By ALICIA DE HALDEVANG, Posted on » Saturday, April 16, 2011
CHILDREN at Bahraini schools are being taught the value of
laughter as part of their official studies. It follows the
inclusion of “laughter yoga” in the Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE) curriculum in India. As a result, five schools
in Bahrain that follow the CBSE curriculum have started laughter
lessons as part of a health and medicine course. The classes are
being taught at The Indian School, New Millennium School Bahrain
– DPS, Al Noor International School, Asian School and Ibn Al
Haitham Islamic School Laughter yoga, which is taught at two
clubs in Bahrain by a certified teacher, is now included in the
high school syllabus for pupils in class 10 at each of these
schools. “In such schools, laughter yoga breaks are held
whenever the teachers feel that the children are getting tired,
restless or are no longer listening to lectures,” said Bahrain’s
only certified laughter yoga instructor K M Thomas. “Five to
10-minute breaks help stimula