When jokes didn't work, we learnt to laugh without them. I thought of how to make all the members practice these laughter sessions everyday for 10-15 minutes because everybody felt nice after their morning guffaws. Morning walkers are obviously health conscious people and they would want to do it religiously. I have been a student of yoga and used to give health talks at one of the popular Yoga Institutes in Mumbai. For a few days I kept on thinking about different aspects of yoga and how they could be connected to laughter.
Deep breathing has a calming effect on the mind and provides more oxygen to the body tissues.
This will definitely increase the vital capacity of the lungs and hence their capacity to laugh. Later on, I realized that deep breathing is one of the most important parts of laughter exercise. In the normal course, the common man has no patience to do yogic deep breathing, which we made an integral part of a laughter session and thus it became a ritual. But this was not possible in a group where most people were standing. To give a rhythm and slow speed I told my fellow beings to raise both their arms up in the sky and at the same time breath slowly and deeply.