Singapore can have 'Laughter Yoga' university: Madan Kataria

SINGAPORE: There is a potential for setting up a university in Singapore for research work on 'Laughter Yoga', Madan Kataria, the founder of this laughter-based exercise, said today.

"Twelve international universities have done research on laughter yoga's health benefits," said Kataria, who is working on spreading Laughter Yoga to rural villages across the globe, having already made it popular in more than 100 cities.

"There is a potential for setting up a university for research work on laughter yoga and a centre for training and coaching Laughter Yoga experts," said Kataria, who held a session of laughter yoga at a fair held in Singapore today.

A time frame for setting up the university in Singapore would depend on support of the yoga followers, said Kataria who has been visiting the city state for the past eight years and conducting classes and sessions.

He stressed that Laughter Yoga was a way forward for better health in today's stressed environment globally, especially in the cosmopolitan cities.

Laughter Yoga expanded rapidly in the last 20 years with 10,000 clubs in India and 6,000 overseas, starting from the first session held in Mumbai in March 1995.