Introductory  Seminar
Ice – Breaker Session/Stress Buster Session

Duration: 30-90 minutes. A short laughter program is ideal to begin conferences and seminars. Longer sessions can be used as ice-breaker or stress busters. Tailor you program to meet your needs. Please be sure to inform your employees that they will be attending a Laughter Yoga session. There is no yoga experience needed. Laughter Yoga was named yoga because of the deep breathing and benefits found in yoga practice.
Target Audience: Managers, executives and staff at all levels
Group size: 20 – 100+

What Will Participants learn
• History, concept and philosophy of Laughter Yoga presented using a colorful original PowerPoint slide show.
• An audiovisual presentation about international Laughter Yoga clubs, scientific research on Laughter Yoga news clips.
• Laughter Yoga session followed by laughter meditation and guided relaxation.
• Corporate benefits of Laughter Yoga along with health benefits and how one can add more laughter in their personal life, business life and social life.
• They will understand the value of laughter as an exercise and will experience enhanced energy levels from the very first session. This will improve their mood throughout the day. They will also learn to laugh without any reason and will be able to practice Laughter Yoga exercises anytime anywhere.
• They will learn how to change their mood state within minutes by doing these laughter exercises thereby bringing a change in their attitude towards others. This will also help them to cope with difficult and challenging situations with a positive frame of mind.
• Laughter Yoga exercises will help them to release negative emotions and bring about an emotional balance for better relationships with colleagues in the workplace and with family.
• After experiencing the benefits they will learn how to apply this wisdom of Laughter Yoga to bring more laughter and joy into their lives.

Objectives:
• To kick start a good mood and change the state of mind before conferences and seminars.
• To energize the participants right from the start.
• To help increase attention spans during long training sessions and improve efficiency and performance.
• To focus on different stressers in the workplace and how Laughter Yoga helps to alleviate them.
• To reduce physical, mental and emotional stress.
• To release the negative affects of stress in the body and mind and improve personal and group responses.
• To provide training to prepare for stressful situations using ‘Laughter Boosting’ techniques.
• To improve group dynamics and performance.
• To convert disparate groups (from different cultures and backgrounds) into a caring, sharing and cooperative team.
• Will focus on how to boost your energy on demand for peak performance.
• To change the state of mind and create a positive outlook to help increase efficiency levels and maximize performance.
• To help prepare for stressful situations like interviews, exams, public speaking and important project presentations.