{"podcast":{"title":"Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo","slug":"mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073","podcast_index_feed_id":5494073,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2555881.rss","website_url":"https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/ob0aotr06gdqg8p49bgg09ysl02r?.jpg","author":"Sean Fargo","episode_count":313,"summary":"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 , 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 Certificatio…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T08:21:15.717436+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073"},"episode":{"title":"How Taoist Meditation And Qigong Turn Stress Into Flow","slug":"how-taoist-meditation-and-qigong-turn-stress-into-flow","published_at":"2026-07-25T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073/how-taoist-meditation-and-qigong-turn-stress-into-flow","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073","url":"https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast/","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2555881/episodes/19179828-how-taoist-meditation-and-qigong-turn-stress-into-flow.mp3","summary":"Trying harder can feel like the only option until it stops working. We sit down with Solala Towler, a longtime teacher of Qigong, Taoist meditation, and the Way of Tea, to explore a different approach: alignment over strain, flow over force, and practice that meets you where you are. Solala shares his personal path into Eastern philosophy, the early hunger for something more grounded than words, and the moment Taoist teachings clicked with a sense of “coming home.” From there, the conversati...","meta_description":"Trying harder can feel like the only option until it stops working. We sit down with Solala Towler, a longtime teacher of Qigong, Taoist meditation, and t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":582,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073/episodes/how-taoist-meditation-and-qigong-turn-stress-into-flow/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073/how-taoist-meditation-and-qigong-turn-stress-into-flow.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}