Welcome to Commune, where each week we explore the ideas and practices that bring us together

and help us live healthy and purpose-filled lives. I'm your host, Jeff Krasno. In addition to being a podcast, Commune is also an

online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers, and this week, we're

excited to give you a window into one of our trainings right here on the show. Our latest course,

redefining leadership, is a collaboration with Sean Korn, Halakuri, and Suzanne Sterling,

and has just launched on Onecomune.com, where it is completely free from March 4th through March 13th. This 10-day program

teaches us how to be more effective social activists by getting truly honest with who we are,

how we react, and where we come from. Only once you've done the inner work

can you champion positive social change without causing harm. So to celebrate the launch and give you a

peek into the course all this week will be releasing select excerpts from redefining leadership on the

podcast. So listen here over the next 10 days or sign up and take the full

course for free at Onecommun.com. The course excerpts will stay up on the podcast until March 13th,

but after that they disappear. So if you're not already a Commune podcast subscriber,

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Today's excerpt is all about doing the work.

For many yoga practitioners, we're told to make our mats a safe space,

sheltered from the influence of the outer world.

We contain our movements, our thoughts, our intentions to that specific time and place.

There we explore ourselves, ask questions,

let go of what's not serving us, all while diving inward in the search of knowing and accepting

our internal landscape. But if yoga's goal is union, then isolating our practice to the mat without

some larger outreach and communal context is incomplete. When we bring our inner work

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