By Camille Ruffray
Published on 6 Mar 21 @ 6:08 pm
–
Caroline Carré suffers from a very contagious disease: “the gut of fun”. For four years, this resident from Pont-l’Evêque (Calvados) launched its activity of rigologist in Normandy: Laughter and Well-being.
“I worked in a company providing services, I took care of management among other things. I felt that in the corporate world, we did not agree no right and no desire to laugh », She begins.
To laugh to live better
His sister, Priscillia, one day offers him the book of Corinne Cosseron. According to the latter, the rigology is: “the set of methods for using laughter and joy for personal development or therapy ”.
A revelation for Caroline: “it resonated a lot with me, especially since I was in a period when I was looking towards personal development”. She then trained with the rigologist and obtained her diploma to start her own business.
Find “the child in us”
His job is to “bring the child back inside us and laugh out loud”. Caroline knows what she is talking about: “I have always liked to laugh and make people laugh since I was little”. A desire or even a need that did not leave him in adulthood. Because the more we laugh… The more we laugh!
One day, a woman in session told me that she did not “know how to laugh” and did not laugh. After a few sessions, she told me to feel the laughter inside her. Some explain laughing more in front of films or situations thanks to rigology.
–Caroline proposes laughter rigology and yoga sessions, with individuals, companies, or schools and establishments for the elderly. “But also fun snacks and aperitifs, a way to share differently. “
Through exercises, which can also be mixed with meditation, Caroline makes them trigger mad laugh. “At the beginning, we will force ourselves to laugh, for example by making the hen laugh, the airplane laugh… By force, laughter will become natural and the group effect will participate because laughter is communicative and contagious ”, she says, videos in support of a room filled with a group taken with a collective laughter.
Make yourself laugh, solo! Caroline’s two exercises
Caroline Carré offers you two exercises to test rigology at home.
Laugh a little every day: Like her, laugh 5 to 10 minutes every day. “This is what I do for my well-being: I laugh all alone!” It tires, but it gives a lot of energy. “
Breathe: You can do breathing exercises. “Breathing calms the mind and gives you oxygen, you necessarily feel better! “
—
Good for health, and morale
Whether it’s intentional or not, laughter is good for health, and morale. “The body does not make the difference, and will feel all the benefits,” she says. And they are many. Laughter improves health cardiac, immune, digestive, but also facilitates sleep … “It relaxes, reduces stress, makes you more positive, allows you to be open towards others …”, explains Caroline. It also promotes self-confidence and relationships.
It is an activity where we are in the letting go, we are ridiculous and we take pleasure in it, in a climate of benevolence. An elderly person in an Ehpad once told me: “your thing is stupid, but it works really well!”
If Caroline has another activity as a project manager besides her job as a rigologist, she “ [s’] bursts ! “. “It’s so much fun to see people so happy at the end of a session,” she says. Because laughter is just one of the many weapons of well-being, Caroline Carré also organizes workshops in positive psychology and mental well-being.
Soon, it will offer cardiac coherence and energy treatments through sound (sound massages, sound therapy, sound baths). Best example of the benefits of her own activity, Caroline relives and breathes happiness.
Because we need to laugh more than ever in this anxiety-provoking period, Caroline Carré will soon be offering sessions via Zoom. If the Covid-19 slows down its activity due to barrier gestures, this remote alternative has the advantage of being done without a mask to largely show its smile. It even seems that rigology improves the immune system …
–
