign Policy with six different SEAL teams on both the east and west coast. He served at the Naval Special Warfare Center as a Basic Underwater/SEAL (BUD/s) instructor where he earned his Master Training Specialist classification. He also worked several State Department Security Team contracts with private employers during his time in the Naval Reserves An accomplished athlete, he has represented the United States at the international level in Military Pentathlon and won several Marksmanship awards in inter-service competition in both handgun and carbine categories. From 1990 to 1995, he competed in 200 triathlons, from sprint to Ironman distances. He was on the USA Dragon Boat Team in 2011, winning Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in World Cup competition. His current hobbies include Outrigger Canoe racing, mtn. biking, running, and CrossFit training. A licensed Chiropractor, Lance also is certified in Cold Laser Therapy, Functional Mobility, Thermal Imaging, and is a registered Emergency Medical Technician. Dang. Anyways, Coach Cummings lectured on heart rate zones and endurance training principles, then we were cut loose for dinner - sweet potato casserole with beef tacos and guacamole. I collapsed exhausted at the end of this day. If you were doing the math, you'd see that we exercised relatively hard for a solid 5 hours, and I found that as camp progressed, about 4-6 workout hours per day was pretty standard for physical workload during the Academy. ----------------------------------------- SEALFit Academy Day 3 We were ripped out of bed early on Day 3 for one of SEALFit's famous "", which consisted of some endurance training with a Grinder PT warm up led by Coach Divine, followed by: -Stamina: 21-15-9 Deadlift to Box Jumps with 400m run after each -Strength: 3x5 Heavy Front Squat -Workout Capacity: 50 meters burpee broad jumps, 50 barbell step-ups, and a 400m farmers walk with 50lb kettle bells This is exactly the type of WOD you'll find in the  book, so do lots of these workouts before the Academy. After the WOD, we moved straight into the durability part of the workout, which was led by Coach Cummings and consisted of a 3 hour ruck with sandbags in our ruckpag, and a quick stop for an MRE lunch (pinto bean veggie chili - yum) during the ruck. I learned a few tips about rucking that I'd highly recommend you use at the Academy, including: 1. Completely smear your toes, heels, and crotch in some kind of friction-proofing cream. For the longer rucks I used a product called Ex-Goo that we were supplied with by the Academy, and for shorter workouts I used . Also use a lube such as  liberally on neck, shoulders, and armpits - all places that a backpack will rub during a ruck. 2. If a blister begins to form, stay ahead of it with  by simply cutting a hole in the middle of the moleskin and covering/protecting the blister with this doughnut shape. 3. You can bring your own rucksack to the Academy, and the one that Coach Lance recommends is an internal frame . This is the same brand the Seals use, and although it's pretty expensive, your back and shoulders will thank you and you'll be far more comfortable during the Academy if you bring one.   We came back from the ruck and went straight into a 2 hour Olympic lifting class with Coach Rick, during which we practiced all elements of the Power Clean and initial instructions for the Snatch. Day 4 finished with a lecture by Coach Divine on breathing and positivity, along with the importance of using the Observe, Orient, Act, Decide (OODA) loop to respond to stressful situations. Later in the week, during Kokoro, I relied heavily on this loop to respond to the extreme physical and mental stress we were thrown into. ----------------------------------------- SEALFit Academy Day 4 I cried three times during the Academy - not from physical stress, but from mental and emotional breakthroughs. The morning of Day 4 was the first such experience. We began the morning with a 30 minute "box breathing"  - set to a background music of a special 436 hertz frequency designed to enhance alpha brain wave production. Box breathing, a big component of the Academy that Coach Divine often uses as part of a WOD warm-up or at the beginning or end of the day, involves a 4-20 count in, a 4-20 count hold, a 4-20 count exhale, and a 4-20 count hold. During this time, you practice positivity and visualization. I'd recommend you start with a 4 count if you don't want to hyperventilate, and use the  to help you stay on count for your box breathing. You'd only use a 20 count if you were extremely skilled at box breathing, and the highest we got during the Academy was an 8 count. Anyways, during the box breathing, I experienced an extremely intense vision of my internal warrior that immediately got me shaking, trembling and weeping. My vision was of me not as a lone wolf or a quiet archer but rather as a noble king - very much like the famous King Arthur of the round table - placed here on earth to lead and teach with love, to help people achieve amazing feats of physical performance and also to built a great legacy with my two young boys. Again, I realize this all sounds a bit airy-fairy, but the vision was extremely powerful, and returned to me again during many of the other visualization and box breathing sessions during the week. The box breathing progressed straight into a skills clinic and workout with Coach Lance, who led through a 3 round circuit of sledgehammers, tire flips, log PT (carrying, lifting and moving a heavy log as a team), rope climbs and wall ball throws. During lunch, Kathryn lectured to us on meditation, and then we moved straight into a 2 hour yoga and meditation class. As our entire team finished the class in an extremely relaxed state, we slowly stood up, wandered outside to the Grinder, and were instantly snapped back into reality by Coach Divine. "Get down on your hands and knees and crawl!" We all dropped and began crawling on the hot Grinder, which immediately formed heat blisters on many of the team members' already bloody and beat-up hands. "Who spit a luge on my Grinder?" Silence. "I said who spit a luge on my Grinder?" One of our team members finally piped up, "Me Coach." We were immediately forced into a 50 burpee penalty (during which we were sprayed down with hoses and had coaches screaming in our faces with megaphones, a common experience on the Grinder), followed by an incredibly difficult two and a half hour WOD that we had to complete in "Battle Mode" - meaning no talking and only cooperating with hand signals. The WOD consisted of: -500m row -3x5 heavy power clean -5 rounds of dumbell hang clean with thruster to 10 350lb tire flips to 3 second handstand hold -3 rounds of 50 wall balls throws, 100m prowler push, and 1000m row When the WOD finally ended and the smoke cleared, we had a quick shower, then went straight into a goal setting and visualization with Coach Divine, which was an extremely powerful session. After several minutes of Box Breathing, we were tasked with forming a visual mental image of our "mind gym" - a special place where we could go inside our head to escape, to train and to prepare for stressful situations. My mind gym was an old log hut in the forest besides a cold pond in the deep snow- very similar to Rocky's winter training center from the Rocky IV movie. As I explored my mind gym, still as the warrior king from the warrior breathing visualization, I felt another strong presence in the mind gym, and suddenly found my old dog Bruno by my side. Bruno was a muscular boxer dog with a spiked collar and intense personality, and was one of the most important parts of my childhood. But he was tragically struck by a van when I was 16, and I hadn't realized until this visualization how much I had suppressed the emotions from his death - or how much it had formed my aversion to having any pet or animal "companion" since then. When I realized his spirit was still there with me and I began to run and explore my mind gym with him, just like we used to play in the fields outside my childhood home, I began to tremble and cry uncontrollably with joy and relief. This was a very intense moment for me, and one of my most powerful memories from the Academy. Later in the week, we returned to our mind gyms and I experienced yet another emotional breakthrough in the mind gym, but for now, this visual of Bruno was enough to have my head spinning for the rest of the night. I fell asleep with a smile on my face, knowing that my old dog was back with me and that I could now fight through anything and experience life with him by my side. ----------------------------------------- SEALFit Academy Day 5 Academy Day 5 began with a little bit of box breathing, then a 1000 pushup WOD (yes, 1000 pushups) led by Mark Divine. Here's the video: Of course, after you do 1000 push-ups, the first thing on your mind is gymnastics, so we went from the pushups directly into a gymnastic lecture and a gymnastics clinic with Coach Dave, in which we covered hollowing your core, rolls, kipping pull-ups, rope climbs, handstands and a variety of other body weight moves. Dave also gave us a good progression for getting stronger at new moves. Here's an example (perfect if you want to work your up way up to, say, 5 sets of 5 pull-ups): Day 1: 11111 (that's one pull-up, rest, another pull-up, rest, etc.) Day 2: 21111 Day 3: 32111 -43211 -54321 -55432 -55543 -55554 -55555 If you wanted to work your way up to 10 pull-ups, you could just keep going, like this: -65555 -76555 -87655 -etc. This is actually a really good technique, and one you should tuck away for getting stronger at any body weight move. Next, we moved on to a 2 hour Snatch Clinic with Coach Rick, followed up by a laughing yoga session with Coach Divine. Laughing yoga? That's right. Check it out: After working up a good sweat with laughter, we moved on to a team and leadership workshop with Coach Cummings, and also covered periodizing for an event and planning out your year based around "crucibles" or tests of your fitnes. For example, in 2015 my major events are: -September 2014: Spartan World Championships  (goal: top 10) -Summer 2015 Crucible 1:  -Fall 2015 Crucible 2:  -September 2015 Crucible 3: Spartan World Championships (goal: top 3) We finished Day 5 with another mind-gym exercise. This turned out to be the 3rd time I cried at the Academy. In this exercise, we were encouraged to invite someone into our mind-gym and ask them one question. My question to my special visitor (going to keep that secret for now) was: "What's my purpose?" The reply was: "It's not about you. It's about building your legacy and raising two amazing human beings who will grow up to make this world a better place." Sheesh. Talk about clarity. My whole body was shaking, trembling and crying again after this intense mind gym exercise. ------------------------------------- SEALFit Academy Day 6 Day 6 - the final day - began with yet another morning WOD, this time starting with sandbag Turkish Getups to 200m run, then sandbag ground to overhead to 200m run and finally sandbag thrusters to 200m run. This was followed by a big mash-up of exercises that for some reason I don't have recorded. Anyways, we moved on from the morning WOD to 2 hours of pool work led by Coach Lance, in which we learned combat side stroke, did some hypoxic breath practice and simply worked on water skills. We then headed out on a 5 hour sandy beach ruck that included a run-swim workout, during which we practiced combat side stroke with a partner. This stroke is perfect for "keeping track" of someone swimming in the water next to you, and also moving quickly through the water without making much of a splash - a good way (as Coach Lance noted) to avoid getting a grenade tossed at you if you're sneaking through water. After the ruck, we moved on to mobility and stretching work on the foam roller and the TRX with Coach Lance, and then headed into the yoga room for the final session of the Academy: warrior breathing. During this warrior breathing exercise, led by an intense bearded martial artist and yogi that Mark Divine brought in for the special purpose of blowing our minds, we laid on the ground while booming music played and hyperventilated/hyperoxygenated our bodies with about 50 rounds of warrior breathing, which is a fast and deep nasal inhale followed by a quick exhale. We then relaxed and did deep breathing in between each set as our bodies tingled and trembled from the hyperoxygenation phase. This was an incredible exercise that left my crying once again as I completely floated outside myself and went into a trance in which I was hovering above my physical body and simply observing the entire experience. Crazy stuff, I know - but you have to experience it to understand. Here's a video that may help you understand: And that was it! Shaking, crying, emotionally charged and physically spent, we finished with a few invigorating rounds of laughing yoga and then the Academy graduation ceremony. This left me with just 12 hours to check into the Days Inn down the road from US Crossfit, get a few hours of sleep, and prepare to show up the next morning for Kokoro - an intense 50-60 crucible of pushing through extreme physical tests on zero sleep. Coming next, I'll be telling you everything you need to know about Kokor, and sharing some absolutely amazing stories from the life-changing experience. --------------------------------------- In the meantime, if you have signed up for a SEALFit Kokoro or Academy event and want to hop on the phone with me for a personalized one-on-one consult to get you ready physically and mentally, , whichever you'd prefer. Leave your questions, comments or feedback below, and stay tuned for Part 3, in which I'm going to fill you in on the nitty-gritty details of exactly what to expect at SEALFit Kokoro Camp and how to get the most of our experience, complete with plenty of "in-the-trenches" tips and tricks!

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