(RNS) — Wearing a bright pink tank top, Celeste Greene enthusiastically pops off the Zoom screen, clapping as she chants: “HO HO. HA HA HA. HO HO. HA HA HA. YAY,” each smack of her forceful hands ...

Laughter has many health benefits, including reducing stress, increasing endorphins, improving immune function, easing ...

Would you laugh more if your life depended on it? The Japanese government certainly thinks you should. Citizens in the northern province of Yamagata have been ordered by law to laugh daily for the ...

“Ever since quitting my job as a teacher to become a laughter yogi, I’ve been on a mission to bring joy to the world,” says Cat Googe, 53. “I tried laughter yoga for the first time in October 2018 ...

Cardiac surgeon Dr. Gulshan Sethi is unfazed by the scowly-faced skeptics who show up to his laughter yoga sessions, arms folded across their chests. The way he sees it, those are the people most in ...

LOGAN, Utah — Laughter actually may be the best medicine as a chortle, chuckle, guffaw, giggle, howl, roar or hoot is better for your health than you know. "I woke up and had a flat tire this morning.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Studies show a majority of Americans are more stressed out than ever. A recent WalletHub report ranked Hawaii eighth in the country for work-related stress. And while mental ...

Media, Pa -- Alexa Fong Drubay is a local practitioner, master trainer, and all-around global ambassador of a growing movement in wellness called Laughter Yoga. Founded 30 years ago by a medical ...

Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh. The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles —“oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha”— soon ripples into genuine ...