Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
Mindfulness and meditation 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
Updated 2-3x weekly. Follow the show, try this week’s practice, and share one insight in a review to help others discover the podcast.
Explore more resources and training at MindfulnessExercises.com and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification.
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
How To Lead With Purpose When It Matters Most
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We guide a short mindfulness practice to help you feel and define what purposeful leadership means in your body and choices. Through grounding, breath, and gentle inquiry, we explore clarity, values, and the sensations that signal true alignment.
• settling posture, breath and attention
• letting questions land without forcing answers
• noticing images, emotions and bodily cues
• asking what matters most as a leader
• sensing alignment versus tension
• imagining the felt texture of purposeful action
Teach mindfulness without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome.
Learn about our Internationally Accredited Certification Program: https://certify.mindfulnessexercises.com/
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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Settle The Body And Breath
SPEAKER_00Mindfulness exercises dot com leading with purpose. Let's begin this practice on leading with purpose. By first finding a posture that feels relaxed and alert. It's taking a moment to allow your body to settle in a comfortable position. Feeling your feet on the ground. Dropping your shoulders. And closing your eyes. Or looking downward to limit visual distractions. Taking a couple of deep breaths. Relaxing the belly. Just softening around any areas of tightness or tension. So let's explore leading with purpose. Regardless of your position, whether in an organization or a family, you're called on to lead at some point. The best leaders have a sense of clarity and purpose. With how they engage with the world and how they lead others. So I'm going to ask you a series of questions. But instead of thinking about the questions and coming up with responses, I want you to allow the questions to just sink in like pebbles being dropped into a still pond. And I want you to be sensitive to any ripples that you notice. Just feeling into the nature of the questions. As a leader, what is most important to you? As a leader, what is most important to you? What are you aiming to achieve as a leader? As I ask these questions, just noticing the thoughts and the feelings and any images that come to mind while you breathe in and breathe out. Bringing awareness to your body. Truly leading others with a strong sense of purpose. What does that feel like to be leading with a strong sense of purpose? Imagine what does that feel like.
