{"id":26844,"date":"2025-11-06T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26844\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:51:08","slug":"laughter-yoga-bringing-serious-momentum-to-unique-practice-that-churns-chuckles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26844\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughter Yoga bringing serious momentum to unique practice that churns chuckles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Localish logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-localish.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, November 6, 2025 4:11PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Enjoy a good laugh while you work out with Laughter Yoga\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy a good laugh while you work out with Laughter Yoga in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Media, Pa &#8212; Alexa Fong Drubay is a local practitioner, master trainer, and all-around global ambassador of a growing movement in wellness called Laughter Yoga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Founded 30 years ago by a medical doctor in India, Madan Kataria, laughter yoga does not involve poses. It is a series of simple movements, yogic breathing, and exercises designed to elicit intentional laughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The benefits can include stress relief and feeling connected, and it can help with anxiety, social isolation, and more. Laughter yoga can be practiced in-person or virtually, and Alexa leads both types of groups in the Philadelphia area. There are as many at 20,000 laughter clubs in 120 countries around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, November 6, 2025 4:11PM Enjoy a good laugh while you work out with Laughter Yoga in Pennsylvania.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16226,17566,212,245,16225,17567,69,71,70,17568,15275],"class_list":{"0":"post-26844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-alexa-fong-drubay","9":"tag-breath-work","10":"tag-delaware-county","11":"tag-evergreen","12":"tag-laughter-yoga","13":"tag-madan-kataria","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","16":"tag-philadelphia-news","17":"tag-stress-relief","18":"tag-workout"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}