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With Carmela Carlyle
3rd Friday Evening of the month, 7:00-8:00pm
June 19, July 17, Aug. 21 (no May class)
$10 each class
Carmela offers her original hybrid of Hasya (Laughter )Yoga with stretching on the yoga mat and asanas selected for the class theme, aerobic group laughter exercises for a great workout and closing with a deeply relaxing sound healing savasana while she plays the crystal bowl or other sound healing tools. There is always an opportunity for you to laugh alone and tips are offered for creating your own laughter yoga practice. Each month there is a timely theme, or intention, for the class to keep it fresh and stimulating. Laughter truly is the best medicine with scientific studies confirming its many benefits. One minute of mirthful laughter is the cardiac workout equivalent of nine minutes on a rowing machine. It radically reduces cortisol, lowers your blood pressure, oxygenates all body organs and offers stress relief. Plus it delivers a large dose of endorphins for immediate elevation of your mood! Laughter is powerful prana and has its roots in Kundalini breathwork. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world meet everyday to practice the standing version of Laughter Yoga that is appropriate for the workplace and public community settings. Laughter Yoga was created by family physician, Dr. Madan Kataria and his yoga teacher wife, Maduri, in Mumbai, India, where people meet daily, rain or shine, to laugh in the parks. Joy is a choice! You do not have to be happy to laugh. You do not need a reason to laugh. Our brain cannot discern the difference between laughter from humor or a joke, and laughter that is simulated, so you get all of the medical benefits of laughter either way. We "fake it 'til we make it" and the laughter exercises always yield to genuine group laughter and community connection. All levels of fitness will be accommodated. Wear loose comfy clothes. Laughter Yoga on Friday Evening will set the tone for your weekend – refreshed and revitalized. More info and videos at www.carmrelacarlyle.com.
Instructor CARMELA CARLYLE is the founder of the first Laughter Yoga Club in Sonoma County and has integrated Hasya (Laughter) Yoga into all aspects of her full-time counseling, consulting and yoga teaching practice. Her innovative yoga classes and workshops offer the prana of laughter creatively integrated with hatha yoga sequences selected for the session's theme, knowledge gleaned from twenty years of leading professional workshops, deeply restorative crystal bowl sound healings for satisfying savasanas and optional aromatherapy mistings! She works in a variety of settings throughout Marin and Sonoma Counties: teaching in yoga studios and at fitness sutdios, providing yoga and laughter yoga for stress relief and wellness in the workplace, teaching arm chair yoga for elders, providing individual yoga therapy sessions for women, presenting rousing laughter yoga for large audiences, for professional conferences and customizing laughter yoga for private celebrations. For more information, go to www.carmelacarlyle.com