The Wild Divine Project Announces the Creation of Wisdom Quest, the Second in a Trilogy of Wellness Products to Enhance Mind/Body Health

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2005--

Featuring Deepak Chopra, M.D., and Dean Ornish, M.D., as Your Mentors to Wellness with Advanced Breathing and Meditation Training Techniques Using Biofeedback

“one of the 50 most influential members of his generation.”

The Wild Divine Project, creators of wellness products that help people of all ages learn to live healthier, more balanced lives, in partnership with Deepak Chopra, M.D., announced today the availability of Wisdom Quest for consumers. Wisdom Quest is the second in a series of computer-based wellness products offering consumers the opportunity to improve their health with advanced breathing and meditation techniques.

Wisdom Quest is a continuation of The Wild Divine Project's first product, The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage, a revolutionary product featuring personal biofeedback for consumer use. Launched roughly a year ago, The Journey to Wild Divine teaches people of all ages meditation, breathing and yoga techniques in an interactive and entertaining way, giving them the ability to take control of and improve their mental, physical and emotional health.

The Journey's three biofeedback sensors (which plug into a computer's USB port) gently attach to the fingers to monitor skin conductance levels and heart rate variability. As the player advances through the biofeedback activities they are trained to control different states of their energy from exhilaration and joy to relaxation and deep meditation. Once they master a particular skill (meaning their heart rate and skin conductance hit the targeted level for that activity), they can move to the next training event. Because of the biofeedback element, there is no way to use these products without truly letting go of the day's stress.

Wisdom Quest builds on the initial lessons of game one. Through a powerful storyline, Chopra is featured in Wisdom Quest as your guide teaching deeper lessons about the mind-body connection and how to apply them in every day life. Concepts from Chopra's The Book of Secrets are highlighted throughout the game adding a new dimension to the overall experience of mind-body training.

Because the Journey and Wisdom Quest were created to help improve health and wellness, both products have gained the support of Dean Ornish, M.D., an internationally recognized authority on the power of diet and lifestyle changes, as well as other leading physicians and medical institutions. In Wisdom Quest, Ornish shares his proven techniques for improving health through relaxation and meditation and focuses on love and intimacy. According to Ornish in his recent book, Love and Survival: "Love and intimacy are at a root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings us happiness, what makes us suffer, and what leads us to healing. If a new drug had the same impact, virtually every doctor in the country would be recommending it for their patients."

"The Journey to Wild Divine takes important elements necessary for general good health, and wraps them into a form of entertainment that can easily become a part of day-to-day life and can ultimately lead to long-term health benefits," said Ornish.

In addition, researchers from renowned medical centers across the country are now looking at how The Wild Divine Project's products can be used to treat migraine headaches, chronic pain, autism, post traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety, ADHD, depression and obesity. One study underway at New York University is being conducted to determine how playing the game will affect acute pain following surgery. More than 20 medical and research organizations have proposals to use The Journey to Wild Divine in clinical studies or other research.

New technology has been added to the program that allows users to set their own levels of difficulty (one through five, with five being the most difficult) and new complex events have been added that use multiple biometrics, helping to develop even deeper levels of mind-body mastery the more players practice. Also, the addition of a new guided activity mode and training manual will enable the user to easily access and practice the biofeedback events to increase the impact the training can have on their daily lives.

The Wisdom Quest package is software only and will sell for $59.95. The biofeedback hardware necessary to play the game (The LightStone) is sold only with The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage. Wisdom Quest will be available through www.wilddivine.com, www.amazon.com and preferred online and in store retail outlets nationwide in both Mac and PC versions.

For more information about Wisdom Quest and The Journey to Wild Divine, please visit www.WildDivine.com.

About The Wild Divine Project

The Wild Divine Project based in Boulder, Colorado, produces self-care products based upon their proprietary biofeedback technology platform. The company is intent on influencing a lifestyle revolution to improve the longevity and quality of our lives. The Wild Divine Project's long-term goal is to continue to offer awe-inspiring and rewarding wellness products, reaching the millions of people looking for an empowering and cost-effective way to achieve the mind-body balance and improve the wellness in their lives. www.wilddivine.com

About Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Deepak Chopra has written more than 40 books, which have been translated into 35 languages and sold over 20,000,000 copies. With his latest endeavor, The Book of Secrets, Chopra draws on a lifetime of insights and wisdom to enlighten readers with answers to 15 of life's greatest secrets. Chopra is also the author of more than one hundred audio- and videotape series, including five critically acclaimed programs on public television. In 1999 Time Magazine selected Dr. Chopra as one of the Top 100 Icons and Heroes of the Century, describing him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." Dr. Chopra currently serves as CEO and founder of The Chopra Center for Well Being at the La Costa Spa in Carlsbad, California.

About Dean Ornish, M.D.

Dean Ornish, is the founder, president, and director of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, where he holds the Safeway Chair, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. For the past 25 years, Dr. Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. He recently directed the first randomized controlled trial demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may affect the progression of prostate cancer. He is the author of five best-selling books, including New York Times' bestsellers Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh Less, and Love & Survival. Dr. Ornish was recognized as "one of the most interesting people of 1996" by People magazine, featured in the "Time 100" issue on alternative medicine, and chosen by LIFE magazine as "one of the 50 most influential members of his generation."