Arya Pathria, President, Laughaway

            When you’re with Arya Pathria, you just have to laugh. In fact it’s impossible not to laugh. That is because this practicing yogi, known as Dr. Laugh, takes laughter seriously. His interactive programs are guaranteed stress-buster, and you’ll leave with a truly expanded sense of humor.

Arya has conducted approx. 350 Laughter Yoga Workshop (LYW) and approx. 35,000 benefit to learn how to be ABC (Always Be Cheerful). Arya Pathria, Dr. Laugh (Evening Magazine CBS 5/KPIX-TV) is a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher (CLYT) Certified Laughter Yoga Leader (CLYL) and Laughter Ambassador by Dr. Kataria’s School of Laughter Yoga. Also he is Certified Laughter Leader (CLL) by World Laughter Tour. Arya received “Laughter Ambassador Award” from Dr. Madan Kataria, Founder, Laughter Club International for his dedicated unselfish service to promote Yogic Laughter for good health, stress reduction, fun, joy and peace.

He has conducted Laughter Yoga Workshop for various organizations: Future Brain doctors conference,  Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback conference, National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA), TV shows (KPI TV from NY for History Channel Weird Medicine, Echoes of India, KNTV 11,  CBS Evening Magazine and many India TV shows ) Radio program (Infinite Mind, House calls,  KKUP 91.5), Newspapers (SJ Mercury, India Post, India West, India Current, Little India, Amritsar Times, Oakland Tribute, Chicago News etc.),  San Jose Public Libraries, College and High School students, Genentech, Cisco, Senior Centers, Hospital cancer/heart patient support group, Gandhi Youth Camps, YMCA, International Rotary Club, East West Book Store,  Laughter Clubs in different cities in India/USA and private parties etc.

           Arya was hard-boiled High Technology Telecommunication Manager for more than 30 years for research and development of network products for major companies like Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, Bell Northern Research Lab, Rockwell International, ITT, GTE Laboratories and Indian Telephone Industries. His job was very stressful and he discovered that Laughter Yoga is the best to reduce stress.  He has unique leadership, creative and innovative qualities to develop and manage team to listen their ideas and to reduce stress to achieve highest team performance.

Also he is passionate to serve the community and volunteers to promote and is a well wisher of Ayurveda Institute for health and happiness. He is an Ayurveda student of Dr. Vasant Lad for many years. He is Board Director of Foundation for Excellence (FFE) which provides scholarships to complete higher education for the bright and financially needy students in India. 

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Currently he is a learning music. He was a Board Director of Chinmaya Mission San Jose, President of Toastmaster International, volunteer for TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur) and Gandhi Youth Camp; developing web-site Ram Lal Kapoor Trust, and an Examiner of Chairman Quality Awards

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Community Involvement

LAUGHAWAY

Arya has founded Laughaway in 1998 and is President of Laughaway. Its mission is to provide maximum happiness to maximum number of people for maximum time. Arya has organized laughter seminars for Dr. Madan Kataria, Founder of Laughter Clubs Movement and Founder President of Laughter Clubs International during his World Laughter Tour (WLT) in USA. The WLT is brainchild of Steve Wilson, President of World Laughter Tour who team up with Karyn Buxman and Dr. Madan Kataria to promote laughter in the world. With the inspiration from Dr. Madan Kataria, Laughter is the best medicine. Laughter is contagious. East and west, laughter is the best. Motions create emotions and emotions create motion. The main goals are: Conduct interactive laughter benefits workshops to educate, discuss and demonstrate the laughter benefits in our daily life, motivate the people to promote laughter using grassroots program, acknowledge and reinforce the positive behaviors of laughter for health. The benefits of laughing are reduce stress, improve productivity, develop trust, improve teamwork, improve leadership, improve lung capacity, improve immune system and improve participation etc. He has conducted more than 100 laughter seminars and approx. 5,000 participants from various organizations (i.e. TV shows, radio programs, Business, Senior centers, TiE, WATCH, Youth groups, High Schools and College students, Children groups, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and private parties etc.). He has published various articles and appeared in Radio and TV shows. He has studied books: Laugh for No Reason by Dr. Madan Kataria, Laughter-A Scientific Investigation by Robert R. Provine, Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins, Managing to have Fun by Matt Weinstein, God Loves Fun by Sri Sri Shankar and laughing Nine to Five by Clyde Fahlman etc. He is member of International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS).

AYURVEDA FOR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

Since 1990, he has served Dr. Vasant Lad, Director of Ayurvedic Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Ayurvedic Institute, recognized one of the leading Ayurveda schools and Ayurveda health spas outside of India, established in 1984 to teach and provide the traditional therapy of East Indian Ayurveda including herbs, nutrition, panchkarma cleaning, accupressure massage, Yoga, Sanskrit and Jyotish. Dr. Vasant Lad, has been a practitioner and professor of Ayurvedic Medicine for more than 30 years.

Arya has promoted Ayurveda for the complete health and happiness of people. He has organized Dr. Lad workshops at various places in Bay Area for the benefits of people and also attended his seminars to learn more about Ayurveda health benefits. He has studied various books on Ayurveda such as: Dr. Lad books: The Science of Self-Healing, The Yoga of Herbs, Ayurvedic Cooking for Self Healing, Pulse Diagnostic, etc. Also he has studied Dr. Deepak Chopra books: Perfect Health, Mind and body Guide. With Dr. Vasant Lad inspiration, he has developed and conducted introductory workshops: Ayurveda for Complete Health and Happiness, Theory and Practice based upon Dr. Lad books and his teachings. The purpose of this interactive workshop is to educate and discuss with the people about Ayurveda and its benefits for Complete Health that leads to Happiness for maximum number of people for maximum times. The work Ayurveda is a Sanskrit terms which meaning "science of life". Ayu means "life" or "daily living" and Veda is "knowing."

CHINMAYA MISSION

Since 1992, he has served Chinmaya Mission Swami Chinmayananda, Founder and President of Chinmaya Missions all over the world; Swami Tejomayananda, President of Chinmaya Missions all over the world; and Swami Chidananda, President of Chinmaya Mission, San Jose; and other Swamis for Sandeepany in San Jose. Chinmaya mission is to provide to individuals, from any background, the wisdom of Vedanta and practical means for spiritual growth and happiness, enabling them to become positive contributors to society. Arya was very active Board Member to promote spirituality for happiness and peace of people. He has learnt various scripture such as The Bhagavad Geeta, Ramayan, Katha Upanishad, Mandukya Upanishad, Kaivala Upanishad, Meditation and Life, Self-Unfoldment, Narada Bhakti Sutras and Fundamental of Yoga, The art of Man Making etc. He has developed a seminar on Meditation based upon the teachings of various scriptures.

FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE (FFE)

He is active member of FFE Core Committee who is responsible for FFE overall management and to make policy decisions since 1994. The mission of FFE is to achieve meaningful transformation in the lives of 15000 bright and financially challenged students in India. Dr. Prabhu Goel and Poonam Goel of California established FFE in 1994 and Pledged $10 Million to help 10,000 students in India. Kanwal Rekhi of California pledged $ 5 Million to help 5000 female students in India. Arya is responsible for Marketing/Promotion of FFE, organization of FFE open house and managing booth in different fair. He is an active U.S. Coordinator of FFE. Also he has managed the creation and publication of FFE newsletter to promote FFE and education in India. He has motivated more than 20 Facilitators in India who identify and mentor eligible students. So far, through his team more than 150 students in India have received financial aid.

VIRJANANDA ASHRAM/ PANINI MAHAVIDHYALAYA

He is an active volunteer, donor and contributor of Virjananda Ashram and Panini Mahavidhlaya in Sonepat, Haryana, India since 1980. Hans Raj Kapoor, Gian Chand Kapoor, Rooplal Kapoor and Pyarelal Kapoor established the Trust in Amritsar in February 1928, in memory of their father Ram Lal Kapoor. The mission is to investigate, protect and propagate Ancient Indian Culture, Education and Wisdom. Mahatma Hansraj ji was first President and one of the most respected names in Arya samaj. He was one of the founders of the popular DAV movement and DAV schools and colleges to promote education. Pundit Bhramdatt Ghigyaza ji was the next President and very respected name in Arya samaj. An eminent scholar, he was twice honored by the President of India for exceptional work in the field of promotion of Sanskrit language and Vedic literature. Maha Mahopadya Pundit Yudhisther Mimansak, head of Panini Mahavidyala, was respected most scholar and was honored by the President of India for outstanding research work. Panini Mahavidhyalaya goals are to provide education, understanding of Vedic literature using Panini System. The following main books are being taught Ashtadhyayi, Mahabhasya, Nirukt, Kala Darshan etc. They teach Sanskrit in simple way to students free of charge. The students comes from India, Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Mauritius and Nepal. The school also carries over deep and extensive research work. The trust also publishes a monthly magazine "VEDVANI". The press has already printed over 200 books on Vedic literature, Sanskrit Grammar and books of common interest. The library is rich collection of Vedic literature, religion, grammar, astrology, rare original hand written manuscripts, Hindi literature, Urdu literature, English literature, History, Ayurveda and other subjects. The library currently holds over 100,000 priceless books.

INDO-AMERICAM COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER

He is active volunteer and member of ICSC. The mission is to enhance and enrich the lives of the Indo-American community and community-at-large, by offering a rich community resource center for Educational, Occupational, recreational, Culture and Social experiences, along with Human care and Health awareness referrals and Services. He conducted laughter workshop for ICSC and volunteered for seniors spiritual and picnic bus tour.

THE INDUS ENTRENEURS (TiE)

Arya is member of TiE and participated in most of the TiE monthly events. TiE is a high-minded organization of strong individuals who share mutual respect and meritocracy as their core values. TiE has explicitly established three objectives: to foster entrepreneurship and to nurture entrepreneurs; to network and facilitate networking among members; and to help members integrate with the mainstream community. TiE believes that entrepreneurship and wealth creation are worthwhile human endeavors, Indus roots have a special role to play because of their unique experiences and successful entrepreneurs find a sense of fulfillment in helping budding entrepreneurs.

CHAIRMAN’S QUALITY AWARD (CQA)

Arya is a Senior Examiner for Sprint Chairman Quality Award (CQA) and participated for 3 years for the assessment process for 3 Sprint departments. He participated in gathering information by collecting facts and data from the Applicant, particularly during Site Visit, determining if the Applicant can serve a role model for Sprint’s organizations and indicate the major Strengths and the major Areas for Improvements for the organization feedback report. Also he has developed seminar for CQA.

"The Chairman’s Quality Award can help us improve in a disciplined way, elements essential to Sprint success - Leadership, information, planning, human resources, processes, results and customer satisfaction," William T. Esrey, Sprint CEO

The purpose of the Chairman’s Quality Award is to provide recognition of exceptional department/business unit performance in order to accelerate Sprint’s achievements.

SPRINT VALUE EXCELLENCE (SVE)

He has managed SVE program for the lab. He was a team member of Technology Services Selection Committee for 5 years and represented labs. This program promotes improvement in quality and productivity by recognizing and rewarding individual and team contributions and behaviors that support the corporate goals and values. Three different award levels are available to recognize varying degrees of behaviors/achievements. The ascending levels of On-The-Spot, Monthly and Annual awards provide the opportunity to reward exceptional performance throughout the year for the short-term and long-term efforts that demonstrate commitment to excellence. The three corporate goals are assessed and evaluated: Exceptional Customer satisfaction; Inspired, Innovative, Empowered Employees; and Superior Financial Results.

TOASTMASTER INTERNATIONAL (TI)

Arya was a President of BNR Communication Toastmaster International (TI) Club for 2 years. He was very active member for TI for many years and delivered speeches and participated in many speech contests. Toastmaster is the best way to improve the communication skills. Toastmasters can help you lose he fear of public speaking and learn skills that will help you to be more successful in whatever path you’ve chosen. You’ll easily lead teams, conduct meetings, improve your listening, thinking and speaking skills.

Organize a laughter seminar in your area. Contact:

Arya V. Pathria, President
www.laughaway.com
laughaway@yahoo.com
Phone/FAX: 408-926-3307
906 Rock Canyon Circle,
San Jose, CA. 95127-1252