It's Fun
Festival Time!

Around the world wacky festivals bring out the fun in folks and their are plenty nationally as well as internationally. Enjoy the merriement that others are making in the world.
See our Festival Page for More dates

January 2012

Jan 1
Annual Mummers Parade
Philadelphia, PA

Jan 1
Freezin for a Reason
5th Annual Polar Plunge

Chicago, IL

Jan 1
92nd Annual Polar Swim
Vancouver, Canada

Jan 1
The Annual Dakar Rally
Peru-Chile-Argentina

Jan 1
New Years Day
Parade and Festiva
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London, England

Jan 2
Happy Mew Year For Cats
Lebanon, PA

Jan 6
The Haxey Hood
(700 year tradition)
Linconshire, England

Jan 6-8
5th Annual
Flat Head Sled Dog Days

Olney, Montana

Jan 7
The 4th Annual FruitCake Fling
Park Ridge, IL

Jan 7
Polar Bear Games
West Hartford, CT

Jan 10
Ben's Annual Charity Matso Ball Eating Contest
New York, New York

Jan 11-15
Ice Box Days
(Freeze your
Gizzard Blizzard Run)
Minnesota

Jan 13-22
World Championship
Snow Mobile Derby

Eagle River, WI

Jan 14
Snow Shovel Riding Championships
Baden, PA

Jan 14
Skijoring Artic Race
Shoreview, MN

Jan 14
Winter Madness Festival
Egg Harbor, WI

Jan 14
Frozen Turkey Bowl
Mossinee, WI

Jan 14
Sleigh & Cutter Rally

Ashland, WI

Jan 14
Outhouse Races
Conconully, WA

Jan 14-15
Saturnalia Chariot Racing
Llanwrytd Wells, Wales

Jan 14-16
Festival of Chocolate
Tampa, FL

Jan 14-15
Chemult Sled Dog Races
Chemult, OR

Jan 15
WinterJam
Atlanta, GA

Jan 18-22
Ice Box Days
International Falls, MN

Jan 19-20
Snow Sculpting Championships
Breckenridge, CO

Jan 19-29
36th Annual Circus Festival
of Monte Carlo

Principality of Monaco

Jan 19-29
Sun Dance Film Festival
Park City, UT

Jan 20-22
US Pond Hockey Championships
Lake Nokomis, MN

Jan 20-22
World Winter Swimming Championships
Latvia

Jan 20
Wing Bowl
Philadelphia, PA

Jan 20-22
Annual Ice Fishing Derby
Moscow, ME

Jan 20-29
Ice Magic Festival
Banff, Canada

Jan 21
Gasparilla Extravaganza
Pirate Fest

Tampa, FL

Jan 21
The Robert Burns Supper
Clovis, CA

Jan 21
World's Toughest Rodeo
Raliegh, NC

Jan 21-22
Snowmobile Parade @ Snodeo
Rangeley, ME

Jan 21-22
Mushers Bowl Winter Carnival
Bridgton, ME

Jan 22
Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival
Santa Cruz, CA

Jan 22
Arun Divers Charity Leap
Little Hampton, Sussex

Jan 25-28
Snow Sculpting Competitions
Rockford, IL

Jan 26
Australia Day Cockroach Races
Brisbane, Australia

Jan 26-29
52nd Annual Tunarama
Australia

Jan 28
Polar Bear Plunge
Chicago, IL

Jan 29
The 23rd International
Marrakech Marathon

Marrakech, Morroco

Jan 31
Up Helly Ah Fire Festival
Shetland Islands, UK

 

About Us
Laughter Club
News and Events
Park Ridge Celebrates Laughter
Have You Laughed today?

Join us for laughter
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The Park Ridge Plaza Building
350 S. Northwest Hwy
1st Floor Conference Room
Park Ridge, IL

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This Laughter Club is Free to all whether you reside in Park Ridge or not...everyone is welcome to join us. We have no fees or regular dues. We wish to keep this event open and free to all.

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Offering:
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Offering:
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Laughter Sessions
held at:

The
Park RidgePlaza Building
350 S. Northwest Hwy
1st Floor Conference Room
Park Ridge

Everyone is welcome
no matter your
Stress level

We develop
the Humor Being
one laugh at a time!



World Peace through
Laughter

 


 

This is the site of the Park Ridge Hysterical Society dedicated to spreading Joy and Humor through Laughter in Park Ridge, IL and beyond one tickle at a time! Just laugh til it helps! We are Chicagoland's most consistent weekly club celebrating the joy of laughter since April 1st, 2008!

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Ours is an all inclusive society, we admit the hilarious, the jest, the guffawed, the snorters, the twitterers, the chucklers, the belly bursters and more....you know you are welcome whatever your terms of snicker.

There are THREE- FREE ways to participate

Monthly join us for a fun event where laughing becomes obvious and natural - See below and our News
Weekly we host laughter club where laughter lovers have fun with laughter exercises - Scroll Down
Every day there is laughter on the phone for 20 minutes that can change your outlook .... Laugh Line

The daily laughter call is open to everyone around the world at 9am Central Standard Time!

- Event Schedule -
Click on our Calendar for a full month view


Kick off Your Year with Laughter
Jan 28-29, 2012
Sat/Sun 9am-5pm

Certify yourself in
Laughter Yoga Leadership


People are stressed and overly serious, they are dying of illness and loneliness and we encounter them in our lives all the time. Some of these people are ourselves! A great way to go beyond, remember your joyfulness and to recreate a new way to live and then share it with others is to learn to let go.
Lynda Tourloukis was a Director of Leadership, she is also a Life Coach and Motivational Speaker and she knows by first hand experience that there is another way to remind ourselves of who we really are beyond the pain and suffering, what we really want to do and that laughter is a powerful too in helping us to get there. Come experience the laugh of your life...though know that it will change your perspective and you will not go home in the same package you came in.

This class has uplifted Ministers, Social Workers, Psycologists and Psychiastrists, Nurses, Doctors, Wellness Directors, Senior Care Adminsitrative and Activity Workers, Massage Therapsists, Acupuncturists, Physical Therapists, Teachers from College level to Preschool, Hospice workers, Funeral home employees, Grocery store workers, Mental Health administrators, the Self Employed Entrepreneur, City Council members, Goverment workers, Office Staff, Mothers, Teens, Prison guards and officials, Medical professionals and people just like you!
Find out More at:
Http://www.followthelaughter.com/training.htm

The School of Laughter
350 S. Northwest Hwy
1st Floor Laughter Room

Questions? Lynda@youcansayyes.com (847) 401-5787

Special Open Laughter Sessions
Sat. Jan 28th & Sun Jan 29th
11am-Noon
As always free and open to all
Let go of your strife and get into the laughter life!
It feels so much better than worry.


Questions? Lynda@youcansayyes.com (847) 401-5787


Continuing Our
Year of Joyful Living
Tuesday January 31st
7-8pm

National Bubble Wrap Day

The Last Monday of January is the celebration of National Bubble Wrap Day, the day we all love to snap, crackle and pop that plastic puffed sensation. In our laughter club we celebrate the human spirit by reminding participants that we were born to have joyful lives. Play is essential for optimum health and we use exercises and events to remember the playful joyful souls that we truly are.

Each week we have a new theme, though remain consistent with learning more about our selves through the exercise of laughter. At first it is exercised laughter, though soon the natural experience of laughter comes alive and more benefits are realized in the body, the mind and of the soul. This is an experiential session, so you will learn by doing. Reading a book or doing it online will not give you the benefit that you can recieve by joining in with others to understand the contagious nature of laughter and then use it to change the physiology of your body, opening circulation, reducing stress and freeing the mind of distracting thoughts and actions.

Everyone is welcome and all sessions are a complimentary offering to the community.

350 S. Northwest Hwy
1st Floor Laughter Room
Park in our lot and enter off the doors marked 350 S. Northwest Hwy.
The doors are locked at 6pm, so please call our access number posted on the door if a member is not present to let you in.

Questions? Lynda@youcansayyes.com (847) 401-5787


Laughter Every Single Day of the Year!
10 Times to call in besides the 9am hour....See our Call Time Flyer

Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Park Ridge Hysterical Society?
Contact us for more information

 

 

 

 





World Peace Through Laughter....one laugh at a time!