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When Your Online Wellness Community Turns Wellness™️
Is there no escape?
If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know that I love wellness and I’ve written about it many times.
In fact, my first Medium article was about practicing yoga as an average person.
Since then, my wellness journey has continued and grown, though it’s led to many realizations about how people view the wellness community and what it does to itself by falling victim to the common traps of modern society (mainly late-stage capitalism and disinformation).
I found Commune (onecommune.com), an online wellness space that hosts courses, virtual events, and community for “holistic health”, not too long after I graduated university.
I was exploring yoga more and more and an ad for one of their online yoga classes popped up.
The thing about Commune is that it’s not a wholly accessible place, as it makes its money through selling these courses or by offering subscriptions to the entire library of courses, but they do offer free limited trials of the courses and they have a free podcast. So that’s where I started as a broke young adult just dipping my toes in.
Unfortunately, being in the online wellness space means having to wade through a lot of, well, bullshit.
