How Growing Up in a Commune Shaped My Approach to Wellness

I was raised in a intentional community. This particular variety of intention community was an authentic hippy commune, created in 1969 by a group of young people living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California who were looking to live an alternative, experimental lifestyle. It was founded on a philosophy that you are perfect the way you are – not broken, wrong, or needing to be fixed. This was, and still is, a radical idea that has been around for millennia and is also a key pillar yogic philosophies.

Practical ArticlesSierra WagnerMarch 14, 2025perfection, morehouse, sangha, purnatva, commune, community, yogic philosophy