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Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoCompassionate Boundaries: How Mindfulness Helps You Say “No” with Kindness and ClarityIn this episode of Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo, Sean explores how mindfulness can transform the way we set and communicate boundaries. Saying “no” doesn’t have to come from guilt or fear—it can arise from awareness, care, and self-respect. Sean guides listeners through a 10-minute meditation to sense the body’s inner “yes” and “no,” offering practical scripts for real-life situations and trauma-sensitive tips for mindfulness teachers, therapists, and coaches.Listeners will learn how to recognize their limits, express needs with compassion, and maintain relationships rooted in authenticity and presence.Tune in to experie...
2025-10-2924 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoGuided Meditation: How to Stay Present Longer (with Sean Fargo)In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo leads us into the heart of concentration practice by inviting a sense of safety, openness, and gentle presence. Drawing from his training as a Buddhist monk and his years of teaching mindfulness, Sean introduces simple yet profound ways to steady the mind and deepen focus — beginning with the breath, moving through sound and sight, and resting in the body, heart, and mind.This practice emphasizes the importance of feeling safe enough to let go of distractions and place attention on just one aspect of experience at a time. Al...
2025-09-1728 min
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoA Personal Update from Sean Fargo on Self-Love, Purpose, and Conscious BreathingIn this deeply personal solo episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, shares a vulnerable update on his own mindfulness journey.Set against the quiet backdrop of a rainy day in Berkeley, Sean opens up about his recent conversations with Sophie McLean and Anthony Abbagnano—two teachers whose work has helped him reconnect to the power of self-love, purpose, and conscious connected breathing. What You’ll Learn in This Episode:✔ How self-love and purpose are intertwined in the mindfulness path✔ The role of consci...
2025-05-2130 min
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoTending to the Body, A Guided Meditation with Sean FargoThe body is our home. It carries us through our days and nights, collecting information along the way. Our bodies tell the story of past pleasure and pain, and hold the energy of our thoughts and emotions. Offering our bodies our tender, caring presence can help make this home a more comfortable place. In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to stand, sit or lie down with the body, to explore the sensation that is present and offer it our supportive, loving attention. We do so not to reach a specific end goal, but sim...
2025-05-1621 min
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoAwareness Without Judgment, a Guided Meditation with Sean FargoIn a world that constantly pushes us to do more and feel less, this guided meditation led by Sean Fargo invites us to do the opposite: to pause, sense, and simply be. With gentle presence and deep compassion, Sean guides us through a practice of awareness without judgment—noticing the sensations, emotions, and energies of the present moment as they are.This practice helps us return to the body, reconnect with the breath, and cultivate an inner steadiness that allows us to meet life with openness and care. It’s a space to slow down, let go of s...
2025-04-1517 min
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoGuided Meditation for Balance and Spacious Awareness with Sean FargoIn this deeply restorative episode of Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation to help you reconnect with your body, breath, and present awareness. This practice gently invites you to explore balance, ease, and spaciousness, fostering a deeper sense of calm and clarity.With Sean’s years of experience as a mindfulness teacher and former Buddhist monk, this meditation offers practical tools to center yourself amidst the busyness of life.Whether you’re a seasoned mindfulness practitioner or just beginning, this episode provides an accessible way to ground yourself in the present moment.
2025-01-2313 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoFinding Calm in Challenging Times | Mindfulness Hiking with Sean Fargofeeling overwhelmed or stuck in challenging situations? In this episode, discover how to practice mindfulness even when life gets tough.Through real-life experiences from a hiking journey, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and a former Buddhist monk, teaches practical techniques to release resistance, embrace the moment, and find peace.With Sean’s wisdom and gentle guidance, you'll learn how to turn to mindfulness as a source of strength and resilience, no matter how difficult life becomes. This can help you in softening resistance and finding ease in life's toughest moments.Support the sh...
2024-10-1005 min
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoSelf Compassion When Life Is Hard | Mindful Hiking with SeanToday, we explore how to practice self-compassion in difficult times, when life feels tough and overwhelming. Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, shares his personal journey of navigating discomfort and emotional strain while hiking in Yosemite with a heavy backpack.He uses the experience to illustrate how we can meet pain, frustration, and difficulty with kindness instead of judgment. He explores how mindfulness helps us stay present with unpleasant emotions and sensations, allowing us to care for ourselves in moments of struggle. This episode is a gentle reminder that wh...
2024-10-0605 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoInfusing Mindfulness With Love, With Henry Shukman and Sean FargoThere are a great variety of mindfulness practices and there are benefits to each. They are not, however, the same.A complete mindfulness practice, one that leads to awakening, is not merely a training in paying attention, but in connection and love. In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Zen teacher, author, and poet Henry Shukman on the benefits of meeting each moment with awareness and an open heart.Henry Shukman is an author, poet and a teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage. He has taught meditation at Google, Harvard Business School, Esalen I...
2024-09-1053 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoSoftening and Opening, a Meditation with Sean FargoWhat happens when someone tells you to relax? Often, the directive to relax or let go results in further tightening. When we attempt to relax on demand, we just can’t make it happen. Stress can then increase as we wrestle with what we may perceive as failure. Things change when we view letting go as a process versus a goal.In this mindfulness meditation, guided by Sean Fargo, we’re invited to soften our attachment to doing, to soften our need for control. In the process, we experience degrees of opening into the spaciousness of our expe...
2024-05-0816 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoSensing Beyond The Body, a Meditation with Sean FargoAncient wisdom traditions recognize the mind not as something limited to the brain, but as an expansive, heart-based awareness that extends throughout the body and beyond. One benefit of mindfulness meditation is that it can help us learn to connect to such awareness, for a profound experience of presence.In this guided meditation, led by Sean Fargo, we are invited to bring an awake and alert energy to the body as a whole. Using this embodied energy, we then sense into the space beyond for a more expansive experience of the mind. Listen in a s...
2024-04-2427 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoBecoming Your Own Hero, with Brian Johnson and Sean FargoBrian Johnson, philosopher, founder and CEO, has spent the better part of the last 20 years studying ancient wisdom and the modern science that supports it. His new book, Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential, partners that wisdom with the practices that help people integrate it into their daily lives. Described as “more wisdom in less time,” Areté is a collection of 451 potentially life changing ideas, presented in easy-to-digest microchapters. The book mirrors Brian’s popular online app, Heroic.us, a self-development platform that helps us become the heroes we are meant to be.In this episode, Brian Joh...
2024-04-1721 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoCultivating Courage, A Meditation with Sean FargoWhen we think of courage we often imagine a fierce energy. One that pushes obstacles aside, cuts through barriers and fights battles. But courage can have a gentle energy, too. Sometimes, courage can look and feel like steady, caring presence - especially during mindfulness meditation and the practice of feeling what we feel.In this guided meditation, led by Sean Fargo, we are invited to sense into this moment, just as it is. With courage, we practice staying with our experience, allowing it to change and unfold as it is naturally inclined to do. Listen i...
2024-04-1028 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoTending To This Changing Moment, A Meditation with Sean FargoTo tend to something is to show it kindness, gentleness and compassion: to offer it our caring attention. In this guided meditation, led by Sean Fargo, we’re asked to tend to our present experience with kind, loving and spacious awareness. As we witness change in the body with love and care, the offering of space allows this moment to continue unfolding without the added pain of resistance. Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with aler...
2024-03-2713 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo5 Essential Skills for Embodied Mindfulness, with Lynda Caesara and Sean FargoWhat we learn from our most beloved mindfulness teachers isn’t always in the words they say, but in how they show up. Just being near someone who exudes a grounded presence and an open heart can be co-regulating and profoundly healing. Embodied mindfulness is a lifelong practice, but it’s one we can all take part in. Bringing attention and awareness to subtle energies in the body enhances our ability to work with these energies and expand our compassionate presence.In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with bodyworker and energy practitioner Lynda Caesara. Lynda prese...
2024-03-202h 22Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoGrounding Down and Rising Up, a Meditation with Sean FargoWhen blown about by life’s movement and strong winds of change, mindfully grounding can have a calming, stabilizing effect. Sensing only downward energy, however, can sometimes have a heavy, depressive effect.In this guided meditation, led by Sean Fargo, we are invited into a state of balance by sensing two opposing energies. We ground down into the earth’s stability and support while also rising up into a dignified, spacious presence.Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that...
2024-03-1319 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoCaring Awareness Of This Moment, A Meditation with Sean FargoWhat does care feel like? When we care for something, we offer it our attention. We tend to it with gentleness. To remain present with something or someone, to listen and observe, to let be, allow for and accept. These are all caring acts. These descriptors are also characteristics of mindfulness. In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to open to this moment, just as it is, with caring awareness. Calm and contentment arise as we turn to sensations in our body and heart with increasingly deeper layers of care. Listen in a sa...
2024-02-2829 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoThinking Our Way to Health, with Ellen Langer and Sean Fargocan we improve our health simply by changing our minds? Dr. Ellen Langer says it’s not only possible, but that the mind has far greater influence on our bodies than we currently imagine. Her belief that we can think our way to better health is rooted in over 40 years of mindfulness research. With each of her 13 books, Ellen Langer has persuaded more and more people that mindfulness makes our health, and everything in our lives, better.In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Dr. Langer about the research behind her most recent book, The Min...
2024-02-2123 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoLoving-Kindness For A Loved One, A Meditation with Sean FargoLoving-kindness meditation, or metta meditation, helps us cultivate feelings of warmth and goodwill toward others. Ideally, we extend this love to all beings, everywhere. For most of us, however, such a boundless expression of care is something we need to work up to. In this loving-kindness meditation guided by Sean Fargo, we are invited to open the heart by practicing with someone we already have loving feelings for. By bringing mindfulness to the sensation of metta in our body, heart and mind, we encourage loving-kindness to grow and expand. Listen in a safe, quiet place whe...
2024-02-1422 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoBefriending Body, Emotion, And Spirit, A Meditation with Sean FargoEvery emotion has value, even those we might label as uncomfortable or unwelcome. Anger, for example, can help us set healthy boundaries. Grief can help us process loss, and jealousy can provide us with deep insight. When we allow ourselves to feel what we feel, there’s always something to be learned.In this mindfulness meditation guided by Sean Fargo, we are invited to tenderly listen to the body, the heart and spirit, to sense into what emotions are present and to practice presence with them. By befriending the entirety of our experience, we identify not with fl...
2024-01-3121 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoA Mindful Approach to Imposter Syndrome, with Lou Redmond and Sean FargoImposter syndrome is felt by new and experienced mindfulness teachers alike. It is a common human experience. Of course, we’d prefer not to feel uncomfortable, and instead, to feel ever-confident in our practice and teachings. In reality, however, imposter syndrome need not be overcome.By taking a mindful approach to imposter syndrome, we can welcome it as an indicator of our care, humility, courage and growth. In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Lou Redmond, meditation teacher, author, and host of the mindfulness podcast, The Art & Business of Meditation. Lou shares suggestions on how we...
2024-01-2419 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoBringing Curiosity to Shame, A Meditation with Sean FargoShame is the uncomfortable feeling we face having done something we don’t feel good about. Unlike regret, the mindful acknowledgment of a mistake, shame has a quality of self-judgment to it. And whereas guilt is focused on the action, shame is directed to our self as a whole. This can make it challenging to address and compassionately let go of our shame. In this mindfulness meditation guided by Sean Fargo, we’re invited to face our shame directly. By bringing curiosity to shame and how it manifests in the body, we may find that it does not d...
2024-01-1716 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoFinding Unconditional Freedom, with Jeremy Lipkowitz and Sean FargoLife has its ups and downs. It’s just not possible to arrange our world so that we only ever experience the highs. The promise of mindfulness meditation is that it can allow us to access contentment anytime, even amidst significant career and life changes, loss, overwhelming emotions, and the many forms of suffering that we, as humans, share.In this episode, Sean Fargo interviews mindfulness meditation teacher Jeremy Lipkowitz on his experience shifting away from a fixed identity based on unachievable standards. Mindfulness has helped Jeremy connect to a sense of freedom that is not dependent on...
2024-01-1024 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoAcknowledging Fear, A Meditation with Sean FargoWe all have fears. Some live on the surface, impacting our everyday lives, while others are more subtle. We may experience fear of failure, unworthiness, fear of the unknown, or fear of being alone. It’s also common to fear abandonment, engulfment, or the ultimate fear: non-existence, the fear of death and dying. Although it may not be possible to become completely fearless, we can find more spaciousness and peace by being with and exploring our fears. In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo invites us to open to our fears. As we sit with whatever fear that ari...
2024-01-0337 minMindfulness Exercises, with Sean FargoGratitude Meditation Practices, With Sean FargoThere are many ways to bring gratitude into your meditation practice, and just as many reasons for doing so. Sensing into gratitude can help settle the body and open the mind. It also brings mindfulness to the infinite beauty that is available in each and every moment. In this compilation episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises, shares several gratitude meditation practices. The last one is rarely taught in the context of gratitude, but may be the single most powerful means of stoking appreciation for the present moment.Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk w...
2023-12-2724 min