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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

We 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 tools that help us return to the moment. 
• navigating difficulty by building a safe harbor for awareness 
• responding to dissociation with curiosity and questions about safety 
• choosing anchors that feel safe enough: sound, breath, touch, movement 
• using sound as a primary practice: bell, silence, breathing, repeating “love” or “safety” 
• incorporating walking mindfulness and grounded movement 
• exploring anxiety by tracking future vs past thoughts, intensity, and body sensations 
• widening emotional vocabulary with lists of emotions and sensations over time 
• using self-compassion and the question “What would I like for myself?” 
• starting softly with comfort, gratitude, and connection before deeper practice 
Go to self-compassion.org

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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Grounding Through Anxiety With Senses

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 

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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A Guided Mindfulness Meditation For Softening Into Now

You 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, especially if you’ve ever judged yourself for having a busy mind. We talk about Shamatha Vipassana, the mindfulness awareness approach she teaches, and why the real skill is not perfect focus but the simple act of noticing and returning.

We also get practical about what mindfulness is and what it is not. Mindfulness is the trainable part: placing attention where you choose and coming back when it wanders. Awareness is the wider field that opens over time, often on its own. Susan shares why insight lives in awareness, why deeper practice can make us feel more (sometimes unexpectedly), and why teachers should expect inner states to shift in ways that do not follow a tidy script.

Along the way, we touch on what science can measure like stress and cortisol, insomnia support, and reduced depression relapse when paired with other care, while also honoring the contemplative side that doesn’t fit neatly in a chart. If you teach mindfulness, support clients, or simply want a kinder relationship with your own mind, this conversation gives you a clear frame you can use immediately. Subscribe, share this with a friend who thinks they’re “bad at meditating,” and leave a review. What belief about meditation do you want to unlearn next?

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.

Learn more at ...

Shamatha Vipassana Explained For Modern Minds

The 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 suspect the same about ourselves. 

I sit down with Buddhist teacher and author Lodro Rinzler to challenge that reflex with a grounded idea that’s both ancient and deeply practical: basic goodness. Not as a slogan, but as something you can recognise in real time, in your body, and in the most ordinary moments of your day.

We get specific about how shame and “not enoughness” take over, and why the stories we repeat can become a cocoon that blocks intimacy, courage, and joy. 

Lodro shares simple mindfulness and meditation practices for seeing thoughts as thoughts, loosening identity labels like “I’m an anxious person”, and returning to what’s actually happening right now. We also explore a helpful bridge to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: acceptance is not giving up. When we meet the present clearly, we become more skilful, more honest, and more able to take action without burning ourselves out.

Then we zoom out to the culture we’re swimming in: subtle advertising, status pressure, and consumerism that profit from insecurity. We talk about why deeper practice and meditation retreats can “reveal the water” and restore perspective, compassion, and agency. If you’re searching for self-worth, emotional resilience, and practical tools for mindfulness, this conversation is for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with the moment that hit you hardest.

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.

Learn more at ...

How To Stop Believing You Are Not Enough

We 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 mindfulness tools, invite simple neighborhood circles, and reflect on courage, tenderness, and what really matters.

• analog upbringing shaping views on tech and empathy
• fear of online teaching balanced by lifelong practice
• starting small neighborhood mindfulness circles
• honoring elder teachers and their perspective
• podcasting as a way to meet people
• practical mindfulness for ADHD with sensory anchors
• playful practices for kids and adults
• gentle closing with space, grace, and intention

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.

Learn more at ...

Staying Human In A Digital Age

We lead a short morning practice that wakes the body, settles the mind, and sets calm strong focused intentions for the day. We imagine small joys, plan simple acts of care, and choose one mindful moment to meet life with warmth.

• slow nasal inhales with open posture
• body scan from feet to head as aliveness
• calm strong focused mantra as embodied cues
• envision small moments of joy and meaning
• name one way to contribute to others
• plan simple care for body and heart
• choose one mindful minute without judgment
• carry warm intentions into ordinary tasks

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.

Learn more at ...

Breath, Intention, And A Warmer Morning

We guide a step-by-step gratitude meditation that moves from a single present sensation to unseen helpers, essential tools, a beloved person, today’s small blessing, and even a challenging moment reframed with care. The session closes by thanking the body, the mind, and the chance to pause.

• noticing one simple present sensation
• gratitude for unseen helpers in daily life
• honoring the tools and places that support work
• appreciation for a loved one and shared moments
• naming a small blessing from today
• exploring gratitude toward a current challenge
• closing thanks for body, mind, and the practice

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.

Learn more at ...

Simple Moments, Deep Gratitude

We explore why so many of us feel fundamentally flawed and how the Buddhist teaching of basic goodness offers a practical way back to ease. 

We share meditation-based tools for working with shame, self-doubt, and cultural messages of not-enoughness so we can act with more clarity and care. 

Buy Lodro Rinzler's Book: You Are Good. You Are Enough.
https://a.co/d/078HXYBb

Lodro's website: https://www.lodrorinzler.com/

• why Lodro writes You Are Good, You Are Enough amid divisiveness and rising self-doubt 
• how to recognise basic goodness through ordinary moments rather than abstract belief 
• the cocoon of self-stories and the shift from identity to present experience 
• how acceptance supports commitment and more skillful action in the world 
• subtle cultural messaging that reinforces not-enoughness and self-judgment 
• why retreats and longer sits can reset perspective on distraction and presence 
• choosing space over busy and aligning work with a clear intention 
• four immeasurables practices including loving-kindness for self and others 
• a practical “loving-kindness photo” for someone you struggle with 
• navigating imposter syndrome for mindfulness teachers without chasing perfection 
• healthy regret versus harmful shame and learning from mistakes 
• a nuanced view on “evil” as distance from basic goodness rather than a fixed essence 

Please check out Lodro Rinzler's website at https://www.lodrorinzler.com/ where you can find all those free guided meditations that we talked about, links to his past books, which I highly recommend.

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.

Learn more at ...

You Are Good. You Are Enough. My Interview with Lodro Rinzler

We guide a loving kindness meditation that starts with breath and grounding, then expands goodwill from self to loved ones, to those in struggle, to difficult people, and finally to all beings. We end by returning to intention with a gentle reminder to practice in a way that feels real.

• grounding the body with breath and relaxation
• repeating simple phrases for self-compassion
• extending care to a loved one with visualization
• holding someone in hardship with steady presence
• offering goodwill to someone difficult without condoning harm
• widening the circle to everyone nearby and all beings
• returning to self, intention, and gentle consistency

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.

Learn more at ...

Loving Kindness, Made Simple

Joy is easy to talk about when life is smooth and brutally hard to reach when your identity breaks, your plans collapse, or fear takes over. Sean Fargo sits down with leadership coach and author Jan Hoth, the “Joy Alchemist,” to get specific about what joy really is and what it is not. 

Visit Jan's website: https://www.janjoymentor.com/

Buy her book: Joy Anyway: https://a.co/d/0bAmOfeb

We draw a clear line between fleeting happiness and joy as a steady state of being that can hold grief, anger, and uncertainty without pretending they aren’t there.

Jan shares her own turning point from teenage depression after an injury ended her swimmer identity, and how an audacious opportunity cracked open a new future. From there we get practical: mindfulness as the gateway, “micro joy” habits you can use in minutes, and her unforgettable “Fruit Loop moment” story from a children’s hospital that became a repeatable tool for resilience. If you’ve felt stuck after divorce, job loss, burnout, retirement, or a health scare, this conversation offers grounded steps for finding possibility again.

We also go straight at toxic positivity, the signs you’re forcing a smile, and why the fastest route back to authentic joy sometimes starts with letting yourself feel the full depth of the moment. For entrepreneurs, managers, community leaders, and therapists, we explore joy as a leadership superpower that improves creativity, decisiveness, and team culture without guilt or bypassing. If this helped you, subscribe, share with a friend who needs a little light, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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.

Learn more at ...

Breath, Intention, And A Warmer Morning

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