Feeling Safe in Meditation, with David Treleaven

⁠Meditation can help us heal from trauma, but only if we feel safe while practicing.

By implementing strategies for safety in meditation, we learn to be present with discomfort without becoming overwhelmed. We develop agency over our practice, and in the process, we become empowered to direct our own healing.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with educator, author and trauma-informed meditation expert David Treleaven about the tools that can help us feel safe in meditation and how to best offer them as teachers.

For more insight into the meaning of trauma-sensitive mindfulness, listen to episode #022, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven.

Please note that any conversation about trauma can be evocative. As you listen, remain mindful and self-responsive.

This episode is an excerpt from David Treleavan’s appearance as a guest teacher in Sean Fargo’s Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.

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• Related Meditation: Sensing into Safety Meditation, with Sean Fargo • • Related Podcast Episodes: Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, with David Treleaven Teach mindfulness without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome.

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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.

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