21st Dec11-Kheng Chiu Happy Lodge

Organized by CLYL-Doris, a group of us went to Kheng Chiu Loke Tin Kee Home  at Tampines for our monthly LY session (number 4). Today we celebrated my mum 's 87 birthday...  100 cakes and buns (50% donated by Doris for their Christmas celebration) and sweets were  given to the elderly.   Due to my Cervical Spondylosis  condition, I told the team to lead the session.  CLYL-Doris, Danny and LP-Lim each took turn to lead 15 mins. I could see a tremendous improvement on the part of Doris and Danny.  Lim has a different style and am sure with more practice, he will sink in with the team.  For more of this session, see attached movie.

This place will be our SMC gathering once-a-month to practice laughing and giving for the elderly.  We invite all interested Laughter Yoga enthusiastic to join us on this wonderful dana opportunity and occasion. Very good very good yeah!!!

17th Dec11-stage-Mountbatten cc

I wasn't free due to sat-WPLN class at Jurong East. So CLYL-Danny took the lead to show about 100+ elderly folks a 15 runs of  laughing session. He was supported by CLYL-Doris and Laughing Partner-Lim. It was their first performance without my present ... nice try. With more practices, I am sure they will get better at it.
For more into the session, see this movie.

11thNov-Pek Kio cc

Our special 1 hr classroom session between adults and children was made possible by Pek Kio cc/John, was an interesting session too. On-lookers from the nearby karoke session drop by in the beginning to have a little fun while waiting for their turn to sing....hahaha. good feedback from the team.
This session was supported by: CLYL-Danny, Doris n Eric + LP-Kemas.
Here are some feedback from the team:
Adult: A most beneficial, exciting and definitely  stress relieving session. A must for all Singaporeans. Great and fantastic, love it. Worth attending the Laughter session. very relaxing and able to stress out. I really enjoy myself very much. I will use the correct way to laugh from now onwards and I will tell my friends about Laughter Yoga. A good class and a good experience.Very enjoyable, happy and really I had  a good time. Not much stress and looking forward to another class. Happy, very happy and whole body has a very wonderful feelings.

Children: This workshop is very nice and funny. I had fun. It make all my stress goes away. I felt very relaxed and hapy. I wish to have more of this workshop.

10thDec11-cc-stage-Nanyang

We were invited to kick start the "Live your dreams" children talent-night program, with Laughter Yoga. According to the cc, there were  about 100 children behind the stage dressing up for their Talent performance. The Laughing Yoga team were to go on stage to laugh with their parents, siblings and relatives who were patiently waiting for their performance after our 20 mins slot. Anyhow, I decided to have 20 children on stage to play with us. Interesting arrangement. See movie lah.

5thDec11-PA LC-15-Thomson

Today Laughing Children session : 5 children and 2 adults with 2 absentee. Although the energy was kind of low in the beginning when I changed the mode of playfulness, alot of laughing were heard amongst the children. Session is supported by LP: Lim, Ming and mum.

3rdDec11-Hong Kah North

Had a 1 hr LY introduction at Hong Kah North. The rain was very heavy and yes only 6 /10 participants turn up...hahaha!!!  I guess Laughter can wait for some. Anyhow, the 6 of them had a great time. This session I was supported by CLYL-Eric, LP-Lim, Siew Yin, Fung, Chew.

2ndDec11-PA LC-14-Gek Poh

We really had a great time with 18 children and 3 adults. Supporting me for this group: LP- Lim, Siew Yin, and Fung . Lian Tee was there for a short while. I think the movie  explains it all.

2ndDec11-PA-LC-13-The Frontier

For this session I have many helpers: CLYL-Danny, LP-Lim, Siew Yin, Chew, Fung, Ming and mum. 2nd Dec happens to be mum's birthday so I used vowels Ha, He, Hi and Ho to let the children sing birthday song  to mum. As usual we had a few skeptics who after 15 or so mins. slowly and surely join the team.Very good very good yeah!!!

1stDec11-PA-LC-12-Kampong Ubi

This session I was supported by Ming and mum. We had 3 boys who didn't want to 'laugh' with us in the beginning but later they try to 'relax' and be part of the team. One little girl who was playing and seems to enjoying herself till mid way through the session, we lost her. Anyhow, overall the session was fun too if not for a few hiccup with those 4 in the beginning. Ha ha ha!!!

30thNov11-PA-LC-11-Kim SengRC

I returned to Kim Seng cc to conduct for a special group organized by Lawrence from Kim Seng cc. The dynamic is not the same as the children know each other. All my participants are either Malay or Indian and they are really LOL . One boy did very well with gibberish. One exceptionally well with penguin walk...ha haha!!! Anyhow, the room was filled with laughter and they told me they are "HAPPY" and it was "FUN". CLYL-Danny and LP-Lim , Ming and mum were present to join in the fun.

29thNov11-PA-LC-10-Tampines Central

Tampines Central group boys and girls are older. See the movie and laugh with them lah. 

29thNov11-PA-LC-9-Changi Simei

I am very lucky to have CLYL-Danny, LP-Betty and her sister-in-law n her 4 years old son helping in this session. Changi Simei 11 children -age group 4 to 8 years old. Anyhow, they too enjoy the session.   

28thNov11-PA-LC-8-Nee Soon

Session #8 laughing children was held at Nee Soon East and it was for 18 children but 3 didn't turn up. The age gap for this group is from 6 to 13 years with equal numbers of boys and girls. Most of the children are rather shy in the beginning so they only giggle ...but after 1 hour of 'playing' they were able to laugh heartily. See the group laughing away.

25thNov11-PA-LC-7-Anchovale

This 7th session is the last of the first week of PA kiddie - Laughing children session. Although only 10 children, we did have a great time. There were a couple of challenges in the beginning with an Indian boy and a slightly bigger girl. After 30 mins into the laughter session, they can't stop their 'playful' personality but to enjoy with the rest. see a little about them in this movie.

25thNov11-PA-LC-6-Sengkang

I must admit that this 6th PA LC session is one of the best so far. Although 21 participants registered only 18 turned up. There were 6 parents present in this session.Adults and children present all had a great time. Attached is a little movie on the session.  For this session, I was supported by Doris, Betty and Siew Yin.

24thNov11-PA-LC-5-Kim Seng

This 5th PA LC session has only 5 pax. The age gap was rather wide. 4 years to 13 years. It takes an effort to bridge the gap amongst them for a great session at the end of the 1.5 hrs. Thanks to the support of CLYL-Doris; LP-Ming and mum. See snap shots of the session. 

23rdNov11-PA-LC-4-Bishan

This is the most challenging session so far as I have "4 extremely hyper and  over-playful" children in the group.  Only a few photograph were taken. Thank to LP-Siew Yin for supporting today's session.

23rdNov11-PA-LC-3-Kallang

This 3rd Laughing Children session of the week is done at the Kallang cc. We had 17 participants with ages from as young as 4 years old. Another interesting session. See the video lah

22ndNov11-PA-LC-2-TPY South

In order not to disappoint the children, I decided to conduct the session even though there were only 4 pax. We had a great session I must say, so much so one of the student join us in another sesssion in Kallang.

21stNov11-PA-LC-1-ChengSan

1st Laughing Children conducted at Cheng San CC for 20 children. The age gap is rather wide ...from 4 year to >10 years old. I thought the students enjoyed themselves. See their smiling faces.

13Nov-Hwi Yoh cc

Our first 1 hr session at Hwi Yoh cc ... 9 people registered but only 3 turns up due to very very heavy rain.  However, 8 of my students turn up (in spite of the heavy rain -  Chew, Fung and Siew tin - came all the way from Jurong...very good very good yeah!!! ) to help in the session. CLYL-Danny, Eric, Doris + Betty + Vincent also came and learn more new exercises. The overall mood changes after 1 hour ...see the movies for yourself ...ha ha ha!!!

5thNov11-(2) PA Kiddie program at Punggol CC

Here’s the media coverage for PA Kiddies Launch Event on 5 Nov.

 ZB (6 Nov, p10), "PA launched children courses that impart knowledge in a fun way"

CNA (5 Nov), “PA lines up over 500 activities for kids during school holidays”

Ch 5 News (5 Nov), “PA lines up over 500 activities for kids during dchool holidays”

Ch8 News (5 Nov), “PA lines up over 500 activities for kids during school holidays”

Suria News (5 Nov), “PA lines up over 500 activities for kids during school holidays”

93.8Live (5 Nov), “PA lines up over 500 activities for kids during school holidays”

Warna 94.2 FM (5 Nov), “PA lines up over 500 activities for kids during school holidays”

To enable children to spend their year-end school holidays in a fulfilling and meaningful way, PA's Lifeskills & Lifestyle Division launched 68 courses for children. The courses aimed to promote friendships and strengthen ties between parent and child while allowing children to learn and have fun at the same time.

CNA video : 

5thNov11-PA Kiddie program at Punggoll CC

A total of more than 400 students from 4 schools and adults were present at the PA kiddie road show especially introducing the 2 new courses: Conducted by Abigail - Happy remedies and conducted by Suzanne - Laughing Children.
In these 2 hours road show Roger leads us through the program besides introducing these 2 new courses also announce what are other existing 20 courses for the coming Nov-Dec holiday. Abigail and Roger leading the whole show. The laughter yoga team were around to share 20mins of laughter and to help wherever possible.
We manage to rope in 2 amateur camera and video man who are not too good at capturing quality pictures - see the movie lah, ha ha ha!!!

5thNov11-PA Kiddie road show

The lifeskills and lifestyle division of PA (People's Association) has a year end-PA Kiddies program every year where children as young as 5 years old can join a wide range of holiday courses at a reasonable price. Courses can be : 1-academic studies (critical thinking, smart studies);  2-education &lifestyle (be a confident, creative child), junior entrepreneurs, kiddie piggy bank); 3- performing arts (dancing, little Beethoven extraordinaire); 4-adventure & sports (kids' camp, junior sports camp); 5-arts&lifestyle (art&craft for kids, kids magic); 6-science&technology (adventures in science, cyber kids)... yes more than 20 courses.

This year, Mdm Wong Sin Kwee王千桂| Senior Manager (Mass Appeal/Evergreen Courses)  Lifeskills & Lifestyle - introduces 2 new courses under the "be a confident creative child" =>  happy remedies workshop + laughing children. 

The roadshow on 5th Nov organized PA Lifeskills and lifestyle division was to make a public awareness. Attached is a short preview on TV - channel 5, 8 and channel news Asia....ha ha ha ... this is a direct recording from TV. Now we all just wished the registration are full house... hahaha!!!


 

2ndNov11-KCLC

The SMC group will be laughing with the elderly in Kheng Chiu Loke Tin Kee Home once a month, thanks to Doris-CLYL for making the connection with Amy.

 

KCL has a very great Mission : To  provide shelter and care to the ambulant and fairly frail elderly in communal living independently, regardless of race, language and religion.  http://www.kchl.sg/aboutus.htm

 

Anyone keen to join the laughing group, please connect with Suzanne via sschew@singnet.com.sg  

Smiling and laughing are universally considered to be signals that show a person is happy and we can feel it among the KCHL's elderly. We hope this Irish proverb will help bring more priceless joy to everyone staying and working in KCHL :  A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.  

 

29thOct11-7.15 pm-Nanyang cc

An assignment with Nanyang cc organized by Miss Serene Soh | Constituency Manager | | Nanyang Constituency office. 

Participants will be residents of varied ages (mostly more seniors).  The 30mins. laughter Yoga session is before the presentation of the free Public Transport Vouchers. Most are in their 40’s to 70’s.

The chairs are set up from 500 pax and you see can from the video is full house ... some parents come with their children. Too bad my first time camera and video ladies only capture those 'playing' with us in the first few rows. 

See the  movies to see how laughter exercises are so easy for elderly.

 

 

29thOct11-9am-ADA

This is our first laughter yoga session with ADA (Alzheimer's Disease Association)'s staff, organized by 

Jocelyn Neo (Ms) - Manager - Corporate Services and Community Partnerships. It is for 27 staff but only 23    lucky ones + a photographer turn up and the session was held at the venue-NHC (Toa Payoh). Per Jocelyn, the purpose of our staff attending this course is to be trained to be able to lead their clients in laughter therapy. 

At the end of the sessions these are the feedback from 23 of them:   happy, feeling great, very relax, fun but tired, less tense, can be done easily with the elderly, enjoyable, feeling good, feel relief,  very good form of exercise, will try to practice how to laugh and encourage my elderly to laugh, awake, no more worries, brain feel free and cool, heart open and happy, something new - uplifting of feelings, will learn to laugh from the heart and not from the mind, manage to release my stress, a new experience, energy level goes up, refresh, able to breath properly, beneficial for self and clients

The photographer commented: "As an observer, I noticed my colleagues became more lively, entertained and happy. I 've also never seen some of them this playful and cheerful. Laughter Yoga boosted their energy level"

Please see the movie to see how they enjoy the session. We looked forward to more such sessions from ADA.

 
 

25th Oct 2011-1st CLYL graduation ceremony

My movie for the team; CLYL stories and the ceremony.

25th Oct 2011-1st CLYL graduation ceremony

It has been a long wait and finally I manage it  ...yes, to certify my first 5 laughter yoga leaders ... Abigail, Carmen, Danny, Doris and Eric...very good very good yeah!!! My CLYL process includes many sessions of 1 hour training, many sessions of stage performance, 6 hours of theories, 20 mins of practical test leading a new group and finally a dance at the Spore Flyer cum a story about their LYoga journey. Yes, they work hard and really earned the certificate ... great job dear leaders and thanks for been so supportive all this while...Appreciate your patience and am very proud of you all ...ha ha ha!!!
Recognize the 5 leaders? Back row from left : Ivan, Betty,  Abigail-CLYL,  Doris-CLYL, Ming, Carmen-CLYL, Martina. Front row from left: Eric-CLYL, mum, Danny-CLYL, Suzanne-CLYT, Siew Yin.

Attached is a movie featuring their journey.

24Oct-Kampung Senang 1hrLY#1

After the 9th Oct 2011 stage event, we had a friendly chat with the founder Ms Joyce Lye on an opportunity to teach Laughter Yoga to her members. Without any hesitation, Joyce agreed and this led to our first 1 hour Laughter Yoga session at Kampung Senang HQ.
Originally, the organizer told me 10 pax registered but only 6 turns up. I must said those who didn't turn up missed the great opportunity to have great fun not just from me ...from the great team dynamics..see the video lah!!!

Our team are looking forward to more such LY sessions at Kampung Senang. In KS, we laugh and do charity too ... very good very good yeah!!!

9Oct'11-Kampong Senang event

Ivan(Dolphin's masseur) and Martina(French) connect me with Kampung Senang's 12th year anniversary celebration on 9th Oct. ..organized by Kampung Senang Charity & Education Foundation.

Martina is to produce a short 20min. sketch about how stressed she is and needed help. Ivan came and try to help her with all his stuff also introduced me to stage saying that properly I too can help Martina. With that, we invited some not-so-shy members from the floor to join us on stage for a 10 mins. Laughter Yoga session. I must say it is indeed an eye opening for this group. 

For more details of Kampung Senang visit their web site:

http://www.kg-senang.org.sg/link/kampung_senang/projects_and_contact.html

Managed to talk to Madam Joyce Lye Geok Choo who is the co-founder of Kampung Senang Charity and Education Foundation (“Kampung Senang”) about introducing Laughter Yoga session to the members of Kampung Senang through the 1 hour introductory classes.Looking forward to a few sessions with them. 

7oct'11-children program at FuchunCC

I was connected with MRS Angela Ang-Fuchun CCWEC chairperson for her more than 400 pax (with 300 Children) program held at Fuchun CC's  Multi-purpose Hall. Wow, this is really a very big event with so many activities happening at the same time. 

Anyhow, we have to change some of our prepared exercises as the crowd was simply too rowdy. Nonetheless, we managed to get more than 20 students on stage to repeat some of the exercises and the Toty-ta dance which was great. 

2ndOct'11-SCS

I am very grateful to Eleanor (CLYL) for connecting me up with SCS (Singapore Cancer Society

新加坡防癌协会) - organizing committee, Janet Ling-Manager(Public Education). This is the second time we are invited to their event. Janet and I chat a little on how I can help them to better use Laughter Yoga. As this is the second session since May, a few new exercises was introduced...Abigail -nice tough exercise and Carmen-Gym exercise. The finale was getting more than 5 GOHs to the stage to do the toty-ta dance with the team. Our stage performance together with GOHs were also captured on Channel News Asia for the event... see the video. 

16sep'11-6pm-Ivan/May session

I took my team (Abigail, Bing, Carmen, Doris, Ivan, Yam, Meng-carmera) to Orchard Center to have a 20 mins laughter session in conjunction with the

UN Year of Forests 2011 (UNF) Main Organisers:                        Institute of Parks and Recreation,Singapore(IPRS),  Lions Club of Singapore Culture, Joo Chiat Culture Toastmasters Club, Soroptimist International of Singapore.

My contact : Ivan and Maria Boey

This program lasts for 8 days from 9th Sept to 16th Sept. Due to my training and classes commitment, I only  agree to do one session.
As the crowd wasn't ready to play around 5 pm. I decided to wait and ride onto William's book launch crowd.
It was a good/great choice. Program for 16th Sept:

5.00pm: “Let’s Laughter Together” by Suzanne Subha Chew and her team

6.00pm: Guests Registration for William Lim’s book launch

6.45pm: Guest to be seated

7.00pm: Arrival of Guest-of-Honour

7.05pm: Welcome Speech by

7.15pm: Citation of William Lim, Writer, Speaker 

7.30pm: Launch of "Instant Guide for Instant Speaker" Book by Guest-of-Honour and Book Reviews

My team could see that those present enjoy a good 20mins of Laughter Yoga session with us and we are very happy we put the program to good closure.

16Sep11-FSC

Had another (properly my last) exciting session (#6) at FSC - Sin Ming. Today I did re-run of all the exercises that I had taught the elderly residents. Of those present today, at least 90% of them for all 6 Laughter Yoga sessions and still want more... very good very good yeah!!! Followed with a video of the last 5 sessions (unfortunately, the audio and video systems were not perfect...hahaha!!!) and a Q&A cum sharing session. I wanted to know how are they coping and what problems they faced having played with me 6 times so far. From the movie clip they merely tell me all the goodness / benefits they experience.

2nd Oct11-Wellness at SCS-Hard Court-Lot1

The team (Abigail, Carmen, Danny, Doris and Eric) recently certify leaders + Bing + Eleanor n Florence (CLYL) + Siew Yin (my camera man) were present to support this 20 mins. stage performance for the Celebrate Wellness program organized by the SCS (Singapore Cancer Society). We were captured by the Singapore Channel News Asia. Although Laughter Yoga was not mentioned it was clear for those present and the guests of honour - on stage, that they were all having good laughs.

The yellow t-shirt team, the mobile laughter group  ..thanks to all who help up today...very good very good yeah!!!

8Sept11-with mum

I made a movie for mum after our morning walk.  A few pictures were taken on our 2nd Sept11 walk near my house.

4 Sept-Jalan Besar-wellness

3Sept-Jalan Besar-KingGeorgeAv Block Party

27Aug-Jo's group

Jo invited me to conduct a Laughter session  for her group after she saw a 15 mins, demo at SGH. The group comprises of 14 adults and 8 children. I think the video is a testament of their enjoyment. I look forward to making more of her members laugh ... ha ha ha!!!