Epiosde 147 - How Laughter Yoga can boost the mojo and prevent disease with Manda Stretch and Jojo Fraser

Jojo Fraser - Time for a Mojo Injection

It's time for a mojo injection, jump in and feel lighter.

This week Jojo chats with Manda, one of the UK's top laughter leaders, about why we need to laugh more for our physical and mental health. There are some great tips in terms of what you can do at home to get more laughter in your life. Laughter yoga boosts our immune system by decreasing stress hormones and increasing immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, which improves our resistance to disease. It helps to lowers stress, relieves pain and it gives your abs an amazing workout. Laughter also helps to protect our heart and lungs.

Manda has trained under the founder Dr Madan Kataria. She is one of UK’s most active and experienced Laughter Yoga Trainers. She lives in the internationally acclaimed community in the Highlands of Scotland called Findhorn and also loves to travel. Manda goes every winter to Thailand to lead trainings in laughter Yoga. She had been a teacher in schools for 20 years before taking up full time laughter work. She also runs a B&B in the Findhorn Community which comes in handy if she is running a residential two-day Laughter Leader course. Her training style is relaxed and she is known for her warmth and informal manner. She creates a ‘safe’ place for people to practice their newly learnt skills.

Contact Manda here and check out laughteryoga.org.uk

Jojo Fraser is an award-winning author, podcaster and keynote speaker, dubbed as ‘the Queen of positivity and a kindness advocate. She is a Tedx speaker and a regular contributor on BBC radio. Jojo is known for normalising discussions around our mental health, making it accessible and relatable to all. Over the past 8 years, she has grown a reputation as a wellness expert and researcher, having a huge impact even on the most sceptical of people.

She is founder of Scotland's top wellness blog, mummyjojo.com

Contact her at - [e-mail] or across social @jojofrasermojo