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<p>2) i realize that i might be fat.</p><p>

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<p>yogabandna tells us to relax completely. the guy who's been staring me at obeys instantly, letting out a huge fart. and this is no ordinary fart. its an i'm-a-vegan-and-get-all-of-my-protein-from-beancakes fart. silent but very deadly. i know it's him because it smells like the way he's looking at me. i seem to be alone in finding the fart extremely funny.</p><p>

<p>next comes eagle, where you wrap your left leg around the right one nine times and your arms mirror this up top. to no one's surprise i can't do it.<p>  i tell myself it's because i'm too sweaty, i can't get a grip but deep down i know it's because of my kankles. my huge, scottish ankles (evolved after centuries of pulling carts of potatoes through the mud) don't have the usual tapering, it's just a leg with a foot attached, no transition. i once went to the doctor for a sprain; he said "wow! that is one swollen ankle." it was the other one.</p><p>

<p>yogabandana tells <strong>lululemon online</strong> us to take a deep breath and i do. right on queue, bean cake guy out-relaxes himself. between the moisture that's fogging up the windows, the 100+ degree heat and the smell, i have a sudden realization that this is what it feels like to be inside a fart. except not an ordinary fart cloud where you would just take a nap probably, this is a torture chamber fart cloud where not only are you trapped but are forced to hold excruciating positions for years at a time.<p>  i believe i've heard of such a place, they call it hell.</p><p>

<p>as i step back into downward dog my back foot slips, throwing me entirely off balance. each individual limb tries to grip the slippery surface so now i look less like a downward dog and more like a dog on roller skates. i touch back in with my intention to not die. the teacher notices and she adjusts me, shifting my pelvis forward and holding it in place. at first i feel violated, then i relax, realizing that someone else is actually doing the work for me,<p>  then i begin to really enjoy it and now i'm wondering if i'm a lesbian. as if holding my pose, holding my breath and trying to avoid beancake guy's gaze isn't enough, now i'm having a sexual identity crisis.</p><p>

<p>my new girlfriend instructs us to choose our favorite pose from today's class and "find our full expression" so i snuggle into child's pose.</p><p>

<p>i suddenly realize that this om shanti song has been playing for 17 minutes and the only two words in the song are 'shanti' and 'om' arranged in various creative ways such as 'om shanti' and 'shanti om.' as it's playing, we assume the aptly named 'corpse pose.' i close my eyes and the ancient indian art works its magic; i relax beyond thought. beancake guy follows suit.</p><p>

<p>now is my least favorite part of class where everyone chants "ooooommmmmmmmm" together slowly three times because they haven't heard enough of that word in the 'om shanti' portion of class. i hate this part because everyone chants "om" with meaning but they don't actually know what "om" means. i was raised buddhist -- its actually sanskrit for 'gullible american.'</p><p>

<p>finally, we "namaste"' our way out of there, lugging sweat soaked yoga mats<p>  which are now as heavy as a tires (but not as sanitary.) i make a beeline for the locker room where i strip down naked, leap into the best shower ever, towel off, and step onto the scale. i've lost five pounds! (please don't respond to this blog saying it was all sweat. i don't believe you.) this gratifying moment makes the whole class worthwhile. although i will be far too sore to return for the remaining six days of my free week, i can't wait for two years from now, when my instant weight loss and yogi's high are the only thing i remember about this experience (and the people at the front desk have forgotten me again).</p>

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"you laugh, you clap and you breathe," he continued. (you also drive imaginary bumper cars, pretend to be lions and hug perfect strangers.) "suddenly you find yourself really laughing and you don't know why. it's fun, and you feel good."
the goal of laughter yoga is to breathe and to laugh, not because anyone has cracked a joke, but because laughter is a playful, social, contagious thing. the "yoga" label is a bit of a misnomer. there are no downward dogs or inversions, just people coming together, usually for free, for a short session of laughter. and it has become something of a global phenomenon.
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indeed, as research probes the intricacies of the mind-body connection, investigators have developed a particular focus on the possible health benefits of laughter. some of the more prominent work has come from the cardiovascular arena.
dr. michael miller, the director of the preventive cardiology program at the university of maryland's medical center, previously investigated the effect laughter can have on the vascular system. in a study presented to the american college of cardiology, miller and his colleagues found that showing healthy adults a funny movie scene increased blood flow by more than 20 percent.
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we definitely had our moments of faking it.
"i had definitely never experienced anything like it before," said amanda, who is notably nicer and more diplomatic than myself. "i must say, though, that the experience seems to be dependent on the sort of people there. everyone was so into it and so enthusiastic. it made me feel more comfortable about laughing, too -- even though in any other circumstance, i would've surely felt self-conscious about just laughing for a half-hour straight."
as for me, i'd been dreading the class all week (i'm shy and a little prickly), but it wasn't as bad as i'd feared. i did genuinely lose it at the end, laughing so hard i cried as we lay on the floor, stared at the ceiling and guffawed together for minutes. and minutes. i couldn't get over how weird it was. does that somewhat judgmental laughter count? i don't know. amanda and i hightailed it out of there before the period when people chatted about their experiences.
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"it's really about community," said marlene chertok, a registered nurse and breast cancer survivor who has seen her st. louis-based club grow from single to double digits in the past few years. "it's just a place where people can come in and laugh, regularly. it needs to feel safe."
and that safety can come even in the least likely places.
rebecca foster, who works for the prison mindfulness institute teaching mediation and emotional intelligence skills in rhode island, teaches laughter yoga in men's and women's jails.
"the aggressive energy dissipates,"
foster said. "you can't be tight and laugh at the same time. who knows how profound a difference it will make -- it may not make any difference at all. but at the very least there's a sense that in this moment, in this one place, i can be a kid again."
and for all of the promise of laughter's health benefits, many not yet scientifically proven, that may be the method's greatest strength.
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and so i offer a deep bow and prayer of gratitude for having met mine.
(cathleen falsani is the faith & values columnist for the orange county register.)

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