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The Winners:
You may know Deepak Chopra for his many inspiring books, including The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and The Ultimate Happiness Prescription. A world-renowned expert on mind-body healing, Deepak Chopra has dedicated his life to helping people create joy and equanimity.
You might not know, however, that Deepak Chopra also makes video games. Well, sort of.
Recently Deepak Chopra partnered with the gaming company THQ to create a creative, fully interactive meditation and relaxation journey called Leela™.
From the email I received:
“Leela is the first of its kind to transform a popular gaming platform into a fully interactive mind-body experience. The program includes seven different meditations based on the seven chakras. Using Kinect’s hands-free system, Leela monitors your breath and offers feedback to help you refine your technique, deepen your relaxation and enhance your overall wellness.”
Since I don’t own a gaming system, I wasn’t able to try the game to provide an official review. However, I jumped on the opportunity to provide two games as a giveaway for you! This clearly isn’t traditional meditation, but it could be a fun way to relax regardless.
Leela’s Key Features:
Rebalance and Revitalize. Leela invites you to utilize natural full body gestures to completely relax.
Chakra-based meditation. Through seven meditations and movements, Leela helps you focus and connect with specific areas of the body to relax and enter into your personal flow site.
Stillness in motion. Now for the first time ever, you can actually see and measure your breathing using Kinect technology. Leela displays the movement of your breath and provides gentle feedback and encouragement to enhance your meditation practice.
Create. Customize. Connect. Create and customize your own personal mandala—artwork that expresses and individual’s unique essence and intentions. The personal mandala is a visual meditation woven throughout Leela that can be shared with friends on Facebook.
Wellness made personal. Leela encourages us to explore our natural rhythms and thoughts to cultivate a more creative, harmonious and balanced life through play.
The Giveaway
To enter to win 1 of 2 free copies of Leela:
- Leave a comment below.
- Tweet: RT @tinybuddha Giveaway: Leela, Meditation through Your Xbox or Wii http://bit.ly/vo1KUg
If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can still enter by completing the first step. You can enter until midnight PST on Tuesday, November 29th. Please note you will need to have a Kinect sensor for the Xbox version.
Learn more about Leela here. You can also use the Leela Mandala app on Facebook and enter to win prizes through the Leela Mandala Creativity Contest, which goes until December 9, 2011.
About Lori Deschene
Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha. She started the site after struggling with depression, bulimia, c-PTSD, and toxic shame so she could recycle her former pain into something useful and inspire others to do the same. You can find her books, including Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal and Tiny Buddha’s Worry Journal, here and learn more about her eCourse, Recreate Your Life Story, if you’re ready to transform your life and become the person you want to be.
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What an interesting concept, this sort of game would prove to be a new use for my Kinect besides dancing and exercising. And after reading the reviews even if I don’t win on your generous giveaway, I know what I want for Christmas.
I have been wanting to try this!
I’m sorry, but I find this very creepy. I don’t think meditation is a ‘if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em’ type of thing, and it seems very commercial and the antithesis of true relaxation and thoughtfulness. Staring at a screen is innately bad for you – they tell you not to have a tv in your bedroom so you can rest, yet Chopra is selling something that requires you to watch a screen. Video games take people out of the real world, out of nature, and this makes me bummed out to see Tiny Buddha promoting video games.
A very interesting concept. I would definitely be interested in trying it out. Everyone is different and everyone has different learning styles and motivations. This may not be for everyone but if it helps someone discover and reap the benefits of meditation then why not?
This sounds very interesting – all tech-savvy and a bit contradictory to the meditation process.. hmmm. Would like to try this to see what it’s truly about.
In my experience, video games have brought me closer to the real world. They help me overcome self-esteem issues, and they help me build confidence through competitive teamwork. When I help a struggling teammate in a game, it allows me to show compassion and support in ways that help both of us grow.
I think Deepak has started on the right path to reaching an audience that would rarely listen to his teachings.
This sounds very cool. Finally a reason to use the Wii Fit I bought a couple years ago for something other than a rather expensive set of scales!
Interesting. I would like to see how people who have used it regularly for awhile rate it
Wow, what a great idea. Leela sounds amazing. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Would love to see how this works! Thanks for offering the giveaway.
Sounds exciting! This would certainly be a very different use for my XBox. 🙂
This is great — certainly a new use for my XBox. 🙂
sounds really interesting!!
Well it does look interesting. would be fun to try it out.
This will make a good gift for a dear friend ^^
Excellent! A great new use for a ‘game box’ … hopefully it will start a trend… 🙂
This sounds like a great idea. I would definitely enjoy it 🙂
A fantastic way to get my daughter to start meditating too!
Hmm… This certainly sounds different. I barely use my Wii, but maybe having something like this would make it more than a sculptural object next to the television?
II would love to try this! As a software engineer and beginning meditator I find it fascinating! @jehma
Yes yes yes! I wish to be addicted to WII in a healthy way!! :-))
LLove the idea. I have a wii and that’s how i learned yoga. It will be great for meditation
Yes Please!!
I would love to ad-here this to my Buddha Box and interact with this divine intervention!
Bravo to Deepak for another vehicle to help us reconnect into the numinous net we all are woven in!
Thanks Lori for the opport-unity to explore more of our essence!
Blessings!
I have the demo on my Xbox , it is awesome would so love to have it ! Thank you
I sincerely respect your opinion but just wanted to share with you the summary of this that I read on IGN; “Breaking the boundaries of what has ever been created for video-game systems, Leela is not a game — it is a one-of-a-kind experience that invokes whole-body movement with meditation and breathing techniques to relax, stretch and control both body and spirit.” Of course there are no reviews on it yet, but I am going to reserve judgement until I actually learn more about it and see what others have to say. As someone who is very interested in meditation but never known exactly where to start, I’m interested to see if this will be something worth trying out.
I hereby throw my hat into the ring.
I’ve just started with chakra meditation so this would be great.
Thank you for the opportunity 🙂
I find the premise intriguing, albeit odd, that a video gaming system could lead to a path of enlightenment. In these times when attention is harder and harder to attain, exploring mainstream technology alternatives to expand our spiritual education is perhaps the wisest option.
I am impressed and very curious about this video game.
Awesome!
Wow! What a great giveaway! Thanks!
As a full time caregiver for my mother, aged 90, who is a person with dementia, I have been trying to find more and more ways to bring the “outside… in”. I attend two Skype meditation sittings a week, and am mentoring another person (basic meditation) on Skype once a week. I don’t have an Xbox but am sure my son would help me get one to help me use this program, and maybe share with my grandchildren when they visit. This might be a skillful way to use technology to help those who are limited in any way from participating outside of the home. Certainly an interesting concept, and one worth investigating.
I am so sharing this with my gamer pals! Will be fun to see how this works out in real time.
I think this is great! Another tool to help us reach a better place! A tool I could surely use!
Happy Holidays!
This is so cool, Lori, I just had to enter! Thanks so much for introducing it here…
I love this idea! I totally have to try it sometime. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
I didn’t try meditation in my life. But this way seems appealing to me.
It would be fun to try. Happy Holidays
This sounds like a fascinating way to return to a meditation practice!
This is awesome!
I would love to try this! I meditate regularly!
Love this. Really could use this in my life and work.
Interesting idea–I really want to check it out since we have a Wii gaming system.
Si!
Consider me entered! I really could use this guidance.
Tweeted!
https://twitter.com/#!/thisenvy/status/140164960188764160
And of course, I’m a subscriber.
I’d love this for my Wii!!
What a fantastic idea. I have always been too afraid to attend a class to learn how to meditate because I wanted to at least have some experience in it before hand. This not only gives that experience but allows personal growth as well.
I really believe in Deepak Chopra and his teachings. Deepak Chopra’s teaching’s have helped me understand and get control of the reptillion brain that keeps controlling me and I am grateful for his books. I think this would be a great Xmas present for my family and others.