Genii Townsend presents her trademarked empowerment marionette to Pastor Joel Osteen in Phoenix

Sedona AZ (January 24, 2014) – Local author Genii Townsend will offer a Playshop on granting your own wishes from 6:30 to 8:30 Friday evening, January 31, at the Center for Positive Living in the Village of Oak Creek, Sedona, Arizona. A voluntary donation is suggested.

Genii will introduce fun, interactive exercises from her forthcoming book, Discover the Secrets of Granting Your Own Wishes from A Real Genii! which will include four questions to ask yourself when learning how to grant your own wishes: (1) What do you truly want or wish for? (2) Why do you want that? (3) How will your life change when you have it?, and, (4) Are you still sure you want it? Genii will also share how she has helped thousands of people harness their power of imagination through edutainment, including herself.

A recent Genii granting a wish success was meeting Pastor Joel Osteen. A longtime fan, Genii has been wishing for a couple of years to meet Osteen. She wished also to present the pastor with copies of her books and an empowerment marionette™ she had created of his likeness.

Recently Osteen was in Phoenix for an event at the Jobbing Arena which Genii attended. Her publisher made arrangements for Genii to meet Osteen at his Phoenix area book signing where they spoke twice, traded books and Genii gifted the marionette. Afterwards, when Genii shared with friends and fans how excited and grateful she was to have her own wishes granted, they suggested an introduction of her forthcoming book through the Sedona playshop.

Townsend is author of The City of Light Sedona and SOMETHING’S COMING! Universal Cities of Light, Love and Healing! She co-founded two local non-profits, The Light Center and Ultimate Destiny University, and offers seminars and workshops on empowerment and enlightenment that include The 4 Keys to Light.

Townsend owned and operated Geniiland, a children’s marionette theater near Hollywood, California, for 18 years, and she has created over 5,000 marionettes. She has gifted hundreds of them to celebrities including Carol Burnett, Mark Victor Hansen, Art Linkletter, President Jimmy Carter, Les Brown, Oprah, Deepak Chopra, Robert Shields, and others. Genii donated marionettes of Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Seymour and Billy Crystal as fundraisers for the Sedona Film Festival, the Sedona Arts Festival and Camp Soaring Eagle.

“Your wishes and dreams are just waiting for you to come true,” Genii teaches. All are welcome to attend and be sure to bring YOUR list of wishes you want granted. No wish is too large or too small for Genii’s proven methods of making wishes come true.

To register for the January 31 Playshop, call 928-284-5566. The Light Center is located at 45 Castle Rock Road, #1A, Sedona, Arizona 86351.

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