This document provides information about laughter yoga and its benefits. It discusses ancient sayings about laughter from various cultures. Laughter yoga involves systematic exercises to stimulate laughter without jokes or humor. These exercises are performed in groups and provide health benefits like reducing stress, blood pressure, and heart disease risk. The document outlines various laughter exercises and provides guidelines for safe participation. It also discusses using laughter in the workplace to improve relationships and productivity.

1. Presentation on
Synergy through
Hasya Yoga (Laughter Yoga) and
Laughter at Work Place
By : Chandrakant L. Patel
(M)+919582715958.
Email:patelchand2005@yahoo.co.in

2. What is Laughter (Hasya)
There is a saying in Gujarati that “ Hase
Tenu Ghar Vase” means those who can
laugh can get married.
There is a saying in China that “ If you can
not Laugh, Please do not start your own
business / Shop”

3. In Marathi it is talked about “Sat Mazli Hasya” it
means if you laugh at ground floor, person
on seventh floor should hear your laughter
& participate in it.
It is said for health “ An apple a day, keeps
Doctor away” same thing is applicable to
“A Smile a day keeps Doctor away”

4. What is Hasyayoga
Laughter Yoga / Laughter Therapy

5. The Laughter Yoga is an age old
technique of laughing in a yogic way.
The way regular physical exercise /
Yoga exercise is performed, in the same
way Laughter exercise can be
performed. Systematic way of
performing these exercise is called
Laughter Yoga. (Hasyayoga)

6. Ancient literature has explain the benefit of
Hasya Yoga. Modern Medical science has
experienced the benefit of laughter and it’s
positive impact on various systems of our
body in a scientific way. This is how
laughter therapy has come in to existence.
Many western countries has started
“Laughter Clinic”. Here are some of the
photographs of Laughter Clubs

7. Laughter The Best Medicine

11. Laughter, Humour, Smile all are
parallel words.
Anger is one step shorter to Danger

12. What will you express
and exchange with a
Smile
• S - Sweetness
• M - Mildness
• I - Intimacy
• L - Love
• E - Emotion

13. What will you gain with
Humour
• H - Health
• U - Unity
• M - Magnetic Personality
• O - Ovation
• U - Uniqueness
• R - Recreation

14. What you can become
with Anger
• A - Arrogant
• N - Non - Cooperative
• G - Gruff
• E - Enemy
• R - Rush

15. Laughter The Best Medicine
• Laughing - a gift of God to human being
:In the entire universe only human
being can laugh no other animals or
birds can laugh.
• Number of laughing per day: A survey
was conducted that how many times a
person laugh per day. Result shows
that a child of 3 month old laugh 300
times a day. Number of laughing
decrease as he or she goes to school,
college, job and getting married. An
average man laugh 3 to 4 times a day.

16. Laughter The Best Medicine
• Smile from face is disappearing for
want of Money/Position.
• Laughter is the best Cosmetic in the
world : If you wear costly dress but no
smile on face, people will say “Akadu
Hai”. With simple dress and smile on
face you can get along the
people.Smile is the best cosmetic in the
word. This is the reason why you see
smiling faces in every
advertisements.Even Celebrity like
Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh and Maduri
Dixit, has to speck with smile.

17. Laughter The Best Medicine
• 70 % of the diseases are because
of Stress & Mental Thinking (High
Blood Pressure, Hypertension,
Depression, Nervous Breakdown,
Migraine Headaches,
Sleeplessness, Heart Disease,
Peptic Ulcers,
Constipation,Asthma, Bronchitis
and others). Increase in incident of
cancer has been attributed to the
stress of modern life.

18. Laughter The Best Medicine
• What happens to different organ of body
when you Laugh: When we laugh our chest is
full of air, so more oxygen available to our
lungs & heart. It results into more purification of
blood & better circulation. It also clean up
respiratory system. Stomach muscles
compresses & relaxes. Good exercise to face
muscles.
• Laughter as a Stress Buster:Laughter
releases chemicals adrenaline &
Noradrenaline which produces feeling of well
being by relieving minor stress & strain of daily
life.Laughter reduces anxiety, tension,

19. Laughter The Best Medicine
• Laughter & High Blood Pressure & Heart Disease:
Laughter helps to control blood pressure by reducing
the release of stress related hormones and bringing
relaxation. In experiments it has been proved that
there is a drop of 10-20 mm pressure after
participating for 10 minutes in a laughter session. It
helps heart patient to reduce number of tablets he/she
taking per day. Laughter may be the best preventive
medicine for those who are at a high risk of developing
heart disease.
• Relation between laughing & Calorie Consumed:
Calories consume in 100 laughs is equal to jogging for
10 minutes.

20. Laughter The Best Medicine
• Laughter for Asthma & Bronchitis: In Asthama &
Bronchitis there is a blockage in respiratory system.
Laughter helps in cleaning this blockage.
• Laughter and Immunity : Laughter helps in
improving body immunity and serve as a blocking
agent against chronic disease like bronchitis, common
cold, allergies etc.
• Laughter Vs Meditation : While laughing, we do not
have any conscious thought process. Where as in
meditation we need to concentrate a lot to take mind
away from distracting thoughts. It gives equal joy,
peace and relaxation.

21. Laughter The Best Medicine
• Laughter is Good for Actors, Singers and Public
Speakers. Increased lung capacity, exercise of
diaphragm and abdominal muscles will help to
gain a better control over voice.
• As breathing capacity increases stamina of
Sportsmen improves. It relieves tension of
Students before exam or competition .
• Laughter makes you look Younger as it
improves blood supply to face muscles.
• Laughter improves Inter Personal Relationship
• Self Confidence can be increased through
Laughter.

22. Laughter The Best Medicine
Survey Result/Clinical Analysis on Laughing
Therapy on 516 members of a laughter club
59% of members were suffering from some disease.
After Practicing
Laughter 44% of them needed less medication.
77% People had
positive improvement in their mental & physical health
Attitude of 83% of members improved towards their
family members resulting in to harmonious family life.
71% people reported
improved relationship with their colleagues, in
profession, in business or at place of service.
Self Confidence was increased in

23. Laughter The Best Medicine
• Reactive Laughter Vs Proactive Laughter .
When we see something funny happening in front of
us we laugh, It can be movie, TV Serial, some
event, listening of jocks. For us to laugh, some
thing should always happen in front of us. If it does
not happened, we will not laugh. This is called
Reactive Laughter
Proactive Laughter : we want to remain healthy,
irrespective of something happening in front of us,
we will laugh. Laughing will be a part of daily routine
/ exercise. This is called Proactive laughter
Happiness and laughter are state of mind and should
be unconditional, irrespective of ups and downs of

24. What is been said by famous
Personalities on Laughter
• World without Humour should get vanished.
-Charlie Chaplain.
• Always keep smile on your face. Person with a
smile on face is not a poor. & Person without a
smile is not a rich one. - Author of How to win
friends & influence People, Dale Carnegie
• Seriousness without lightness & lightness
without seriousness is useless. - Mahatma
Gandhi.
• Achieve whatever you want with a smile & not
with a sword. - Shakespeare

25. What is been said by famous
Personalities on Laughter
• Smile is a language of Love. - Homer.
• Smile is a smallest distance between any two
individuals. - Mark Twein
• If you laugh, the world will laugh with you. If you
cry, you have to cry alone because the world
has plenty of reasons with them to cry for
themselves. -
---Asa Wheelerbil Fox.

26. No Constrain No Limits
For Laughter
• Richest & Poorest person can laugh
without spending a single paise from
pocket. No Constrain for Man &
Woman, Child & Old, Educated and
Uneducated, Hindu, Muslim Or any
other Religion, Hindustani & Pakistany,
Terrorist & saint.
• No other Medicine can Cure & Prevent
so many disease and have so many
benefits explain in this presentation.

27. Laughter at Workplace

28. Laughter at
Workplace
• The way morning exercise done, Laugher can
also be practiced.
• It improves inter-personal relationship at
all levels in an organization, replacing mutual
lack of trust and confidence with a more
positive outlook and co-operative attitude
towards one’s colleagues and subordinates.
• Fear Of Indecipline Vs Team Building :
Bosses and subordinates works with better
frame of mind rather than fearing each other.
Guilt, anger, jealousy, ego and fear like
factors goes away from members.

29. Laughter at Workplace
• Productivity Through Laughter :When
industries are undergoing recession and
tough competition, employees are living
stressful lives. It results in to some
uncomforts, diseases, absenteeism and poor
performance. Medical bill of a company also
goes high.
• All members will have all benefits of laughter
listed in this presentation, hence Win-Win
situation can be arrived through Laughter
Therapy.
• Industries can be near to NSIP (Not a Single
Irritated Person) Strategy.

30. Best Time & Place to Laugh:
Ideally, the laughter session must take place in the
morning. Either at public parks where people go for a
morning walk or along with any health building group
activity like yoga, aerobics, meditations, Ti Chi, sports
etc where the laughter yoga can be added as value
addition. Nowadays, in cities like Mumbai and
Bangalore evening laughter clubs have started.
Majority of the members are ladies who do not get
time in the morning because they are busy in cooking
and sending their children to school. At workplace like
offices and factories, people can start the day with 10-
15 minutes of laughter. The advantage of morning
laughter session is you start the day with a positive
note and it keeps you fresh and in a good mood
throughout the day. If morning time is not convenient,
session can be held during coffee break at 11 O'clock

31. Laughter The Best Medicine
• Technique of laughter : The
laughter recommended is “SUGAR”
for positive health.
• S -Spontaneous
• U -Unprovoked
• G -Group
• A -Action
• R -Remedy

32. Who Should not participate in laughter
session?
• 1. Any person who feels any discomfort in any
part of the body, must get himself examined by a
doctor and work out his physical fitness status
before joining the laughter session.
• 2. A mild heaviness in the head after a laughter
session in the beginning, is normal. Such
individuals must not overexert and laugh
forcefully. If you are already a hypertensive
patient, get your blood pressure checked at least
once in ten days. Don’t participate in laughter
sessions if your blood pressure is high and
uncontrolled. However, those taking treatment
and keeping blood pressure within normal limits
can join the sessions.

33. Who Should not participate in laughter
session?
• 3. Any heart patient on treatment, or one who has
had heart attack in the past must get clearance
from his cardiologist before joining laughter
sessions. Those with a history of heart attacks
and those who have had bypass operations
done, may join the session if their treadmill
(stress test) results are within normal limits.
. 4. Recent Surgery: To be on the safe side, one
should not join a laughter session, within three
months of any major operation, especially on the
abdomen. In the later case, one must get
clearence from one’s surgeon.

34. Who Should not participate in laughter
session?
• 5. Pregnancy: In a small percentage of
pregnant women, there is a possibility of
abortion if there is a repeated rise in intra-
abdominal pressure and they should avoid
laughter sessions. If they wish to
participate they must consult their
specialist.
• 6. Person suffering from Hernia,Advanced
Piles (Haemorrhoids), attacks of Cold and
Flu, Eye Complications should not
participate in laughter session.

35. Basic Guidelines for a Laughter Session:
1. All the participants will start laughing at the same
time when the anchor person gives the com mand
1,2...start.
2. People should not stand far away from each other.
To laugh without jokes, eye contact is the key. During
each type of laughter a person must maintain good eye
contact with more than one of his neighbours.
3. Do not apply too much force while laughing, it should
be more of a feeling and enjoying of the process.

36. 4. One should try to feel free like a child and
make funny gestures to make others laugh
5. One bout of laughter lasts for 30 seconds
to 45 seconds. After each bout of laughter,
or sometimes after two bouts, two deep
breaths are taken, in order to give a break.
This avoids exertion and tiredness.
Sometimes, various neck, shoulder and
arm stretching exercises are done in place
of deep breathing between bouts of
laughters.

37. New Model of Laughter Therapy Session
A typical laughter session is a perfect blend of
various stimulated laughter techniques interspersed
with breathing and stretching exercises. A 20-30
minutes of laughter session can be divided into
following parts:
Deep Breathing (Tadasan) : Yogic breathing
techniques help us to bring both physical and mental
relaxation.
This exercise need to be performed in between any
two laughter yoga exercise.

39. The session starts when one takes a deep breath through
the nostrils, simultaneously raising the arms up towards
the sky, the breathing in should be rhythmic, in
accordance with movement of the arms and one should
keep on filling air into the lungs, as much as possible, and
then hold one's breath for 4 seconds. Then the breath is
released slowly and rhythmically by bringing the stretched
arms back to normal position. One can breathe out
through the nose or preferably through the mouth by
pursing the lips, as if whistling silently. This is in
accordance with yogic deep breathing (a type of
paranayama) where the duration of exhalation is
prolonged almost double the time of inhalation.

40. Following Types of Laughter Yoga
Exercise can be practiced.
1) Warm Up
Laughter/ Ho-Ho Ha-Ha Exercise: The
session starts with warm up ho ho ha ha
exercise. All the members start chanting Ho-Ho
Ha-Ha in unison, with rhythmic clapping 1-2, 1-2-
3. (Ho-Ho; Ha-Ha-Ha). The sound should come
from the naval, so as to feel the movement of
abdominal muscles, while keep the mouth half
open. While chanting Ho-Ho Ha-Ha, a smile
should be maintained and one should keep
moving and meeting different people with good
eye contact. Good ground movement and
enthusiastic clapping will help to build up good
energy levels (philosophy of motion creates
emotion).

41. 2) Hearty Vigorous Laughter / Patiala
Laughter / Lankesh Laughter / Gabbar
Singh Laughter :
Here members open their mouth widely
and laugh heartily and vigorously
moving their hands as well as slapping
each other’s hand.

42. •3) Silent ‘Joker’s Laughter : In this type of
laughter, the mouth is opened as wide as possible and
participants laugh looking at each others’ faces and
making different gestures showing their palms to each
other, shaking their heads and sometimes their hands.
Silent Laughter should be done with quick movements
of the abdominal muscles as we do during
spontaneous laughter. It should not be like a prolonged
hissing sound, which looks more artificial. Important:
One should not apply excess force or over exert while
laughing without sound. It can be harmful if intra-
abdominal pressure is raised unnecessarily. One
should try to impart more feeling rather than applying
too much force

43. • 4) Office Laughter / Pigeon Laughter /Humming
Laughter With Lips Closed: In this type of laughter,
the lips are closed and a person tries to laugh while
making a humming sound which resonates throughout
the skull. People can keep on looking at each other,
making some gestures to stimulate each other or shake
hands with each others or any other kind playfulness
can be brought during the laughter. Some people also
call it pigeon laughter. Caution: One should not try to
laugh without sound while keeping the mouth closed
with force. This raises undue pressure in the
abdominal cavity that may be harmful.

44. Laughter The Best Medicine

45. •5) Lion Laughter: This particular laughter has
been derived from a yogic posture known as
Simha Mudra (Lion Posture). In the lion posture,
stick your tongue out fully while keeping the
mouth wide open. With eyes wide open stretch
your hands like the paws of a lion and roar like a
lion followed by laughter coming from your
belly. Lion Laughter gives very good exercise to
facial muscles, the tongue and throat. It removes
inhibitions and good for the immunity of throat.
It is also improves blood supply to the thyroid
gland.

46. •6) Cell Phone Laughter: This is also known as
mobile phone laughter. It is very amusing and playful.
The participants will hold imaginary mobile phone try
to laugh making different gestures and moving around
in the group to meet different people and laugh as if
they are enjoying the laughter. Mobile phone laughter
can also be done in two groups facing each other and
at the command of anchor person both the group will
cross each other while laughing and holding the
mobile phone. If required the two groups can cross
over again to come back to the original position.
While crossing the member must look at each other
and laugh. .

47. •7) Swinging Laughter / Rolly Polly Laughter: This
is an interesting kind laughter as it has a lot of
playfulness. All the member move outwards by two
meters to widen the circle. On instruction from the
anchor person people move forward by making a
prolonged sound of Ae Ae- Aeeeee....., simultaneously
raising the hands and they all burst into laughter while
meeting in the center and waving their hands. After
the bout of laughter, they move back to their original
position. The second time they move forward by
saying Oh- Ooooooo.. and burst into laughter.
Similarly, the third and fourth times they make the
sounds of Eh- Eh... E.... and Oh- Oh... O... Many
people are seen behaving like children and enjoying
the fun.

48. 8) Heart to Heart Laughter (Intimacy
Laughter): This laughter should be done
last of all and here the participants come
closer and hold each others hands and
laugh with compassionate eye contact. One
can shake hands, hug each other while
laughing if convenient. This is also known
as intimacy laughter. In conservative
communities ladies and gents can do in
separate groups.

49. The benefit of Hasya Yoga has been
tested and validated scientifically
across the world on thousands of
people.
To Conclude Laughter is:
• Stress Breaker & tension reducer
• Natural Painkiller & reliever
• Increase in efficiency of respiratory tracts
• Increase oxygen intake in body

50. • Control Blood circulation
• Increase body resistance
• Curing of many diseases
• Reduces medicine
• Increase capacity, ability and self-
confidence
• Develop positive attitude and thinking
• Reduces destructive attitude, feeling &
negative thought
• Develops once personality, level of
confidence and feeling of goodness
• Mind muscles exercises

51. • Beautification of face. Laughter is a natural
cosmetic.
• Increase social contacts
• Improve your health
• Increase your income
• Control your stress and
• Improve your human relationship Laughter is the
best medicine.
• Improve productivity, efficiency and creativity
• Increase capacity, ability and self-confidence
• Develop trust
• Improve teamwork

52. • Improve leadership
• Improve lung capacity
• Improve immune system
• Laughter is internal jogging
• Laughter is magic fingers to massage internal
organs

53. Thank You