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
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Explore more resources and training at MindfulnessExercises.com and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification.
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
A Guided Mindfulness Meditation For Softening Into Now
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We guide a short mindfulness meditation that trains gentle awareness and helps us soften into the present moment. We breathe with the body, notice how the heart responds, and practise accepting sensations and emotions with quiet peace.
• setting an intention to soften into now
• breathing with the whole body as an anchor
• noticing sensations as they change moment to moment
• sensing how the heart relates to experience
• practising acceptance of whatever we feel
• reorienting through sound, temperature, and touch points
• reconnecting with community when ready
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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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Welcome And Intention
SPEAKER_00Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. My name is Sean Fargo. Today we're going to be doing a guided mindfulness meditation exploring the practice of gentle awareness. We invite you today into this simple, sacred act of softening into the present moment. Right here, right now. We're going to be learning how to breathe with our body, noticing how our heart responds to this experience of being here with these sensations and emotions. We'll be approaching each sensation, each emotion with a sense of gentle peacefulness, allowing these feelings to be here as we breathe. And inviting a sense of quiet presence that stays with us long after the meditation ends.
SPEAKER_01Just gonna close my door real fast. Sensing into the whole body as we breathe. Exploring different sensations around the body, noticing how the heart is relating to this experience. This gentle awareness of this experience. Can we relate to this moment with a sense of peacefulness?
SPEAKER_02Allow us acceptance this gentle awareness breathing in this body moment to moment.
Body Breathing And Whole-Body Sensing
SPEAKER_01And again noticing how the heart may be relating to this moment to this experience.
Heart Awareness And Acceptance
SPEAKER_02This gentle awareness. Allowing ourselves to feel whatever we feel to notice new layers of this experience and finding a sense of peace with presence. And may we bring the same quality and gentle awareness to each moment and to each emotion and sensation and to our hearts for the rest of our lives.
SPEAKER_01Maybe taking a deep breath or to be orienting to little wiggles in the body with sounds and temperature around us. Touch points of our body on the ground or the seat.
Bringing Gentle Presence Into Life
SPEAKER_02Slowly reconnecting with our community whenever you're ready.
