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Where Laughter is Always the Best Medicine.

 

Free Zoom Laughter
Tuesday 9:30 am (est)


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What happened to Genea Barnes, The host of Wolf podcast at Laughter Club.
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Cathy Takes the Laughter Pledge

 

 


Laughter Yoga International Official Profile

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Welcome to Fab Fridays

Fun little shorts literally designed to make you Laugh! Give yourself a gift and be kooky with Cathy. Play along, be silly and you know what .. It doesn't even have to be Friday.

This Week:

0:03 / 5:01 Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 180: Time to work on your Aura.

 

Cathy's Chuckle Club

Recognized as one of the Ten Best Virtual Laughter Yoga Classes to Laugh Your Hearts Out.


 

Find out more about our latest Laughter Yoga Program

Laughter Yoga for Young Adults with Down Syndrome

Cathy Nesbitt
Cathy Crawly
Laughing Bean Queen

Welcome to Cathy's Club.
Where Laughter is the Best Medicine.

Free Weekly Zoom Laughter with Cathy

Join us - Online Event

You are invited to join us for some fun & laughter on our weekly Zoom laughter meeting. It is always easier and more fun to laugh in a group and this is why Zoom Laughter works so well. A screen full of happy smiling faces is the restorative tonic we can all use at a time like this.

Topic: Cathy's Chuckle Club (est. June 2020)
When: 9:30 AM Eastern Time, Every Tuesday

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtd-6prjsvG90wmlw3tRazNqiTzSG4Qq_s
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Cost: Free!

Laughter Yoga Leader Training

Next Online Class:
February 18 & 20, 2025

For more on Laughter Workshops & Training: follow this link

*Note: Private Laughter Training Sessions also available.

 

Do you have what it takes to be a Laughter Buddy?

What's the best way to start your day? Grab a buddy and laugh for a few minutes.

Follow this link for more.



 

Fab Fridays

Welcome to FAB Fridays with Cathy Nesbitt. We try to make every Friday Fabulous
with Laughter Yoga and some other techniques picked up along the way.
Join us every Friday for an adventure that will put a smile on your face and
start your weekend, in the right frame of mind.

 

Past Fab Fridays on YouTube

 

Week 1
Intro

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 1: Are you ready?

 

Week 2

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 2: Tap Tap Tap - Laughter yoga and Tapping (EFT).

 

Week 3

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 3: Have you had your Laughter Vaccine yet?

 

Week 4

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 4: Laughter Yoga on the road again.

 

Week 5

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 5: Cricket: No danger. Laughter

 

Week 6

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 6: Olympic Laughter - We all qualify.

 

Week 7

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 7: Olympic Laughter - Part 2 Let the games begin.

 

Week 8

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 8: We're going camping. Let the games begin.

 

For weeks 1 - 176: Follow This Link.

Week 177

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 177: Tree Hugger! How can you resist when the trees are so beautiful. Take a deep breath of fall. Between the humidity of Summer and the frigid excess of Winter, there is a season that delivers cool, comfortable temperatures that make you happy to be alive.

Week 178

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 178: This is no joke, no guff. We're at Scarborough Bluffs. Join us at the foot of Toronto. Scarborough Bluffs. Where water meets land.

Week 179

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 179: Historic Fort Willow - Journey back to the war of 1812. 55 years before Canada was a country there was a stand off between the Red Coats (British) and the Blue Coats (Americans). Fort Willow may be a forgotten footnote to the main conflict but it is still a really cool place to visit.

Week 180

Fabulous Fun Fridays - Week 180: Time to work on your Aura. Welcome to beautiful Duntroon. Join us as we expand and contract our Auras and have some laughs along the way.

 

 

 

 

 

Do you like to laugh?
Did you know that laughing is good for you?
Laughter is fun and therapeutic.

Laughter Yoga is simple and profound. An exercise routine and complete well-being workout. Developed by a medical doctor from India Dr. Madan Kataria (1995). Laughter yoga is not about fancy pants or poses. It is laughter for no reason to encourage a sense of child-like play and feeling of joy. The yoga part is all about the deep breathing. The laughing stretches various muscles in your chest, abdomen, neck & shoulders. 10-15 minutes of sustained belly laughter can be equivalent to 30 minutes of rowing!

Laughter is the best medicine. Have you had your daily DOSE. Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin & Endorphins (the happy hormones) get released into your bloodstream when you laugh. Making you feel better physically and emotionally.

Laughter Yoga Will:

  • Improve fitness with fun and easy exercise
  • Reduce stress
  • Increase happiness
  • Promote a positive mental attitude
  • Give more energy
  • Strengthen your immune system

Cathy Nesbitt
Laughter Ambassador

On October 13, 2017 at the Trovador Centre in Toronto Cathy was appointed a Laughter Ambassador by Madan & Madhuri Kataria, the creators of Laughter Yoga. For her dedication and selfless services to promote the causes of Laughter Yoga.

Best wishes for bringing Good Health, Joy and World Peace through Laughter.

Madan & Madhuri Kataria

 

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Celebrating World Laughter Day 2022
(extended version):

Join Cathy with special Laugh Accomplices Karen & Tara as they have an energetic Laughter session in celebration of World Laughter Day.


 

Celebrating World Laughter Day in Toronto.

 


Follow these links for info on
booking Cathy on your podcast:
Cathy - MatchMaker.fm
Cathy - Podcast Guests.com

Find great podcasters, find great guests.
Register on MatchMaker.fm.
Register on Podcast Guests.

 

Find out what Cathy does when she's not laughing.

 

Laughter Buddies

How to increase your Vitality in just five minutes a day.

It was December 2021 and we were right in the thick of the pandemic. Lock down reshtrictions and a lot of unknowns were in full force. It was a stressful time. There was a global feeling of anxiety,x fear and the future seemed uiuncertain. I also felt overwhelmed and felt that I needed to laugh more than ever. The world was topsy turvy.
Read full article.



What's the best way to start your day?
Grab a buddy and laugh for a few minutes.

 

Meet the Worm Lady of
Bradford West Gwillimbury

Originally published in Bradford Today

Nothing creeped out Cathy Nesbitt more than worms.

But during the past 16 years, she has become known as Bradford West Gwillimbury’s Worm Lady.

Nesbitt runs her business, Cathy’s Crawly Composters, out of her home — promoting vermicomposting, or composting with the use of worms, across Canada by selling red wiggler worms, composting containers, composter bedding, books, earrings in the shape of worms, and other so-called “wormy accessories,” such as compost pails.

Read the full article follow this link.

Health and Wellness is a laughing matter

Speaker write-up from Probus Mountainview.

Laughter creates connections between humans. Learn about the tremendous health benefits from regular, sustained belly laughter and have a few laughs along the way. Laughter is the best medicine for good reason. It’s in us all waiting to burst out. Life is stressful. Our brain requires 25% more oxygen than the rest of our body. When we’re stressed, we’re not breathing deeply. The body is deprived of air and therefore so is the brain. We cannot think clearly when stressed. Laughter helps us release tension and improve relationships. Laughter breaks down barriers.

Read the full post: follow this link.

 

Energyfest 2024

Raising the vibration of the planet, one person at a time!

The vibration of the energies in your body reflect your health and well-being. By working with your body’s energies, you can bring their vibration to a more optimal level. This feels good. And when we feel good in our bodies, we are happier, we treat others more kindly, and we treat our planet with the respect and appreciation it deserves.


Photo by Tara Roberts

Photo by Tara Roberts

Cathy with Donna Eden of Eden Energy.

Yoopie!

Cathy with international recording artist Karen Drucker

Enterprize Zone started as a project back in 2015 to try and help good entrepreneurs to get more media exposure for the work they were doing. Their tales are often inspiring and there is plenty to be learnt from the answers they share. The platform asks a weekly series of questions challenging the entrepreneurs to share their views on different areas of business and the economy so that you can learn from them.
These are the Answers.

 

What are people saying about
Cathy's Laughter Workshops?

Testimonials:


Where Compassion Meets Community

Hello Cathy,

I am writing to thank you for your Laughter Yoga session this morning.

I did not know what to expect at all when I signed up the Matthews House Hospice volunteers and myself for a virtual class. I have to say, I was very pleased and very happy with the session.

I started out making myself laugh and then I found myself tearing from laughing so much. It just lifted my spirits and made me feel lighter.

Thank you Cathy so much for sending a little sunshine my way.

Marisa Vega

Volunteer Program Lead
Matthews House Hospice

 

 

Richmond Hill, Ontario
www.larchedaybreak.com

Cathy has been leading laughter yoga classes regularly for our group of special needs adults for about a year now. In that time she has developed meaningful relationships. Our folks really look forward to spending time with Cathy as she reaches out to include everyone. We laugh, we learn, we excercise and remember what it is like to laugh for no reason and just be silly.

Cathy is reliable and always has a smile on her face. We would highly recommend her.

Sincerely,

Fran Johnstone
L’Arche Daybreak
The Club - Program Manager

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See what past graduates are saying about Online Laughter Yoga Leader Training:

 

 


Janet - Class of '21

 

 


Bryan - Class of '21

 

 


Olivia - Class of '21

 

 

Madhav - Laughter class

 

Laughter Events & Workshops:

 

Weekly Zoom Laughter
Tuesday mornings

Online Event - All Welcome

Cathy Nesbitt is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Three reasons to join
Cathy's Chuckle Club

Olivia Vo

Topic: Zoom Laughter Tuesdays
When: 9:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada), Every Tuesday

*New Link:
Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtd-6prjsvG90wmlw3tRazNqiTzSG4Qq_s
After registering, you will receive a confirmation
email containing information about joining the meeting.

Cost: Free

Announcing:

In person Laughter Wellness
7 pm Thursday evenings starting May 2nd.

Ha Ha Hello Glorious Gigglers. Mark your calendars for Thursday evenings starting May 2nd. We are starting up our In-person laughter club!

Join Laughter Dynamic Duo, Cathy & Rick Nesbitt for weekly giggles in their gorgeous backyard in Bradford.

When: Thursday Evenings at 7-8 pm ET starting May 2nd, 2024

Where: Bradford, ON. (Send an email to confirm attendance: cathy@cathysclub.com or call 1-888-775-9495. Laughter Club address provided by return email.)

Why: Because it's fun and good for you.
EFT Tapping, Brain Gym and other healing modalities incorporated to this beautiful laughter practice. Everything goes with laughter.

Come experience the magic of laughing for the health of it.

Drop in $10/class - cash upon arrival or in advance by etransfer

$50 etransfer to cathy@cathyscomposters.com (no passcode required)
Buy 5 classes and get one free - send etransfer in advance or cash upon arrival

Ha Ha Happy to answer any questions.

Giggle with you soon.

In gratitude,
Cathy

Check out all of Cathy's current events at:
cathyscomposters.com/event

 

Laughter Yoga Leader Training

Next Laughter Yoga Leader Training:

February 18 & 20, 2025

Get deep into the laughter. Become a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader and join the community. Help spread joy in laughter clubs, schools, businesses, healthcare/senior care centers, home and in the workplace.

This will be the most fun training
you will ever attend.

  • Learn a repertoire of Laughter Yoga techniques you can use in personal and professional life.
  • Discover the physical, mental, emotional and societal benefits Laughter Yoga offers.
  • Learn how laughter relieves stress and builds physical & emotional resilience.
  • Learn the history behind the Laughter Yoga movement.
  • Find out how to set up and lead your own Laughter Club.

  • Training Includes:
  • Official Laughter Yoga International University Training Manual
  • Laughter Leader Certification
  • 6-month free access to Official Laughter Yoga Prozone-Continued Education site
  • Dr. Kataria's e-book (founder of Laughter Yoga - est. 1995)
  • 30 minutes post training coaching

This course is ideal for individuals looking to bring more laughter into their lives and the lives of others. The course is also suitable for individuals, groups and businesses looking to boost organizational cohesiveness and morale.

Your Trainers:
Sylvie Dagenais-Douville: Master Laughter Yoga Trainer
Cathy Nesbitt: Laughter Yoga Teacher, Ambassador

Check out Flyers for more information.
Online: Feb. 18 & 20, 2025

Sign up today and become a fully trained
Certified Laughter Leader.

 

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Notice: Laughter Yoga is like any other aerobic exercise and all the conditions apply as with any other aerobic activity like swimming, jogging, running etc. Listen to your body and respond accordingly. Should you experience any pain, discomfort and breathlessness, discontinue Laughter Yoga and seek medical advice.

Note: Laughing is thirsty business so remember to bring your water bottle.


Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher

Join the community.
Become a Laughter Leader.

Curious of what it takes to lead a Laughter Yoga class? Would you like to bring more laughter and joy into the world?

Ask about our 2 Day Laughter Yoga Leader Training. Two days and you can be certified to lead your own Laughter Yoga session. We offer both Online and In-person classes.


Cathy with Laughter Master Duncan Cook


Laughter Workshops

Cathy Nesbitt
Bradford, ON
Local: (905) 775-9495
Toll free: 1-888-775-9495
email: cathy@cathysclub.com

 

Cathy's Crawly Composters - Composting with worm

Be sure to also visit:
www.cathyscomposters.com
www.cathyssprouters.com

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