Family & Community Resource Centre
LAUGHTER CLUB

* No Membership * No Dues * * All Ages * FUN Exercise *

LAUGHTER IS FREE FOR ALL AGES

1st Thursday of each month 6 – 8 PM
Alberta Children’s Hospital Gymnasium

Lightening Your Load with Laughter

Laughter is one of the best ways to reduce stress and help cope with unpleasant situations, including health problems.

Here are some healthy ways to inject a little laughter into your life:

• Rediscover the kid in you: Children laugh so many more times each day – than adults. Watch youngsters, see what makes them laugh, and try to bring some of that playfulness into your life.
• Lighten up: Instead of bristling at life's annoyances - lost luggage, a late bus - try to view them as amusing and joke with others who are in the same fix.
• Look for humor in difficult situations: Just make sure that your jokes aren't made at the expense of others, which could be hurtful instead of enjoyable. Positive humor is better for the mind, body and spirit than negative humor.

Remember being a kid and doing cartwheels and handstands, and kicking your legs high in the air? As we age, muscles can stiffen and shrink, leaving us with less strength and flexibility. While a shoulder-high kick may not be in your future, Laughter Yoga can help restore some of the flexibility of youth. The fun and gentle movements of laughter yoga can do wonders!

5 Things Laughter Clubs Do

• Release emotional tension!
• Prevent "hardening of the attitudes"
• Improve enthusiasm and sense of well being!
• Reduce loneliness & increases self-confidence!
• Improve health through motor & breathing exercise!

• A gentle, laughter filled session of breathing, stretching, and various laughter exercises. Can be done seated.
• Qualified leaders enhance and stimulate laughter.
• Group support lifts members spirits
• Atmosphere is relaxed, up beat.
• No jokes are needed!

• Relieves stress, lifts spirits!
• Good cardio-vascular effects
• Strengthen the immune system
• Improves breathing and blood pressure
• People who laugh together get along together better!

"Together we can lead the world to health, happiness, and peace through laughter."
“The world is about to laugh as it has never laughed before!”

A laughter club session typically lasts about thirty to fourty five minutes. For more information about Laughter clubs or the World Laughter Tour visit www.worldlaughtertour.com.

*SPARKLE* The ACH Therapeutic Clown will be your facilitator!
For more info: 403-943-7629