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
Resting With Breath: A Guided Practice For Gentle Presence
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We guide a short meditation on gentle awareness, using breath, body, and emotion as anchors for presence. We explore how simple awareness can hold chaos, restore balance, and connect us to values and care.
• setting the intention to stop striving
• anchoring attention in natural breathing
• noticing sensations, sounds, and thoughts
• meeting emotion as energy in the body
• layering awareness with curiosity and care
• using the mantra simple awareness
• reorienting to the room with steady presence
• carrying gentle awareness into daily life
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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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Setting The Intention
SPEAKER_00Welcome. Today we're going to be practicing gentle awareness of our natural experience. We're not trying to get anywhere or do anything special. Or trying to feel a certain way. We're simply going to be bringing this gentle awareness to whatever arises in the body with our breathing. Or any predominant emotions that may be coming up for us. Simply bringing this gentle awareness to whatever comes up, allowing it to be here, breathing through it all. And so as we begin, let's take a moment to settle in as we explore what it means to rest in this simple awareness. It's raining here today in Berkeley. Rain was not on the forecast for today, as of this morning, but here it is. Noticing where our awareness is, noticing what we're aware of in this moment. Some of us may be aware of physical sensations, sounds, tastes, stories or thoughts, thoughts of the past or the future, sensing into breathing, noticing what emotions are present or as we breathe. What energies we're carrying in our bodies. However, it is inviting a simple sense of care with this experience imbued in this gentle awareness. Some of us may choose to be aware of something simple, like the inhale and exhale of each breath. Some of us may bring gentle awareness to emotion that's very present for us. Noticing the energies of that emotion. Some of us may notice more and more layers of this experience. Layers of emotion, sensations, and more embodied fullness. Noticing new things about this unfolding experience, breathing with this experience, breathing with the body, inviting spacious care, carrying awareness to this unfolding experience. May we bring the same gentle awareness to ourselves and to others for the rest of our lives. Whenever we're ready and slowly reorienting back to the space around us and to each other. Sometimes deceptively simple. Sometimes if things feel complicated, busy, chaotic, sometimes we can use the mantra simple, simple simple awareness, inviting us to come home to ourselves, to our breathing, to our heart. Remember that we can relate to anything with this gentle awareness of how it's actually unfolding here right now. So that we can remember balance is presence, some of our deeper values, where we can heal ourselves.
