Morning Moments With Maia; Cindy Miles on Humor and Aging

Maia Aziz P.S.W., C.L.Y.L., C.H.P., writes and speaks on living a life of love and laughter. President-Elect of The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Maia is joined each week on Morning Moments With Maia...Conversations of Love and Laughter by an eclectic lineup of guests who live their lives with love and laughter and work to help others do the same.

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Cindy Miles, Family Caregiver Resource Coordinator for the Southwestern Commission Area Agency on Aging, is a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher (CLYT) with Laughter Yoga International.  Cindy was personally trained by the founder of Laughter Yoga, Dr. Madan Kataria, a medical doctor from Mumbai, India, who started the movement in 1995.  

She has presented at national and regional conferences and has provided therapeutic laughter workshops and retreats to organizations, large and small across the nation.  Cindy recently conducted a multi-state research project, which was just published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, “Advances in Mind Body Medicine”.  Her research project resulted in North Carolina’s approval of Laughter Yoga as a Title III-D Evidence-Based Disease Prevention/Health Promotions Program. Today Cindy joins Maia for a conversation about the link between humor, laughter and healthy aging.