Awakened Wisdom author Patrick Ryan offers Virtual Experience

I told you last week a bit about the launch of this amazing book tomorrow, April 20th. Now we are nearly there, I wanted to tell you a bit more.

The mind-body-spirit book market is saturated with books these days. It’s undoubtedly one of the fastest growing branches of the publishing world.

Most of us love to find a great book to inspire us, but how do you sift the wheat from the chaff with so many books from which to choose?

Furthermore, how many of us buy books with the best of intentions for reading them, and then leave them on the shelf unopened for months or even years?

Well, THIS TUESDAY, April 20th, you have a chance to buy a real gem.

That’s the day Patrick Ryan’s book Awakened Wisdom: A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance comes to Amazon.

Patrick, a former Buddhist monk, and a world-renowned coach, workshop leader and spiritual teacher, has written this book based upon the teaching of his workshop of the same name, which he has been delivering all over the planet for years.

In other words, the system in the book has been tried and tested (and greatly loved) by hundreds and hundreds of people.

Ok, so that takes care of how we know whether or not this book is worth checking out, but what about the other problem– finding the time to read it and absorb it properly?

In our hectic day-to-day living, it’s just so hard to manage to sit down in a quiet place and READ, what to speak of absorbing rich, new information.

Well, here’s where things get really fun!

Patrick is offering an unprecedented 2-session “Awakened Wisdom Virtual Experience” over the Internet, where he will PERSONALLY guide you through the “8 States of an Awakened Life”, which are the cornerstone of all his world-famous work.

If you buy the book on April 20th, you’ll receive it in plenty of time to follow along during the webcast, and get the very most out of your “virtual experience”.

The Awakened Wisdom Virtual Experience will be on May 5-6, via webcast, and will be hosted by (my good friend!) Lynn Serafinn from Spirit Authors.

Lynn tells me that there will also be some opportunity to ask Patrick your questions about his teachings.

You can attend either via the web or call in over the telephone.

You can ask questions via either method, as there will be a way to post your questions online during the broadcast.

And if you can’t make the live event, don’t worry. The audio will be available for download BUT only to those who register for the VIP pass.

In addition to the Virtual Experience, there are over 30 of us who are giving away some FABULOUS free spiritual gifts to you when you buy Patrick’s book.

I do encourage you to go over to Awakened Wisdom Book Launch Page right away and sign up for a “launch reminder”. That way, on Tuesday morning, when the gifts are ready, Patrick will send you a “go and get them” reminder, so you can buy the book and get all the great gifts, including the VIP Pass to the Awakened Wisdom Virtual Experience.

If you happen to be reading this on Tuesday, go on over there right NOW and get the book so you can claim your VIP pass.

So there you go. A great book AND a way to help you learn what it has to offer as well. What a great gift from Patrick Ryan!

I hope to “see” you at the Awakened Wisdom Virtual Experience on May 5 – 6. I’ll be tuning in for sure!

An AWE-some Opportunity

In today’s world, you’ll see a lot of advertisements for beauty makeovers, pamper days and the like. That’s great for the body, but how about a makeover for the mind and spirit?

That’s what I imagine it will feel like to the lucky person who wins a wonderful contest being offered by coach Patrick Ryan, author of the upcoming book Awakened Wisdom: a Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance, which is coming to Amazon on Tuesday April 20, 2010.

As part of the celebration of the launch of the book, Patrick is giving away a $3000 “Awakened Wisdom Experience” (AWE) to one person. The AWE-some Grand Prize includes 4 private 1-to-1 personal coaching sessions with Patrick, a personally signed copy of the book Awakened Wisdom AND 2 free VIP passes to attend his 3-day Awakened Wisdom Workshop anywhere in the world.

Patrick is a world renowned executive coach, leadership trainer and spiritual teacher. For more than three decades, he has studied and practiced the way of an awakened life with spiritual masters and indigenous teachers all over the planet, and even served as a Buddhist monk in a monastery in Burma. His depth of spiritual knowledge, combined with his natural, down-to-earth personality, make him both a powerful and accessible coach and teacher.

Anyone who receives this exceptional prize should ready for a complete “inner beauty” makeover. And remember: there are TWO free passes to the Awakened Wisdom workshop, which means you can share this gift with a friend or loved one.

To enter the AWE contest, you only need to answer one question:

“What will you give the world when you reclaim your brilliance?”

A great question, don’t you think?

To enter, you must submit your answer to this question BEFORE April 9th. To get started, go to: http://www.awakenedwisdom.com/Public/Amazon/booklaunch/index.cfm

To qualify, you will be asked to sign up for a “launch reminder” for Patrick’s book, Awakened Wisdom first. As soon as you’ve done that, you’ll be taken to a page with a link to the contest entry page.

A list of semi-finalists will be announced on April 12th. The Grand Prize winner will be decided by public vote (so be sure to get your friends and family on board to support you!).

And…

Even if you don’t want to enter the contest, do please check out Patrick’s book Awakened Wisdom: A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance on that same page. If you scroll down on that page, you’ll see that dozens of authors, coaches, entrepreneurs and spiritual teachers have come together to celebrate the launch of this profound and practical book, by giving away over 40 very special gifts to anyone who buys the book on April 20. And I am one of them!

To everyone who buys Patrick’s book, I will be giving away my new ebook about Spiritual Marketing. I hope you like it.

Best of luck to all of you who enter the contest. Please keep me posted if you win, so I can announce it here. I’d also love to hear your answers to this great question!

Shelagh

Spirit Authors – free podcasts

If you are thinking of writing a book, or want to go the next stage with an existing book, check out these 5 free podcasts of the discussions which launched Lynn Serafinn’s new website Spirit Authors at the end of February.

Podcast I – Starting and Writing your book – Allison Maslan, Daya Devi Doolin, Shannon Arnold Jackson

Podcast 2 – Pre-publication Marketing Musts – Dana Lynn Smith, Shelley Lieber, Tony Eldridge

Podcast 3 – Preparing for Publication – Patrick Ryan, Richard Fitt, Laurel Marshfield

Podcast 4 – Your Book Launch -Designing and Delivering – Yvonne Perry, Marion Ross

Podcast 5 – Benefitting from the Success of your Book – William Gladstone, Stephanie Gunning, Alan Seale, Caron Goode.

Download the podcasts at * Spirit Authors.

I was co-hosting the calls, and it was fascinating to hear these experts’ experience and tips on each of these different topics – and to realise they they were often learning from each other!