Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
by Sean Fargo
Latest episode
Guided Meditation: Gentle Awareness
Guided Meditation: Gentle Awareness
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 336 episodes
- Guided Meditation: Gentle Awareness · 4 minWe guide a short practice to arrive together by feeling the feet on the ground, the body on the seat, and the breath moving naturally. We stay close to physical sensation and…
- What If Burnout Is A Values Problem · 23 minWe explore how perception is filtered by what we value most and why the right questions can change our experience of the same reality. Dr John Demartini connects values…
- Seven Practical Ways To Use Tech Mindfully · 33 minYour phone isn’t just a distraction, it’s a training environment. Every red badge, breaking headline, autoplay prompt, and meeting notification can condition your nervous system…
- Why Your Brain Stops Taking Everything Personally · 25 minWe talk with Dr. Sara Lazar about why mindfulness meditation can feel life-changing beyond lower stress and how that shift maps onto stages of ego development and perspective…
- A Guided Initiation Meditation For Coming Home To Your Body · 5 minWe guide a simple hand-on-chest meditation with Master Ming Tong Gu that helps us feel the truth of our own existence beyond stories and labels. We leave with a deeper sense of…
- What If Love Is The Whole Path · 35 minYour meditation practice might be giving you a clue you keep missing: it can be felt in the head. Sean Fargo sits down with Liam McClintock, founder of FitMind and author of…
- Dr. Sara Lazar: How Mindfulness Changes Pain And Fear Responses · 33 minPain is inevitable, but the brain’s “this is unbearable” reaction is more flexible than most of us realize. Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Sara Lazar joins us to unpack the neural…
- Small Internal Pivots That Can Calm Your Nervous System Today · 16 minWe talk with Dr Elisha Goldstein about how tiny internal shifts can calm chronic stress, change our choices and strengthen emotional longevity. We break down the 4R method and…
- Permission To Wiggle Counts As Meditation, with Jennifer Moffitt (Mindful Birthing) · 4 minJennifer Moffitt guides a short mindfulness practice that begins with movement and ends with a calmer, clearer connection to breath and body. We focus on permission, presence…
- Mindful Birthing · 41 minBirth has a way of destroying our best-laid plans, and that’s not a personal failure, it’s reality. We sit down with Jennifer Moffitt, a midwife who’s attended over a thousand…
- Metta As Mental Fitness · 14 minJhana gets talked about like a remote mountaintop experience, but Liam McClintock argues it can be trained with a surprisingly human doorway: love. I sit down with Liam, founder…
- How To Come Home To Your Body, with Mingtong Gu · 42 minIf this conversation stirred something in you, Master Mingtong Gu’s book Coming Home to Embodied Awakening is a beautiful next step. Order at mingtonggu.com/book and receive a…
- How A Police Reporter Found Mindfulness And Helped Share It With Millions · 12 minMindfulness can calm you down, but what if that’s only the entry point? I’m joined by Melvin McLeod, longtime editor at Lion’s Roar and a co-founder of Mindful Magazine, to talk…
- Darkness Retreat Basics · 9 minTurn off the lights and the mind gets loud fast. Sean Fargo sits down with Scott Berman, founder of Sky Cave Retreats, to explore what happens when you spend days in complete…
- The Myth Of Selfless Service · 25 minThe fastest way to burn out in helping work is also the most socially praised: chronic self-sacrifice. We sit down with Dr. John Demartini, world-renowned human behavior expert…
- Mindful Tech Habits · 28 minYour phone is not the villain, and you are not weak. The real challenge is that modern technology is designed inside the attention economy, and it quietly trains your mind…
- Return To The Belly · 29 minYour mind can think its way into knots, but your body already knows how to come home. Sean Fargo sits down with longtime Qigong teacher, Taoist meditation guide, and author…
- Fit Mind: From Neuroscience To Monkhood With A Four-Step Path To Lasting Bliss · 59 minWe catch up with Liam McClintock, founder of FitMind and author of “FitMind: Four Steps to Lasting Bliss,” on how his neuroscience background and years as a Buddhist monk reshape…
- What If Reclaiming Your Mind Means Reclaiming Your Tech · 11 minYour feed can feel like reality, until you notice how quickly it makes you tense, reactive, and certain. We sit down with Jay Vijarthi, a mindfulness teacher, designer, and…
- Susan Piver On The Heart Sutra And The Real Point Of Sitting · 10 minMeditation gets marketed as a calm-down button, a focus trick, or the ultimate self-improvement tool. Then you try it and discover your mind did not get the memo. Sitting with us…
- How Small Emotional Pivots Break Stress Cycles · 31 minYour calendar is packed, your phone never stops, and somehow your body still thinks every moment is an emergency. We sit down with clinical psychologist and mindfulness teacher…
- Five Keys To A Deeper Mindfulness Practice, with Melvin McLeod · 43 minMindfulness is everywhere now, but the way we talk about it can feel strangely small: a tool for stress, a way to focus, a better “hack” for busy lives. I sit down with Melvin…
- A Grounded Eyes-Open Meditation With Susan Piver · 12 minYour meditation doesn’t need better willpower, a quieter mind, or a more “spiritual” seat on the floor. With renowned meditation teacher Susan Piver, we practice a clear…
- How Taoist Meditation And Qigong Turn Stress Into Flow · 10 minTrying harder can feel like the only option until it stops working. We sit down with Solala Towler, a longtime teacher of Qigong, Taoist meditation, and the Way of Tea, to…
- Leaving New York To Rebuild A Daily Meditation Practice · 10 minBusy can start to feel like a personality, especially when you’re doing meaningful work and getting rewarded for it. Sean Fargo sits down with Buddhist meditation teacher and…
- Are Your Goals Truly Yours Or Borrowed Values? · 7 minYour mind does not just record reality, it edits it, polarizes it, and then makes decisions based on the edit. That is why we can feel certain we are “right” while repeating the…
- Human Sustainability At Work, with Rosina Geiger · 31 minBurnout doesn’t usually arrive as a dramatic collapse. It shows up as subtle numbness, constant urgency, and a workplace culture that celebrates “push through” while quietly…
- Imposter Syndrome In Mindfulness Teaching And How To Work With It · 19 minThe most common reason people hold back from teaching mindfulness isn’t lack of talent, it’s that quiet thought: “I’m not good enough to lead this.” We sit down with Buddhist…
- Dr. Elisha Goldstein on Tiny Shifts: How Emotional Health Transforms Stress, Relationships, and Longevity · 49 minWe explore how tiny shifts can interrupt emotional loops in seconds and help us access calm, clarity, and self-compassion when life feels overwhelming. Dr Elisha Goldstein…
- Eyes-Open Mindfulness · 27 minEyes-open meditation can sound like the worst idea if you’re used to practice as a private escape. Then Susan Piver walks us through why keeping the eyes open may be the most…
- Living Namaste, with Jeremy David Engles · 46 min“Namaste” might be the most repeated word in modern yoga, and also one of the least lived. Sean Fargo sits down with professor and longtime yoga and meditation teacher Jeremy…
- Nothing's Missing: Dr. John Demartini on Mindfulness as Wholeness · 55 minWe talk with Dr John Demartini about using better questions to balance perception, dissolve emotional polarisation, and practise mindfulness as full awareness rather than escape…
- How To Build A Healthier Relationship With Your Phone · 26 minYour phone is not just a gadget. It is a gateway into an economy built to capture attention, shape behavior, and keep you coming back. We bring on Jay Vidyarthi, mindfulness…
- How Complete Darkness Can Reveal What We Keep Avoiding · 57 minWe talk with Scott Berman, founder of Sky Cave Retreats, about what extended time in complete darkness actually does to the body and mind when distractions, orientation, and…
- Guided Meditation For A Positive Future · 10 minWe guide a calm, focused meditation to envision a positive future and connect it to simple, repeatable actions. Breath, imagery, and gentle prompts help shift from analysis to…
- Taoist Meditation Practices For Stillness And Vitality, with Solala Towler · 56 minWe talk with Taoist meditation and qigong teacher Solala Tauler about returning to the source through simple practices that fit into real life. We explore how slowing down…
- What If Hunger Isn’t A Problem To Solve? · 20 minWe explore mindful hunger, silent monastic meal rituals, and how attention shifts taste, mood, and choice. Practical tools include raisin and chocolate meditations, body-based…
- Gratitude As Your First Wealth · 9 minWhat if the fastest path to feeling rich is learning to see what’s already here? We take a clear, grounded look at abundance as a felt experience and show how mindful…
- Guided Loving-Kindness: Wish Others And Yourself Well · 8 minWe guide a short loving‑kindness meditation that begins with softening the body and ends with offering yourself the same care you give others. Simple phrases and steady breath…
- When Love Meets Vulnerability, It Becomes Steady · 14 minWe explore equanimity as a heart practice that meets vulnerability without armor and shifts our relationship to identity, praise and blame, and social media reactivity. We offer…
- Reclaim Your Mind: 7 Mindful Strategies For A Healthier Phone Habit, with Jay Vidyarthi · 33 minWe talk with mindfulness teacher and technologist Jay Vidyarthi about rebuilding a healthier relationship with attention in a world engineered for distraction and speed. Jay's…
- Equanimity & The Art Of Falling · 17 minWe explore equanimity as the art of falling, learning how to stay steady and open when life feels uncertain. We share how caring perspective helps us face world news, strong…
- Coming Back To Our Senses · 19 minWe explore how to receive sights and sounds instead of chasing them, and why “looking through” loosens labels and brings clarity. We share practical ways to work with music…
- How To Lead A Group Meditation With Safety And Choice · 12 minSomeone joins your group meditation, the room goes quiet, and you realise not everyone is okay. What do you do next without panicking or making it worse? We talk through the…
- How To Lead With Purpose When It Matters Most · 8 minWe 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…
- Grounding Through Anxiety With Senses · 14 minWe explore how to meet anxiety, overwhelm, and dissociation with gentle presence instead of force. We focus on finding safety through sensory anchors, kind inquiry, and practical…
- A Guided Mindfulness Meditation For Softening Into Now · 5 minWe 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…
- Shamatha Vipassana Explained For Modern Minds · 11 minYou can’t breathe in the past or the future, and you can’t switch off thinking on command. That’s where Susan Piver brings a refreshing kind of relief to meditation practice…
- How To Stop Believing You Are Not Enough · 26 minThe loudest voice in your head might not be telling the truth. When the world feels more divided and more cruel, it gets easier to assume other people are bad and to quietly…
- Staying Human In A Digital Age · 19 minWe explore how to stay human amid fast tech change, from analog memories to AI worries, through the lens of community practice and elder wisdom. We share ADHD-friendly…
