Laugh your socks off with Snow

Snow grew up uncontrollably laughing at everything. She then discovered a laughter yoga training course and thought it was just perfect! Snow now teaches laughter yoga sessions in London for strangers to bond, feel a sense of connection and leave feeling uplifted.
1000 LONDONERS
This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a ten-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.
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1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit www.chocolatefilms.com
TRANSCRIPT
- I'm Snow, and I'm facilitating laughter yoga sessions, in London. Laughter yoga is a really fun wellness program, that actually has incredible benefits. We basically interact through laughter, so it's a system where the teacher shows a series of laughter exercises and for the group dynamic and interaction, their initially initiated laughter turns into real laughter. Our brain cannot really feel the difference whether we laugh for real or whether we fake it. So we always say, you can come to the laughter club even if you are not in a good mood, even if you don't have a good sense of humour, it doesn't matter at all. About six years ago, I just accidentally came across laughter yoga training on the web, and I started laughing out really loud because since I was a little girl, my problem was that I've been just unconditionally laughing at many things, and people would often call me and odd person. And so I thought that it would be a really great opportunity for me to now use it as an excuse that I'm just a laughter yogi. Once a month, I run a free laughter club as a service to London community because I really believe that laughter is such a great bonding experience for people, and it's a big city, people feel alienated, people feel lonely. Obviously it's a vulnerable experience, you're in a group of strangers and you are expected to laugh. But it's such a transformation, it's beautiful to see how people slowly soften and every single session, it's guaranteed that people will leave uplifted.