Commune Courses
Commune creates video courses with world-renowned teachers on topics such as integrative medicine, nutrition, spirituality, meditation, personal growth, relationships, and mindful leadership. The Commune Courses Podcast offers free audio excerpts of our most popular courses — though be sure to subscribe and listen because lessons won’t stay in your feed forever! To get 14 days of free Commune Membership, which includes access to watch or listen to 140+ courses, go to onecommune.com/free.
Episodes
57 episodes
Sleep Better with Dr. Michael Breus — Day 1: Welcome to Sleep School
Research shows that the more we know about sleep, the better we tend to sleep. This is likely because feeling educated about sleep equates to feeling in control…
Sleep Better with Dr. Michael Breus — Day 2: How Your Daytime Affects Your Nighttime
Your morning coffee, that stressful meeting, the late-night Netflix binge… they all play some part in the way your body prepares for and moves into its sleep cy…
Sleep Better with Dr. Michael Breus — Day 3: Your Pre-Bed Routine
We’ve established that sleep is both rhythmic and systemic. So, it follows suit that solutions for our sleep issues should be as well. When we make small tweaks…
Sleep Better with Dr. Michael Breus — Day 4: Your Bedroom Environment
You wouldn’t run a marathon in flip-flops and you wouldn’t climb a mountain in a speedo (unless you’re Wim Hof). Your sleep is no different. Today we assess how…
Sleep Better with Dr. Michael Breus — Day 5: Your Morning Routine
What’s the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? Hit the snooze button? Scroll Instagram? Waking up right sets the tone for a fulfilling and effect…
The Wellness Master Class with Brendon Burchard — Day 1: Energy & Motivation
Meditation, yoga, and a focus on nutrition are fantastic, but without a firm rooting in a deeply personal purpose and intention, these are just actions. Today’s…
The Wellness Master Class with Brendon Burchard — Day 2: Whole Life Assessment
Real well-being starts with awareness. Today you’ll check in with every area of our life and ask some tough questions. You’ll then use what you find to realign…
The Wellness Master Class with Brendon Burchard — Day 3: Setting Intentions with Clarity
When you ask better questions, you get better answers. This may seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice. When we get clear on our pur…
The Wellness Master Class with Brendon Burchard — Day 4: Overcoming Overwhelm
Today you’ll learn the first step to dealing with overwhelm — setting firm boundaries. There are many situations in life you can’t control, and when those thing…
The Wellness Master Class with Brendon Burchard — Day 5: Stress
Today’s course walks you through best practices, habits, and mindsets for dealing with stress. Examine your life and identify your stress points, using Brendon’…
Living Well with Ayurveda - Day 1: An Introduction to Ayurveda and the Doshas
One of the most challenging things to do is to define Ayurveda. It’s a science, an art, an awareness, a healing process, a path to spiritual growth, and a lifes…
Living Well with Ayurveda - Day 2: The Wisdom of Your Attention
Ayurveda honors the fact that everything in the subtle energetics will come into the gross physical body energetics at some point in time. So on Day 2, you’ll s…
Living Well with Ayurveda - Day 3: The Different Energies of Vata, Pitta, Kapha
Today you’ll learn about the patterns of imbalance in order to learn what these signs and symptoms are revealing about your current state and the nature of dosh…
Living Well with Ayurveda - Day 4: The Healing Qualities of the Doshas
The information you discover in this course is meant to be put into action. You start by assessing where you are at, right now. By doing so, you can then respon…
Living Well with Ayurveda - Day 5: Micro-Choices & Their Big Impact
It’s important to prioritize shifts that are easy and doable in your micro-choices first. Small shifts add up to inspire the bigger ones, and they’re more susta…
A Special Message from Dr. Siva Mohan
We've covered so much essential information in the first 5 days. Here's what the rest of the course covers: Day 6: Eating & Appetite Patterns Day 7: Relaxation…
Meditations for Life's Challenges with Michael B. Beckwith – Day 1: Health & Wellbeing
In today's lesson, we deal with the challenge and the gift of the body temple. When the body temple is healthy, you're able to hold more energy. More of life’s…
Meditations for Life's Challenges with Michael B. Beckwith – Day 2: Fear & Anxiety
You're not here to mimic anyone else. You're also not trying to be superior to someone else; rather, you're seeking to be superior to your previous self. You’re…
Meditations for Life's Challenges with Michael B. Beckwith – Day 3: Relationships
We’ve been coded to expect relationships as a means to get something, when in fact relationships are ships for transformation. A lot of relationships have a lot…
Meditations for Life's Challenges with Michael B. Beckwith – Day 4: Loneliness
Today, we’ll learn how to deal with loneliness. Loneliness is abated when we are able to like ourselves when we're by ourselves. The idea is that if you can't l…
Meditations for Life's Challenges with Michael B. Beckwith – Day 5: Abundance
One of the first things we have to come to spiritual grips with is that we live in a field of abundance. We're living in a field of infinite energy that's never…
The Truth About Supplements with Dr. Mary Pardee – Day 1: What Is Really in Your Supplements?
Supplements are a popular, profitable, and rapidly growing industry. Yet there’s still a lot of confusion about what’s in supplements, what they do, and which s…
The Truth About Supplements with Dr. Mary Pardee – Day 2: Vitamin D
Vitamin D is vital for bone and muscle health because it plays an important role in helping your body absorb calcium and phosphorus, both critical minerals for…
The Truth About Supplements with Dr. Mary Pardee – Day 3: Vitamin C
Vitamin C is well known for boosting immunity, but how well? In this lesson, Dr. Mary Pardee offers a brief history lesson of Vitamin C, who may be most likely…
The Truth About Supplements with Dr. Mary Pardee – Day 4: Whey
Whey — a collection of proteins derived from milk — can help drive gains in muscle mass. Maintaining muscle mass is important at any age, but particularly so as…
The Truth About Supplements with Dr. Mary Pardee – Day 5: Collagen
Collagen seems to be everywhere right now — in pills, creams, and powders. It’s a nearly $2 billion industry and only expected to get bigger. You’ve likely seen…
The Truth About Supplements with Dr. Mary Pardee – Day 6: Curcumin
Curcumin is an antioxidant derived from turmeric (an earthy, yellow-orange spice) – and in other plants in the Zingiberaceae family. Curcumin is best known for…
Political Hope with Charles Eisenstein — Day 1: The Origin of Wrongness
Most of the time, in modern society, we live under the sway of a story of separation that tells us who we are, why we're here, how to live, how to be a man, how…
Political Hope with Charles Eisenstein — Day 2: The Mentality of War
It's time for a different solution, a different approach to the problems on earth. First, we need to take a step back from our habits that operate automatically…
Political Hope with Charles Eisenstein — Day 3: Crisis of Belonging
Today we address the question, “Why do we have this intense need to be on the right side?” About the Commune Courses Podcast Commune creates video courses with…
Political Hope with Charles Eisenstein — Day 4: Interbeing
We need a new story. A story that answers the basic questions. Who am I? Why am I here? What is the purpose of humanity? About the Commune Courses Podcast Commu…
Political Hope with Charles Eisenstein — Day 5: Change
The question of power rests on a theory of change. In the story of separation, change happens when a force is exerted upon the world. We commonly ask: How do we…
Relationships with Marianne Williamson — Day 1: Relationships and Your Spiritual Journey
Living on this planet we have been mentally trained to perceive without love. We have an automatic and instinctive temptation to move into judgment, attack-mode…
Relationships with Marianne Williamson — Day 2: How to Have Miraculous Relationships
A miracle happens when you stop thinking with fear and start thinking with love. Your greatest power lies in your mind. To establish stronger connections, you n…
Relationships with Marianne Williamson — Day 3: Overcoming the Ego Mind
The ego mind is the voice inside your head that causes you to perceive without love. It's your self-hatred masquerading as self-love. In the following lesson, w…
Relationships with Marianne Williamson — Day 4: Opportunities for Growth
Relationships reveal the gap between how you behave and who you truly are. The focus of today's lecture is this: atonement. While we decided to act a certain wa…
The Feel Good Blood Sugar Challenge with Jessie Inchauspé – Day 1: Why Care About Glucose
Welcome to the world of blood sugar, glucose, and empowered eating. We’re happy you’re here to take charge of your glucose levels: an essential step to feeling…
The Feel Good Blood Sugar Challenge with Jessie Inchauspé – Day 2: Breakfast
Breakfast can make or break your energy levels for the entire day. Learn how to put together a breakfast that will fuel you without spiking your glucose. About…
The Feel Good Blood Sugar Challenge with Jessie Inchauspé – Day 3: Sugar Myths
What’s good sugar vs. bad sugar? Jessie clears up the confusion, so you can make more empowered decisions for your health. About the Commune Courses Podcast Com…
The Feel Good Blood Sugar Challenge with Jessie Inchauspé – Day 4: Order Matters
Steadying your glucose is not only about what you eat, but how you eat. This easy glucose hack will stabilize your glucose levels without changing anything that…
The Feel Good Blood Sugar Challenge with Jessie Inchauspé – Day 5: Veggie Power
Harness the power of fiber! Discover a super simple hack (plus yummy recipes) that will help you steady your glucose levels and avoid energy crashes, inflammati…
A Special Message from Jessie Inchauspé
So far Jessie has shared just some of her top blood sugar shortcuts — but you have 5 more days to go, plus a bonus tip! Here’s what’s ahead: Day 6: Calories vs.…
Mind Like Sky with Jack Kornfield — Day 1: Gratitude & Joy Meditation
Gratitude is the gracious acknowledgement of all that continues to sustain us in our life. The whole state of your heart and mind can soften, open to joy, and b…
Mind Like Sky with Jack Kornfield — Day 2: Letting Go Meditation
Letting go does not mean losing the knowledge we have gained from the past. The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images a…
Mind Like Sky with Jack Kornfield — Day 3: Grief Meditation
Grief is one of the heart’s natural responses to loss. By our willingness to mourn, we are able to acknowledge, integrate, and accept the truth of our losses. T…
Mind Like Sky with Jack Kornfield — Day 4: Stopping the War Within Meditation
As human beings, we are constantly at war to escape. To escape from fear, pain, or the circumstances we can’t control. But instead of escaping, we create immeas…
Mind Like Sky with Jack Kornfield — Day 5: Compassion Meditation
The human heart has the extraordinary capacity to transform the sorrows of life into a great stream of compassion. Compassion proclaims the power of the tender…
Hacking Your Healthcare with Dr. Mark Hyman – Day 1: Health Care vs. Sick Care
Today, Dr. Mark Hyman introduces you to a revolutionary approach to health called Functional Medicine, and how you can have a healthier doctor-patient relations…
Hacking Your Healthcare with Dr. Mark Hyman – Day 2: Vital Signs
Today Dr Hyman begins with a discussion of reference ranges, and how what medicine considers as “normal” may not be optimal for your health. Next, we apply this…
Hacking Your Healthcare with Dr. Mark Hyman – Day 3: Nutrition
Every single chemical reaction in our body needs enzymes, and every single reaction needs a coenzyme, or helper. Guess what coenzymes are? They're vitamins and…
Hacking Your Healthcare with Dr. Mark Hyman – Day 4: Hormones
When our hormones are out of balance, our energy levels, our zest for life, and our moods go haywire. The main hormones we address in this video are sex hormone…
Hacking Your Healthcare with Dr. Mark Hyman – Day 5: Heart Health
For too long our cardiovascular treatments have been overly broad, incomplete, reactionary and ineffective. Instead of a proactive lifestyle change, we wait unt…
A Closing Message from Dr. Mark Hyman
We've covered so much essential information like nutrition, hormones, and heart health. Hopefully you’re settling into your role as CEO of your healthcare. Here…
A Return to Wholeness with Dr. Gabor Maté – Introduction: Viewing Trauma as a Wound
Welcome to A Return to Wholeness with Dr. Gabor Maté. In this introduction to the program, Dr. Maté explains that trauma is not the event that caused the psycho…
A Return to Wholeness with Dr. Gabor Maté – Session 1: Human Nature vs. Modern Culture
This session explores what is true human nature — and how the modern world has warped our understanding of our needs. Dr. Maté begins by explaining that as huma…
A Return to Wholeness with Dr. Gabor Maté – Session 2: Approaching Trauma with Curiosity and Compassion
In this final free excerpt on the Commune Courses Podcast, Dr. Maté reminds us that trauma is a wound that you sustain; it's not what happened to you. He also e…
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Commune creates video courses with world-renowned teachers on topics such as integrative medicine, nutrition, spirituality, meditation, personal growth, relatio…