Do you want to learn Laughter Yoga but can’t travel? Are you a seasoned Laughter Professional looking to deepen your knowledge and skills? If yes we offer the best online Laughter Yoga trainings money can buy — and we stand behind this. Starting at only US$95 the Laughter Online University can help you like nobody else can. Our trainings are designed to help both boost your confidence and enhance your skills, ultimately saving you time and money. Our students receive a unique combination of benefits that enhance the teaching-learning experience.

A full education and support system designed to grow with you

What we offer is not a workshop or lecture series streaming over the internet, or a stack of photocopied pages mailed to you − it is a full education and support system designed to grow with you:

• We teach concepts, not subjects. Concepts are alive. We teach you how to adapt and thrive in your own environment. Subjects are frozen in time. They worked for someone, somewhere, at some point.
• Everything is conveniently categorized and indexed, which means you will never struggle to find what you are looking for in the mass of information.
• Our study material is developed and designed with a user-friendly style of writing.
• Self assessment questions and review questions enable you to gauge your learning on the topics covered in each lesson and to keep you active throughout the learning process.

Lessons take from 1 ½ hour up to 11 hours to complete if you choose to explore all the optional material. How much effort you put in is up to you. There is depth to help you grow if you choose to.

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Four membership levels to meet you where you are

EARTH ($95)

• The good part: this is Laughter Yoga 101, on the professional side. Completing this training will take you between 8 hours and 26 hours, depending on how much in-depth you want to go. It is ideally suited for people who want to get a solid foundation in Laughter Yoga and learn how to create and sustain a personal Laughter Yoga practice, add more joy into your life, and how to start and run a Laughter Club, yet are not interested in a professional certification. You will learn 70 laughter exercises and get 5 session plans. You will have enough knowledge to successfully lead laughter sessions with the general public, and start and run a Laughter Club.
• The not so good part: you will not receive a diploma. You will not learn about how to laugh with children, seniors and business people.

BRONZE ($195)

• The good part: with over 40 hours of content, this is the ultimate Laughter Yoga discovery and refresher course. It is a dream come true for people who have a marked interest in the therapeutic applications of laughter, yet are not interested in a professional certification. Includes all that is in the Earth membership + you will learn over 150 laughter exercises as well as many creative ideas for joyful activities that further enrich and enliven laughter sessions.
• The not so good part: you will not receive a diploma. You will not get personalized written feedback on your assignments (all are optional).

SILVER ($295)

• The good part: this is a peer-reviewed, professional training in Laughter Yoga. You get access to advanced tools that facilitate your learning experience, as well as our full support to make sure you are and stay on track. You will receive the Certified Laughter Yoga Leader⁺ diploma upon its successful completion, and become certified to deliver Laughter Yoga to individuals, groups and companies. We are affiliated with the American School Of Laughter Yoga. You will qualify to be listed on www.laughteryogaamerica.com/maps as a Laughter Professional.
• The not so good part: it’s online. If you had one full week available and the budget to travel to Los Angeles, California, we would strongly suggest you come train with us in person. This is about how much you are going to learn in this course. You get almost three workshops for the price of one.

GOLD ($595)

• The good part: this is a training for people who are committed to a professional practice of Laughter Yoga. You get all that our other membership levels (Earth, Bronze and Silver) have to offer, and much more. The amount of resources you get is simply phenomenal. Basically we give you the training for free for a discounted price of the material you get (you would pay more if you were to buy each product individually).
• The not so good part: we can’t give you a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher diploma, even though this is the level of education you will get. Sorry.

You will be able to access your chosen course within minutes of your successful registration. Our system will email you a receipt together with your chosen User ID and password right away. Note that you will not receive anything in the mail. You will have the opportunity to purchase add-on products and services (CEUs, a printed copy of the training manual, private coaching sessions) on the home page of your chosen course.

WHICH MEMBERSHIP IS FOR YOU?	EARTH	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD
Lesson 1-3 + bonus material (how to start and run a Laughter Club; how to create and sustain a personal Laughter Yoga practice, and add more joy into your life. Over 26 hours of content in total!)
Basic tools: download center, glossary, quiz, social networking tool, notebook, reporting
Lifetime access to the LOU private facebook community support group
Lesson 4-5 (over 17 hours of additional content) + associated resources
Video Channel: all the videos included in your membership level in one place, in a TV-like interface.
Knowledge base: an extremely valuable repository of the answers to frequently asked questions by Laughter Professionals.
Advanced tools: community forum, search engine, session planner, wiki
Lesson assignments with tutor giving personalized written feedback
Certified Laughter Yoga Leader+ diploma (The + signifies that you will learn both the traditional Laughter Yoga approach as taught by Dr Kataria and the full extra curriculum taught by the American School Of Laughter Yoga. There are no conflicts between those. The latter simply moves the former from excellent into remarkable by giving you a wider horizon and a systematic activity approach.)
Lesson 6-10 (over 20 hours of additional content) + associated resources
Session Planner Pro
Pro membership on www.laughteryogaamerica.com ($60 value)
Weekly 30 minutes F.A.Q. group video conference with Sebastien Gendry
Full video library of the America School of Laughter Yoga ($450 value. You can download each video)
	US$95 first 12 months then (optional) US$37/year	US$195 first 12 months then (optional) US$37/6 months	US$295 first 12 months then (optional) US$37/quarter	US$595 first 12 months then (optional) US$37/quarter

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Course content and objectives

Our courses teach you essential tools & techniques to add more Laughter and Joy into your life and that of others. The table above describes which lessons are included in the membership level you are interested in.

From excellent into remarkable

All our courses start with the basics you would learn in the traditional two-days Laughter Yoga Leader training and expand from there with original content. We offer a clear and comprehensive step by step process to a professional practice of Laughter Yoga that address the needs of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners. Each lesson is a combination of theory presented with text, images and videos, hands-on exercises, a quiz, assignments and suggested homework. Everything you learn has practical applications. Expect to hear, see, and do.

We follow a tell, show, do, review pedagogy.

Our courses are the achievement of 8 years of full time practice teaching on three continents and travelling over 350,000 miles from Adelaide, Australia, to Moscow, Russia. We spent that time continually learning, questioning and reworking how to best teach and practice. Save yourself our learning curve.

24X7 accessibility

With 24X7 accessibility, the Laughter Online University is a boon for those who can’t travel and have a tight schedule because it means that training can fit around your work and home lives. You will receive a personalized User ID and Password allowing you to access our various interactive and dynamic features anytime, from anywhere in the world. Our motto is “Your education your way.”
The only requirement for you to finish the training and get your diploma (Silver and Gold members only) is that your account be valid. You can take as long as you want. Your membership is valid for 12 calendar months and you can renew after that for a small fee.

Quality and commitment

Your full satisfaction is our number one priority. We stand behind our products and are committed to your success because we want to grow with you. We’re in it for the long run, not the quick buck.

Your instructor is Sebastien Gendry, the Founder and Executive Director of the Laughter Online University (a leading provider of online education on the therapeutic uses of laughter) and the American School Of Laughter Yoga (the oldest and largest provider of Laughter Yoga education in North America). A sought after professional trainer, he has trained hundreds of laughter professionals throughout North America, Europe and Australia. He is a licensed Yoga Teacher and Energy Healer, as well as one of five Master Laughter Yoga Trainers in the world. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and numerous other national mainstream media in the USA. He is the author of a series of reference ebooks and DVDs on Laughter Yoga. You can read his full biography here.

A thriving community

Laughter Yoga is an international grassroots movement with thousands of Laughter Clubs all over the world. Find a Laughter Club or a Laughter Professional near you now.

Our private facebook group (all levels) and online forum (Silver and Gold only) give you a unique opportunity for discussion and interaction with your peers.

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Real-time knowledge of what you have done, and what you have left to do

Everything you do inside of our learning center is tracked for reporting purposes, and you have access to it all: time spent doing what, where; progress report, current score.

Loaded with resources

1. All our courses come with comprehensive and lesson-relevant resources to help you start your practice right away: a download zone with source files documents, not PDF files that you can’t edit; ready-made session plans, and more that you will be asked to create yourself.
2. If we have missed anything you need, all you have to do is ask and we’ll go find the answer for you.

We are 21st century enabled

Will it work on my computer or device? We say it will, but the easiest way to answer this question is to try it out and confirm it for yourself. Click here.

Continuing Education Units

Our Bronze and Silver membership levels meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education for the following professions, as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences:

• MFT – Marriage and Family Therapists
• LCSW – Licensed Clinical Workers
• LPCC – Licensed Clinical Counselors
• LEP – Licensed Educational Psychologists

These CEUs are available at the low cost of $39.
CEU Provider: Billie Frances, MFT (PCE #1690)

This is our first step. We intend on offering more CEUs for more professions in more states throughout 2012. Click here to let us know what your needs are. NOTE: Continuing education credit may be awarded by other professional boards. Contact your own board to find out if they accept California CEUs. We will be happy to assist you by providing the necessary documentation.

What our online courses will and will not do for you

Our online courses…

…are designed to teach you everything you need to know to successfully teach laughter sessions and inspire and empower people to laugh with you, not at you. The Earth, Bronze and Silver membership levels are not designed nor intended to launch you on a new career path. They are simply preparing you for it. The Gold membership level has more business training, and understand that being self-employed is a very different ball game from being employed and on a guaranteed pay check. Are you ready and willing to market and actively sell your services, knowing that an average of 80% of your contacts will eventually say “no, thank you”? If not we suggest you review your plans and don’t quit your day job just yet. Many Laughter Professionals worldwide have an existing professional activity and thrive using Laughter Yoga as a value-add. Running your own business – even a laughter business – can be a source of substantial stress if the food you put on your table and the roof above your head depend on its sole revenue.

…will change the way you experience your personal and professional life. We offer an unmatched skill set that will help you dependably teach laughter yoga workshops and laughter sessions. We will instruct you in the subtleties of group dynamics and sessions progression to bring optimum health, joy and community to your job and clients. Life is not always funny, but it’s always more fun with laughter than without.

…will not make you a laughter therapist (we are not licensed for that) nor teach you how to make doctors unemployed. Laughter is a very powerful form of complementary medicine, and yet it’s not the full picture. There are many occasions when it is wise to visit trained medical professionals. Furthermore our focus is on prevention and health, not cure. Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

…will not save you from death, but they may help you loose your fear of death.

If you are a beginner…

If you are a new to the practice of Laughter Yoga you are in for a treat. This method has captured our hearts and we hope it will capture yours. You are about to discover a very comprehensive healing modality that has a lot of depth, and teaching it is harder than it seems. This course will greatly simplify your learning curve.

Diligently apply the teachings herein and we guarantee your classes will be filled with laughter, every time, regardless of the quality of your own laughter or the size of your group. The protocol detailed in this course works.

If you are already a Laughter Professional…

If you are already experienced in the use of laughter as exercise and a healing modality consider this course as an in-depth review and continuing education. Teaching it has taken us all over the world, and we have picked up a few valuables tips, tricks and techniques along the way that you may not be familiar with.

As Zig Ziglar once said, “no man is clever enough to remember everything he knows.” There is value in being reminded of what’s important. It is our hope that you will discover a refreshingly different perspective on how to help people laugh more, and that this will add value to your own set of skills.

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Silver and Gold memberships: a valid alternative to in-person trainings

Learning online cannot replace experiencing and learning in-person with a qualified instructor who favors the practice over the theory. We bridge that gap as much as can be done and offer a valid alternative to in-person trainings:

Don’t expect to be passively entertained. Laughter Yoga is a method that you will never fully understand until you get to practice it yourself. This is exercise, not comedy. You will learn how to lead group laughter sessions and add more joy and laughter into your life, not how to entertain yourself and others. Laughter and joy are in your body. Entertainment is in your head. What you will need to do includes:

• Fun quizzes + comprehension tests
• Practice along with exercise videos
• Mandatory home assignments if you want to receive the Certified Laughter Yoga Leader⁺ diploma
  - Explain the who, what, why and how of Laughter Yoga
  - Create your own exercises and session plan
  - Organize, lead and document three laughter sessions
  (we give you personalized feedback on each of these)

This may all sound a lot of work, but it’s not. Expect to learn and grow. This is fun. On the plus side, it is also a unique opportunity to practice and get personalized feedback at a level you simply cannot achieve in an in-person training because of time constraints. Our exceptional levels of support and guidance mean whenever you need advice or encouragement, we’ll be right there by your side.

A world-class e-learning center

We offer you a variety of tools to help you easily learn on your own.

Earth Membership Level

Icon	Name	Description
	Course home	This will always bring you back to the home page of your course.	Community
	Social	Networking tool.
	Download zone	Download our template session plans and more valuable documents! We give you source files you can edit (e.g. .docx), not just PDFs you can only look at.	Find
	Glossary	All the definitions mentioned in this course are archived here.
	Links	This is the master page and resources index of this course, all on one page.
. . .		Direct access to each lesson of this course.	Lessons
	Quiz	Each lesson has a quiz with 10 questions to make sure you understand what you have just learned
	Reports	A powerful reporting tool about your course statistics.
	Notebook	This is your personal notebook and private journal, available 24/7.
	Support center	Need help? Is anything unclear? Ask us.
	My profile	Manage your subscription(s), change your password and contact info.	Admin

Bronze Membership Level. Add:

Icon	Name	Description
	Video Channel	Video Channel: all the videos included in your membership level in one place, in a TV-like interface.	Community
	Knowledge Base	An extremely valuable repository of the answers to frequently asked questions by Laughter Professionals.

Silver & Gold Membership Levels. Add:

Icon	Name	Description
	Forum	Use this forum to post your assignments, get feedback, and engage with other students.	Community
	Wiki	This is a collaboration center. All pages can be edited by the active members of this course.
	Search	There is a search engine to help you easily find what you are looking for.	Find
	Laughter Yoga Session Planner	Laughter Yoga Session Planner: an online database of categorized Laughter Yoga exercises that will save you many hours of work.

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How to get your diploma (Silver & Gold only)

Your success is our success, because if you thrive after you have completed our program so will we. Your success as a graduate of the Laughter Online University is our best form of advertising. Access to the Certified Laughter Yoga Leader⁺ diploma is therefore not guaranteed just because you signed up for the course. You will need to study and be able to demonstrate proficiency in the topics covered before you can claim it. Here is what you will need to do:

Complete all pages in all lessons Progress must be 100%. You will get that score when you have viewed all the pages of all lessons.
Pass all quizzes with a minimum score of 80% There is a quiz at the end of each of the five lessons in this course. You need to pass them all with a minimum score of 80%. You can retake any or all quizzes as many times as you like. Only the highest score gets stored.
Create at least one session plan This is one of your assignments in Lesson Three and Four and we will give you feedback on it.
Organize, lead and document three laughter sessions This is part of your homework in Lesson Three, Four and Five and we will give you feedback on it.
We may ask you to do something again if we feel you did not understand it fully. If we do, you must comply. In special cases we may ask that you take and pass a 20 minutes video interview with us where you will be asked to demonstrate your skills. All you need is access to a computer with a webcam.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Are you a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher?

We support your work and want to work with you. This online course does not compete but adds to what you are already doing. It can open new doors and make a big difference in your laughter business. Our affiliate program will be available in April 2012. Sign up below and you will be the first to be notified.

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