STRESSED TEENAGERS
A Workshop on Play, Laughter, EASY Yoga
and Meditation

Workshop was held Saturday, February 5 from 1:30-4:30 PM
(Sudbury-Concord, MA )

Led by Lynn Caesar, Ph.D. and Sudhanshu Misra, M.Ed, M.S

• Does your teenager seem to take life too seriously and rarely have fun?
  
• Does your teen seem to be living for the future or in the past? Does she/he have trouble just being in the present moment?
  
• Is life so scheduled that your teen has lost the capacity to access their imagination and enthusiasm for playful fun?
  
• Does your teen seem intense with worry and anxiety about friends, school, sports, extra-curricular activities, family, and life in general?
  
• Are you concerned about placing your teenager on medication because of recent warnings issued by the FDA?
  
  

This workshop is for young people ages 13-19 to join other teens to spend an afternoon playing, laughing, and learning yoga and meditation techniques. The objective of this workshop is for teens to take leave of stress and experience a playful, JOYOUS meditative state quickly by learning tools to INTEGRATE mind, body and spirit. Teens will leave with EASY ways to manage stress, find joy, calm and tranquility, and a renewed sense of playfulness. There will be two parts to the workshop: meditation and yoga, and playfulness and laughter.

Dhyana Meditation is a tool that can help settle your teenager’s busy mind to experience a state of stillness, awareness, calm, and tranquility. It helps to reduce stress, promote relaxation, enrich mental functioning, creativity, and enhance personal relationships. It is very simple to learn and can become a valuable tool your teenager can take with him/her through life.

The laughter exercises will be designed to engage your teenager in social playful fun with other teens. The exercises promote playfulness, group cohesion, and laughter and joy.

Lynn Caesar, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist practicing psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families for over 25 years. She has formally studied herbalism, Laughter Yoga, and is a certified laughter leader through Dr. Madan Kataria’s school of Laughter Yoga and the World Laughter Tour. She has offices in Arlington and Sudbury, MA. She runs the Arlington Laughter club.

Sudhanshu Misra, M.S, M.Ed is a clinical coordinator with Framingham based Advocates, Inc. Prior to coming to the United States, Sudhanshu worked as a newspaper editor, teacher, and school counselor. He has been practicing meditation for over 33 years. He is widely traveled in Europe, Asia and North America. Sudhanshu was taught meditation in India as a family tradition at age 13. This ancient tradition was carefully passed on through generations from family elders to pupils. Sudhanshu says that his family’s gift of Dhyana Meditation is easy to learn and practice because it utilizes the natural tendencies of the mind.

For more information please contact Lynn Caesar at 781-641-1353.