04/09/2026
Ever done a laughter meditation?
This is what it looks like from above Thank you The Medicine Man for capturing this.
It might look a little bonkers, but it’s rooted in science.
We lie down if we can, allowing the diaphragm to move more freely, and we laugh together. Sometimes the laughter completely takes over. Sometimes people just smile. Anything is cool.
No jokes. No comedy. You don’t even need to feel happy.
Research into intentional laughter suggests that even when we start laughing on purpose, we can still experience physiological and psychological benefits. And quite often, the intentional laughter becomes the real, uncontrollable stuff anyway.
And yes… laughing on purpose can feel cringe as hell.
We’re so used to waiting for something funny to give us permission to laugh, but what if we don’t have to wait?
I’ve had so many people tell me they didn’t realise what a profound effect laughter could have on their body and how they were feeling.
Quite a few have even described it as life changing.
So if sharing something that feels a bit weird or cringe helps even one person discover a tool that might help them, who am I not to share it?
I call laughter one of the easiest body hacks. Once you understand that we can work with the body to influence how we feel, rather than always trying to think our way out of everything, it can be a game changer.
We laugh. We shift our physiology. We get out of our heads for a bit.
And then we stop (mostly lol)
We always finish with a deep, restful Yoga Nidra. That grounding and reintegration is really important to me. After changing the energy and physiology of the body through laughter, we give ourselves time to settle, come back into stillness and absorb the experience.
The wildness of the laughter followed by that deep stillness is one of my favourite things.
Fancy trying it?
We’ll be laughing at Rosemary Douglas | Mind, Body & Spirit Events on Saturday and The Monastery Manchester on Sunday, and I'll be at Happy Place festival on Sunday yay
Come as you are. Happy, sad, stressed, knackered or somewhere in between.
You don’t need to feel happy to laugh.
