Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
Practical, trauma‑sensitive mindfulness 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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Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
Allowing Space to Simply Feel and Be (Guided Meditation)
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In this gentle bedtime practice, Sean Fargo guides us through a soothing meditation to unwind the nervous system and soften into rest. Rather than trying to fix or change anything, this meditation invites you to allow what’s here and let it be held in a space of kindness.
Whether you’re lying down for the night or simply seeking a few quiet moments to reset, this practice supports a natural shift into stillness and safety. There’s nothing to solve or get right—only an invitation to breathe, relax, and be.
💭 What You’ll Experience
- A slow, spacious invitation into rest
- Guidance that welcomes whatever sensations, thoughts, or feelings arise
- A reminder that you don’t need to be “calm” to allow calmness
- A deeply relaxing pause to end the day with care
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Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — this podcast explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
Each episode offers a mix of:
- Practical mindfulness and meditation teachings
- Conversations with respected meditation teachers, clinicians, authors, and researchers
- Real-world insights for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and caregivers
- Gentle reflections for anyone navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, grief, or change
If you’re interested in:
- Mindfulness meditation for everyday life
- Trauma-sensitive and compassion-based practices
- Teaching mindfulness in an authentic, non-performative way
- Deepening your own practice while supporting others
…you’re in the right place.
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My name is John Fargo. It's a pleasure to welcome all of you. This is intended to be a safe space for everyone to practice being present with our experience in a gentle way. I um founded mindfulness exercises about 10, 11 years ago, really as a free resource for people to develop their own mindfulness and emotional intelligence and meditation practice. And it has continued to grow over the years, largely because we have such a wonderful community of practitioners and mindfulness teachers. And so we co-create this community together. We've had a lot of guest teachers over the years, like Gabor Mate and Rick Hansen, and Byron Kitty and teachers who've been around the block, and they continue to comment that our community just feels very supportive, sincere, carrying. It's one of the things that I really delight in is our sense of connection with each other. So I just want to thank you all for coming. Thank you for your mindfulness practice. Thank you for your interest in being mindful in the world and influencing those around you with a calm, grounded presence, or at least an intention to bring gentle awareness to your moment-to-moment experience. So we can begin as we normally do by doing a brief practice together. If anything feels you know overwhelming or like too uncomfortable, please just back off, you know, sense into a safe part of your body, sense into breathing, you know, resource yourself, maybe take a little while break, take care of yourself as needed. We're not going to do a deep dive into anything intentionally intense, but just wanted to share that we have options just in case something does arise. Today's meditation, offer some invitations, some guidance that we can practice with, and there'll be quite a bit of time here for just a simple question and presence without my voice getting in the way too much. I hope all of you are doing well, and I know that you know life is also very challenging. So I offer this in a spirit of care and a gentleness so that we can be with our experience with a little bit of grace, a little bit of patience, and hopefully inviting a sense of ease and some spaciousness. So sensing into this experience. And the rest of our lives. Survey the body for any predominant sensation. Simply noticing what's here. Not trying to feel a certain way, but really just noticing what's here without an agenda. Sensing into the layers of sensations, noticing a predominant like emotions surface, sensing into those, and really just allowing ourselves to be however we are. So we kind of weaved in a few different kinds of mindfulness meditations if you want together. And I'm just allowing space for us to feel to be.
