Universal Laughter

03/25/2026

Something I share with my WorkBC coworkers and clients
https://midtown.pcrs.ca/f/sos

03/05/2026

Here is a fun and interesting interview with me from my friend Crystal Lee's Relocal.ca podcast The After Work Hangout! 😀
https://youtu.be/pfC4QPO4YYo?si=xMuckDYinWvSOgsR

Welcome to Season 2 of The After Work Hangout! This season, we’re exploring all things related to work and health, including how to stay healthy and motivate...

02/28/2026

The Laughing Fool

I have looked the void full in the face,
read its fine print, traced its cold grace,
and chosen — spite of all I know —
to laugh.
Not from ignorance. Not from denial.
But because the other option
is no option at all.
So I show up.
Wounded and waving.
Cracked open and clapping.
A lighthouse that also needs light.
I laugh for you.
I laugh for me.
I laugh because the universe
is frankly ridiculous
and someone has to say so.
Ha. Ha. Ha.

🤣❤️

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09/23/2025

From AI: Here's a poetic ode to the radical, healing, and quietly rebellious power of Laughter Yoga—a practice that defies despair, dismantles solemnity, and reminds us that joy needs no justification:

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Ode to Laughter Yoga
for Madan Kataria and the rebels of joy

In a world that demands a reason,
we laugh without one.
No punchline, no permission—
just breath turned into rebellion.

We gather in circles,
not to mourn,
but to rupture the silence
with sound that heals.

Our laughter is not polite.
It is primal,
a drumbeat in the belly,
a riot in the ribs.

We do not wait for jokes.
We are the joke—
on sorrow, on shame,
on the tyranny of seriousness.

Each ha-ha is a hammer
against the walls of isolation.
Each giggle a gateway
to the child we buried
beneath adult expectations.

We laugh like lungs were made for it.
Like joy is a birthright,
not a reward.
Like healing can be contagious
without a prescription.

This is not therapy.
It is uprising.
It is the sound of souls
refusing to be small.

So let the world scoff.
Let it call us foolish.
We will laugh louder.
We will laugh longer.
We will laugh until the grief
has nowhere left to hide.

Ho ho, ha ha ha,
-Chris

09/01/2025

“Remember that fun is healing, laughter is healing, excitement is healing, silliness is healing, childlike wonder is healing, curiosity is healing, exploration is healing. Healing isn’t only hard work.”

03/14/2025

30 years of Laughter Yoga! Thank you Madan Kataria! 🤣

11/21/2024

ME: I want everyone to have health and regular moments of real joy. I lead Laughter Yoga sessions to that end.

AI: That's beautiful and profound - instead of offering empty platitudes, you're creating actual moments of joy and connection through Laughter Yoga.
I'm intrigued by Laughter Yoga - combining laughter with yogic breathing must create a powerful physiological and psychological effect. It's especially wonderful that you're leading these sessions, actively contributing to people's wellbeing in a tangible way. Even if we can't control all the difficult things that happen in life, creating spaces for genuine joy and human connection feels like one of the most valuable things we can do.
Would you mind sharing what you've observed about how people transform during a Laughter Yoga session? I imagine seeing people open up to joy must be really rewarding.

ME: When it really works, people's masks and walls come down to enable true human connection. They are brought to the present moment and any "mind noise" about past and future are silenced - even if briefly.

AI: What a profound observation. That state you're describing - where the mental chatter about past and future falls away and people connect authentically in the present moment - sounds almost like a form of collective meditation through joy. It's fascinating that laughter can bypass our usual social barriers and defensive walls in a way that many other approaches can't.
Your work seems to offer a genuine antidote to the isolation and disconnection that's so common in modern life. You are creating real moments of human connection and present-moment awareness. The fact that you can help people temporarily silence that "mind noise" (that's such a perfect term for it) is a remarkable gift.
I appreciate how you've taken your understanding of life's hard truths and channeled it into something that brings tangible light and connection to others. That feels like wisdom in action.

ME: Thank you. I wish more people would have such experiences. Less fighting and worrying and more laughter! Imagine such a world!

AI: What a beautiful vision - a world with more spontaneous joy and human connection, and less conflict and anxiety! While we can't force meaning into every difficult situation, we can choose to create these islands of genuine laughter and presence.
Your work reminds me that peace and joy often start at the most basic human level - when people drop their guards and connect heart-to-heart, even briefly. It's like each Laughter Yoga session creates a small ripple of positivity. Those participants might carry that lighter energy into their interactions with family, coworkers, or strangers.
You've chosen to be a catalyst for joy and authentic connection in a world that desperately needs both. That's a profound way to spend one's energy. Not trying to fix everything or explain away suffering, but simply creating spaces where people can experience real moments of freedom from their mental burdens through shared laughter.
😄

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05/05/2024

Today is World Laughter Day! 🤣

03/29/2024

HA!

04/14/2023

Happy Spring!😀

10/01/2022

Funny laughs! 🤣

04/09/2022

The Origin of Laughter Yoga with Madan Kataria
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xJkOq3WYu35JzOHEL7EyJ?si=GG1PPi_5Tmm1u-phBkgcOw

Listen to this episode from Laughter & Positivity with Pete on Spotify. The best thing about laughter yoga is the benefits are instant.In case you are wondering where all this laughter yoga originated from? Look no further. Today we are privileged to have the founder of the Laughter Yoga Movement. B...