Anakosha
A feminine approach to sexual freedom
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Anakosha - a Continuation of the Sensitivity Seminar Group
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| The Sensitivity Seminar Group of Zephyrhills, Florida, operated from 1981 to 1993 teaching swinging etiquette to couples only. It was an all-day seminar. It was the first of its kind in the history of modern swinging. A club grew up around the graduates of SSG and the member couples grew very close, like family.
There were parties every Friday and Saturday, and long holiday weekends with camp-outs and marriages in the back yard, mini-conventions, workshops and more. When Bob, the male founder died in April 1993, his widow Diana (not her real name) couldn't carry on alone and so the group disbanded. But shortly after the funeral, Diana received a vision to carry on the work, and was given the name "Anakosha". But to tell the whole story we need to go back to the year 1976 in Costa Rica, Central America. On a clear sunny morning that year, while living in Costa Rica with Bob, Diana had an out-of-body sojourn similar to a near-death experience but without the tunnel. In the middle of a guided meditation she found herself floating upward in bubbles of light and happiness, liberated and free from her body. On the floor below she saw her body jumping up and down 8 or 10 inches off the floor, but she didn't care. She was free, in a place of infinite love, bliss, light, forever. Diana returned to normal consciousness over the dinner table that evening, with her sister and husband nearby. She did not know where the day went. Still descending from an expanded supernova, she tried to speak of the strange occurrence. Her sister who had led the meditation said in amazement, "The Kundalini!" Her sister was a disciple of an Indian enlightened man and had seen this unusual behavior at the ashram (spiritual center). Diana didn't know what Kundalini was. It was not widely known at the time, and so her sister began to tell Diana about the dormant psychic energy that is stored in the base of the spine in everybody. And which, upon awakening, leads to a transformation of consciousness. Her sister expressed surprise that it had happened in Diana without any prior training. What is kundalini? From that day forward Diana's life changed. Not knowing anything about it and having no one to talk to for advice after her sister went back north, Diana followed her instincts and surrendered to the flow within her. There was not much else to do. It was an unstoppable transcendence that swept her up and away. It became her teacher and, on a daily basis for many years, she went out into the sun and yielded to the up-sweep while her husband kept a close eye on her. Energy from the sun and the earth simultaneously moved through her and swirled within, causing her body to move. Diana's detailed account - 5 chapters The first few weeks her body went through convulsive, whirling, jerky, violent motions as if to get rid of toxins. Gradually the energy changed into graceful rhythmic dance-like movements similar to tai chi. Each session ended in transcendental bliss, "high as a kite" you might say, but there were no drugs involved. People have asked. It was a natural process with mystical, angelic and heavenly visitations opening her to other planes of existence. While most people in the throes of Kundalini cannot speak about it rationally (picture being transported to the stars) Diana's life took a quirky turn back to ground. She and her husband became swingers! Diana and Bob had their first swinging experience two years later, with a friendly couple up the hill. After the first encounter, a threesome followed with a man, then a threesome with a woman, then another couple. Soon they were hosting three couple parties at their home once a week. Because of the huge updraft of transcendent love flowing through Diana on a daily basis, she found physical sex with others grounding and balancing. She was able to channel the huge overwhelming love from her daily sessions in the sun, back into her physical body through sex with others. She and her husband had had a close, loving relationship before this, and he had always made sure she reached orgasm whenever they made love. She came to suspect that that was a mitigating factor in Kundalini awakening. In 1980 Bob and Diana moved to Tampa, Florida. A medical trip to Miami brought them into contact with a network of swinging couples. Their world of intimate connections expanded exponentially and they thought they had died and gone to heaven. They bought a house in Zephyrhills near Tampa and the nudist resorts, and closed out their life in Costa Rica. Taking turns hosting parties they also placed a personal ad in a contact magazine. A steady stream of couples answered their ad and were invited over for an evening of fun. But most of them were hungry for knowledge, not for bedroom action. Questions like, "Are we crazy to want this? Are we normal? Do others do this too? What do you do when...." And they would sit in the living room for hours, talking. Frustration led Bob to suggest a seminar for all the new couples and Diana agreed. They thought this would save them a lot of time telling the same story over and over. He designed an all-day seminar with hands-on exercises, and the first one took place in 1981. Bob and Diana continued sitting up late into the night discussing their own growing pains. While Bob was a practical, sexual male, Diana had a new bottom line that could not be broken. She wanted something more out of swinging, which was a very restricted, sex-only activity. It was tradition that no love be permitted expression in the lifestyle, and definitely no pillow talk. Sex only, that's all. Yet Diana was filled with a depth that went way beyond the physical. Her connections were at a soul level. She bonded with everyone. She didn't like the limitations. She and Bob had a lot to talk about. Transcendental sensations bubbled through her daily, and she passed them on to her swing dates so that sex and swinging took on a spiritual glow. Bob taught valid lessons on female orgasms at the same time, which became an important teaching in SSG. Men learned about female sexuality and the results could be felt. And seen. One night while taking a breather in the backyard during a party, Diana saw the house dancing on its foundations in rays of light, and she worried lest the neighbors could see. And probably in the end they did see, or feel it. Over a thousand couples passed through the seminars and when Bob died in 1993 at the age of 69 of congestive heart failure, there were 201 member couples, all of whom were actively involved. There was unusually high energy surrounding Bob's death. It was a lifestyle funeral and prophetic visions came through several people. But within days the County Zoning Commission knocked on the door and closed SSG as a club. Zoning violations they said. And the man who would become Diana's future husband, Brian (not his real name) stepped forward to help. As a lawyer recently divorced, he helped her rearrange her life while escorting her to parties. The parties began to float from house to house. Several months later Diana received a vision to carry on the work with a more feminine influence, and was given the name "Anakosha". Brian became a willing supporter of her ideas. By the end of 1993 Diana had moved in with Brian in his Naples home, and was sound-boarding with three other couples about buying property for a spiritual-sexual enlightenment center. After a series of meetings, papers were filed and in July 1994 Anakosha became an official not-for-profit corporation. What does Anakosha mean? Then things began to slow down. Diana and Brian's relationship took priority over Anakosha. Brian began his own law practice so they could work together, and Diana became his only office staff. Their honeymoon began. The other three founding couples faded away, leaving Brian and Diana alone with Anakosha. Brian posted a website inviting couples to a two-hour orientation, and drew up a tough privacy agreement for members to sign. He became known in swinging circles and began advising other club owners in the use of the privacy agreement to protect themselves from unwanted exposure. Once a month orientations developed into one party, then two parties a month. The membership grew. Little by little Diana began to include women's circles, occasional hotel dances, beach parties, dinner socials and mini- conventions. She spent hours in her meditation room and entertained visions of free-love Anakoshans. By 2001 Diana was disenchanted with legal work and sought a wider, more loving arena to work hands-on with people. Anakosha was not going where she envisioned. Led to enroll first in a Reiki class and then in massage school, Diana went to part-time at the office, leaving Brian to handle it by himself, which the age of technology made possible. As a licensed massage therapist Diana's early visions returned full force. Over the years they had consistently revealed a landed center far from civilization with a university that had no ceilings, no walls, where well-balanced people gathered to learn and grow from one another, sometimes as students, sometimes as teachers. A sense of joy and liberation filled the air, not hedonistic but always learning and growing with freedom, respect and harmony. Sexuality was understood to be a natural part of human nature and was used freely, always with love, advancing them to fully realized people. But it was not happening. In Diana's estimation sex was continually being repressed. The hunger for loving touch was ever present in her clients, many of whom were stuck in restrictive marriages. Sex was a constant subject of negativity. It was obvious that marital relationships were holding people back. She felt that the lifestyle of sexual variety was an honest and legitimate answer to springing these people free. She saw it as a path to enlightenment IF there was an ethical code of behavior. Her massage career and meditations continued. In 2008 Brian and Diana stopped hosting parties. Each felt they had reached a ceiling of sorts. They both wanted a break from the lifestyle. Over the next two years they each began their own separate lifestyle projects. Diana began re-thinking an all-day seminar for couples and began designing the YIN workshop. Brian focused on an Internet project entitled LifestylePrivacy.com. Brian and Diana live together in a solid couple relationship, but they have expanded beyond the confines expected of traditional marriage. They have given each other the freedom to stand alone and make their own choices. Diana alone is the spearhead of Anakosha. While Brian is her legal adviser, he has surrendered all other input into its operation. Diana completed the YIN design in 2009, waited one year, and is now ready to launch the workshop to provide a higher consciousness protocol for couples who want to enter the swinging lifestyle. |
