If you've spent any time scrolling social media, you've likely come across this aphorism: "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." This is a popular adage in modern spirituality, the notion that bad things are going to happen to you, but you do have agency over your response. While this statement is valid, there is a gaping chasm between reading a meme and actually feeling the absence of grief. Commusings is our format where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno or sign up for the Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com.

If you've spent any time scrolling social media, you've likely come across this aphorism: "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." This is a popular adage in modern spirituality, the notion that bad things are going to happen to you, but you do have agency over your response. While this statement is valid, there is a gaping chasm between reading a meme and actually feeling the absence of grief.

Commusings is our format where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno or sign up for the Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com.

Growing up in East L.A. in the nineties and arrested at age 15, Rosie Acosta knew she needed find a new direction and purpose in life. As she puts it, yoga offered her a ladder up and out — and she began to climb. In this episode, Jeff and Rosie discuss her new book, You Are Radically Loved, along with the nature of resilience and self-acceptance. Learn more about Rosie and her book at radicallyloved.com and foller her @rosieacosta. This podcast is supported by The Feminine Power Global Community. Visit femininepower.com/commune to access free Feminine Power videos with founder, Dr. Claire Zammit, and begin tapping into your Feminine Power. Connect with Commune at onecommune.com and on Instagram @onecommune and @jeffkrasno.

Growing up in East L.A. in the nineties and arrested at age 15, Rosie Acosta knew she needed find a new direction and purpose in life. As she puts it, yoga offered her a ladder up and out — and she began to climb. In this episode, Jeff and Rosie discuss her new book, You Are Radically Loved, along with the nature of resilience and self-acceptance.

Learn more about Rosie and her book at radicallyloved.com and foller her @rosieacosta.

This podcast is supported by The Feminine Power Global Community. Visit femininepower.com/commune to access free Feminine Power videos with founder, Dr. Claire Zammit, and begin tapping into your Feminine Power.

Connect with Commune at onecommune.com and on Instagram @onecommune and @jeffkrasno.

Having three daughters requires a lot chauffeuring around … to school, to “hang outs” and to dance class. The Los Angeles traffic poses real challenges to maintaining sacred non-judgmental presence. However, from time to time, moments of satori spring forth like a lotus out of the logistical mud puddle of parenthood. Commusings are short essays or monologues where we take a moment to think deeply about spirituality, philosophy, science, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno and sign up for the weekly Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com.

Having three daughters requires a lot chauffeuring around … to school, to “hang outs” and to dance class. The Los Angeles traffic poses real challenges to maintaining sacred non-judgmental presence. However, from time to time, moments of satori spring forth like a lotus out of the logistical mud puddle of parenthood.

Commusings are short essays or monologues where we take a moment to think deeply about spirituality, philosophy, science, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno and sign up for the weekly Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com.

Dr. Siva Mohan was trained in Western medicine before turning to Ayurveda as a more comprehensive method for healing. In her words, this 5,000-year-old science of life offers us “an awareness of the energetics of everything.” And from this nuanced awareness of what our bodies need we can choose and combine a wide range of healing modalities to achieve optimal health.

Watch Siva's Commune course, Living Well with Ayuveda for free at onecommune.com/ayurveda.

Dr. Siva Mohan was trained in Western medicine before turning to Ayurveda as a more comprehensive method for healing. In her words, this 5,000-year-old science of life offers us “an awareness of the energetics of everything.” And from this nuanced awareness of what our bodies need we can choose and combine a wide range of healing modalities to achieve optimal health. Watch Siva's Commune course, Living Well with Ayuveda for free at onecommune.com/ayurveda.

This podcast is supported by The Feminine Power Global Community. Visit femininepower.com/commune to access free Feminine Power videos with founder, Dr. Claire Zammit, and begin tapping into your Feminine Power.

Connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune and @jeffkrasno.

This musing explores the coincidence of opposites that emerge within the natural world and how nature’s intelligence yearns to bring these opposites together and find coherence. Commusings is our format where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno or sign up for the Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com.

This musing explores the coincidence of opposites that emerge within the natural world and how nature’s intelligence yearns to bring these opposites together and find coherence.

Commusings is our format where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno or sign up for the Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com.