Winter Brain conference
We spent the weekend at the FutureHealth Winterbrain conference in Palm Springs, CA, and just got back Monday evening.
While the primary reason for attending was to see Tina’s presentation, we also had a chance to view some of the speakers and talk to some of the presenters. I spent some time talking shop with Chuck Davis of the Roshi Corporation, and did a session on his new unit. It was pleasant, and we got to try out his “Mag Stims” or electro-magnetic stimulation which he places on the SMR strip. This is in addition to the LED glasses we normally use.
It is an altogether different experience, doing a BWE session in the middle of a room full of people. Yet, in a conference like this it is almost required that you attach something to your head at some point, and zone out. Within 5 minutes I felt invisible, like a fly on the wall, simply listening to the bustle of the room, relaxing. The atmosphere was almost calming, maybe because the dozens of conversations surrounding me easily replaced my own internal mental chatter. Perhaps this is why many people (including myself) find the sounds of people relaxing. In NP1 we included a number of sessions that used chatter from a crowd, a restaurant or the sounds of a city, and you can still find many of those sound files in our member’s area.
I also got a chance to try the new “Healing Rhythms” software from Wild Divine. Again, an interesting experience trying to perform biofeedback in a room full of people, but I surprised myself at how easily I was able to go through the exercises.
The night before Tina’s presentation we had some technical difficulties. My laptop’s mouse became completely unusable, and the powerpoint installation on Cynthia’s laptop suddenly started giving us problems. Apparently, we weren’t the only ones. The laptop provided for speakers by FutureHealth was also on the fritz. There is something about Palm Springs that destroys computers, I’ve decided 
Despite that, we were able to figure it out and Tina’s presentation went off without a hitch. She did a fantastic job with it. The speech was crammed with useful information – so much that I could tell there was probably a lot more she could have put into it, given a larger time frame. The study itself, when released, will be a great asset to the field and will hopefully draw a lot of interest to BWE.
After the presentation, Tina got some very positive feedback from the audience, and we were approached by a number of people asking for more information about our products. We brought a dozen NP2 trial CDs with us and ended up giving away all of them.
Here are a few pictures I was able to snap:
Tina near the end of her presentation. You probably can’t see her well here because of the lighting (I didn’t want to be rude and use a flash), but she’s in front of the plant off on the right.
Winterbrain exhibitor’s room.
We had a great time, and are considering exhibiting in the future, based on the positive response we got from the presentation.
Well, I’m exhausted still from all the traveling, so that’s all I can write for now. I apologize to anyone who emailed us over the weekend and on Monday – as I said, my laptop died. I spent most of Monday evening trying to catch up.
Adam
5 Comments to “Winter Brain conference”
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Hi Adam, thanks for the update and all the best with Transparents products!
I was wondering if you could give a summary on the Wild Divine software? I’ve been to their site and also checked out the forums. I am thinking of purchasing either the healing rhythms or journey bundled package but still not convinced.
So was just hoping if you could give a brief description – like it or not and why? thanks!
I love the hardware I can tell you that. It is really slick looking, like an xBox or an iPod, and works amazingly well for biofeedback. However, I’m personally not too fond of the game. The biofeedback within the game is very fun and well programmed, but I just don’t have time for a game – when I want biofeedback I want to go straight to an exercise. The healing rhythms thing may be better for me in that respect, since it seemed easier to skip ahead to the highly original biofeedback exercises.
I just wish I could take some of the exercises from the game, list them and be able to choose from them without having to navigate through the game itself. I really enjoyed aiming a bow and arrow with the biofeedback signal, or placing rocks on top of each other, using mind power alone as if I was in training with yoda.
I’d say it is certainly worth the price, though you might also want to get something more portable like the GSR2 in the event that you want to use biofeedback away from the computer, or only have time for something quick.
Hope this helps
Adam
and indeed helped a lot!!
thank you again.
Hello,
I got the Wild Divine bundle for my birthday (not the last one…), and I played around a little with it at the time. It was very interesting, but like all games, quite time consuming, so I really haven’t had time to use it as much as I’d like to. (Sometimes it just seems easier doing an NP2 session or two…) I think I remember there being a kind of bookmarking mechanism though, so that you can go back to exercises you especially liked. But, you have to do it once in “order” first.
I saw the newsletter about Healing Rhythms , which seems to be high-lights of these excercises, and probably some new ones that aren’t in the game. I suppose this could be a good boiled-down experience to start out with. Only, you have to invest in the “light-stone” equipment, and then you might as well buy the whole package… [ No, noone paid me to say that, promise!;-) ]
I still would like to recommend this game to anyone, because the idea is so cool! And with only the tiny bit of use I made of it, I remember recalling the exercises (the one with the bow in particular) to help me relax in stressful situations in everyday life. I have to bring it out and dust off that lightstone, tonight!
There’s not much about Wild Divine on the Transparent Forum, I find that surprising…
Thanx to Adam for so much interesting work! Your Blog is coming along great!
Thanks Marie!
It sounds like your experience with Wild Divine mirrors mine. I did notice the bookmarking feature, but was disappointed that you could only bookmark 2 locations.