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Start your journey with the Wild Divine Bundle
Pack! This package contains both The Journey to Wild Divine:
The Passage, and Wisdom Quest. Begin with The
Passage. The First in "The Journey" Series. Step
out of time and into a realm of endless possibility, where you'll
practice breathing and meditation techniques, like the heart
breath, an ancient yogic breathing technique that will help
you achieve control over your mind & body to help reduce
stress and improve physical and mental wellness.
Continue Your Journey with Wisdom Quest. The second
in "The Journey" Series. Featuring Deepak Chopra,
M.D. and Dean Ornish, M.D., as two of your new guides, Wisdom
Quest builds upon the skills you acquired in The Journey
to Wild Divine: The Passage. Practice new and exciting
mediation and breathing activities for advanced training as
you learn to integrate this wisdom into your daily life.
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| Things We Love |
In this Vinyasa Yoga DVD favorite, internationally acclaimed yoga teacher Shiva Rea revolutionizes the instructional yoga video genre with Yoga Shakti—the first user-personalized practice DVD designed to immerse you in the free flow of shakti, the dynamic, creative fire of the universe.
Filmed on location in India and the Maldive Islands you’ll enjoy tradition and modern innovation in a powerful new learning system that evolves with your inner-self. Simply select your favorite practices from a simple-to-use “yoga menu”—filled with a rich variety of moving postures, meditations, and shavasana relaxations — and then press “play” to enjoy. To help them get started, Shiva Rea includes a complete list of suggested sequences, ranging from five-minute “tune-up sessions” to extended hour-long yoga immersions.
With Yoga Shakti, all levels are invited to infuse your home practice with joy, vitality, and spontaneity —and to release shakti, the energetic essence within.
Order yours today!
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All Happening |
Visit The Wild Divine at CeBit in the Intel
booth in Hanover, Germany, and Natural Products Expo West in
Anaheim, CA
Last month, we were very excited to partner with Intel at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This month, visit us at the Intel booth again at the CeBIT show, March 9-15, in Hanover, Germany, where we’ll be showing Journey to Wild Divine in Intel’s booth in Hall 2, Stand C46.
And, visit us at Natural Products Expo West, Anaheim, CA, March 24-26, 2006, in booth # 2258 and register to win $250 SpaFinder Gift Certificate!
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March 2006, Issue 16 |
Taming March Madness
Welcome to the March issue of the Wild Divine Newsletter. While some may associate March with “Madness” (Spring Fever, NCAA Basketball), we’d propose a more enlightened focus of Taming March Madness. Everyone knows that it’s healthy to have fun, but it relieves stress even further to come back to meditative practices and sound mind/body disciplines on a daily basis.
We welcome Shiva Rea as our newest contributing author! Shiva offers her Yoga expertise stemming from the Krishnamacharya lineage, tantra, ayurveda, yogic art and somatic movement. Our first article by Shiva offers a breathing exercise that you can practice in your own time. This month’s Mind-Body Matters section includes a linked article from the experts at the Mayo Clinic called Biofeedback: Using your mind to improve your health. And, don’t forget about our contest where you can suggest stores that should be selling the Wild Divine’s products; help us find new outlets, and you might win a $250 SpaFinder gift certificate. This contest ends March 31, 2006, so act now!
Don’t miss our Taming March Madness special offer! For a limited time, we will include a free Journey to Wild Divine Soundtrack CD with every order of the Bundle Pack. See the Exclusive Offers section to the left for details. In the Things We Love section, you’ll find information about Yoga Shakti, our Vinyasa Yoga DVD favorite. And, check out the It’s All Happening section for information on our exciting exhibitions in CeBit in Germany and Expo West in Anaheim, CA.
We’ve also included a Meditation Tip by Dr. Dean Ornish and a new Breathing Tip from Anna Coy; both Dean and Anna serve as guides within Wisdom Quest. Finally, you’ll find another training tip to help you apply The Passage to your daily life, as well as a message from Deepak Chopra.
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Riding Your Breath Home
This concentration practice grounds you in the present moment.
By Shiva Rea
All of the meditation techniques around the world use concentration as an entry point to a meditative state. In the Yoga Sutra, Patanjali describes concentration as 'fixing the consciousness on one point or region" and meditation as "the steady, continuous flow of concentration". Concentration serves meditation by grounding our awareness in the present moment, a gift that is cultivated in the stillness of meditation and brought out into our daily lives.
Try this: Find a comfortable posture for meditation (seated on cushion or blanket, in a chair or against a wall). Place your palms facing up in jnana mudra (forefinger and thumb touching) with your palms facing up to open your awareness or facing down to calm the mind. Scan your body and relax any tension. Let your spine rise from the ground of the pelvis. Draw your chin slightly down and let the back of your neck lengthen.
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Wild Divine Contest |
Taming March Madness with a Reward
Help Us Spread The Journey & Win a $250 SpaFinder Gift Certificate!
To help us find new places to carry our products, we are encouraging our community to give us the names of stores that they think would be a good fit for The Journey to Wild Divine. As an incentive, we're offering a $250 SpaFinder gift certificate to three people who submit information about retailers whom they think should be stocking us. We'll select the winners in a drawing from all entrants. Act now! This contest expires March 31, 2006.
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details on how to qualify for the drawing, click here >
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Using your mind to improve your health
Biofeedback is helpful for a wide variety of medical conditions. Discover who it's for and how it's used, directly from the Mayo Clinic.
Have you ever wished you could simply will your symptoms to disappear? With biofeedback you may be able to rely less on medication and more on the power of your mind.
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The
Journey to Wild Divine Bundle Pack
The Passage and The Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest at the same time! The Passage is your introduction to mind-body connectedness, and includes our biofeedback hardware. Wisdom Quest takes your mind-body awareness to the next level, and features MDs Deepak Chopra and Dean Ornish as new mentors. And, our Taming March Madness special includes a free Journey to Wild Divine Soundtrack (an additional $14.95 value!) with the purchase of a Wild Divine Bundle Pack.
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Journey
To Wild Divine: The Passage, with Bonus CD-Rom
Get the first in The Journey to
Wild Divine series, The Passage. Includes bonus
CD-Rom featuring Deepak Chopra, M.D., with exclusive interviews
and animated excerpts from his "Book of Secrets" and
a preview of Wisdom Quest.
Price $159.95 |
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The
Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest
The second release from The Wild Divine
Project will help you take your mind-body connectedness to the
next level. Choose from different modes and different degrees
of difficulty, and work with Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish and
other new mentors to increase your skills of meditation, relaxation
and stress management. It’s the perfect addition to your
daily wellness practice for a healthier life! Price: $59.95 |
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Deva
Premal's Music CD:
Dakshina
Mantras are rapidly becoming the music of choice for people seeking solace in sound, and Deva Premal, dubbed by one reviewer as the 'Enya of Mantra', is the voice they're turning to. With half a million CDs sold worldwide and a buzz of interest from ardent fans ranging from yogis, therapists and alternative health practitioners to Cher and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Deva Premal and her partner Miten have achieved a huge degree of recognition in the blossoming niche world of Yoga Music. Featuring Deva Premal's transcendent voice layered in a chorus of lush harmonies, Dakshina is a celebration of the divine, perfect for Yoga and relaxation.
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Dean Ornish, MD |
Meditation is effortless, and it is hard work. When you focus on something sooner or later (usually sooner), your mind will wander.
When you become aware that your mind is wandering and that you are thinking of something else, then just gently but firmly bring it back, over and over again. Without judging yourself, criticizing yourself, or berating yourself. If you understand that a wandering mind is part of the process, then you won’t beat yourself up for not being able to concentrate because you know it happens to everyone. With practice, you will probably find that your mind wanders a little less each time than before.
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Breathing
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Anna Coy |
This wonderful
place called me.
How many of you have taken real time to look inside yourself in order to discover the wonderful place called you?
A simple practice called “breathing” builds the bridge that can take you to the wonderful world inside.
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Training
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The Passage |
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Day into Night Spinner
Invigorate and Play!
Try this: Practice a sunrise/sunset meditation to bring balance to your day. Make it a point this week to get up early to watch the sunrise and/or the sunset (if this is not possible or feasible for you to do, you can just as easily close your eyes and visualize it happening). Though, of course, no amount of breathing can speed up or slow down this event, you can still draw energy from this cosmic exchange. At sunrise, imagine the first rays of pink light giving you a clearer, calmer perspective with which to begin your day; at sunset, receive the cool, calming yin of night and allow your energy to come down, letting the light and all residual tensions go, while the dark fills you with peace. Making time to include and participate in the day taking shape and then coming to an end each day not only builds in some quiet time for you, but helps put your mind and body in tune with the larger cosmic rhythms. |
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Deepak Chopra, MD |
Dear Friends,
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. The past is closed and limited, the future is open and free.
—Dr. Deepak Chopra
In practical terms surrender means letting go. Although you don't realize it, reality isn't a given. Each of us inhabits a separate reality. Your mind maintains your personal version of reality by buttressing it with beliefs, expectations, and interpretations. Your mind blocks the free flow of the life force by saying, "This is how things must and should be." Letting go releases you from the insistent grip, and when you let go, new forms of reality can enter.
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