Company Background

The Wild Divine Project is the brainchild of former video program designer Corwin Bell and biomedical engineering PhD, Kurt Smith. The pair met rock climbing in Colorado and together set out to create a personal, affordable and entetaining biofeedback product with accompanying lifestyle-training guides that mainstream consumers would enjoy using.

The Wild Divine Project made a name for itself in health and wellness by advancing cutting edge multi-media products that pair education and technology to alleviate stress,improve physical and mental health, and ultimately enable people to live longer,happier, and healthier lives. Wild Divine enables people of all ages to enhance their mind/body connection.

The Wild Divine Project: Company Fact Sheet

Website: www.wilddivine.com

Headquarters: 3333 Eldorado Springs Drive P.O. Box 381 EldoradoSprings, Colorado 80025 1-866-594-WILD(9453)

Leadership: Kurt Smith is CEO and Founder of The Wild Divine Project. Smith is a medical industry pioneer and Ph.D. scientist specializing in biomedical engineering. He founded two companies prior to The Wild Divine Project that are now owned by Medtronic, Inc. Smith’s career continues to lead him deep into the study of alternative, integrative and complementary medicine. His mission continues to be the creation of innovative, effective healing tools and services.

“I believe that each of us possess our own unique and divine nature and that we’re constantly challenging that with our equally beautiful wild and creative energy” Smith says. “When we achieve balance between these two sides of ourselves, then we have wholeness – we are Wild and Divine – and that’s how we create health and happiness.”

The Wild Divine Project was co-founded by Corwin Bell, a video program designer, environmentalist and avid practitioner of yoga, meditation and alternative medicines.

Market Research: Heart disease, cancer, respiratory disorders, accidental injury, liver disease and suicide are the leading causes of death in the United States, according to the American Medical Association. Stress impacts them all. Roughly 95 million Americans each week use some sort of medication to treat stress related symptoms, and stress contributes to approximately $150 billion a year in health insurance and worker absentee costs.

By turning a personal computer into a relaxation device, Healing Rhythms provides immediate stress relief while retraining the user to recover from the anxious triggers that cause poor mental and physical health.

Retail Outlets: Healing Rhythms is available at wilddivine.com, Whole Foods, Pharmaca, amazon.com, and drugstore.com as well as in wellness stores in nearly 50 states and 20 different countries. A complete list of participating retailers is located at www.wilddivine.com/StoreLocator/

Pricing: The Healing Rhythms Guided Training Program retails for $299. A softwareonly version is available for $129.95 (you must already own the biofeedback hardware).

Products: Other stress relief solutions from The Wild Divine Project include:

The Passage & Wisdom Quest Bundle Pack: This program also includes biofeedback hardware with a video game format that leads users through a magical realm of enchanting natural beauty to practice better breathing and meditation techniques
($199.95).

The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage - Wild Divine’s original biofeedback adventure and enlightenment game comes with a bonus CD featuring an exclusive interview with Deepak Chopra, M.D. about biofeedback and the mind-body connection ($159.95).

The Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest (Parts I and II) - Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Dean Ornish, M.D. impart new wisdom about integrating meditation and breathing into daily life (Software Only: $59.95).

The Journey to Wild Divine Grapher Expansion Pack (CD-ROM) - This software enables users to use The Journey and then save, review, and print their biofeedback, skin conductivity level and heart rate variability to track progress. ($49.95).

Media Inquiries: Melissa Levine, Online Marketing Manager, P.O. Box 381, Eldorado Springs, CO 80025, 303.499.3680 x 155, melissa@wilddivine.com

About Healing Rhythms

Relax. Relieve. Restore. In response to studies indicating that as much as 80 to 90 percent of the American work force experiences overwhelming professional and personal stress, The Wild Divine Project has developed a fun, new interactive training program designed to increase relaxation, reduce anxiety and promote vitality.

The Healing Rhythms 15-step program builds on the successful fusion of modern medicine and ancient meditation that The Wild Divine Project has fostered in its collection of next-level computer products. Healing Rhythms is the first health and wellness offering to unite the field’s top thinkers including Deepak Chopra, M.D., Andrew Weil, M.D. and Dean Ornish, M.D. Each contributes wit and wisdom to Healing Rhythms and helps lead users through the levels of positive change.

Here’s how it works: Healing Rhythms was developed using over three decades of research on the use of biofeedback to treat such conditions as insomnia, migraine headaches, chronic pain, autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety, ADHD,depression, obesity and infertility. The program relies on finger monitors that measure changes in the user’s psychological state, paired with a video program featuring beautiful scenery, alluring music and graphically enhanced lessons on topics like “Quieting the Mind” and “Releasing Physical Tension.” By the end of the program, users have retrained themselves to breathe properly and combat stress throughout their day.

The Healing Rhythms kit includes biofeedback finger sensors, a full color, 90-page training guide, user’s manual and more than 40 guided meditation and breathing practices. The software is easy to install on both PC and Mac hard drives.“One of the most important tools you can incorporate into your daily life to effect not only the longevity of your life but the quality of your life, is a deeper, slower breathing practice,” says Dr. Andrew Weil. “The exercises in Healing Rhythms do just that.”

Healing Rhythms and Stress

The Healing Rhythms 15-Step Guided Training Program with biofeedback sensors measures heart rate variability and other physiological data to retrain your mind and body to counter the negative effects of stress and promote overall health.

Stress is endemic in modern society. The condition of feeling overwhelmed – as though life’s demands exceed personal and social resources – triggers a “flight or fight” reaction in the brain that agitates the nervous system, quickens the pulse, sharpens the senses, shortens respiration and causes muscles, organs and cells to tense. All of this contributes to physical and mental deterioration.

Biofeedback is a mind/body therapy that relies on electronic instruments to assess and monitor physiology so a person can gain awareness and control over stress,disease and injury.

The physiological information collected by Healing Rhythms includes physical and mental indicators of stress including heart rate variability (HRV), muscle tension,respiration, and skin conductivity. Healing Rhythms translates this information for users while training them how to employ it for positive transformation and improved health.

The Healing Rhythms program results in normalized blood pressure, better cognitive functions, a stronger immune system, deeper levels of perception and concentration,and ultimately a longer, happier life.

What Sets Healing Rhythms Apart?

Healing Rhythms is a unique, whole-body, multimedia biofeedback program designed to help reduce stress, increase mental focus and improve overall health and wellbeing. This easy to navigate, computer-based training makes meditation, breathing and yoga techniques available to people of all ages and lifestyles.

Healing Rhythms is the first tool of its kind to unite leading health and wellness experts Deepak Chopra, M.D., Andrew Weil, M.D., and Dean Ornish, M.D. Mind/body expert Joan Borysenko, mediation teacher Sharon Salzberg, yoga expert Stephen Cope and Tibetan monk and flautist Nawang Khechog round out the talent and wisdom procured for this transformative product.

Healing Rhythms turns a personal computer into an individual relaxation station by paring biofeedback finger monitors with step-by-step video training and an easy-tofollow printed guide to help them integrate the exercises into their daily lives. Users benefit from the long-term effects of stress management, breathing and meditation exercises.

The Personal and Global Benefits of Healing Rhythms

Mind/body medicine focuses on the interaction between mental, emotional, physical,social, spiritual and behavioral elements. Research indicates that more than 30 percent of adults in the U.S. prescribed to some sort of mind/body philosophy in 2002, and that number is on the rise.

The benefits of multi-component mind/body products like Healing Rhythms and other offerings from The Wild Divine Project include stress management and reduction, better coping skills, cognitive-behavioral improvements, increased relaxation, and improved symptoms related to heart disease and chronic pain.

Healing Rhythms is especially effective in countering everyday stress, a leading health epidemic. According to the American Medical Association studies indicate that as much as 80 to 90 percent of the American work force experiences overwhelming professional and personal stress. And according to the American Psychological Association, 54 percent of Americans are concerned about stress in their lives stemming from financial pressure, workload, job security and family wellness. One in four people regularly takes a “mental health day” to cope with stress. More than half of Americans are concerned about the effects of stress on their physical health, and 66 percent say they are likely to seek medical assistance with stress.

Healing Rhythms helps. It “uses biofeedback to access your innate healing abilities to restore your physical, mental and spiritual health,” says Dr. Deepak Chopra.

Research indicates the most effective way to reduce the long-term costs and health effects of chronic stress is through timely psychological and education intervention. Biofeedback training like Healing Rhythms can double the efficiency of and increases the benefits of mainstream medical treatments and other mind/body therapies. “When you focus better you perform better, whether in school, in athletics, or in the boardroom,” says Dr. Dean Ornish. “When you focus better, you do better.”