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
Mindfulness Tools For Healing PTSD Across Three Stages
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We map a three-stage approach to using mindfulness for PTSD: immediate self-soothing, reconnecting with emotions, and long-term integration. A short guided practice shows how breath, grounding, and softening cues can create ease while we set clear safety guardrails.
• framing mindfulness for PTSD and its stages
• self-soothing practices for the immediate aftermath
• reconnecting with emotions with courage and choice
• integrating trauma healing over the long term
• simple guided breathing and body softening
• safety boundaries, when to pause, and support options
• rebuilding confidence, self-esteem, and relationships
If you experience a psychiatric emergency, please call your doctor and call 911 to get some support
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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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Framing Mindfulness For PTSD
SPEAKER_00Welcome to Mindfulness for PTSD. I'm Sean Fargo. In this exercise, I'm going to outline how we can use mindfulness for a few key stages of post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD. When dealing with the immediate aftermath of trauma, as we'll explore in the first few exercises of this path, it can be helpful to emphasize how self-soothing mindfulness practices can settle down the body and the mind to access more calm, a sense of groundedness, and ease, especially when disturbing emotions start to well up inside. Then in the subsequent few exercises, I'll explore mindfulness practices for the next stage of PTSD. Specifically, I'll lead you through practices that will go a little bit deeper to help denub you and re-establish a connection to your world of internal emotions and feelings with a sense of courage, confidence, and authenticity. The mindfulness practices will help you to integrate the initial form of trauma and begin to help you to move beyond it, utilizing key internal and external resources. Then in the final few practices, we'll explore how mindfulness can help you with the next stage of PTSD, to help you with the longer-term healing after the highly reactive core difficulties are healed or are on their way to healing. So I'm excited to work with you on rebuilding kind, non-judgmental awareness of your experience, and on how your healing can rebuild your confidence, self-esteem, behavior, and even your relationships. Mindfulness therapy can be done anytime, whether the trauma has been recent or whether it was long ago. What I ask from you is that you do them with a sense of courage. This will not be easy. If at any time you find it unbearable to stay with an exercise, that's fine. You can ignore the audio and find some space to relax. It's uncommon, but if you experience a psychiatric emergency, please call your doctor and call 911 to get some support. However, most people do find great benefit and healing from mindfulness as they deepen their journey to cultivate these skills of caring presence or mindfulness within themselves and as they integrate it throughout their lives. So with that in mind, let's begin a simple mindfulness practice of just noticing the felt sensations of breathing and a sense of ease as you relax your body. So let's start this brief mindfulness practice for self-soothing as we explore how mindfulness can help with PTSD. Please close your eyes or look downward just to limit visual distractions in a safe and secure place. Feel your body as it touches the ground or the chair, in whatever posture you happen to be in.
Softening And Ease
SPEAKER_01Relax your belly. See if you can breathe naturally. Breathing in and out. Dropping your shoulders. Loosen your jaw. Soften the muscles of your face and around your eyes. Breathing fully. Inviting a sense of ease.
SPEAKER_00In your body and in your mind, what would that peace feel like?
SPEAKER_01As you breathe naturally in and out with a sense of ease. Well done. This is a great start.
Series Overview And Encouragement
SPEAKER_00So as you can see, it's pretty easy to invite a sense of ease in the body and the mind. Takes a little practice, but over and over you'll be able to deepen a sense of self-soothing, where you'll be able to access this feeling of calm just about anywhere. So to recap, this series of exercises are designed to help you heal. We'll explore self-soothing practices, some ways to integrate well-being with your trauma, and to cultivate deep interior resources to allow you to live your best self. It may not be easy, but you can do this. If you experience any unhealthy or concerning thoughts during these exercises, please let your health care provider know. Many people do find this very helpful, and I applaud your courage. I hope some of this has already been helpful for you. Thank you for your mindfulness.
