Nicole Daedone’s Orgasmic Meditation Workshops Promised Spiritual Growth—Employees Called it a Cult
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“Would you like some tea?” Nicole Daedone asked a reporter on June 1 after introducing two employees at the Harlem offices of the Institute of OM, formerly OneTaste, the company she cofounded in San Francisco in 2004.
She motioned toward a table set with plates of macaroons, nuts and dried fruit and sat down for a discussion of orgasmic meditation, OM for short, the 15-minute sexual stimulation practice that Daedone, 57, turned into a multimillion-dollar business.
OM represents the radical idea that women’s bodies hold wisdom, not shame,” she said, “and that we can train our attention through pleasure.”
The practice claims to unlock a woman’s full spiritual and physical potential and even heal past sexual trauma. Daedone said she has taught OM to tens of thousands of people over the years while growing a community of devoted followers, some of whom viewed her as their spiritual leader.
“I decided from the beginning I was going to run this company as a woman, and it would be designed in a feminine way so I didn’t have to separate my life and my practice from my work,” she said. “That’s why we have the community—I designed it like that.”
What Daedone described as a collaborative community, however, was a business that some former employees have likened to a cult.
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