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Laughter News March 2022

Welcome to March 2022

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…and news, stories, upcoming events and event reviews from UnitedMind Ltd. Laughter Yoga, Laughter Yoga in London, all over the UK and elsewhere, The Laughter Club International (UK) and The Telephone Laughter Club.

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In March News we share the following…

  1. March Moment from Yours Truly
  2. Second to None Benefits Part 2
  3. Jackie White of Inspirations Positive Living on Zoom
  4. 9-10 March Corporate Wellbeing Expo 2022 – getting ready with eventFULL
  5. OM Sculptures from Julie Whitehead
  6. Libratum Life – a partnership for workplace wellbeing

    Important dates and info:
  7. The Laughter Club International UK) in St Albans on Zoom
  8. The Telephone Laughter Club
  9. The Accredited Laughter Yoga Training
  10. Secure your Laughter Yoga and Laughter Therapist training dates

You can enjoy reading our news on our secure site on UnitedMind.co.uk!

A few videos and places to listen and look – the links are now working again

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March Moment from Yours Truly

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Life can change in a fraction of a moment – and it does.

We lose our loved ones, our country, our identity, our home, and often much more than that in a lifetime.

The losses leave their traces in our minds and hearts.

However, the energies around us are full of light and hope, love and compassion.

The world is becoming more enlightened and informed in every way in each moment passing, and we nurture each other through our daily connection and interaction.

But there is grief and anger, too.

It is when we hold onto grim experiences in the depth of our minds’ energy they cloud judgment and acceptance.

We are all responsible for change and for this moment in time but we also need to accept each individual soul choice even if we do not understand the extent of those choices.

When the heart accepts, then joy will emerge.

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Make your time and impact count, be the person who starts the peaceful living, and lets go of the hurt of the past.

Forgiving does not make the wrong right, it simply means setting yourself free of the low energy past experiences may hold you to, and it sets the other party free, too.

Is it really worth your life force energy, even a pinch of it?

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No matter what wrong-doing has been pushed onto us, we can only move forward in grace. This life has taught us many things and if nothing else we walk away with heads held high knowing we made a difference where and when it mattered, even on the smallest of scales.

Your heart is the number one place to allow the healing to start.

The place that money and power cannot buy.

With Love, Friendship, Honesty, Kindness, Health, Hope, Goodness, Grace, Gratitude, Understanding, Faith, Peace, Forgiveness, Patience, Diligence, Love, Blessings and Joy

Lotte Mikkelsen
Laughter Yoga Expert and Master Trainer
#youreverydaylaughterqueen

Second to None Benefits Part 2

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Last month I started sharing benefits of laughter and what they really, truly, authentically mean when you live laughter every day.

It is easy to state the obvious benefits as you learn them in your first training.

So here is a recap on the polished list of benefits that every Laughter Yoga Leader announce in clubs and workshops.

When you laugh…

  • you lift your mood and it ripples into your day when you start with laughter creating great energy
  • you lower stress and boost your immune system
  • you bring fresh oxygen to your body and brain which makes you feel refreshed, alert and motivated
  • you are better at creating new and maintaining existing relationships making them fuller and more caring
  • you build resilience to cope with life’s ups and downs
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However, sharing the benefits is a different matter as you become vulnerable in those connecting moments when you speak from one heart to another.

When I had my health MOT, as you do when your age ends in a zero, a nurse came to visit to measure things like blood pressure, weight and height.

I am tall already and when she announced my height was 1.80m I insisted that it was only 1.77 as per my passport.

The nurse measured me 4 times before I decided to accept this new height of my career.

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This is in many ways unheard of as with age your tend to shrink and grow smaller, not taller. It reminded med of a children’s book from my childhood where Peter Madsen accidentally fell through the ‘clothes wringing machine’ (old-style spinning for washing, I imagine) and instead of being Little Peter Madsen he became very tall and did not fit anywhere – but that is of course another story.

My only explanation, please be mindful that there is no medical or scientific foundation for this, is that I have been practicing Laughter Yoga as my only exercise form and with this practice I stretch but more importantly I breathe deeply and I exercise my core muscles.

Your core muscles provide you with support and gives you your posture. When you laugh from deep within, as you do in Laughter Yoga, you strengthen this area and your spine gets the support it needs to keep you upright.

This assessment is solely based on my own philosophical thought on the cause of the extra inch and a bit. In any case I am happy that my health is so great that I have grown from it in more than one way.

Another aspect of your deep hearty, belly laugh is that not only do you tone your inner-most muscles, by doing this you also improve your circulation to your vital organs, so instead of being little, shrivelled, exhausted organs, they become plump and juicy from simply getting the right amount of freshly-oxygentated blood flowing to them.

There are many more benefits to laughing and I will continue to share them with their little stories and anekdotes over the coming months.

I hope you will continue to enjoy reading about these extensive benefits of practicing Laughter Yoga, and even consider learning the technique for yourself or your group of people in your community or workplace so you, too, can make positive, live-able change count.

For more information or to book a workshop, keynote or training please contact Lotte on on mobile/WhatsApp +44 (0) 7736341717 or email lotte@unitedmind.co.uk.

Jackie White, Inspirations Positive Living Group

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A few years ago, during first lockdown, I was listening to a Zoom hosted by Jackie White and I have followed her and Inspirations Positive Living Group since then.

Jacking brings sprituality, inspiration, positivitity and love to everyone who attends the sessions and the energy go beyond the hour-long Zooms.

She does exactly what the group name states in a very engaging way.

I am overly thrilled to be sharing Laughter Yoga with Jacking on 22 March at 19:00 on Zoom, and even more excited that Jackie has in fact trained in Laughter Yoga.

Jackie has run ‘Inspirations Positive Living Group’ since April 2013 and the objective of our group is to bring some balance, calm, laughter, joy, harmony, love and peace to what can sometimes appear to be the opposite of that in our world.

Her objective resonates with my own objective, and I hope you will be joining us on 22 March at 7pm UK time. Link will be posted later.

The Corporate Wellbeing Expo 9-10 March 2022

I am truly excited to be joined by Nicky, Evrim, Jannie, and Karen at the event.

You will be able to recognise us in the new UnitedMind colours…

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On 9th-10th March 2022
The Business Revival Series at ExCEL in London. You can find UnitedMind and Laughter Yoga in the Corporate Wellness Expo area on Stand 258.

It took over a year to fully grasp the fact that we will be at a corporate business expo with Laughter Yoga, and that I would need somebody to build our stand.

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eventFULL has taken by stand from initial concept through to a stand that I feel proud of, and they have supported the design of your exhibition stand with my end goal in mind.

They have been assisting with the layout and setting it all up ready to print, and they will be at the expo to build and remove Stand 158 again.

Meet us on 9-10 March at the London ExCel at the Business Revival Series 2022 Corporate Wellbeing Expo Stand 158!

eventFULL is a great partner for any expo!

For more information please contact Lotte on on mobile/WhatsApp +44 (0) 7736341717 or email lotte@unitedmind.co.uk.

OM Sculpture from Julie Whitehead

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Julie and I used to teach 2-day Laughter Yoga Leader Training together in London until about 10 years ago

I am so excited that she has now designed a beautiful sculpture that any home can be proud to display, the ultimate OM in my humble opinion.

There is a beautiful story behind the idea to design process, and Julie has given me permission to share it here.

THE STORY OF OM – which in Sanskrit is written AUM

“The longer you wait for something, the more you appreciate it when you finally get it, because anything worth having is definitely worth waiting for.”

Well, patience certainly was a virtue in the wait for the OM Sculpture to come to life!  I have always loved OM. Ever since my first yoga class in India in 1978.  I loved chanting it – it opened my heart and filled me with Joy. I loved repeatedly drawing it as a meditation which brought me to a calm, quiet, serene place, and I loved learning and understanding more about the symbol AUM  which represents our 5 states of conciousness and is important to everyone who practices yoga.

In 2013 for my 60th Birthday I decided I would love to have a large OM sculpture in the garden. After many searches I discovered that there wasn’t anything special enough on the market to symbolise how important OM was to me, and so the Journey of OM Sculptures began.

Time passed by…

It seemed the only solution was to design one myself with the help of my husband Hugh who specialised in geometry and computer modelling,  so he started to model the shape that we wanted for our creation.  He had to painstakingly learn computer coding to do so. The sculpture needed to inspire, have life, vibrancy, fluidity. OM was modelled in paper, in cardboard and then in aluminium, hand made with tin snips.  When our friend Floss suggested putting curves in the sculpture to reflect the light we realised that this was what made it really special and different to any OM we had ever seen. 

Time passed by…

Hugh works slowly but thoroughly and we could now view the model of OM from every direction on the computer  BUT we still did not have a method for making the physical model. Having thought it could  be 3D printed we had to dismiss this, as print lines on OM’s surface would show on the metal. This was not acceptable as the play of light on the curved surfaces was instrumental to the design, which was to make the most beautiful OM that had ever been created – so we had to think again!

Time passed by…

It was in 2016 when I was  running a yoga holiday in Turkey that Hugh made the Pressing Tool  which meant the metal pieces could be formed to the correct shape. This was an incredible achievement and I’m sure you will agree a beautiful object in itself.Pressing Tool open.jpg

We found a local laser cutting unit and asked them to cut a couple of OMs in stronger aluminium which you can see above, and the next aluminium prototype, with adjustable joints followed in 2017.

More time passed by…

In 2018 we started a building project on our house and OM was left on the shelf!  Nothing happened until 2020 when my talented, artistic friend, Tina started working for Northshore Metals. and offered to tackle this as a research project.  Hundreds of hours of research and development took place to make OM viable.  Methods of welding the surfaces together had to be explored, rejected and started all over again. Once OM has been hand crafted to shape, it goes to another installation to be powder coated, giving it its lustrous finish. Finally, a product we were all happy with was agreed upon, and now, eight years after the original concept can I hold this beautiful sculpture in my hand and feel the joy and delight of seeing our dream realised. OM enhances my life and spiritual practice, it will enrich yours. Now my aim is to share OM with everyone so you can have your own personal OM in your life. 

Om Shanti.

Please contact Julie Whitehead on om.sculptures@gmail.com for details and to get yours.

The Laughter Club International (UK) on Zoom

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The Laughter Club in St Albans is sharing laughter on Zoom on 1st Sunday every month (except August) at 1pm-1:30pm!

Please register online on https://form.jotform.com/200864136631350.

We are up to something with laughter and sharing the benefits, and we hope that you enjoy these monthly Laughter Yoga workouts.

  • Sunday 6 March 2022 at 1pm-1:30pm
  • Sunday 3 April 2022 at 1pm-1:30pm

A Laughter Club is just like a fitness session and we encourage you to pay as you can to www.paypal.me/unitedmind.

Thank you for your kindness.

Please get in touch about the laughter clubs and other options via email, info@unitedmind.co.uk, phone 0800 1214 714 or mobile 07736 341 717.

The Telephone Laughter Club

The Telephone Laughter Club runs Monday to Friday at 7am to 7:10am.

Change your outlook and you will change your life!

The full story of The Telephone Laughter Club in the UK can be read on www.lottemikkelsen.com/laughter-ms.

Please subscribe and support The Telephone Laughter Club by donating the annual fee of £30 to keep it going every weekday morning from 7am-7:10am. You can subscribe via www.unitedmind.co.uk/product-category/subscriptions.

The Accredited Laughter Yoga Training

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To become an instructor or facilitator, the 2-day Laughter Yoga Leader Training is a great start, but if you wish to become a train the trainer as well as deliver high-quality corporate workshops, then the 5-day Laughter Yoga Teacher Training will be your next step after the leader training.

There are no requirements for the 2-day Laughter Yoga Leader Training (or 5-week online leader training), and you do not need to practice or know yoga as we are simply doing basic breathing exercises combined with the laughter.

So, start by becoming a Laughter Yoga Leader on the 2-day in-person or 5-week Laughter Yoga Leader Training Online.

Second step could be becoming a Laughter Yoga Teacher on the 5-day in-person training if you feel called to corporate transformation or to teaching.

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And finally to become a Laughter Coach, delivering one-on-one sessions, you can add an extra day to your training as Laughter Yoga Teacher.

More information about the different programmes is available on

  • Laughter Yoga Leader – from £195 per person
  • Laughter Yoga Teacher – from £850 per person including accommodation
  • Laughter Yoga Coach – from £950 per person including accommodation
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Upon completion of Laughter Yoga training with UnitedMind and Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Lotte Mikkelsen you will receive the Laughter Yoga International Laughter Yoga Certificate and be eligible for the UnitedMind accredited training certification.

UnitedMind is registered with our insurance company as a training provider which means that our certificates grant you insurance.

When you choose your training provider please make sure you check their credentials as online training methods and courses are not always covered by insurers.

There are a few more requirements if you want the additional accreditation certificate.

FHT Accredited courses uniquely from UnitedMind Laughter Yoga and our Accredited Laughter Yoga Teachers are

  • 2-day Laughter Yoga Leader Training
  • 5-day Laughter Yoga Teacher Training
  • 1-day Laughter Yoga Coach Training
  • Laughter Therapist Training

With accreditation we are taking Laughter Yoga seriously and we are bringing the standards to another level of nationwide approval within the education system.

This is continued professional development and gives you points to add to your CPD list!

To learn more about how you can become a Laughter Yoga Leader or Teacher please contact Lotte on mobile/WhatsApp +44 (0) 7736341717 or email lotte@unitedmind.co.uk.

Laughter Yoga is for everyone!

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PLEASE NOTE, The Laughter Yoga Training is still certified with a standard international certificate issued by Laughter Yoga International and co-signed by your teacher(s) which you receive at the end of the 2-day or 5-day training.

If you decide to achieve accreditation you will receive a second UnitedMind/FHT certificate on completion.

Please note, UnitedMind and UnitedMind Accredited Laughter Yoga Teachers are the only providers of Accredited Laughter Yoga Training in the UK.

In addition, you get support from your teachers as you move on with your personal and professional laughter life, as and when you need it. It is your call!

UnitedMind teaches Laughter Yoga courses in the following locations:

  • Accredited Laughter Yoga Leader Training
    This training is a requirement for becoming a Laughter Yoga Teacher
    • London, St. Albans, Preston, Durham, Online
    • Your venue, your group – minimum 4 people
  • Accredited Laughter Yoga Teacher Training
    This training is a requirement for becoming a Laughter Yoga Coach
    • Hemel Hempstead
    • Your venue, your group – minimum 4 people
  • Accredited Laughter Therapist Training
    • Hemel Hempstead, Stanmore
  • Accredited Laughter Coach and Certified Gibberish Coach Training
    • Online
    • Your venue, your group – minimum 4 people
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All fees listed in the newsletter are early bird fees available until one month before training dates and excluding travel and accommodation costs unless otherwise stated. Other deals may be available as well as special agreements with companies and organisations who wish to train teams and individuals in their workplace.

If you want to be sure to get a place on the course of your choice please book now in the UnitedMind Online Shop.

For more information about accredited training courses please contact us via info@unitedmind.co.uk, phone 0800 1214 714, or mobile 07736 341 717.

Please also feel free to follow the scribbles about laugh life and life in general as well as a few moments of change on The Laughter Blog.

Our pages are constantly going through changes so please feel free to stop at Your Everyday Laughter Queen, and please stay with us on www.unitedmind.co.uk.

Full details of all workshops and training programmes, and how to register, are listed on UnitedMind’s website.

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