Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.

We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world

closer together. This is the Commune podcast, where each week we explore the ideas and practices

that help us live this healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life. In addition to our courses on yoga, meditation, and personal development,

Commune also offers an array of social impact courses, including unwinding prejudice,

redefining leadership, and organize a march. If you are interested in enrolling in any of those

course offerings for free,

please email me at Jeff K at Onecommun.com. Right now, I think we can all benefit from learning

and growing in order to better serve our communities. So I have started writing a weekly Sunday article called commusings,

where I wax poetic and sometimes pathetic around spirituality, philosophy, and culture. And on

occasion, I will also record these screeds as bonus episodes for the podcast.

Of today's episode, tackles the perennial human inquiry of who we essentially are.

My name is Jeff Krasnow, and welcome to commune.

Music to commune.

Who am I? We all have a story.

A dozen years ago, I co-founded Wanderlust, a company that produces large yoga

festivals around the world. Our flagship event in Squaw Valley, California, amassed enough

yogis in leggings to swaddle the Taj Mahal in Lycra. In the summer of 2012, I arrived on site at our host hotel, the somewhat

tattered village at Squaw. Nackard from the trip, I was intent on quickly checking into my

usual ski condo and getting to our production meeting. As the stoner-com concierge bumbled through an unnecessary

ream of clerical work, my patience began to fray, and I said it. It's the only time I ever uttered this phrase,

and I shudder in the paternalism of it,

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