Building a Laughter Yoga Community

LYOZ Facebook closed group. At present there are two Laughter Yoga Australia Facebook pages in existence. The first one is open to the General Public anywhere in the world. The second is for Laughter Yoga Professionals here in Australia only. The purpose of this latter one is to share ideas and ask questions that maybe shouldn’t be broadly known about. If you have been officially trained and live in Australia, you can request to join this group. For those of us who train others, I encourage you to introduce your new trainees to the group and let them know that this is part of a support network for them. And guess what? It’s FREE! Here is the link to go to. https://www.facebook.com/groups/LaughterYogaAustralia/

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World Laughter Day. Our thanks to everyone who got involved with our last quarterly event that was the Australia Day theme. I even heard of one group doing a Welcome to Country that was a nice and respectful thing to do. Remember that these events are to excite and entice new people to your Laughter Club so get behind each one by clicking on “I’m going” on the Facebook Event page. The next one will be for World Laughter Day that’s happening on the 7th May, and Connie will be creating that Event Page for us shortly.

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Monthly meetings. If you would like to be kept abreast of the latest news from around the nation, then join in on the first Thursday of every month from 7.30pm to 8.30pm for our Skype catch up and chat. I don’t know about anyone else, but I always come away with at least one idea to help grow the Laughter Yoga community, or my own laughter business, or both. The link is https://join.skype.com/RUa7Qmsernhx

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New Canberra Laughter Club. Karen Dahl has started a Laughter Club at the Canberra Seniors Club in Canberra. It happens every Wednesday from 10am to 11am and attendance is by donation. It’s GRRREAT to now have a club in our Nation’s Capital where they could sure do with a laugh ha ha ha!

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2017 Conference details. It’s now official. Our Annual Conference and Laughter Immersion will be happening from the 27th to 29th October at The Vibe Hotel in Sydney. We will also have full training options from the 30th October to the 3rd November at The Centre in Randwick, and pre conference workshops on the 25th and 26th. So block out the dates and start planning your visit to the Harbor City.

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Dave Berman training and books for sale. A final reminder of the Laughnosis Training happening around Australia with the first one in Melbourne on the 2nd and 3rd March. We now have supplies of his two books The Little Book of Laughnosis, and Laughter for the Health of it.

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New training fee. There is now a Training Fee that is to be paid to the Laughter Yoga University every time that someone does the 2 day leader training. It’s $10US per student and the Certificates are issued online and are to be printed locally. For further information and to get your online Certificate, contact the folks at LYHQ.

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Malaysian Teacher Training. And for our friends overseas, or those wanting to travel, there will be 5 days of Laughter Yoga training in Kuala Lumpar Malaysia from the 6th to 10th April. Email mervneal@laughteryoga.org for details and registration.

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If you’d like to know more about Laughter Yoga in Australia then please don’t hesitate to contact me at any time on 0408 552269 or at mervneal@laughteryoga.org.

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