Michele's Laughter Club
Seattle Cancer Treatment
and Wellness Center
You've Got To Be Kidding
Michele Caskey
Artist + Laughter Coach
As a Laughter Coach and Laughter Yoga Teacher it has become
my mission to encourage people to laugh for no particular reason
as much and as freely as possible. Seriously!

It is a common misconception that something needs to be funny in
order to laugh when it also works the other way around. The more
we laugh, the more amusing life is. Using a series of 'laughter
exercises' originally developed by Dr. Madan Kataria in India, I
show you how to cultivate a source of laughter that is not reliant
on humor or funny situations. We all agree that laughter is the
best medicine, but quite often when we need a good laugh
nothing remotely funny is happening. Once you have learned to
laugh for no reason and stimulate your own laughter this is no
longer a problem, since you have the tools to start laughing any
time, any place. For many people this is a revolutionary concept.
You can then go on to fully embody the increased vitality that
comes from being easily amused and amazed by life.

The best way to understand how this all works is to experience the
effects yourself. The typical workshop begins with a few
introductory instructions and then we jump right in to doing a
series of  laughter exercises which are the vehicle by which we
learn to laugh for no reason. Basically this involves pantomiming
common activities while laughing. Each laughter exercise lasts
approximately 2 minutes. It is after two minutes of sustained
laughter that the physical effects on the body kick in. Most people
have never laughed like this before. Our heart rates will jump, our
body temperature will rise, our cheeks will be pink....we will be
having a lot of fun and have no idea why. We clap, we breathe
and we laugh. It is a simple and profound experience.

I use my infectious laugh out in the world to encourage others to
use laughter to improve and heal their lives. My practice
incorporates laughter and the expressive arts to nurture the mind,
body and spirit. I teach workshops in libraries, schools, in the work
place, with cancer survivors or anyplace else where people are
stressed out, in distress or sick of taking life so seriously. I can
show you how to use laughter as a stress management tool, a
way to stimulate creativity, for team building, bridge building, ice
breaking, as holistic healing support and more.

Laughter workshops can be held once or as a series. A standard
workshop is one hour long, but can be extended to include more
philosophical information on laughter, happiness and levity. A half
day or full day workshop can include expressive arts exercises
that springboard from the laughter environment. It is amazing how
an hour spent considering laughter and immersed in an extended
guffaw creates a shift in a person and an organization. You'll be
talking about it for months.

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Navigating the Territory Between
Wise and Wacky since 1998
Choose Laughter Over Insanity