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
Beauty Of Your Breath
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We guide a gentle mindfulness practice that softens the body, anchors attention in the breath, and trains a kind return from wandering thoughts. The aim is a reliable home base in presence that eases anxiety without force or judgment.
• settling posture, softening belly, shoulders and jaw
• choosing breath as a steady home base
• receiving the breath rather than controlling it
• using a soft “thinking” note to interrupt storylines
• re-relaxing the body and reopening awareness
• allowing background sounds and sensations
• strengthening the muscle of returning to presence
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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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Establishing Breath As Home Base
Relaxed Awareness And Sensations
Labeling Thoughts And Returning
Resting In Living Presence
SPEAKER_00Welcome. I'm Sean Fargo. To reduce anxiety, please find a posture that feels relaxed. Remembering to breathe naturally and fully. Using your belly as you breathe in and out. Invite a sense of ease into your body. Relaxing your belly as you breathe. Dropping your shoulders. Loosening the muscles of your face. And jaw. And now close your eyes or look downwards. And rest your hands in an easy, effortless way. Take a few moments to scan your awareness through the sensations of your body. What can you feel in your body right now? And wherever possible, soften and release any obvious areas of physical tension. And we begin the practice of coming back to the present moment by establishing our home base. While there are many possible anchors to hold our attention, such as sounds or sensations throughout the body. The most common and the one that we'll explore here will be the breath. So please breathe naturally. As you breathe in, you know. Expanding with the in-breath, deflating with the outbreath. Just take some moments to bring your attention to the sensations of breathing in one of these areas with relaxed attentiveness. There's no need to control the breath. Instead, you're receiving the breath. Much like you'd listen to sounds. Receiving the breath moment to moment. With a relaxed awareness, discover what the breath really feels like. As a changing experience of sensations. Is your home base? A place to rest and be aware. So in these next few moments, simply relax as the breath comes in. Notice what it's like. And relax as the breath goes out. Again, noticing the immediate experience of sensations. You might find that your mind is drifted off into thoughts. It's completely natural. The mind is conditioned to move off into thinking about the future or the past. So when you become aware of thinking, you might use a soft, friendly note. Just say thinking, thinking. Simply re-relax. Open your awareness again to your body. Feeling the aliveness in the body. Relaxing the sensations around your heart. And then without judgment, just allow yourself to gently return again to the inflow and outflow of the breath. Let your breath become an intimate friend, a home base that reconnects you with your own presence. And as you resettle with the inhale, an exhale, you might notice other experiences. Something touching your skin, or a sound around you, or a temperature. Whatever's in the background, it can be there without drawing you away. Just continue to rest with the breath to relax with your breath. With the simple intention of noticing when you can, when you drift off into thought. Simply pause, re-relax, and without judgment of good or bad, right or wrong, just gently come back into this moment. As you breathe. Instead, you're developing the capacity to recognize when thoughts are happening without getting lost in the storyline. Each time that you notice that you've drifted off into the future or the past, it's an opportunity to strengthen your muscle of remembering to come back to this moment, gently coming back into living presence. Breathing in, know that you're breathing in. Fully here, awake at home in presence.
