Dr. WellbeingSM
Jodi Peister, MD
Jodi Peister, MD
GJ Peister, MD
Events
| Event: |
Wellbeing Laughter Club |
| Date: | Canceled Until Further Notice |
| Where: |
Peace Through Play Nursery School 8 Amber Ridge Road Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 |
| Time: | 7:30pm - 8:30pm |
Event:
TRAINING: Learn
to run the Wellbeing Laughter Club
Date:
Saturday
Host:
59th Annual SUNY
Where:
Corey Union
SUNY
Cortland, N.Y. 13045
Time:
9am - 5pm
Laughter is the simplest and most powerful exercise that all human
beings can do to improve Wellbeing. Laughing is innate. Research and
years of anecdotal evidence have demonstrated that laughter clearly
plays a role in healing, staying healthy, managing stress reactions,
and maintaining emotional balance. True-mirthful laughter shifts
perspective and contributes to mind-body balance.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club is form of therapeutic recreation which combines unconditional laughter, simple movement, and play. The Wellbeing Laughter Club makes genuine roaring laughter possible for everyone regardless of age, illness, or ability. Everyone can participate because the movement is simple and the laughter is generated without the use of jokes or humor. The program is excellent low impact aerobic exercise as well. The Wellbeing Laughter Club creates a socially acceptable and safe place for laughter. It’s fun! The benefits of sustained hearty laughter are quite remarkable.
Benefits include:
• Improves Mood
• Reduces Stress & Tension
• Strengthens the Immune System
• Improves Blood Circulation and Oxygenation
• Reduces Pain
• Builds Coping Skills
• Creates Relaxation
• Brings us into the present in the moment which is the only time we can experience joy. Laughter is an instant vacation.
During this training you will learn:
1) How to run a Laughter Club for any group
2) The Benefits of Laughter
3) How to bring more laughter into your life
4) CEU’s available
To Register Contact Jodi Peister, MD
| Event: | Inclusion Recreation with Laughter: The Wellbeing Laughter Club |
| Date: | Wednesday November 18, 2009 |
| Host: |
 15th Annual Downstate Recreation Conference |
| Where | Westchester County Center 198 Central Ave. White Plains NY 10606 |
| Time: | 1:55pm - 2:55pm |
Laughter is deceptively simple, but remarkably powerful. Years of research and anecdotal evidence reveal that Laughter plays a powerful role in healing, staying healthy, managing stress and reactions, maintaining emotional balance, as well as creating perspective. Children laugh 150- 300 times a day but adults laugh maybe 15 times a day. Frankly, if we walked into a super market laughing out loud for joy like a child, we would be seen as crazy! The Wellbeing Laughter Club creates a safe place for laughter. The Wellbeing Laughter Club allows us to re-learn to laugh like a child. In doing so, we release the layers which block the natural flow of our inner river of wellbeing and joy. We experience joy and vitality! The Wellbeing Laughter Club is fun, fun, fun!
| Event: | TRAINING: Learn to run the Wellbeing Laughter Club |
| Date |
Sunday- November 29, 2009 (Open to Women only)
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| Host: | Dr. Wellbeing |
| Where: |
Peace Through Play Nursery School 8 Amber Ridge Road Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 |
| Time: | 10am -6pm |
Laughter Clubs, also known as Laughter Yoga, are a remarkably uplifting form of re-creation and entertainment which combine laughter, simple movement, & play. Laughter Clubs follow the command of the Torah “to be joyful”.
Laughter Clubs make genuine roaring laughter possible for everyone regardless of age, illness, or ability. Everyone can participate because the movement is simple and the laughter is generated without the use of jokes or humor. The Wellbeing Laughter Club creates a socially acceptable and safe place for laughter. The program is excellent low impact aerobic exercise as well. Besides, it’s fun! The benefits of sustained hearty laughter are quite remarkable.
During this training you will learn:
How to run a Laughter Club for any group
The Benefits of Laughter
The Secrets of Laughter
How to bring more laughter into your life
Includes: Training Manual, Training DVD, and
Official Certificate
Laughter Clubs make genuine roaring laughter possible for everyone regardless of age, illness, or ability. Everyone can participate because the movement is simple and the laughter is generated without the use of jokes or humor. The Wellbeing Laughter Club creates a socially acceptable and safe place for laughter. The program is excellent low impact aerobic exercise as well. Besides, it’s fun! The benefits of sustained hearty laughter are quite remarkable.
During this training you will learn:
How to run a Laughter Club for any group
The Benefits of Laughter
The Secrets of Laughter
How to bring more laughter into your life
Includes: Training Manual, Training DVD, and
Official Certificate
To Register Contact Jodi Peister, MD
| Event: |
Family Laughter Club
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| Date: | January 16, 2010 |
| Host: |  Skyelight Healing Arts |
| Where: | 117 Depew Avenue Nyack, NY 10960 |
| Time: | 11am- 12pm |
So Much Fun, Your Kids Will Thank You for Years to Come!
During this fun filled hour, Jodi Peister, aka “Dr. Wellbeing” will lead us in laughter and play. As we have a blast, we experience the power of laughter to heal, uplift mood, open the heart, and create community.
Light Refreshments served afterward.
Contact:
Dr. WellbeingSM
Jodi Peister, MD
Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher
(845)201-0239
www.drwellbeing.com
$15 - $25 per family sliding scale
Percentage of donations goes to Rockland Parent Child Center
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Jodi Peister, MD, aka “Dr. Wellbeing”, will lead us in laughing so heartily that our sides will ache. As we laugh and play, we experience the gifts of laughter: joy, vitality, inner peace, freedom, quieting of the mind, relaxation, opening the heart, and more. We will discuss the benefits of laughter, and share the secret of how to bring more laughter into our lives. Laughter is a powerful tool for instantly shift our experience.
Bio
Jodi Peister, MD, Rhd, Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher, Clairaudient passionately founded Dr. WellbeingSM to awaken us to our true nature, our inner magnificence, and inspire us to be on the sacred journey to wellbeing: to everyday experience inner peace, joy, vitality, bliss, accessing to our greatest abilities…. Affectionately called "Dr. Wellbeing”, as a teacher, healer, and Messenger, Jodi reminds us that Wellbeing is our birth rite. Through Dr. WellbeingSM‘s programs we experience our inner magnificence and learn how to create it for ourselves. We learn how we operate within and how to heal ourselves. Dr. Peister's Mastery of well-being comes from her own recovery from serious long term illness and her training as both a physician and a healer. Dr. Wellbeing currently gives lectures and workshops, runs therapeutic laughter clubs, and trains others how to run them. She is grateful to share her wisdom.
Bio
Jodi Peister, MD, Rhd, Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher, Clairaudient passionately founded Dr. WellbeingSM to awaken us to our true nature, our inner magnificence, and inspire us to be on the sacred journey to wellbeing: to everyday experience inner peace, joy, vitality, bliss, accessing to our greatest abilities…. Affectionately called "Dr. Wellbeing”, as a teacher, healer, and Messenger, Jodi reminds us that Wellbeing is our birth rite. Through Dr. WellbeingSM‘s programs we experience our inner magnificence and learn how to create it for ourselves. We learn how we operate within and how to heal ourselves. Dr. Peister's Mastery of well-being comes from her own recovery from serious long term illness and her training as both a physician and a healer. Dr. Wellbeing currently gives lectures and workshops, runs therapeutic laughter clubs, and trains others how to run them. She is grateful to share her wisdom.
| Event: | "Laughter is Celebration " |
| Date: | January 28, 2010 |
| Host |  Rockland World Radio "NEW PERSPECTIVES" with Rory Pinto & Paul Lamb |
| Where: | www.RocklandWorldRadio.com AND CLICK ON THE "LISTEN LIVE" BUTTON (upper left of screen) For Archives: http://www.rocklandworldradio.com/program/new_perspectives/ |
| Time: | 6-7 pm |
| Event: | Laughter: Healing for All |
| Date: | February 3, 2010 |
| Host: |  Rockland World Radio Connections with Deborah Turner |
| Where: | www.RocklandWorldRadio.com AND CLICK ON THE "LISTEN LIVE" BUTTON (upper left of screen) For Archives: http://rocklandworldradio.com/program/connections/ |
| Time: | 3:30pm |
| Event: |
Laughter is the Best Medicine & How to Laugh Often! |
| Date | February 17,2010 |
| Host |  Paul Morris "Getting on Top" |
| Where: |
www.blogtalkradio.com/getting-on-top Listener call in number (347) 215-9456 |
| Time: | 4-5pm |
| Event: | Laughter: Healing for All |
| Date: | March 23, 2010 |
| Host: |  Alzheimer’s Association Education Conference CT Chapter |
| Where: | Crowne Plaza 100 Berlin Rd. Cromwell, CT 06416 |
| Time: | TBA |
Purpose of the Presentation: To teach caregivers and professionals about the benefits of laughter, as well as have them experience them. The program will teach a simple laughter activity that caregivers can do to uplift themselves and those in their care. The activity has many benefits from managing stress to improving health and mood.
Type of Program: Lecture & Hands on Workshop
Level of Presentation: Applicable for family caregivers as well as professionals
Program Description: The program teaches us how to uplift ourselves and those in our care through laughter. We will learn the many benefits of laughter including the power of laughter to uplift mood, release stress, and heal. We will learn concepts including laughing for no reason, childhood VS adult laughter (humor), fake laughter, and laughing at upsets. We will practice simple exercises that the caregiver can do alone and with those in their care. These exercises are based upon Laughter Yoga a unique combination of laughter, simple movement, and play.
Learning Objectives:
1) Learn and experience the benefits of laughter
2) Understand that we can untie laughter from humor
3) Learn how we can uplift ourselves anytime
4) Learn and experience that fake laughter is as therapeutic as genuine laughter
5) Learn and practice a simple, fun ,uplifting, and stress reducing activity to practice alone and with those in our care
Content of Presentation includes information below:
Laughter is the simplest and most powerful exercise which everyone can do to improve well-being. Laughing is innate. The benefits of laughter are truly amazing.
Content of Presentation includes information below:
Laughter is the simplest and most powerful exercise which everyone can do to improve well-being. Laughing is innate. The benefits of laughter are truly amazing.
| Event: |
Unleashing the Joy Machine Within Through Laughter: Caring for the Caregiver, Caring for the Registrant |
| Date: | April 23, 2010 |
| Host: | ADHCC    |
| Location: |
Gideon Putnam Hotel 24 Gideon Putnam Road Saratoga Springs, New York, 12866 |
| Time: | 11:30am - 1pm |
When we look at children, by nature they are joyful, vibrant, full of energy, and laugh often. Children laugh because it is their nature to be joyful, and not because they have a developed sense of humor. They laugh from the inner place of Wellbeing. When we were children we laughed 150 -300 times a day. We laughed because we were in the state of Well-being. We laughed for no reason. We laughed because we were alive.
Adults laugh maybe 15 times a day. What happened to our inner joy and laughter? Is lack of vibrancy, energy and not experiencing true joy the norm for growing old?
As paradigms of health shift, we begin to see that well-being is our birthright. We begin to understand that the joy and wellbeing of childhood is still within and can be uncovered. It never went away.
We realize that as individuals, we really matter and that caring for ourselves matters as well. We find an inner World and inner muscles which we can exercise to experience well-being. We begin the journey of self-care with intention and take one step at a time.
Why is laughter so special?
When we laugh, we get a taste of well-being, the deliciousness of being alive. We experience the true nature of our existence which is ecstatic: joy, vitality, inner peace... When we laugh, we release tension in the body and let go stress (emotional upsets). As we laugh we relax and the drive to “go and do” disappears. Laughter shifts our experience and we stop focusing upon our problems. We enter the moment and cease worrying about the future or the past. We put our burdens down. Our mind quiets. We let go of inhibitions that we created which suppress joy and begin to feel at ease and peaceful. We enter the place of being, Human Being. Our heart begins to open, and we experience love. Joy springs forth! We remember that we are innately good and do not have to do anything but be ourselves. We feel free. When we laugh, we uplift ourselves and those around us.
Adults laugh maybe 15 times a day. What happened to our inner joy and laughter? Is lack of vibrancy, energy and not experiencing true joy the norm for growing old?
As paradigms of health shift, we begin to see that well-being is our birthright. We begin to understand that the joy and wellbeing of childhood is still within and can be uncovered. It never went away.
We realize that as individuals, we really matter and that caring for ourselves matters as well. We find an inner World and inner muscles which we can exercise to experience well-being. We begin the journey of self-care with intention and take one step at a time.
Why is laughter so special?
When we laugh, we get a taste of well-being, the deliciousness of being alive. We experience the true nature of our existence which is ecstatic: joy, vitality, inner peace... When we laugh, we release tension in the body and let go stress (emotional upsets). As we laugh we relax and the drive to “go and do” disappears. Laughter shifts our experience and we stop focusing upon our problems. We enter the moment and cease worrying about the future or the past. We put our burdens down. Our mind quiets. We let go of inhibitions that we created which suppress joy and begin to feel at ease and peaceful. We enter the place of being, Human Being. Our heart begins to open, and we experience love. Joy springs forth! We remember that we are innately good and do not have to do anything but be ourselves. We feel free. When we laugh, we uplift ourselves and those around us.
