BIG EARS FESTIVAL

Laughter: The Best Medicine Playshop

with LARAAJI & Arji OceAnanda

Fri   Mar   28   2025 - 11:00 AM Knoxville Museum of Art Sat   Mar   29   2025 - 11:00 AM Knoxville Museum of Art

A playfully relaxing and invigorating PLAYSHOP exploration of the medically-documented properties of heavy laughter.  This time together will be spent experiencing our laughter as both a health therapy and a way to reduce overall stress. There will be lots of interactive fun consisting of a call-and-response chant opening, extended laughter‘cizes,  musically assisted deep relaxation, and invigorating playful movement. Heavy laughter as a cathartic release will be engaged in as a way to enter deeper states of relaxation and reconnect to our own Beautiful Inner Child.  The guided laughter’cizes, gentle live sound/music, deep guided relaxation, and “serious” fun, are just a few guarantees in this lively experiential event.

LARAAJI ( Sw. Laraaji NadaBrahmananda) is a world-class musician, recording artist, and committed funny bone visionary who travels the planet bringing his gifts of Celestial Music and Healing Laughter programs since 1978.  

Arji OceAnanda ( Arji Cakouros) is a sound healer, musician, Shakti Reiki master, and loving presence.  She is committed to assisting each person achieve radiant health and deep bliss.  

Together they have collaborated since 2008 in many venues worldwide offering their unique and powerfully memorable concerts and laughter programs.

BIG EARS
03.27_03.30.25
Knoxville, TN · USA

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