Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
Mindfulness and meditation for everyday life — and for the people who teach it. Expect grounded guided meditations, evidence‑informed tools, and candid conversations with leading voices in the field.
Hosted by Sean Fargo — former Buddhist monk, founder of MindfulnessExercises.com, and a certified Search Inside Yourself instructor—each episode blends compassion, clarity, and real‑world application for practitioners, therapists, coaches, educators, and wellness professionals.
What you’ll find:
• Guided practices: breath awareness, body scans, self‑compassion, sleep, and nervous‑system regulation
• Teacher tools: trauma‑sensitive language, sequencing, and ethical foundations for safe, inclusive mindfulness
• Expert interviews with renowned teachers and researchers (e.g., Sharon Salzberg, Gabor Maté, Byron Katie, Rick Hanson, Ellen Langer, Judson Brewer)
• Clear takeaways you can use today—in sessions, classrooms, workplaces, and at home
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Explore more resources and training at MindfulnessExercises.com and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification.
Episodes
295 episodes
Equanimity & The Art Of Falling
We explore equanimity as the art of falling, learning how to stay steady and open when life feels uncertain. We share how caring perspective helps us face world news, strong emotions, and personal hardship without losing our heart. • e...
Coming Back To Our Senses
We explore how to receive sights and sounds instead of chasing them, and why “looking through” loosens labels and brings clarity. We share practical ways to work with music, nature sounds, and eyes open or closed, and why silence can be the mos...
How To Lead A Group Meditation With Safety And Choice
Someone joins your group meditation, the room goes quiet, and you realise not everyone is okay. What do you do next without panicking or making it worse? We talk through the real-world side of teaching mindfulness, where compassion is not a vib...
How To Lead With Purpose When It Matters Most
We guide a short mindfulness practice to help you feel and define what purposeful leadership means in your body and choices. Through grounding, breath, and gentle inquiry, we explore clarity, values, and the sensations that signal true alignmen...
Grounding Through Anxiety With Senses
We explore how to meet anxiety, overwhelm, and dissociation with gentle presence instead of force. We focus on finding safety through sensory anchors, kind inquiry, and practical tools that help us return to the moment. • navigating difficu...
A Guided Mindfulness Meditation For Softening Into Now
We guide a short mindfulness meditation that trains gentle awareness and helps us soften into the present moment. We breathe with the body, notice how the heart responds, and practise accepting sensations and emotions with quiet peace.
Shamatha Vipassana Explained For Modern Minds
You can’t breathe in the past or the future, and you can’t switch off thinking on command. That’s where Susan Piver brings a refreshing kind of relief to meditation practice, especially if you’ve ever judged yourself for having a busy mind. We ...
How To Stop Believing You Are Not Enough
The loudest voice in your head might not be telling the truth. When the world feels more divided and more cruel, it gets easier to assume other people are bad and to quietly suspect the same about ourselves. I sit down with Buddhist...
Staying Human In A Digital Age
We explore how to stay human amid fast tech change, from analog memories to AI worries, through the lens of community practice and elder wisdom. We share ADHD-friendly mindfulness tools, invite simple neighborhood circles, and reflect on courag...
Breath, Intention, And A Warmer Morning
We lead a short morning practice that wakes the body, settles the mind, and sets calm strong focused intentions for the day. We imagine small joys, plan simple acts of care, and choose one mindful moment to meet life with warmth.• slow ...
Simple Moments, Deep Gratitude
We guide a step-by-step gratitude meditation that moves from a single present sensation to unseen helpers, essential tools, a beloved person, today’s small blessing, and even a challenging moment reframed with care. The session closes by thanki...
You Are Good. You Are Enough. My Interview with Lodro Rinzler
We explore why so many of us feel fundamentally flawed and how the Buddhist teaching of basic goodness offers a practical way back to ease. We share meditation-based tools for working with shame, self-doubt, and cultural messages of...
Loving Kindness, Made Simple
We guide a loving kindness meditation that starts with breath and grounding, then expands goodwill from self to loved ones, to those in struggle, to difficult people, and finally to all beings. We end by returning to intention with a gentle rem...
Joy Anyway, with Jan Hoath
Joy is easy to talk about when life is smooth and brutally hard to reach when your identity breaks, your plans collapse, or fear takes over. Sean Fargo sits down with leadership coach and author Jan Hoth, the “Joy Alchemist,” to get specific ab...
Mindfulness vs. Awareness - with Susan Piver
We sit down with Susan Piver to get clear on what mindfulness trains and what awareness reveals, then we rethink what meditation is actually doing to the heart and mind. Visit Susan Piver's website:
A Guided Journey Into Compassion And Calm
Want a calmer mind without numbing out? We guide a focused loving kindness session that starts with the body and ends with a wider, steadier heart. You’ll relax the shoulders and face, even out your breath, and use plain, memorable phrases that...
Mindful Movement, Somatic Presence, And Compassionate Practice
We challenge the statue myth and show how mindful movement, posture changes, and somatic awareness can deepen meditation while keeping compassion at the center. We also share a slow, heart-forward approach to loving kindness that fits real life...
Turning Restless Thoughts Into Restful Breath
Sleepless nights often start with a simple pattern: the lights go out, and the mind lights up. We’ve been there too—replaying the day, gaming out tomorrow, and feeling tension build with every loop. In this guided conversation and practice, we ...
Gratitude Beyond Words
We meditate on how gratitude feels and lives beyond polite words, asking how the heart expresses thanks and how that practice deepens love. We end with prompts to notice, act, and plan small, steady expressions of appreciation that others can f...
Kindness Begins With A Breath
Start with a single breath and watch your circle of care expand. We begin by grounding the body—soft shoulders, easy belly, relaxed face—so the mind can rest, then we introduce the core loving kindness phrases: may I be well, may I be safe and ...
Experience of Gratitude
We guide a gentle gratitude meditation that moves from body awareness to health, relationships, money, and a sense of safety. We close by normalising mixed feelings and inviting nonjudgmental noticing that helps gratitude grow where it was miss...
Why Calm Doesn’t Mean Boring (And How Your Passion Can Stay)
We rethink equanimity as a spacious, caring capacity that holds intensity without dulling life. We link Vedana—pleasant, unpleasant, neutral—as a direct gateway to balance, recovery, and frictionless experience across emotions and daily moments...
The Freedom Of Letting Go Of Rescue
We explore equanimity as open-handed love for parents and caregivers, moving from control to clear, steady presence. We share boundary-setting phrases, examine vulnerability, and offer tools to stay compassionate without burning out.• r...
A Guided Practice To Feel Grateful In Ordinary Moments
Pause with us for a few quiet minutes that can change the tone of your whole day. We guide a gentle gratitude practice that starts with settling your body and softening your gaze, then moves into noticing one simple detail of your surroundings—...