Mindfulness Exercises

About Mindfulness Exercises

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 (http://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 (http://MindfulnessExercises.com/Certify).

Publisher

Sean Fargo

Category

education · health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Apr 2022

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

69 of 332 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What If Love Is The Whole Path

   Sean Fargo interviews Liam McClintock, founder of FitMind, about tracking mental states through subtle physical sensations in the head.

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   11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Dr. Sara Lazar: How Mindfulness Changes Pain And Fear Responses

   Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Sara Lazar explains to host Sean Fargo how mindfulness meditation reshapes the brain's response to pain and fear.

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   9 Oct 2026

   Small Internal Pivots That Can Calm Your Nervous System Today

   Host Sean Fargo interviews Dr. Elisha Goldstein about how small internal pivots can calm chronic stress and strengthen emotional longevity.

Inside a recent episode

What If Love Is The Whole Path

Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But I like the inclusion of the head in your teacher's teachings around sensing into the brain, the skull, the space between. You just mentioned the... forehead because sometimes that's a point of say recognition of are we caught by something are we agitated are we grasping or are we feeling peaceful and calm and spacious and the head can provide great clues just in the physical sensations of the head not talking about thoughts or fantasies or daydreaming, but like the actual sensations of, say, temperature, tightness, contractiveness, movement, stillness, whether it feels pleasant or unpleasant or neither, these physical sensations. […]

Who has been a guest on Mindfulness Exercises

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Liam McClintock
• Sara Lazar
• Elisha Goldstein
• Jennifer Moffitt
• Mingtong Gu

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

73 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

78 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

98

Social presence

97

YouTube

0

Engagement

95

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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