Jay Gilchrist (left) and Chris Cotant, members of the Laughter Club, practice laughing exercises on Jan. 17 at the Iowa City Senior Center in Iowa City. The senior center holds the Laughter Club ...

Six in the morning is way too early for the kind of raucous guffaws that are echoing around a sports ground in central Bombay. Walkers and joggers are frowning at a group of 40 people hooting and ...

Standing in a room full of strangers, making direct eye contact with others, and laughing in their face might sound like a nightmare to some. Members of the Iowa City Senior Center’s Laughter Club ...

They say laughter is the best medicine, and laughter yoga enthusiasts around the world seem to agree. Combining breathing exercises, light stretches, and deliberately silly movements, the practice ...

On a rainy Tuesday morning, the yoga students gather at an old house in Southeast Portland. They take off their shoes and head to a studio in the back. They stretch for a moment, leaning forward and ...

Clubs practicing laughter yoga - a combination of breathing exercises, mild physical workout, stretching, and laughter - have been gaining popularity in India. Coming together and bursting into ...

It has been said that through meditation, we can bring about world peace. Dr. Madan Kataria, co-founder with his wife, Madhuri, of the laughter yoga movement, believes it can be done with laughter.