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.

If you are hunkered down at home, as you should be, this may be a good time to check out our

course platform at Onecommun.com, where you'll find programs from Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra,

Russell Brand, Wim Hof, Brendan Bouchard, Adrian Mischler, and so many other brilliant personal

development and wellness luminaries. Our courses span yoga, meditation, spiritual development,

functional medicine, recovery and social impact, essentially everything you need to be holistically well.

And we know how important that is right now. So just go to one commune.com. So given the gravity of the global pandemic, one might instinctually think that a meditation practice is dispensable, but nothing could be less true.

If you are one of the superheroes on the front line, a health care worker, a medical professional, a food provider,

a scientist, or a government worker, you will be stressed to your limits physically and psychologically.

Even 30 seconds of deep breathing and grounding can help you stay centered, focused, and healthy.

We need you, and we support you.

So if you are someone on the front lines and could

benefit from a meditation course on your phone in your pocket, email me at jeffkat one commune.com.

Most of us, however, are now being called into inaction. The best thing we can do for one another,

ironically, is to distance from each other.

In this inaction, we are left alone with our mind, where all of existence and life is experienced.

Now, as a species wired for connection, this aloneness can be torturous. As I recently heard Sam Harris

and sightfully point out, the most severe form of punishment short of a death sentence is

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