Create awesome 😉 laughter sessions in water (in 6 steps)

For laughter-skilled only (Leaders, Teachers). Expand your skills in a new dimension from land to water.

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This course is only for laughter-skilled people (Leaders, Teachers, ...)

Whether as a profitable activity or just to enjoy with friends, learn how to create your first awesome laughter session in water, with 3 ingredients:

✔ meaningful exercise: a kick to physical metabolism
✔ extended laughter: a kick to emotional metabolism
✔ playful water: a boost to both

Meaningful exercise and extended laughter, according to this scientific research, give the same psychophysical benefits, statistically indistinguishable. Depending probably on individual taste, some people love exercise, some love laughter. What about both?

Being in connection with the water makes you happier and healthier, according to years of research conducted by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols and published in his best-selling book Blue Mind.

By combining exercise, laughter and water, the benefits increase significantly, according to this research.

Exercise + Laughter + Water = triple fun and benefits ... but how? where to start?
It is much easier than you could think.

How?


We present the tools to do it in just 6 easy steps, suitable to most levels of fitness or aquatic skill.

We love this cocktail and invite you to join us in this adventure.

Pre-requisite.

To be laughter-skilled, meaning that you would know already how to laugh voluntarily while performing exercise, for example on land like these.

You would be able to do them easily while laughing

This course will give you the tools to do it in water and create a session.

Four types of laughter sessions in water.
(Hint: this course is for the 2nd type).

  1. Laughter Yoga in shallow water. You probably know perfectly well how to do it. Like LY in the snow, or in the rain, or in a park, or in the fog, or at sunset on top of a hill ... changing the context does not really alter the basic structure of a LY session. So it is for shallow water.
  2. Exercise Laughter Sessions In Water (ELSIW for short): this is the outcome of the course. In deeper water it is hardly possible to do any LY exercises. What makes the difference here is taking advantage of the peculiarity and benefits of deeper water as well as doing a meaningful workout long enough to have an impact on the physical as well as the emotional metabolism.
  3. AquaLaughter Leader: a cycle of 45 minutes sessions of meaningful physical activity and diaphragmatic laughter in water. Delivered by a certified AquaLaughter Leader trained to follow a protocol to ensure the AquaLaughter session is: motivating, inclusive, progressive, interactive and a total workout.
  4. AquaLaughter Pro: a 8-session cycle of 45 minutes of meaningful physical activity and diaphragmatic laughter in water. Delivered by a professional aqua trainer, additionally trained to follow a protocol to ensure the AquaLaughter session is: motivating, inclusive, progressive, interactive and a total workout.
Step 1. Debilitating misconceptions: check if you have them and get rid of them right from the start.

Stop them draining your energy, wasting your time and leading you in wrong directions.

Sometimes it is just a question of changing paradigm.

What you will have at the end of this step
Tools to assess what misconceptions might be holding you back, how much time, money and energy they are costing you and what better strategies you could put into action.

Step 2. Choreography ... stop worrying about what to do and start practicing.

You’ll discover how to choose a choreography in tune with your present level of fitness, simple enough to be generated/put together in minutes and that you can start practicing right away. You'll be recommended to repeat this process of choreography creation before each subsequent module, so, by the end, you'll have a set of choreographies that will give you a reserve of power for your sessions.

What you will have after completing this step
A procedure to easily tailor a choreography to suit your taste, liking, level. You will have hopefully started practicing and acquiring the confidence that you can do it!

Of course this will happen if you take time to practice ... according to the saying "you can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind."

Step 3. You: maximize the talents you already have.

Make the most of all the skills and resources you have, not just your laughter ability. In this step you’ll learn in this module shortcuts and tricks that you can use to build on your strenghts rather than trying to acquire at once all the skills you dream of or feel you should have.

What you will have at the end of this step
An assessment of your talents and skills and how to make the most out of them for quickly and easily creating your first session.

Step 4. Know your context ... unless you like nasty surprise.

Learn about the different contexts (pool, sea, temperature, depth, ...) so you can choose them wisely and adapt the session accordingly.


What you will have at the end of this step
Awareness of the challenges represented by the different contexts, a checklist to assess them, solutions for finding alternative strategies and tools to adapt the session accordingly.

Step 5. Participants: get to know your participants or ... prepare to lose them.

If you don’t take into account the aquatic skills of your participants you might quickly lose them or loose control of the session.

What you will have at the end of this step
A list of aquatic skill and emotional states to take into consideration; a worksheet to evaluate your actual participants and to adapt your session.

Step 6. The comprehensive choreography: putting all the pieces together like in a musical score.

The outcome of the session depends on many factors. You’ll have guidedlines and checklists to prepare your "score" in tune with you, from a simple one, to more complex one, as you go along and hone your skills.

What you will have at the end of this step
Awareness of how the different parts of the choreography contribute to the success of the session, and tools to harmonize the different aspects of a session into a single easy-to-use "score".

Step ∞. The learning: how you can progress from one level of expertise to the next one and get hooked on the fun and the benefits of water + laughter + exercise.

You'll have guidelines, worksheet and checklist to speed up your progession and learn from each session how to go to the next level of expertise.

Your Instructor


Sabina Gerin
Sabina Gerin

Hi there! I’m Sabina Gerin, AquaLaughter® co-creator with Georges Toscani. 💦 Water is my passion ❤, I’m an AquaFit trainer and I’ve been a swimming instructor for the past 20+ years. I started experimenting on myself laughter in water in 2012 and I’ve been conducting AquaLaughter® sessions almost every week for over 4 years. Many aqua & laughter lovers have asked us “😱 where do I start?”. The answer is much easier than you might think, Georges and I we are here to share the methods, the tools and the knowledge that we have gathered so you may enjoy the new excitement of AquaLaughter®.


Course Curriculum


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  Session 1. Debilitating misconceptions? Get rid of them right from the start.
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  Session 2. Basic choreography ... stop worrying about what to do and start practicing.
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  Session 3. You! Maximize the skills and talents you aready have.
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  Session 4. The participants: know them or ... be prepared to loose them.
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  Session 5. Know your context ... unless you like bad surprises.
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  Session 6. The final choreography: armonizing all the pieces together like in a musical score.
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  Step ∞. The learning: jump from one level of expertise to the next one and get addicted.
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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
Can I just have a list of exercises? This is the most frequently asked question.
Certainly! You can have some ideas here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0aHL2sZzfyrijIBWAdfALQKOS7uoFh-G, but the web has an endless number of them. Then just add laughter. The exercises however are just one of the ingredients. The laughter another one. If we consider the cake analogy it might appear clearer: to make a good cake, it is not just a question of knowing one ingredient, not even only a question of knowing all the ingredients, but one needs also to know the whole recipe, the quantities, how to mix the ingredients, how to cook them.
Who is this course for?
The laughter-skilled (Leaders, Teachers) who want to extend their practice to a new dimension, from land into water.
Do you need any aqua fitness experience?
Any aqua experience, not only aqua fitness experience, is good to create a session adapted to your level.
Do I need to swim?
It depends on your level. See the difference between Laughter Yoga in water, laughter session in water, AquaLaughter delivered by a Leader, AquaLaughter delivered by an aqua professional.
What are the different type of laughter sessions in water?
Laughter Yoga in water: a standard LY session done in shallow water. Laughter session in water: is what is taught in this course. 1) water deep enough that prevent to do a standard session, 2) meaning ful exercise. AquaLaughter delivered by a Leader. A 45 minutes session, with meaningful exercise and laughter, that follows a protocol, delivered by Leader that has been trained and certified. It is organized into a cycle of 8 sessions. AquaLaughter delivered by an aqua professional. A 45 minutes session delivered by aquafit, aquagym, aquapilates instructors.
How is Aqua laughter different to just laughing in the water during an aqua fitness class?
AquaLaughter is: 1) a method to train how to actually keep laughing almost continuously for 45 minutes while doing exercises; 2) a cycle of 8 sessions following a protocol, that is progressive, motivating, inclusive, interactive and a real work-out; 3) a system to optimize the excercise-laughter experience over a significant period of time.
Will I get wet?
In aqua classes usually the instructor keeps outside of the pool. In AquaLaughter the instructor is in the water together with the participants.

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