Events Schedule

Dr. Wellbeing^SM
Jodi Peister, MD

GJ Peister, MD

Events

Event:	Wellbeing Laughter Club
Date:	1st, 3rd, & 5th Wednesdays
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 November 7, 2009 – One Day Training - Post Conference
Host:	59th Annual SUNY Cortland Recreation Conference
Where:	Corey Union SUNY Cortland 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)
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

To Register Contact Jodi Peister, MD

Event:	Family Laughter Club
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. Wellbeing^SM
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

Event:	Laughter! So Much Fun, You Will Want More!
Date:	January 21, 2010
Host:	Blue Horizons Holistic Network
Where:	Best Western Hotel 26 Rte. 59 Nyack, NY 10960
Time	Noon - 2pm

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.

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.