Sebastien Gendry is the Laughter Wellness guy, and a leading global expert on laughter. A stress-related burnout led him to discover and experience the healing power of laughter in early 2000. It did much better than change his life. It changed him.
Sebastien is the founder and executive director of:
There is a new frontier in wellness!
Laughter Wellness offers in-person beginner to advanced trainings on therapeutic laughter.
Ideal for those who are seeking or want to teach the physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual benefits of laughter.
www.laughterwellness.org
LOU is the ultimate online laughter learning center. It offers beginner to advanced trainings, continuing education and professional resources on therapeutic laughter. Ideal for those who want to learn in their own time at their own pace or who can’t make it to the face to face training options provided by Laughter Wellness.
www.laughteronlineuniversity.com
The Laughter Consultants are experts in corporate health and wellbeing. We’re professional, knowledgeable, informative, flexible and fun! Ideal for those organizations who wish to boost moral and productivity, or reduce stress and costs.
www.thelaughterconsultants.com
Sebastien is the founder of the American School Of Laughter Yoga, an organization that started in 2004 and played a major role in introducing the Indian laughter yoga exercise regime in North America, and continues to play a major role in social laughter clubs.
Since 2005 he has volunteered his time to lead the Pasadena Community Laughter Club.
Sebastien has over 10 years of full-time teaching experience in his field and has travelled over 1/2 million miles bringing laughter to 1000s across the Americas, Europe and Australia.
South America In 2015 Sebastien will teach in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela (June & August).Sebastien is fluent in Spanish. |
Western Europe In 2015 Sebastien will teach in England, France, Germany, and Greece (July).Sebastien is fluent in French and conversational in German. |
Sebastien also teaches in
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One of Sebastien’s dreams is to help the staff of Camp McMurdo, Antartica, better manage their stress, isolation, and overall health with his unique wellbeing solutions. This will be called the “break the ice” tour.
Do you know people who work there or for Raytheon who can help him make the right connections? Please let him know.
Sebastien epitomizes and shares the power of positive and playful energy and creativity. He has a culmination of eastern and western philosophies and offers a synthesis of metaphysical approaches to positive psychology wrapped up in pure childlike fun, with a strong model to support why and how he does it. His authentic and engaging style motivates and empowers audiences with practical tools they can use to better their health and quality of life. This is so much more than being “not sick.”
He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, 60 minutes, ABC Good Morning America, and National Public Radio, and has worked with organizations and associations such as Microsoft, Creative Artist Agency and the American Society On Aging. He is the author of 100s of articles on the healing benefits of laughter as well as a series of reference ebooks and DVDs on Laughter Yoga and Laughter Wellness.
Sebastien currently dedicates most of his time to running the Laughter Online University (LOU), a worldwide leading supplier of online laughter education. LOU was created to meet an ever-increasing demand for people who want to experience a greater understanding of wellness through laughter. LOU offers laughter education and support to individuals and professionals worldwide who want to have fun making a difference while helping their family, peers and clients laugh to “live fully until they die.”
10 little known facts about Sebastien Gendry
- Started to sleep under his bed frame at age 4 because “all explorers sleep in a tent.”
- Fell in love with computers at age 14. Programming in BASIC replaced listening to international broadcastings on the AM shortwave frequency as his new hobby.
- Hitch-hiked around Southern Europe during his summer vacations at age 15 and 16, around Northern Europe at age 17, and around the world for the first time at age 18.
- Developed a keen interest for writing and action photography in his late teens. Put that into practice by working for 4 years as a part-time sports journalist to pay for his travels and university studies. Juggled a 60 hours / week schedule between work and studying while his friends partied.
- Spoke 4 languages fluently by the time he was 21 (French, English, German, Spanish). Worked as a professional interpreter for the French army for 1 year. Learned Italian for fun in his down time.
- Soldiering made him fit. Ran 5 marathons and 1 ultra-marathon (100 kilometers).
- Worked for 1,5 years in the import-export trade out of Zagreb (Croatia), Vienna (Austria) and Hong Kong after obtaining his B.A. in international business from Angers University, France, then moved to London, UK, to work in the computer industry.
- Founded http://www.eims.biz with 2 partners in 1995 and opted out 7 years later for health and personal reasons. EIMS was already a multi million £ operation at that point.
- Developed an interest in the healing arts in 1998, trained for 3 years in his spare time in 9 different body-work and healing modalities and got professionally certified as Swedish, Sports, Thai, and Indian Head-Massage Therapist, Cranio-Sacral Therapy I and II, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Hatha Yoga Instructor, Reiki Master. Decided to become an Osteopathic Doctor in 2001, successfully passed the entry exams of the London School of Osteopathy, but unexpected events happened that summer and he opted for a different life path.
- Sebastien is one of the masterminds that helped shape Laughter Yoga to what it is today. He embraced this movement at a crucial time in its history, and played a major role in introducing it in the USA and other countries. He has personally inspired the creation of several hundred Community Laughter Clubs around the world.
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