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 For Long Lines And Short Tempers
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
We turn a slow line into a short mindfulness practice that eases tension and reshapes impatience into patience and kindness. We ground in breath, relax the body, and extend compassion to strangers and staff who share the same wish to be happy.
• naming impatience as normal and common
• breath work with nose inhales and mouth exhales
• scanning and softening jaw, shoulders and belly
• grounding through feet, posture and relaxed face
• wishing yourself ease, patience and kindness
• sensing others’ shared purpose and humanity
• extending compassion to staff doing their best
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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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Naming Impatience Without Judgment
SPEAKER_01As you find yourself here waiting in line, it's tempting to grow impatient, to tap your heels, to check your phone, to judge people for being too slow, or to judge yourself for picking the wrong time. This impatience and tendency to judge is very normal, very common. There are many people around the world, maybe millions of people around the world, experiencing the same impatience while waiting in line right now. So you're not alone. Fortunately, we can take this opportunity of time when we're not quote unquote doing anything to practice mindfulness, the art of non-judgmental awareness of our current moment experience. So while you're waiting in line right now, begin by simply taking a couple of deep breaths, inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth. And as you relax your breathing, just take a moment to notice whether there's any tension anywhere in the body, like in your jaw, shoulders, or your belly. Simply noticing any areas that are tight, and see if you can relax around them.
Breath And Body Relaxation
SPEAKER_00Softening these areas as you breathe deeply. Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth as you relax your body.
SPEAKER_01Just notice your feet on the ground, feeling the weight of your body being pulled downwards by gravity, sensing into the expansiveness of your body in the room or the space that you're in.
Extending Kindness To Others
SPEAKER_00As you notice your feet on the ground, your posture upright and dignified. Your face and your chest relaxed. See if you can wish yourself a sense of ease. Wishing yourself patience and kindness. Now sense into the energies of the people in line with you.
SPEAKER_01Knowing that they're in line for a similar purpose.
SPEAKER_00These are people with busy lives who simply want to be happy. And patience and kindness. Reflecting on the people who are in charge of this line, this waiting.
SPEAKER_01That they're in a situation in their lives when they're doing the best that they can under their life circumstances, to the best of their mental and physical abilities, and that they too want to be happy. And just seeing if you can wish them a sense of ease, a sense of patience, and some kindness.
