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| You've Got To Be Kidding Michele Caskey Artist + Laughter Coach |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 15, 2009
Contact: Michele Caskey
Laughter Coach
You’ve Got To Be Kidding
575-937-3663
World Laughter Day
World Laughter Day is customarily celebrated around the world on the first Sunday of May. This year
Lincoln County will join the party by coming together to laugh and spread the word of good health, joy
and world peace through Laughter on May 3rd from 1-3pm at the Capitan Ponderosa in Capitan, New
Mexico. Festivities will include introductory laughter exercises, a silly parade and root beer floats. All are
invited to this free event. No experience is required.
For more information and directions visit www.youvegottobekidding.net.
2009 will mark Lincoln County’s inaugural participation in World Laughter Day. Capitan has an
established laughter club, “Laughter Happy Hour” that meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month from
May through September, lead by local Laughter Coach Michele Caskey. “Everyone needs to be laughing
now more than ever. I see people drowning in stress and worry. Laughter is the bodies own mechanism
for releasing adverse adrenaline stuck in our body from too much stress. When you laugh your body
experiences a physical relaxation and a calming of the mind.” Caskey believes that everyone can add more
laughter to their lives by learning a few laughter exercises and beginning to laugh for no reason, even
when nothing seems particularly funny.
The Lincoln County World Laughter Day festivities will run from 1-3pm on Sunday, May 3 and will
include: An opening and closing laughter circle, a silly parade and root beer floats (which are universally
believed to be a silly food). Michele Caskey, organizer of the event says “We will decorate ourselves as
parade floats using streamers, luau leis and other silly things.” Participants are encouraged to bring pool
toys, rubber chickens, grass skirts, crazy hats, old prom gowns, pineapples, umbrellas, wax lips, fake
eyelashes, feather boas, kites, ukuleles, imaginary friends, helium balloons and other things that make
them feel outrageous and encourage an atmosphere of ridiculousness. The event is open to children and
adults who would like to laugh for no reason along with people of all nations around the world on this
celebratory day. Seriously!
The first Laughter Yoga Club was started on 13th March, 1995 in a public park in Mumbai, India by Dr.
Madan Kataria, a family physician who prescribed laughter as a supplemental treatment for common
ailments related to stress such as insomnia, high blood pressure and migraine headaches. Laughter yoga
exercises were developed to teach people how to laugh for no reason for 20 minutes a day or more. A
dedicated practice of laughing such as this causes physical improvements to the body. The concept is now
fast sweeping the world with more than 6000 laughter clubs in more than 60 countries. This revolutionary
idea has changed the lives of hundreds and thousands of people around the world and has helped them to
attain a state of complete wellness. The first World Laughter Day was held three years later in Mumbai in
1998 and more than twelve thousand members from local and international laughter clubs joined together
in a mega laughter session and street parade. More information on Dr. Kataria and the worldwide laughter
movement is available at www.laughteryoga.org.
For more information on laughter yoga and world laughter day contact Laughter Coach Michele Caskey at
575-937-3663 or michele@youvegottobekidding.net OR visit www.worldlaughterday.org
April 15, 2009
Contact: Michele Caskey
Laughter Coach
You’ve Got To Be Kidding
575-937-3663
World Laughter Day
World Laughter Day is customarily celebrated around the world on the first Sunday of May. This year
Lincoln County will join the party by coming together to laugh and spread the word of good health, joy
and world peace through Laughter on May 3rd from 1-3pm at the Capitan Ponderosa in Capitan, New
Mexico. Festivities will include introductory laughter exercises, a silly parade and root beer floats. All are
invited to this free event. No experience is required.
For more information and directions visit www.youvegottobekidding.net.
2009 will mark Lincoln County’s inaugural participation in World Laughter Day. Capitan has an
established laughter club, “Laughter Happy Hour” that meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month from
May through September, lead by local Laughter Coach Michele Caskey. “Everyone needs to be laughing
now more than ever. I see people drowning in stress and worry. Laughter is the bodies own mechanism
for releasing adverse adrenaline stuck in our body from too much stress. When you laugh your body
experiences a physical relaxation and a calming of the mind.” Caskey believes that everyone can add more
laughter to their lives by learning a few laughter exercises and beginning to laugh for no reason, even
when nothing seems particularly funny.
The Lincoln County World Laughter Day festivities will run from 1-3pm on Sunday, May 3 and will
include: An opening and closing laughter circle, a silly parade and root beer floats (which are universally
believed to be a silly food). Michele Caskey, organizer of the event says “We will decorate ourselves as
parade floats using streamers, luau leis and other silly things.” Participants are encouraged to bring pool
toys, rubber chickens, grass skirts, crazy hats, old prom gowns, pineapples, umbrellas, wax lips, fake
eyelashes, feather boas, kites, ukuleles, imaginary friends, helium balloons and other things that make
them feel outrageous and encourage an atmosphere of ridiculousness. The event is open to children and
adults who would like to laugh for no reason along with people of all nations around the world on this
celebratory day. Seriously!
The first Laughter Yoga Club was started on 13th March, 1995 in a public park in Mumbai, India by Dr.
Madan Kataria, a family physician who prescribed laughter as a supplemental treatment for common
ailments related to stress such as insomnia, high blood pressure and migraine headaches. Laughter yoga
exercises were developed to teach people how to laugh for no reason for 20 minutes a day or more. A
dedicated practice of laughing such as this causes physical improvements to the body. The concept is now
fast sweeping the world with more than 6000 laughter clubs in more than 60 countries. This revolutionary
idea has changed the lives of hundreds and thousands of people around the world and has helped them to
attain a state of complete wellness. The first World Laughter Day was held three years later in Mumbai in
1998 and more than twelve thousand members from local and international laughter clubs joined together
in a mega laughter session and street parade. More information on Dr. Kataria and the worldwide laughter
movement is available at www.laughteryoga.org.
For more information on laughter yoga and world laughter day contact Laughter Coach Michele Caskey at
575-937-3663 or michele@youvegottobekidding.net OR visit www.worldlaughterday.org
