Deepak Chopra's Leela
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Are you ready to "enhance your mind-body connection?" Drop this DVD into your XBox Kinect system, and you'll have your own Indian meditation guru, at your service. The game is organized into seven types of meditations, each designed to help you focus and connect to your personal "flow state." We tried it and it is certainly possible, although it helps to have a quiet room and a bit of undisturbed time. Each activity is introduced by Deepak Chopra, the relaxation expert best known for a long association with Michael Jackson. There are seven lessons, each introduced by Chopra's relaxing, authoritative voice coaching you to relax-- "imagine the air as water." As you meditate you are treated to beautiful screen-saver like art that can be influenced by your motion (you control the graphics by leaning left and right). One gripe -- you can't exit from an activity once it has started, say, if the phone rings. It is possible to make your own "mandala" or kaleidoscope-style circle art work which can be saved and shared on Facebook. If you're looking for a quiet and introspective video game, have a look at this one. Created by CuriousPictures for THQ.
$40, Xbox Kinect, Wii
Teaches: introspection, movement, meditation
CTR Rating: 86%