Laughter Yoga Santa Cruz

15/11/2025

A new chapter begins today.
I’m heading to Rancho La Puerta in Tecate Mexico for a week of guest teaching — a week of joyful embodiment, emotional release, laughter and deep human connection. New beginnings invite us to soften, breathe, and trust the unfolding… and I’m stepping into this one with a grateful, open heart. 🤍✨

Grief Yoga® helps us liberate the heavy emotions we carry in our bodies — the grief, tension, and old stories living in the body, quietly shaping how we show up. When we move, breathe, and give those emotions a pathway out, we create space for renewal and deep inner peace.

Laughter Yoga then releases any residual heaviness and invites increased oxygen and a happy chemical release creating lightness, safety, and possibility. Even intentional laughter rewires the nervous system, melts hidden tension, and opens a sense of inner spaciousness that so many of us long for. 🌿

I can’t wait to share with the guests the exploration of joy, laughter and emotional liberation as a daily practice: something we create intentionally through movement, breath, and compassionate awareness. Hahaha! Excited! Lets see who joins in the fun!✨

Here’s to saying yes to the next evolution of who we are becoming! 💛

Follow along for reflections and behind-the-scenes moments throughout the week.

👉🏼 What “new beginning” are you saying yes to in this season of your life?

12/11/2025

Rebooting Joy in Paradise 🌺

I’m honored to be a guest teacher at Rancho La Puerta in beautiful Tecate, Mexico this November 15–22 — guiding a week of joyful embodiment, laughter, emotional release and grief tending.

All 3 sessions — Joy Reboot: Rewire Your Body for More Joy,
The Power of Laughter to Uplevel Your Joy, and
Grief Yoga for Emotional Liberation — invite you to reconnect with the wisdom and aliveness already within your body.

Rancho La Puerta is a true sanctuary: world-class spa treatments, vibrant community classes, stunning nature hikes, farm-to-table meals, and endless opportunities to rest and restore.

I can’t wait to share this magical 💖journey and joyful practices with all of you here. Honored to be the sacred witness to the magic that will unfold when grief is met, joy is reclaimed and body, mind, and spirit align. 🌞

✨ Joy is not something we find — it’s something we remember.

26/07/2025

💗Dance With Grief and Joy is happening THIS SATURDAY in Capitola 🌊 — and there are still a few spots left!

🗓️ Saturday, July 26
⏰ 1–4:30pm
📍 Breath and Oneness, Capitola, CA
💸 $75 | Link in bio to register

This is a healing space to be real—with your grief, your pain, your joy, and your body.

In a world that rarely makes space for sorrow, this workshop invites you to move stuck energy, breathe deeply, and be witnessed in community.

Through guided movement, Grief Yoga®, and joyful embodiment practices, we’ll tend to what aches—together—and reconnect with what’s alive.

Grief and joy are not opposites—they are dance partners.
Come move, feel, release, and remember your capacity to heal.

Facilitated with care by and .mehringer .
Pre-registration required. Link in bio.

15/07/2025

💃🏻 Dance with Grief and Joy-In-person

💌 $55 early bird; $75 after 7/19
Pre-registration is required for this event, as space will be limited.

Grief and joy are dance partners, each longing to be felt, expressed, and set free. This transformative event invites you to move through the full spectrum of emotion with conscious connection—using dance, breath, and guided somatic practices to release emotional weight and reconnect with vitality and aliveness. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, moving through grief allows us to emerge lighter, stronger, and more radiant, awakening joy from within.

What to Expect:

- Dancing and Movement
- Guided Meditation
- Grief Yoga®
- Joyful Embodiment Practices
- Be Witnessed and Heal in Community

This event is lovingly facilitated by two passionate grief tenders and joy enthusiasts. Carla H. Brown, a transformational coach and an award-winning laughter professional, and Karen Mehringer, an author and former grief therapist, bring nearly 50 years of combined experience guiding individuals and groups through deep healing and embodied transformation. With compassionate hearts and a shared passion for helping others navigate grief, liberate emotions, and reclaim joy, they create a supportive space for movement, connection, and renewal.

Pre-registration is required for this event, as space will be limited.

29/05/2025

Hey all! Auditions are open for the American Laughing Championship! Any US Citizen is eligible to enter. Click on the link and submit a 1 minute video of your most contagious laugh. Expanded directions are in this post below. Who do you know with a contagious laugh!
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0yVyxx14YrUcSCPKRsTeuRn6HGZe23X6x3UjXHkyNM4Luen9MDAKKAafWEFE2Bx9zl&id=100083396949571

🎉🇺🇸 AUDITIONS ARE OPEN! 🇺🇸🎉
Think you’ve got the most contagious laugh in the country? It’s time to share it with the world — and maybe even win your way to the World Laughing Championship!

We’re now accepting submissions for the American Laughing Championship 2025, happening June 15th — and we want YOU to bring the joy!

📅 How to enter:
1️⃣ Post a video of your most contagious, joyful, unstoppable LAUGH — right here on this page.
2️⃣ Submit your video by June 13, 2025.
3️⃣ Open to all U.S. citizens.
4️⃣ If you’re selected, we’ll message you privately with next steps.
🏆 The winner will go on to represent the U.S. in the World Laughing Championship on July 5, 2025!

✨ This is your moment to shine, giggle, howl, snort, and ROAR with laughter. Let’s fill this page with joy!

🎥 Tag your friends.
💬 Spread the word.
🤣 Help us find the laugh that will echo across the world!

27/11/2024

31/10/2024

About 10 years ago, I was going through an incredibly rough patch, having experienced five huge losses back to back. One of the last I experienced was loss of income, a byproduct of another big loss earlier in the year and my first ever panic attack leading to low-grade depression. It was a perfect storm. Everything seemed to be falling apart.

By the summertime, I was unable to go to the wedding of one of my besties because I didn’t have the income for it. I was mortified and felt like a failure…my thoughts racing with hateful words, my body holding the posture of worthlessness and defeat.

Looking back now, I know that my hormones were waaay out of balance, my nervous system was overwhelmed, and I went into a combination freeze response, unable to get out of bed with no desire to eat, and high anxiety, unable to sleep and shaking all the time.

I couldn’t have made it without the support of dear friends helping me to make my way through it, one step at a time.

For Halloween that year, I decided to be a zombie and do the Thriller dance on the main street of the city where I live. It was so fun, I was so into it! It made me feel alive to act like a dead person and scare people with my looks and screams.

I now realize that I was embodying my shadow side, the parts of me that were suffering, that felt like they were dying and falling apart - these parts felt validated and seen. Taking part in that Thriller dance was a vital part of my healing. I had no idea that, in pretending to be a zombie, I was really expressing the anger and outrage I had, which removed a layer of emotion and revealed the deep grief I was feeling due to all the losses. Grief I didn’t even know I had.

This is one of the many reasons why I’m so passionate about Grief dance. A dedicated and sacred space among the redwoods for you to be in your body with grief, and learn how to tend and befriend the suffering parts.

Join us if you are in the area and feel moved. If you know of someone that could benefit, please let them know about it. It will be a sacred and powerful experience. Can’t wait to share how it goes!

Deep thanks for the many friends that offered your huge hearts and incredible support, helping me to get through that very hard time. You live in my 💗💕heart forever!



https://events.humanitix.com/grief-dance