Beaudesert Community Free & Fun Laughter Club

03/01/2025

As we start getting used to this brand-new year, I thought we should revisit the benefits that Laughter Yoga offers all of us.

Whether you're an individual or part of a community or business group and would like to know more about Laughter Yoga and how it will improve your physical and mental health and wellbeing, then please contact me for information about workshops, workplace Laughter Yoga sessions, and more.

Laughter Yoga Australia explains the physical health, psychological and social benefits of practising laughter yoga.

02/01/2025

A community end of year Laughter ritual. What a great thing to do.

A crowd of people gathered Monday to participate in a year-end Shinto ritual in Osaka, western Japan, to laugh off all the bad memories of the past year.

02/01/2025

With best wishes for a Laughter Yoga filled 2025 for everyone.

And if you haven't yet made any New Year Resolutions why not choose to deliberately laugh more all the way through 2025.

There are just too many good reasons not to ...

29/12/2024

Some big changes coming for Beaudesert's Community Free & Fun Laughter Club in 2025.

While it's holiday time that doesn't mean we stop the fun & laughter.

Keep your eyes on this page for an announcement that might just coincide with Back-to-School time - yes, Back-to-Laughter Yoga time 🙏 🙌👏😆

Meanwhile, best wishes for the coming New Year and remember - as the founder of Laughter Yoga, Dr Madan Kataria says, "We are paying a very high price for taking life seriously. Now it's time to take laughter seriously!"

So, here's my recommendation for a New Year's Resolution: Give yourself permission to Laugh Daily - look for something to laugh about every day and laugh, laugh, laugh.

Go on. Have a go. Treat laughter like voting - laugh early and laugh often only it's not illegal to laugh often (try voting often 🤣😂🤣😂and there'll be an election next year for you to have a go at this if you want 🤣🤣🤣).

See. That made you laugh!

02/10/2024

And who else is looking out for some wonderful Laughter Yoga fun and exercise?
Join Annie and me in just a few hours to get Optimistic October off to a really good start. Here's the details:

Thursday evening, 6:00pm Queensland Time (yes, we have to get used to saying this after the long weekend)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/73896039520?pwd=EYyj0azR9e2rH4vyEJy8xakCCYXN5i.1

Meeting ID: 738 9603 9520
Passcode: 7WfCxR

See you soon.

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30/09/2024

A big thank you to Heather Joy's Laughter Yoga Happydemic for sharing the Optimistic October day-by-day exercises to support and help develop optimism.

Please share - the daily activities and the optimism 🙂

Action for Happiness calls the coming month Optimistic October.

Here's its calendar of suggested activities to nurture and develop optimism, and bonus: a great article on how optimism impacts physical and emotional health, including a quiz (which confirmed I am a realistic optimist 😉)

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-benefits-of-optimism-3144811

23/07/2024

Counting down to tomorrow evening at the Beaudesert Library.

Come along to hear about the nudity (gasp), offensive language (another gasp), and guns and shooting (even more gasps) that feature in Sense of Place. Stories About Community & Belonging.

Yes. All of this and more - in context.

You can book online or take a chance on a seat being available and just turn up. I'm really looking forward to seeing you there and chatting about my book.

20/07/2024

Yep, doing something else besides laughing 😉 Here I am, happily autographing a copy of 'Sense of Place' at Books@Stones in Stones Corner earlier today.

My sincere thanks to Karen for hosting this very friendly and enjoyable event.

And I'm hoping you'll be able to come along to this Thursday evening's book chat at the Beaudesert Library, it'd be great to see you there.

19/07/2024

I hope you're able to come along to the Beaudesert Library this Thursday evening to enjoy a chat about my newly released short story collection, 'Sense of Place. Stories About Community & Belonging'.

I'm very excited about this wonderful local event, so kindly hosted by Paula and her team at the Beaudesert Library.

As many of you know, 'Sense of Place' and I have visited Surat, Mitchell and Dalby. By Thursday evening, we'll also have made an appearance at Books @ Stones on Logan Road in Stones Corner.

Keen writers, readers and book lovers will be welcomed with open arms. Oops. In this politically correct and post-covid era, I'd better make that 'welcomed with open pages'.

Looking forward to seeing you then.

(Yep, I do more than laugh)

20/06/2024

Are you ready to laugh? We are!

Here's the new zoom link details to join Annie and me at 6:00 tonight - that's very soon, see you then

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/73896039520?pwd=EYyj0azR9e2rH4vyEJy8xakCCYXN5i.1

Meeting ID: 738 9603 9520
Passcode: 7WfCxR

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29/05/2024

Some wonderful feedback from the Co.As.It participants of my Laughter Yoga session on Saturday morning in Lutwyche to celebrate National Volunteer Week:

"Great team building and enjoyable morning"
"Great experience"
"Thank you"
"Loved It!"
"Very interesting"
"Laugh every day whilst riding to work"
"Very enjoyable and worthwhile"

Presenting a Laughter Yoga session to this wonderful group of volunteers was an absolute joy and such a privilege.

Send a message to learn more

23/05/2024

If you'd like to take part in Annie's and my Free Thursday Night Online Laughter Yoga at 6:00 pm, here's the details:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/73896039520?pwd=EYyj0azR9e2rH4vyEJy8xakCCYXN5i.1

Meeting ID: 738 9603 9520
Passcode: 7WfCxR

Send a message to learn more