In this episode, Sean Fargo explores the question: Should mindfulness teachers show vulnerability to build trust with their students? Sean shares his insights on how to balance authenticity with professionalism when teaching mindfulness. Drawing from his experience at Google and Spirit Rock, Sean explains the fine line between sharing personal challenges and maintaining credibility. Learn how to navigate this delicate territory to create deeper connections with your students. To deepen your mindfulness teaching practice, explore Sean’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. Learn more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you make mindfulness relevant to people’s daily lives so they stick with it? In this episode, Sean Fargo dives into the importance of making mindfulness and meditation accessible and meaningful. He offers practical strategies for helping students integrate mindfulness into their daily routines by personalizing it to their goals, emotions, and challenges. Learn how to move beyond cookie-cutter approaches to make mindfulness truly impactful. For more personalized teaching strategies, check out Sean’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program to learn how to make mindfulness relevant to different audiences. Learn more here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, dives deep into the struggles many face when learning to teach mindfulness—especially imposter syndrome. He shares his personal journey of overcoming self-doubt, fear of judgment, and the anxiety that comes with teaching mindfulness and meditation. Sean offers practical steps to build confidence, embrace authenticity, and teach mindfulness from a place of compassion and care. If you've ever questioned your ability to guide others in meditation, this episode is for you. Key Takeaways: Understanding Imposter Syndrome: How self-doubt and fear of judgment affect new mindfulness teachers. Embracing Your Authentic Self: The importance of teaching from a place of sincerity and presence. Building Confidence: Learn actionable steps for growing into your role as a mindfulness teacher, one small step at a time. Tools to Overcome Fear: Techniques such as mindfulness of breath, grounding, and self-compassion that help navigate feelings of inadequacy. The Power of Compassionate Action: Helping others through mindfulness even when you don't feel 100% ready. Ready to teach mindfulness with confidence? Explore our comprehensive Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification program, complete with trauma-sensitive training, curriculum resources, and ongoing support. 📜 Become Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification: https://bit.ly/MindfulnessCertify Trauma-Sensitivity Teaching Certification: https://bit.ly/METraumaSensitiveMindfulnessCourse 🌱 Be a Part of our Growing Community Mindfulness Exercises Website: http://mindfulnessexercises.com/ Connect Community for Mindfulness Teachers: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/connect-mindfulness-community/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Mindfulness.Exercises/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindfulness-exercises/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/exercising.mindfulness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With meditation we can practice nurturing and growing a sense of safety for ever-present access to ease. Each of us has a memory, somewhere, of a safe place where we feel at ease, balanced, and welcomed to take refuge. This memory is stored in the body. We might feel a sense of safety in the belly, the heart or the hands, for example.  In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder, Sean Fargo, leads us in a meditation on sensing into safety. The practice begins with an invitation to check in and observe how the body is feeling in this present moment. Sean then gently invites us to notice where we feel a sense of safety. By placing our mindful attention in that space, we invite the sensation of safety to grow.      Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world.  Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Download hundreds more guided audio meditations for your personal practice, or to share with others at MindfulnessExercises.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you want to achieve most in this life or in this one moment? To experience more ease, to become more resilient to stress, to improve a relationship, to reach enlightenment, or to make a million dollars? Regardless of our goals, mindful self-discipline is the essential ingredient that helps us get where we want to go. This one skill is applicable to nearly everything we do in life, even as our goals shift and change. In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo speaks with Giovanni Dienstmann. Giovanni highlights how mindfulness and awareness contribute to sustainable self-discipline, and offers practical advice on how to build better habits, break unhelpful habits, achieve goals, and generally live a more purpose-driven life. Giovanni Dienstmann spoke with Sean as part of a more in-depth presentation given to participants in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindful Meditation Teacher Training Program. In this unique, self-paced certification program, participants learn from Sean Fargo and the most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation. The program is accessible entirely online and combines self-study with live, interactive teachings. Learn more or register by visiting teach.mindfulnessexercises.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you ever feel like it’s hard to meditate daily? In this brief episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, founder Sean Fargo shares tips on how to build a consistent practice. When we take the time to be present with how we feel when we do (and don’t) meditate, motivation becomes less of a cognitive exercise and more of an embodied experience. Listen to this episode for practical advice on becoming more consistent with your mindfulness practice. Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and the lead teacher of the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is accessible entirely online. Participants learn from Sean, his team, and the world’s most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation. Guest teachers include Gabor Maté, Rick Hanson, Dr. Jud Brewer, Spring Washman, David Treleaven and more. Learn to compassionately share mindfulness with confidence and skill by registering today at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Self-compassion can be a tricky term, not to mention difficult to practice. We might mistakenly believe that it’s selfish or self-indulgent, or that compassion makes us weak. We may also have trouble extending the same loving kindness to ourselves that we so willingly offer to others. We hear from self-compassion expert Chris Germer on why those beliefs couldn’t be further from the truth.  This episode is a brief excerpt from Chris’ presentation to participants in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program at http://teach.mindfulnessexercises.com  Participants in this program learn directly from Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo, his team, and the world’s most respected experts in mindfulness and meditation. The unique, self-paced certification program is accessible entirely online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Self-compassion is a virtue that can be cultivated through meditation. Expand self-compassion by acknowledging your pain, remembering your common humanity, and sending yourself and all others love and well-wishes.   In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder, Sean Fargo, leads us in a 20-minute meditation for self-compassion. The practice begins with an invitation to recall a challenging moment in our lives. Choose a workable memory that allows you to remain within your window of tolerance. Sean then guides us through a gentle exploration of this experience.  Find hundreds more guided audio meditations at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditations-mindfulness-talks/ or download 200 meditation scripts to expand your personal practice, or to share with others at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you see yourself as creative? Or do you only associate creativity with art, performance, inventiveness or eccentricity, thinking it has little to do with you? For author and home designer Austin Hill Shaw, creativity is at the very core of what it means to be human. Creativity matters because people are their happiest and most fulfilled when immersed in creative flow. In this episode, Sean Fargo, the founder of Mindfulness Exercises, speaks with Austin Hill Shaw on the nature of creativity and how it intersects with our mindfulness and meditation practice. Austin Hill Shaw joined Sean Fargo as a guest teacher in the 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, his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our capacity to remain present in meditation supports our ability to be present in our lives. But it’s not always easy to be with what is, especially if it’s challenging or unpleasant. As teachers, part of our role is to encourage courage. By creating a container of safety and care, we can invite people to practice being with what is, even if it’s uncomfortable. In this short episode, Sean Fargo discusses the role of courage in our mindfulness practice. He explains how sensing into our own hearts empowers others to sense into theirs. Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and the lead teacher for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team weekly. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Contrary to what you might think, choosing a niche won’t necessarily limit your teaching opportunities. In fact, it can help deepen your offerings and expand your reach, allowing you to help more people with mindfulness, in a more significant way. Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo explains why choosing a niche is more than a smart business practice; it also allows us to address tangible, relevant and specific challenges in a deeper and potentially more transformative manner.  This episode is a compilation of teachings Sean presented to the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and entirely accessible online. Participants learn from Sean Fargo, his team, and the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers.  Hone your skills and your voice, develop confidence, and courageously and compassionately share mindfulness with others. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. May this be a source of inspiration and motivation for your personal practice and teachings. In this episode, we bring you a guided meditation on mindfulness of death, narrated by Sean Fargo.  Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world.  Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Find more guided meditations and meditation scripts for death awareness meditations at MindfulnessExercises.com  Download hundreds more guided meditations here: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditations-mindfulness-talks/  Access free meditation scripts here: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditation-scripts/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Although simple, mindfulness of breathing is quite powerful. This thousands-year old practice of sensing into each breath has withstood the test of time and today, remains with us as one of the most foundational - and most profound - mindfulness practices.    Breath awareness strengthens concentration, equanimity, compassion, joy and wisdom. And because the breath is always with us, in each and every moment, it’s forever available to anchor us to the present moment.   In this episode, we hear from Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo on the power of breath awareness. Sean shares his insights on the practice of mindful breathing, what mindfulness teachers should be aware of, and tells the story of how mindful breathing once saved his life.   Mindfulness Exercises is an online platform which shares free and premium mindfulness resources for practitioners and teachers alike. This episode contains excerpts from Sean’s weekly live presentations to those in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program.  Learn more about that program at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like many of us, George Thompson once had a running story in his head that said he wasn’t likable, wasn’t successful enough, wasn’t good enough. Upon studying Taoism and practicing the mindful movement of Tai Chi, Thompson’s inner story began to change. He now uses the transformative power of stories to help others reconnect to their own.  In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with George Thompson about how he found Tai Chi and his teacher, Master Gu. They discuss Thompson’s latest film, The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself. The film is a retelling of the story of our relationship with nature and addresses the root causes of environmental and mental health challenges. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: Why having an inner critic is a shared human experience How Tai Chi and Taoism relate to mindfulness Why movement is a significant part of mindfulness practice The benefits of cultivating breath-to-movement connection Why true mindful observation leads to self-compassion What nature has to teach us about interconnectedness Why it’s time to retell the story of our role in nature How to use storytelling to help others find their own Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Identifying our emotions is a first step in learning to accept and work with them. But it’s not always easy to sense emotion in the body, nor to discern which emotions are present. In this brief episode, Sean Fargo offers practical advice on how we might explore sensation in the body for a deeper understanding of our emotions.    Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercsies and the lead teacher for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team weekly. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics. Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When viewed through an equity lens, mindfulness helps us connect with others and overcome unconscious biases. In this episode, Michelle Maldonado encourages us to explore mindfulness not merely as a personal practice, but as a way of being in the world. When viewed from an equity lens, mindfulness becomes a powerful tool for transforming our judgment, unconscious bias and (often unintentional) microaggressions into opportunities for curiosity, introspection, and connection. Today’s topics include moving from judgment to curiosity, cultivating inner awareness to remove blind spots, and how to truly be anti-racist. Mindfulness and emotional intelligence educator Michelle Maldonado is a former corporate and tech attorney turned CEO of Lucenscia, a global firm dedicated to human flourishing and mindful business transformation. Michelle has worked with the world’s most powerful organizations in the education, industry and government sectors, with the goal of ​​elevating human consciousness and alleviating suffering. Her most recent compassion project "A Bridge to Better" centers on an open letter to humanity. In it, Michelle and her family call on us to courageously co-create the conditions for social and racial justice. This action begins with mindfulness. This talk is a brief excerpt of Michelle Maldonado’s live presentation to our Mindfulness Teacher Trainees. You can access the full recording and learn more about that program at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com Find Michelle and additional resources for mindful connection at abridge2better.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each of us longs to be seen, heard and loved. Inquiring about our experience with curiosity and compassion lets us face old pains and strong emotions we’ve long ignored, which can lead to healing if we feel safe in our bodies, in the present moment, and in secure relationship with others. Through the method of Compassionate Inquiry, Dr. Gabor Maté teaches therapists, counselors and individuals to uncover the unconscious dynamics that run our lives, and find freedom from these habits. The method has gained worldwide recognition for its enlightening, empowering approach to healing. In a safe space, connected to our body, our breath and the present moment, we’re guided to gently uncover the layers of childhood trauma and suppressed emotion at the root of our illness and addiction. Although we begin with a guide, compassionate inquiry is ultimately a practice we can attend to on our own. In this episode, Gabor and Sean discuss the relationship between Compassionate Inquiry and the kind, non-judgmental curiosity we learn through the practice of mindfulness, the 5 levels of compassion that comprise the Compassionate Inquiry process, and why being triggered is not always a bad thing, especially within the safe container of compassionate, kind awareness.  Dr. Gabor Maté is a best selling author and sought-after speaker whose experience is rooted in 20 years of practice as a physician in family practice, palliative care, and addiction. This interview is a brief excerpt from a presentation he gave to the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Teacher Training program. You can learn more about that program and the other world-class presenters who join as guest teachers at Teach.MindfulnessExercises.com Learn more about Dr. Gabor Maté and his Compassionate Inquiry process at Compassionate Inquiry.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just as with mindfulness of the breath, the mindful body scan is a foundational practice with unlimited potential. But a head-to-toe scan can often feel dry and predictable. For Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo, the mindful body scan meditation came alive only after he allowed himself more creativity within the practice. This talk is a compilation of teachings Sean shared with the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is affordable and 100% accessible online. Learn from Sean Fargo and the world’s most respected and well-known voices in mindfulness. Receive an internationally accredited certification with weekly personal support and no pressure to meet deadlines. Learn more about the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com For show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/teaching-mindfulness-kevin-griffin-answers-your-most-frequently-asked-questions/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. May this be a source of inspiration and motivation for your personal practice and teachings. In this episode, we bring you a guided mindfulness meditation on elemental body awareness, narrated by Sean Fargo.  Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world.  Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Find more guided meditations and meditation scripts for body scan meditations at MindfulnessExercises.com  Download hundreds more guided meditations here: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditations-mindfulness-talks/  Access free meditation scripts here: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditation-scripts/  Listen to the next episode, a discussion of this guided meditation for practitioners and teachers alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist and best-selling author. His latest book is titled Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. In it, Dr. Hanson presents mindfulness exercises for strengthening the neural circuitry of profound contentment and inner peace. Listen now and amplify your meditation practice by becoming more aware of the changes taking place in your brain.  This episode is a brief version of a live talk Dr. Hanson presented to the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This self-paced online course offers an affordable and accessible internationally recognized teaching certification. Participants learn from lead instructor Sean Fargo and the world’s most well-known voices in mindfulness. Receive certification at your own pace, in the comfort of your home Get up to 4 hours of weekly, live mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team Learn directly from the world’s top mindfulness and meditation teachers Gain the confidence and skills you need to teach to groups and individuals This supportive, comprehensive program can help you make a real difference by sharing mindfulness and meditation with others. Learn more by visiting teach.mindfulnessexercises.com   To see the show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/neuro-learning-and-amplifying-our-meditation-practice-with-dr-rick-hanson/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re living in difficult and uncertain times. Meditation can help us cope with the enormity of the world’s grief, but is it ultimately self-serving, or can it influence real change?  In this episode, Sean Fargo of Mindfulness Exercises interviews meditation expert and New York Times best-selling author Sharon Salzberg to tackle this question and more. Sharon shares that meditation is not a replacement for action, but a useful means of summoning the courage to break through boundaries, reconnect to a movement bigger than ourselves, and sustain the energy needed to effect real change. Would you like to share mindfulness with others, but you’re not exactly sure what to say?  Download a 10-session mindfulness and meditation teaching curriculum that you can share immediately with your patients, students, clients, anyone! This 100% brandable curriculum can be easily updated with your name, your logo and your website. Use it to make sharing meditation easy! What’s more, ensure your teaching is based on the latest scientific evidence, research, and studies related to mindfulness and meditation. Quickly download over 900 minutes of mindfulness teaching content at MindfulnessExercises.com  For the show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/sharon-salzberg-on-healing-ourselves-and-the-world-for-real-change-with-sean-fargo/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mindfulness of breath is a foundational practice, but it’s not merely for beginners. Learn why former Buddhist monk Sean Fargo recommends it as the first meditation we teach, but also, why some mindfulness practitioners spend their entire lives with this one method.   Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises, one of the most well-known resources on the web for all things mindfulness. His mindfulness teacher training certification program has inspired hundreds of mindfulness teachers to share the power of this practice with others. The unique, self-paced certification program is affordable and 100% accessible online. The comprehensive program includes self-paced courses, deep dives for teaching special populations, personal mentorship from Sean and his team, opportunities to practice teach and more. Receive an internationally accredited certification Join a live online community of teachers and fellow practitioners Interact directly with the world’s most well-known mindfulness teachers Gain the confidence and skills you need to begin sharing mindfulness with others Learn more at Teach.MindfulnessExercises.com For show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/sean-fargo-on-why-he-recommends-mindfulness-of-breathing/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. May this be a source of inspiration and motivation for your personal practice and teachings. In this episode, we bring you a guided mindfulness meditation on breath awareness, narrated by Sean Fargo.    Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world.    Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.   Find more guided meditations and meditation scripts for breath awareness at MindfulnessExercises.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teaching meditation can seem scary. How do you know when you’re ready? What skills and qualities does a mindfulness teacher really need? The answer is the same whether teaching is your career, a calling, or just a happy accident. In this episode, Buddhist author and leader in the mindful recovery movement Kevin Griffin shares advice for mindfulness teachers and provides answers to some of the most important questions.   This talk is a brief version of a live presentation Kevin shared with the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is affordable and 100% accessible online. Learn from Sean Fargo and the world’s most respected and well-known voices in mindfulness, including Kevin Griffin. Receive an internationally accredited certification with weekly personal support and no pressure to meet deadlines. Learn more about the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com For show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/teaching-mindfulness-kevin-griffin-answers-your-most-frequently-asked-questions/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you ever feel like you’re not qualified enough to teach mindfulness? In this episode, we tackle the imposter syndrome and fear of judgment that holds many aspiring mindfulness teachers back. Join us as we explore 3 powerful techniques to help you overcome these challenges: Embrace mindfulness of fear Cultivate compassion for those you want to help Realize that teaching mindfulness is simpler than you think If you’re ready to expand your reach and guide others on their mindfulness journey with confidence and authenticity, this episode will provide the insights and practical tools you need. You don’t have to be perfect—just committed to making a positive impact. 🧘‍♀️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If and when we consider teaching mindfulness to others, it’s normal to experience fear, nervousness or hesitation. These emotions often arise from a sense of inadequacy. The collection of human emotions we often refer to as “imposter syndrome” isn’t necessarily bad or wrong. In fact, questioning our ability to help others can be a sign of grace, humility and compassion.  In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises’ founder Sean Fargo discusses his personal experience with imposter syndrome, and how for him, the solution to teaching with confidence, compassion and courage entailed moving out of his head, and into the heart.   Sean Fargo is the founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises, and the lead instructor for its Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification course is accessible online. It includes live and pre-recorded teaching and mentorship sessions with Sean and the world’s most well-known voices in mindfulness. Students gain the confidence and skills needed to teach mindfulness in a way that's relevant to people's lives. The program empowers new teachers with a complete, brandable curriculum, suitable for teaching mindfulness to groups or individuals. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com For show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/sharing-mindfulness-from-the-heart-with-sean-fargo/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live more mindfully and inspire others to do the same.   Go beyond listening into deeper experiences of mindfulness, evidence-based meditations and ancient wisdom. Learn from the world’s top mindfulness teachers on how they practice and share mindfulness with others.   Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. May this be a source of inspiration and motivation for your mindfulness meditation and teachings.   Learn more at MindfulnessExercises.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Learn more about this online, self-paced program at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify There 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 Institute, Colorado College, and United World College among other venues. He is the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico and co-founder of The Way, a meditation app that guides users on a single pathway of training toward the deeper possibilities of meditation. Shukman’s most recent book, Original Love: The Four Inns On The Path Of Awakening, is an antidote to the suffering of our times, helping us heal from hyper-individualism, divisiveness and disconnection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny Grieco is a mindfulness teacher who has also worked as a salesperson for 12+ years, a sales trainer for 5+ years, and a mindfulness practitioner for 10+ years. https://mindfulnessexercises.com/mindfulness-sales-course/ As a salesperson, he has successfully sold for startups and Fortune 500 companies like Xerox, Lever, and Bazaarvoice, successfully selling into almost every industry, from small accounts to seven-figure deals. He has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly, so you can see the best. He has spent the past 5+ years teaching non-salespeople the skills of corporate sales. He has trained 100’s of mindfulness teachers in sales and dozens of Silicon Valley startup founders including Y Combinator with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5. He spent 10+ years personally practicing and studying mindfulness and meditation, including daily practice, silent retreats, and academic study. He is also a certified teacher via SIYLI born at Google and has taught programs at Facebook, Amazon, and many others. His instruction is engaging, fun, and instantly applicable. The Mindfulness Sales Course is a comprehensive approach designed specifically for mindfulness teachers who want to make a greater impact in the corporate world.  This course is designed to address your specific challenges, giving you the tools, skills, and confidence you need to succeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you believe everything that you think? What about when you’re complaining? In this episode, Byron Katie teaches us a compassionate self-inquiry technique that invites us to kindly question our thoughts and beliefs. This process can lead us toward greater peace, ease and freedom. Byron Katie is a renowned speaker and author, known for a transformative self-inquiry practice she calls "The Work." In this episode, Katie introduces her teachings, shares profound insights, and guides us through practical exercises to help us explore and question our thoughts with compassion and curiosity. This talk is a brief excerpt from Byron Katie’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Learn more about this unique, online, self-paced program at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What 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 experience. No longer wrestling with right or wrong, relaxed or not, we get closer to the calm we long for. 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 alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Similar Meditations: Caring Awareness Of This Moment, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Contentment with Simply Being, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may have been told that trauma lives in the body until we’re willing to feel it. Research shows, however, that it is counter-productive to turn toward this pain before we feel resourced, safe and supported. So, how are we to know when to apply the gas in our practice, versus when to hit the brakes?   In this episode, we hear from mindfulness and meditation researcher, Dr. Willoughby Britton. She shares helpful advice you can apply today to bring more trauma sensitivity to your practice and teaching. Her research into the adverse effects of meditation (Episode #047) has helped her understand how meditation guides can help people feel more empowered in their practice.  This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Willoughby Britton’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ancient 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 safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian 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 Johnson speaks with Sean Fargo about what it means to be a hero, and why Areté is the culmination of his life’s work.  This podcast is brought to you by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Sean Fargo shares essential strategies for creating safe mindfulness practices for kids. Whether you’re teaching in schools, at home, or in therapeutic settings, Sean breaks down how to ensure children feel safe and supported during mindfulness exercises. Drawing from over 15 years of experience, Sean explains how to create trust, use playful imagery, and keep practices trauma-sensitive while maintaining a fun and engaging environment. Timestamps: 0:50 – The importance of safety in mindfulness. 3:30 – How to adapt different mindfulness practices 4:50 – Encouraging courage in kids 6:50 – The role of trust and building a genuine connection with kids. 8:10 – Techniques keep kids engaged in mindfulness practice 9:50 – The non-judgmental aspect of mindfulness 12:00 – Creative mindfulness techniques for kids Explore Sean’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program to learn more about teaching mindfulness to kids and adults. https://bit.ly/MindfulnessCertify 🌱 Be a Part of our Growing Community Mindfulness Exercises Website: http://mindfulnessexercises.com/ Connect Community for Mindfulness Teachers: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/connect-mindfulness-community/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Mindfulness.Exercises/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindfulness-exercises/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/exercising.mindfulness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When 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 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 alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mindfulness retreats are a valuable opportunity to step away from routine and apply ourselves to deepening our mindfulness. We may devote a single day or multiple days to retreat, either at home or at a retreat center.  Meditation teachers who have completed retreats of their own know full well the benefits of such focused attention on their practice. However, the thought of guiding others through this intimate, intense experience can be intimidating.  In this episode, we hear from meditation teacher and retreat leader Cory Muscara. Cory offers practical advice on leading meditation retreats and explains why it’s far more accessible than some mindfulness teachers may think.  This talk is a brief excerpt from Cory Muscara’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Related Episode: Finding Unconditional Freedom, with Jeremy Lipkowitz and Sean Fargo  Related Episode: Teaching Mindfulness: Kevin Griffin Answers Your Questions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To 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 alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What 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 presents us with five essential practices for connecting to, and harnessing, energy in the body.  Please listen in a safe, quiet space where you can practice along with us. To return to these practices at any time, use the following timestamps as reference. Centering Practice (16:03) Grounding Practice (38:25) Me/Not Me Practice (1:05:35) Edge Practice (1:21:23) Tying Our Fibers (1:29:34) A 2nd Chakra Practice (1:35:51) A Practice For 9 Chakras (1:53:12) The Basics - A Guided Practice (2:10:31) This podcast is brought to you by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When 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 balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the very core of our being lies an indestructible, untouched goodness. No matter the suffering we’ve experienced in life, we’re never irrevocably damaged. We are worthy of the care we long for. The question is, do we believe it? In this episode, we hear from Dr. Rick Hanson, meditation teacher, New York Times best-selling author and Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. Dr. Hanson highlights the key inner resources developed through mindfulness that can open our hearts to receiving care.  Dr. Rick Hanson has previously appeared on the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast in Episode #070, How to Hardwire Happiness and Episode #006, Neuro-Learning and Amplifying Our Meditation Practice.  This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Rick Hanson’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What 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 safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can 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 Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health. Ellen shares why mindfulness is key for both preventing and healing serious chronic illness. This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Related Episodes: The 4 Pillars of Well-Being, with Dr. Richie Davidson  Mindful Weight Loss Through Habit Change, with Dr. Jud Brewer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Loving-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 where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Related Episodes: Loving-Kindness Practice, with Sean Fargo  A Heartful Body Scan Meditation, with Sean Fargo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Loving-kindness, or metta meditation, is a unique, thousands of years old method of uncovering the boundless warmth at the center of our being. This contemplative practice is often taught alongside mindfulness, as the awakened heart and mind cannot be separated.  In this episode, we hear from Donald Rothberg, a leading spiritual teacher and author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World. Rothberg teaches on the history and tradition of loving-kindness and what keeps this practice relevant for us today.  This talk is a brief excerpt from Donald Rothberg’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Related Episode: Loving-Kindness Practice, with Sean Fargo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How long do you need to practice mindfulness before you feel truly safe? In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and a former Buddhist monk, shares valuable insights on how mindfulness can help you release fear, calm your emotions, and find a sense of refuge in the present moment. 🌿 Whether you're a mindfulness teacher or practitioner, this video provides practical tools to cultivate safety and connection, both with yourself and others. Mindfulness can help anyone—no matter where you are in your journey—find inner peace in the face of life’s challenges. If you're looking to deepen your practice or help others feel safe through mindfulness, check out the links below for more resources from Sean Fargo. 📜 Become Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification: https://bit.ly/MindfulnessCertify Trauma-Sensitivity Teaching Certification: https://bit.ly/METraumaSensitiveMindfulnessCourse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every 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 fleeting phenomena, but with the loving awareness that takes it all in.  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 alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Related Episode: Connecting With Emotions Through the Body, with Sean Fargo  Related Episode: Dr. Gabor Maté on Emotional Wellbeing, with Sean Fargo  Related Episode: Using the Body to Identify Emotions, with Sean Fargo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imposter 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 might transform and transcend the experience of imposter syndrome, instead of overcoming it. This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Related Episode: Sharing Mindfulness from the Heart, with Sean Fargo  Related Episode: The Art & Business of Meditation, with Lou Redmond  Related Episode: Inspiring Courage as a Mindfulness Teacher, with Sean Fargo Related Episode: Teaching Mindfulness: Most Frequently Asked Questions, with Kevin Griffin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shame 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 define us, nor does it have the power we once thought it did.   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 alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others. Teach meditation with more confidence and skill Grow your mindfulness business or practice Reach more clients with shareable content Add more variety to your current meditation sessions Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups. Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/ Related Episode: Overcoming Porn Addiction with Mindfulness, with Jeremy Lipkowitz and Sean Fargo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life 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 conditions being just right.   This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.  Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices