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CARMELA CARLYLE Psychotherapist. Certified Integrative Yoga Therapist. Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: Created the first Chair and Wheel Chair Laughter Yoga Club in the World, in 2007 and it is featured in this dvd!

Offered weekly Laughter Yoga sessions, adapted for ALL levels of care, including Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, Independent Living and Dementia Care Residential settings, full-time, for over seven years.

Work with older adults goes back to the 1980's with Graduate and Post-Graduate studies, private clients, teaching courses on Aging at university level, creating Community Mental Health, Organizational Wellness and Hospice Bereavement Programs.

Keynote Conference Speaker addressing the healing power of Laughter Yoga and Meditation for diverse audiences in organizational, medical, eldercare, education, cancer wellness, sports medicine and resort settings.

Trained hundreds of CLYLs and was Laughter Yoga Training Specialist at UCSF Hospital offering CEUs for training physicians, nurses, social workers, eldercare specialists and psychotherapists to develop Laughter Yoga Programs.