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
Principles For A Planet-Wide Wake-Up
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The ground keeps moving, but our old habits try to pretend nothing has changed. In this mini episode, James Baraz talks honestly about what this moment is saying to us: we’re not separate, our choices echo, and we can learn to respond with more care than fear.
James Baraz's website: https://www.awakeningjoy.info/
Starting with a simple practice—paying attention—we trace how mindfulness exposes the threads that bind our lives together, from family routines to global supply chains.
When you feel those threads, John Muir’s idea that everything is hitched to everything else stops being a quote and becomes a compass.
From there we explore a handful of principles that travel well across crises and calm alike.
Actions have consequences—call it karma or cause and effect—and that truth invites more deliberate choices at work, at home, and in public life. Integrity is not a moral badge; it’s the felt ease of living one story instead of juggling two.
Stewardship shows up as everyday compassion, the kind that checks in on neighbors, protects shared resources, and invests in long horizons. And change, while hard, becomes probable when intention outweighs inertia.
James talks about that tipping point and how a clear why turns into practical habits that actually stick.
These stories help us see our agency: the power to align values with action and to widen our circle of concern without burning out. Mindfulness ties it all together as a gateway to clarity — creating just enough pause to interrupt reactivity, meet complexity, and choose the next right step.
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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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A Planet-Wide Wake-Up
SPEAKER_00There are some principles around these teachings that I think can make a huge difference in shifting the consciousness of this planet. One, as you start paying attention, you start seeing that you're not separate from everyone else. We're all in this together. And there's an understanding little by little, I don't know if if you've gotten into this, Sean, or you know, maybe you intend to, about understanding the interconnectedness of it all. As John Muir said, something like, you know, once once you see, once you take, try to take something out of the universe, you see it every it's hitched to everything else. So to really understand how what we do makes a difference not just to us, but to everyone in this world. And this reality that we're in right now is pointing that out in a way that no that we've never seen it before. We'd better figure out how to be on the same page in this, or it'll just keep on. This virus is teaching us. There's a beautiful powerful video. I'll share you the link later on called A Letter from the Virus. Anyone has seen that? Very powerful in Italian, and it's with subtitles. And it's it's the virus speaking as an ally coming to wake us up. And then there's another video, uh the great realization. Anybody see that one where the the father is reading the the kid's book to the child looking back at 2020. Oh, when people used to used to do strange things on this planet. So there this is a wake-up call to see we're all in this together. A couple of other principles at the heart of these teachings. Actions have consequences. What the what Jesus taught, what goes around comes around. Or no, as ye sows, so shall ye reap. Colloquially, what goes around comes around. Or the law of karma, actions have consequences. Another principle, like we are saying before about integrity, that living with integrity feels good and is the way to honor all life. Another principle is stewardship, how good it feels to express our caring and compassion. And one other principle is we can change. Change is possible. If you have the intention, if you think, what is it, if you if your intention to change is greater than your intention to stay the same, you'll change. So all of those are underlying principles that can shift consciousness. That mindfulness is a kind of gateway to understanding.
