After deeply immersing himself in mindfulness practice as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Sean Fargo noticed a shift in the way he related to himself and others that he wanted to bring to the communities around him. Since then, he has spent the last 10 years focused on building out mindfulness practices across organizations, into the community, and across the globe.

Sean has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, and Sharon Salzberg, and he’s has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations including Tesla, Kaiser Permanente, Facebook, Ernst & Young, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2014, he founded Mindfulness Exercises, a platform where over 20 million people have benefited from free and premium resources, including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content, and live online retreats.

Currently, Sean serves as a Lead Teacher for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification, a unique, self-paced program that balances pre-recorded sessions with live mentorship and community engagement. Additionally, he acts as an Instructor for Google’s in-house mindfulness program.

Learn more about Sean Fargo: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/mindfulness-teachers/
Join Mindfulness Exercises' Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify/

03:30: Guided meditation led by Sean (embodied presence/the fullness of this experience)
32:15: Question: most of us won’t become monks, how can we still practice enough to become effective teachers?
40:45: The power of retreats as an opportunity to immerse in personal practice
45:30: A student shares his experience with awareness shifting from the head to the body
51:30: Sean describes how awareness unfolds in the body
53:25: A student shares how his deepening personal practice allows for a closer connection to his students
59:25: Sean’s ultimate hope for all those within the teacher training program
1:03:54: The value of expressing vulnerability and being met with care, compassion and understanding
1:09:00: The importance of your own embodied presence and how you show up as a teacher
1:13:40: Distractions and feelings of restlessness as part of the fullness of your experience
1:16:57: Question: Is most of what we’re doing (as mindfulness teachers) just normalizing the human experience?
1:18:06: Drawing awareness to our common humanity to help quiet the inner critic
1:24:50: The connection between mind and body and discerning between the two
1:31:15: “Thinking nothing” as a potential goal of mindfulness practice
1:34:44: Sean responds to a student’s share about the pitfalls of spiritual bypassing
1:41:00: Finding balance between striving to relax and let go of tension versus wanting to let things be
1:55:00: Sati vs sampajanna: Mindfulness vs discernment
2:02:53: Mindfulness as a whole body thing, and using the body to health the mind