{"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":322,"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":"2026-09-12T20:20:10.882250+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073"},"episode":{"title":"Susan Piver On The Heart Sutra And The Real Point Of Sitting","slug":"susan-piver-on-the-heart-sutra-and-the-real-point-of-sitting","published_at":"2026-08-14T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073/susan-piver-on-the-heart-sutra-and-the-real-point-of-sitting","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/19029296-susan-piver-on-the-heart-sutra-and-the-real-point-of-sitting.mp3","summary":"Meditation gets marketed as a calm-down button, a focus trick, or the ultimate self-improvement tool. Then you try it and discover your mind did not get the memo. Sitting with us is Susan Piver, Buddhist teacher and author of Inexplicable Joy on the Heart Sutra, to name what’s actually happening when we practice and why the usual promises can miss the point. We talk about the misconception that meditation is mainly self-help. Yes, it can help in measurable ways, but Susan argues the deeper s...","meta_description":"Meditation gets marketed as a calm-down button, a focus trick, or the ultimate self-improvement tool. Then you try it and discover your mind did not get t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":586,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mindfulness-exercises-with-sean-fargo-5494073/episodes/susan-piver-on-the-heart-sutra-and-the-real-point-of-sitting/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/susan-piver-on-the-heart-sutra-and-the-real-point-of-sitting.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}