Laughter Yoga- A Magical Experience To Relieve Stress and Anxiety

Posted by Home Of Wellness on March 29th, 2021

All of us might have gone through the adrenaline rush in our body after laughing out loud and heartily. Laughter is an absolute medicine to many of our emotional, mental and psychological problems. Laughter yoga is a series of exercises that promotes deliberate and voluntary laughter. This is usually done as a team. As we know that laughing is contagious it is effective when there are more than one person involved.

 How is laughter yoga done?

Laughter yoga is a form of holistic exercise done with the help of an instructor or coach who has in-depth knowledge on how to promote laughter deliberately in a group. Initially there will be some warm up exercises like Breathwork, clapping etc for people to relax. Then the instructor will ask you to count together till 3 and at the end of it he advises everyone to laugh out loud. There is yet another method which is called the argument laughter exercise where the whole group is divided into two groups that are facing each other. Then they will be asked to laugh at each other loudly. This process will continue for at least 3 minutes in order to be effective.

 Benefits of Laughter yoga

• It helps in reducing blood pressure

Laughing is proved to reduce the stress hormone called cortisol in the body which in turn reduces your blood pressure too.

• It helps in burning calories

Similar to zumba or aerobics a great deal of calories are burnt during laughing yoga.

• Strengthens your heart

Laughing promotes the expansion of blood vessels which in turn increases the blood circulation resulting in healthy heart

• Improves respiratory system

Laughing just like voluntary breathing pushes more oxygen to the lungs which in turn revitalizes your lungs and makes you healthy.

The bottom line is that laughter yoga is worth a try. Have we not heard the saying that goes Laughter is the best medicine and so let's assume that laughter yoga is definitely medicine in its best form. 

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