The Institute of OM Foundation is the premier non-profit research center focusing on peak state consciousness arising from the practice of OM as it pertains to improvements in the areas of trauma, depression, general health and the advancement of eudaimonia.
Our belief is that human maladies stem from disconnection. Through the practice of OM, we see similar benefits of sitting meditation, psychedelics, and other mystical state practices with the addition of providing human connection. Our research indicates adding the element of connection increases the possibility of humans to access the mystical state and benefits of other modalities more quickly and through shorter practice sessions.
In 2014, we started the Institute of OM Foundation to begin researching Orgasmic Meditation. Our team consisted of a few Orgasmic Meditation practitioners and several scientists including Dr. Nicole Prause, a neuroscientist researching human sexual behavior, addiction, and the physiology of sexual response as well as Dr. Andrew Newberg, director of research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health and a physician at Jefferson University Hospital. In 2016 we received the first IRB approval allowing us to begin research at the University of Pittsburgh. This first yes initiated a cascade of additional request approvals and got our research off the ground. Since then we have had 9 published papers, 7 peer-reviewed, 9 IRB approved studies and 8 studies completed. One study is currently in process.
“OM may allow practitioners to access similar brain and meditation states attained by advanced Tibetan Buddhists.” —Greg Siegle, PhD
“There’s this sense in OM of the core sense of unity, this interconnectedness of all people and things.” —Roland Griffiths, PhD
The practice of Orgasmic Meditation has been shown to both increase the intensity of positive emotions and decrease negative emotions. This effectively widens emotional range.
Prause & Siegle, 2021. (Read full study here)
OM produces increased happiness
OM reduces negative affect including anxiety and anger
OM modifies emotional states without blunting the capacity to feel emotions
OM increases practitioners’ feelings of closeness and connectedness
OM may help people with traumatic childhoods regain full sexual function
OM decreases activity in the parietal and frontal lobe and creates a sense of oneness and flow
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