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World Laughter Day 2026

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If you didn’t know, this Sunday, May 3, 2026, is World Laughter Day!

A special day to remember that laughter isn’t just good for us…

💛 it brings us together
💛 it soothes
💛 it brings us closer
💛 it lifts the energy around us

What if, this year, you made a concrete gesture for world peace?

Simple. Accessible. Powerful.

👉 Laugh consciously for at least 2 minutes.

Yes… just 2 minutes.

😄 Alone in your kitchen
📞 Calling someone to laugh together
👫 With a loved one
🌿 Or simply choosing to smile at life

💛 Mission spéciale du 3 mai

Choose your moment.
Set an alarm if necessary 😉
Then give yourself 2 minutes of intentional laughter.

No need to wait for a perfect reason.

Laughter is reason enough.

✨ Every laugh feeds your well-being.
✨ Every shared laugh creates a bond.
✨ And thousands of conscious laughs… change something in the world.

So this Sunday…

🌍 Let’s do our part.
😄 One person at a time.
💛 Two minutes at a time.

I look forward to laughing with you, even from a distance,

Linda 💛

And I’ll be laughing for real with a great group of people in my community of Bois-Francs in Quebec!

World Laughter Day 2023

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You may be wondering why there’s a World Laughter Day?

Because it’s important to remember from time to time just how much good laughter can do in our troubled world.

As I celebrate 20 years of practicing laughter yoga, I feel an even greater urgency to realize that when we laugh, we are TOGETHER! No power struggles, no arguments, no tension.

It’s a beautiful way to peace within us and around us!

Here’s the message I’ve prepared for this year.

MESSAGE FROM LINDA LECLERC, FOUNDER OF THE SCHOOL OF LAUGHTER YOGA

Nothing works as quickly on our state of mind as laughter. While we’re laughing together, it’s impossible to fight or stay angry! Laughter is a wonderful universal language that has the potential to unite mankind. Smile at someone and chances are they’ll smile back – and you’ll both feel great!

Every person possesses this wealth and treasure, which is a renewable resource! The more we laugh, the more we want to laugh and the easier it is to laugh!

In darker times, we can remember that the sun is still shining. Laughter is like the sun, bringing good cheer and light into our lives.

We all need a good laugh. The world is constantly in turmoil, and our sense of helplessness and insecurity is growing.

It’s not the first time, nor will it be the last, that we experience difficult times. Ups and downs are part of life. Quality of life doesn’t depend on what happens to us, but rather on how we react in these moments. We can’t change external circumstances. The easiest thing we can do is to change the way we feel inside, so now is the time to laugh intentionally – to light up our hearts and unite us.

Laughing helps us cultivate a positive mental attitude and develop love, forgiveness, generosity and compassion. These are the virtues we need for peace and harmony in our world.

I dream of the day when we’ll all be able to LAUGH – without judgment – simply by letting our hearts open to joy and life, thinking of all the good we do through this simple exercise. The good we do for ourselves, of course, but also the good we do for all mankind. The more we laugh, the happier we feel, and the more our joy is reflected around us… like circles in the water.

Today, all over the world, people will be laughing to join the great planetary community of laughers… making a concrete gesture to help reduce fears and tensions through the joyful sounds of laughter. An ambitious goal, but an achievable one, since RIRE UNIT!

Whether you’re alone or with others, today take the time to LAUGH for at least a minute! Open your arms to the sky and laugh! You’ll be part of a great movement that sends waves of love around the world. Call someone and laugh together! Make someone laugh as you walk by… It doesn’t matter! Share a moment of laughter.

I wish everyone a day filled with smiles and LAUGHTER! The kind that comes from the heart and spills out to those around us. The kind that makes our faces shine and our eyes sparkle, that makes us more tolerant and gentle with ourselves and others. It’s the kind we gradually rediscover through practice, and which helps us to live more serenely, with a lighter heart… I wish us HEARTY LAUGHTER!

And it’s LAUGHTER that I’m proposing to you too. Reach for the sky and send your laughter high. Really do it today. And why not every day?

Laughter, joy and health

Linda

If you’re in Montreal that day, join me at Centre St-Pierre (1212 rue Panet, métro Beaudry) in room 1205 from 1 to 2 p.m. for an hour of celebration and laughter! Register here to get your share of the cake (a party without cake isn’t a party!). And if you can’t physically be with me, participate live on the Laughter Yoga School YouTube channel!

World Laughter Day is this Sunday!

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I usually organize a large public event where everyone is invited to join me in celebrating World Laughter Day by laughing together for an hour.

But this year, since World Laughter Day coincides with my current Laughter Yoga Teacher Training in Canmore, Alberta, I’ll be laughing with a group in our majestic Rocky Mountains! I know… it’s hard to teach in such magnificent places, but what can you do? You just have to do it!

I was discussing the social and spiritual effects of laughter with someone a few days ago and found myself imagining a situation to demonstrate my point.

I explained to the person that, when two people laugh together and look into each other’s eyes, there’s no room for anger, argument or fear. I closed my eyes for a few seconds and imagined myself laughing with a terrorist (or at least my image of one). We were looking into each other’s eyes and laughing out loud, together, heartily… And laughing some more. Until our eyes were wet, our legs a bit limp, our cheeks pink…

And what I observed then really amazed me.

If I felt fear, resentment or anger towards this person BEFORE, there was no trace of it AFTER we had laughed together in my mind! All traces of barriers between us had disappeared, replaced by a feeling of closeness, complicity and affection.

Now, you’re going to tell me that it can be a lot easier to pretend to laugh with our “enemy” than to do it for real. Maybe it is. But what I felt was that, by imagining us laughing together, the thing had really happened in the invisible! And that MY feelings had changed. I was no longer sending the same aggressive thoughts to this person… What I was sending now was something like “Ah thank you! I’m glad I went through this with you… It was good to laugh together, wasn’t it?”

So this year, I’m proposing a little DO-able challenge for World Laughter Day: to imagine yourself laughing out loud with people who perhaps need to laugh more and let off steam… Whether you see the results or not, you’ll have done it WITH them.

The intention of WRD is world peace through laughter. Do your part too!

I’ll be in a public park, somewhere in the Rockies, and I’ll be sending my laughter out to countries where the shit’s really hitting the fan. Not just to countries, but also and above all to individuals. I’ll see myself sharing a laugh with them. To send out vibrations of complicity, brotherhood and love. Because even if we can’t see them with our eyes, our hearts feel them.

… the flutter of a butterfly’s wings… We can change the world, one laugh at a time!

Make the HEART LAUGH at 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 7. Open your arms, raise your head to the sky and let the laughter flow from your heart to surround the planet with this beautiful energy.

Laughter, joy and health

Linda

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