About Us
The LAUGHING RIVER LLC offers programs in wellness and self-protection. We are a NYC and NYS, MBE. Our programs help people to safeguard from toxic stress, trauma, poor health, impaired physical balance, sexual violence, and the threat of criminal assault. I offer classes in Tai Chi, Qigong Chronic Pain Management, ISB ® Meditation, Jujitsu, Falling Safety, How to Release from Unwanted Grabs, Enhanced Agility Training (RG8T®), Kids Martial Arts Enrichment Programs, Rape Prevention/Women's Self-Defense, and Pressure Point Combat. Whether our client’s challenge is emotional strain, poor physical health, or an unavoidable violent confrontation, the LAUGHING RIVER ® will show your group how to “Let It Flow”, and bring balance and harmony back into your community.
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Qigong is a holistic system of coordinated body posture, movement, breathing and meditation used for health, spirituality, martial arts training an...
Laughing River ASP (ANATOMY OF SELF-PROTECTION) classes can help you reach your self-protection, fitness and weight loss goals. Give yourself the g...
Can't make it to the Tai Chi studio? We'll bring the studio to you! Laughing River offers online Tai Chi classes to suit your busy schedule, even i...
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"John Donovan is one of today's outstanding artist. I have watched the development of his artwork for the past 34 years. He has always been a very talented painter. The artwork he is doing now (color compositions) is pure genius. This work is new, authentic and undeniably powerful. These paintings are alive with movement, energy, rhythm, and thought. I know of no other contemporary artist who's work is on the forefront of American thought and creativity. He combines his fresh new way of creating art with an old world craftsmanship worthy of old master painters. If you are a lover of fresh new art or in the business of collecting, do not hesitate to invest in this modern master. You will not be disappointed. Owning one of his works will bring you a life time of joy and intellectual stimulation. I say this with total confidence and conviction, John Donovan is one of today's major representatives of Americans avant garde painting."
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It can be informative to know what other martial arts schools are doing to recover from this pandemic. Nevertheless, I recommend you ask your customers what will help them specifically to feel safe. People are different from dojo to dojo, from style to style. Have a conversation with the people...
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It can be informative to know what other martial arts schools are doing to recover from this pandemic. Nevertheless, I recommend you ask your customers what will help them specifically to feel safe. People are different from dojo to dojo, from style to style. Have a conversation with the people who matter most, your students or their parent if they are under 18. Take a survey. They will surely tell you what will make them feel safe. However, after they tell you what they want, do not let them down. Do exactly what they ask for, for as long as they need.
Practice what you preach.
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Practice what you preach.
At the LAUGHING RIVER martial arts school the secret ingredient is that we teach our students how to harness the power of laughter. Which is really about harnessing the force of our imaginations. Our imaginations can defeat ourselves or set us free. Our minds eye can either see a conflicting...
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At the LAUGHING RIVER martial arts school the secret ingredient is that we teach our students how to harness the power of laughter. Which is really about harnessing the force of our imaginations. Our imaginations can defeat ourselves or set us free. Our minds eye can either see a conflicting situation or see harmony and peace. Laughter, like a great river flows and no one can stop it. To quote the French poet, from Martinique, Aime Cesaire - "Yes, friend, your untamed laughter, your lizard laughter in their walls, your heretics' laughter in their dogmas, your incorrigible laughter, your whirlpool laughter, into which their cities fall spellbound, your time bomb laughter under their lordly feet, your laughter will conquer them! Laugh, laugh, till the world, conquered by your laughter, falls at your naked feet!"
