How did the Laughaway laughter idea originate?

Arya learnt the basic meditation from his parents during his childhood. He has been meditating throughout his life to achieve peace, happiness and bliss. During his adulthood, he read a number of books on meditation and learnt from the various masters the techniques of meditation to achieve peace, joy and happiness in life. Also he has inherited happiness and laughter from his father who used to laugh most of the time. His father worked very very hard in life and always laughed at the end of the day. Also his father shared his laughter and joy with other people. Arya learnt sprituality and Vedas (ancient 4 books of knowledge) from his mother. Most of the people still remember his laughing face and Laughaway is Arya’s tribute to his parents.

In recent years he has an opportunity to serve and learn the techniques of meditation from Dr. Vasant Lad, Swami Chinmayananda and Swami Tejomayananda. Also during reading about meditation, one of the Zen masters mentioned that a person could achieve joy or happiness using laughter therapy. He mentioned to practice Ho Ho…Ha Ha…. before meditation which will help to bring joy during meditation. The laughter and joy is the final stage of mediation. With this idea in mind he started reading more about laughter and its benefits.

In 1996 he made a spiritual trip to four leading Hindus religious places in Himalayas (i.e. Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Uttarkashi). During that time he used to make people laugh in the bus to reduce stress during the arduous trip. After the trip, he visited and exchanged laughter ideas with various laughter clubs in Delhi, Nagpur and finally Mumbai. He participated in Priyadarshni Laughter Club in Mumbai and found more information about laughter. He exchanged laughter ideas with them and they gave him laughter videotapes to watch, a cap to wear and a booklet to read about laughter. After returning to USA, he saw a number of comedy movies and read more books on laughter. He studied various comedy books for laughter benefits. Also he started searching for information on laughter on related websites and found useful information about laughter benefits to the people.

After gaining laughter knowledge, he conducted more than 50 laughter seminars with various groups. He collected feedback using laughter satisfaction survey after each laughter seminars from the people to continuously improve the next laughter seminars.

What is the vision and goals of laughaway?

L - Laughter, love, listen, learn and leadership
A - Attitude positive in life
U - Understand the people point of view
G - Give positive energy to people
H - Happiness in all actions
A - Advance and award all actions
W - Win-win strategy for partnering, water, witness
A - Act to achieve the best results
Y - You can organize laughter seminar, you are child again

What are the benefits of laughter?

Please refer to the benefits section.

How do you conduct the typical laughter sessions?

Please refer to the sessions section.

Who can't participate in laughter session?:

Individuals with the following problems are recommended to discuss with their doctor before participating in laughter sessions:

1. Hemorrhoids/ Advanced Piles Heart Disease with Chest pain
2. Prolapse
3. Pregnancy
4. Severe Cold and Flu

Where can we get more laughter seminar information?

You can contact Arya Pathria for getting more information about laughaway and how to organize laughaway seminar at your location:

906 Rock Canyon Circle, San Jose, CA. 95127
Tel/Fax: 408-926-3307
laughaway@yahoo.com
www.laughaway.com