Mindfulness Exercises Podcast

Seven Practical Ways To Use Tech Mindfully

Your phone isn’t just a distraction, it’s a training environment. Every red badge, breaking headline, autoplay prompt, a...

Why Your Brain Stops Taking Everything Personally

We talk with Dr. Sara Lazar about why mindfulness meditation can feel life-changing beyond lower stress and how that shi...

A Guided Initiation Meditation For Coming Home To Your Body

We guide a simple hand-on-chest meditation with Master Ming Tong Gu that helps us feel the truth of our own existence be...

What If Love Is The Whole Path

Your meditation practice might be giving you a clue you keep missing: it can be felt in the head. Sean Fargo sits down w...

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

Pain is inevitable, but the brain’s “this is unbearable” reaction is more flexible than most of us realize. Harvard neur...

Small Internal Pivots That Can Calm Your Nervous System Today

We talk with Dr Elisha Goldstein about how tiny internal shifts can calm chronic stress, change our choices and strength...

Permission To Wiggle Counts As Meditation, with Jennifer Moffitt (Mindful Birthing)

Jennifer Moffitt guides a short mindfulness practice that begins with movement and ends with a calmer, clearer connectio...

Mindful Birthing

Birth has a way of destroying our best-laid plans, and that’s not a personal failure, it’s reality. We sit down with Jen...

Metta As Mental Fitness

Jhana gets talked about like a remote mountaintop experience, but Liam McClintock argues it can be trained with a surpri...

How To Come Home To Your Body, with Mingtong Gu

If this conversation stirred something in you, Master Mingtong Gu’s book Coming Home to Embodied Awakening is a beautifu...

How A Police Reporter Found Mindfulness And Helped Share It With Millions

Mindfulness can calm you down, but what if that’s only the entry point? I’m joined by Melvin McLeod, longtime editor at...

Darkness Retreat Basics

Turn off the lights and the mind gets loud fast. Sean Fargo sits down with Scott Berman, founder of Sky Cave Retreats, t...

The Myth Of Selfless Service

The fastest way to burn out in helping work is also the most socially praised: chronic self-sacrifice. We sit down with...

Mindful Tech Habits

Your phone is not the villain, and you are not weak. The real challenge is that modern technology is designed inside the...

Return To The Belly

Your mind can think its way into knots, but your body already knows how to come home. Sean Fargo sits down with longtime...

Fit Mind: From Neuroscience To Monkhood With A Four-Step Path To Lasting Bliss

We catch up with Liam McClintock, founder of FitMind and author of “FitMind: Four Steps to Lasting Bliss,” on how his ne...

What If Reclaiming Your Mind Means Reclaiming Your Tech

Your feed can feel like reality, until you notice how quickly it makes you tense, reactive, and certain. We sit down wit...

Susan Piver On The Heart Sutra And The Real Point Of Sitting

Meditation gets marketed as a calm-down button, a focus trick, or the ultimate self-improvement tool. Then you try it an...

• Susan Piver

How Small Emotional Pivots Break Stress Cycles

Your calendar is packed, your phone never stops, and somehow your body still thinks every moment is an emergency. We sit...

Five Keys To A Deeper Mindfulness Practice, with Melvin McLeod

Mindfulness is everywhere now, but the way we talk about it can feel strangely small: a tool for stress, a way to focus,...

A Grounded Eyes-Open Meditation With Susan Piver

Your meditation doesn’t need better willpower, a quieter mind, or a more “spiritual” seat on the floor. With renowned me...

• Susan Piver

How Taoist Meditation And Qigong Turn Stress Into Flow

Trying harder can feel like the only option until it stops working. We sit down with Solala Towler, a longtime teacher o...

Leaving New York To Rebuild A Daily Meditation Practice

Busy can start to feel like a personality, especially when you’re doing meaningful work and getting rewarded for it. Sea...

Are Your Goals Truly Yours Or Borrowed Values?

Your mind does not just record reality, it edits it, polarizes it, and then makes decisions based on the edit. That is w...