Laughter Yoga Ontario

I just returned from the 5th Annual Laughter Yoga conference in Albuquerque New Mexico, where we were told about this 9 page article on Dr. Kataria in the August 30th issue of the New Yorker. This is incredible publicity for laughter yoga and also, as The New Yorker is a prestigious magazine, it further provides validity for Laughter Yoga. We could not get it in Albuquerque, but I was able to find it at a Hudson news stand at the airport - I should have bought more copies! It is a weekly magazine so it may not be available any more, but do call around and see if you can find some. There is also a 3 minute video posted by the author as mentioned below.

The article goes in depth into Dr. Kataria's life and laughter yoga journey as well as commenting on various research studies. The author of the article, Raffi Khatchadourian, went to India during a training that Dr. Kataria was doing at that time and he has posted a video at http://www.newyorker.com/video At the moment it is the first video to come up and is about 3 minutes long.

In the article, Dr. Andrew Weil, author and the founder and Program Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (formerly the Program in Integrative Medicine), which he started in 1994 at the University of Arizona, is quoted as saying that " Laughter Yoga is a powerful Intervention against illness ... and that Laughter Yoga could help lower American health-care costs".