“Pick up your smile” said Bruni, our laughter yoga teacher, holding hers delicately between thumb and forefinger, “and pull it behind your ears”. We applied our plastic grins and the silliness of it left us genuinely beaming.
“I’m not a stand-up comedian,” she explained, “I’m bad at jokes, I’m German.” Cue more chuckles from our group, who had gathered in the early morning beside a steaming pool at the Roman Baths.
