I spent $50,000 on orgasmic meditation sessions with OneTaste – my family feared I had joined a cult

A longtime participant in OneTaste – a ‘sex cult’ being investigated by the FBI amid damning allegations – has revealed she spent $50,000 on orgasmic meditation classes.

Alexis Lauren Ware is still a supporter of the renamed OM Institute and attended the recent demonstration in Los Angeleshosted by controversial founder Nicole Daedone.

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She sat down for an exclusive chat with The US Sun to discuss her experience with the wellness company, which has grown into a multimillion-dollar business and was previously praised by Gwyneth Paltrow.

It is also the subject of a recent netflix documentary, Orgasm Inc: The OneTaste Storyrevealing shocking allegations of prostitution, sex trafficking and labor violations.

The company has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, and Daedone previously told the US Sun that it was confident justice would prevail following its cancellation.

No criminal charges have been filed, and the only lawsuit brought by a member in New York in 2018, alleging sexual abuse and scams, was dismissed by a judge.

Alexis, who works as a theta healer teaching a meditative technique, revealed that she got involved with OneTaste in 2013 when she took an introductory course.

The demonstrations involve a woman having her genitals fondled for up to 15 minutes at a time while in a meditative state.

Alexis admits she was initially ‘terrified’ but then spent time training at OM’s first home in THE during a weekend course in Venice and I felt that it had changed my life.

“What really attracted me to OneTaste and orgasmic meditation was that in my adult life I hadn’t really peaked in sex with men,” she said.

“I ended up having so much more (from OneTaste). I’m like driving down the street in Venice and my (genitals) were getting all these feelings. I was like what the fuck, I didn’t’ I didn’t know not that it was possible.

“I didn’t even feel that kind of feeling when someone touched me during sex before (the class). And now all of a sudden my (private parts) are awake and alive. I was like, what? is ?

“I immediately signed up for the coaching program. And it was my first weekend immersion in San Francisco in 2013 when I saw Nicole (Daedone).

“I really hadn’t invested too much at the time, I had put down a small deposit, but after that first weekend she completely blew my mind, she’s literally the brightest woman I’ve ever had. have ever met.

“From this weekend, I said to myself: ‘You are my teacher and I want to learn as much as possible from you.’ It was like a whole new world opened up to me.

“After the ten-month coaching program was over, Nicole announced the intensives. And I grew up in a family without a lot of money. The first one was $20,000.

“My mom really understood, amazingly, because she’s the most religious in the family, she just totally understood and supported me.

“I think my brother is a little confused by all of this, we’ve never really talked about it in depth, but I know he supports me in everything that enriches my life.

“My dad, when I told him I was going to enroll in the intensive, he was really worried. one way or another.

“And he said emphatically, ‘I’m afraid you’ve joined a cult. I’m afraid you’re being brainwashed. I’m afraid you’re being taken advantage of.

SEARCH FOR MONEY

“In my dad’s mind, because there was nothing they were going to give me at the end that I could then show the world, it didn’t have any value for him, he didn’t understand.

“Whereas if I had said, I’m going to enroll in graduate school and it’s $20,000 and when I graduate, I’ll graduate and people are going to say, ‘Great job.’ would support him. But it was really scary for him because he didn’t understand it.”

She said he was still supportive of her choices and eventually came back, despite the disturbing accusations about OneTaste.

The company’s founders have been accused of encouraging sales staff to have sex with customers to get them to pay tens of thousands of dollars for one-year subscriptions.

Alexis insisted she hadn’t been pressured into buying lessons, but she often struggled to scrape together the money on her own.

She said receiving $10,000 through donations from friends was “amazing” and the “greatest gift,” and tearfully explained, “I said is there an amount, like even a dollar you would like to gift, lend, anything?

“It shattered everything I had been taught about money, how it works, how rare it is, that people don’t want to give it to you, that it’s not appropriate to talk about it.

“There’s one person, to whom I’m still slowly paying back his thousand dollars, but I’ve repaid all the others. I earned the other $10,000 by working and doing my healing work.

“The first intensive was two weeks, we lived in a mansion in LA somewhere by the ocean.

INTENSIVE COURSE

“We would wake up early in the morning, do OM, do fear inventory, get in touch with your subconscious fears…seated meditation, breakfast, then we would start a full day of coaching circles with Nicole.

“I think there was maybe something like 20 people, it was around 2014. Nicole didn’t stay there. She was coming to do the coaching circles.

“I’m a unique case because I’ve done quite a lot of work exchanges, but if you include the thousands of dollars I made in work exchange with my theta healing, I probably spent around 50,000 $ at OneTaste.

“Then there’s all this press that says, ‘Oh, she’s a cult and she’s a cult leader and people are getting their money scammed and pressured into buying these crash courses and blah, blah, blah.

“What do I think of the charges and the FBI investigation? I was as deeply involved in OneTaste as a person can be without actually being on OneTaste’s payroll.

“If something had happened I probably would have seen it, I was there for almost everything. I didn’t see anything. there is nothing to find.

“I don’t have a single regret. When I did the first intensive, I was really conflicted, I had trouble accepting my desire and I had much lower self-esteem.

“I’ve had a lot of issues with men and felt really challenged to be vulnerable and to be seen, I’ve always felt very comfortable being seen doing my job. of healing.

“Now I can perform in front of an audience of hundreds of people and have no problem. That first intensive was really about getting a lot of those things out of my system.

“And then I did a demo at the end of the intensive just for us and for anyone we would like to invite, like a very small group. It was really important for me to let myself be seen and to be vulnerable .”

Alexis said she lives in an OM community and works for OneTaste for free, both in event production and for Nicole herself, setting up her teaching space and making tea for her.

WORK FOR FREE

“For me, it was never about saying, ‘Oh, I should get paid for this job. I want to get paid for this job.’ It was more, ‘I have access to Nicole and I don’t even have to pay any money.’ I received so much.”

But Alexis admitted she left the community for a brief period around 2016 because she “took too much personally” with her role and was in an unstable housing situation.

“There was one particular spike that I was knocked out on and it was housing related,” she said. “We all lived together in these two lofts and we decided to move, but we didn’t know where we were going.

“There was a time when people were being bounced from one Airbnb to another and my nervous system just couldn’t handle it. There were times when there was instability.”

Alexis has since returned from a stay in Santa Cruz and is living with him again. OM Institute participants in a coliving house in Los Angeles.

Among other charges the company has faced, OneTaste’s “aversion therapy” has been described as involving customers participating in sexual acts they didn’t feel comfortable with or sleeping with people they weren’t comfortable with. they had argued.

A woman described in letters from the Netflix documentary how a man allegedly shook her and “screamed at me that he would like to rape me, beat me, use me” as OneTaste viewers looked on.

Alexis revealed that she once lived with the woman, saying, “There was a time when she was really going through something, but I never saw anyone trying to coerce her into anything.”

She said some of her friends have been approached by the FBI, but no one has contacted her, and she hopes the investigation will not result in criminal charges.

“I haven’t talked about it in depth with a lot of them. I think for some people it’s just kind of shocking, like ‘What does the FBI want to tell me? But none of us feel like we have something to hide, or that we have something to hide for Nicole.”

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