Sean Fargo

Welcome, everyone, to the Mindfulness Exercises podcast.

I'm Sean Fargo.

Today, I'm really glad to welcome Master Ming-Tong Gu.

He's a teacher of Wisdom Healing Qigong, a lineage going back thousands of years, and the founder of the Qi Center and the Southwest Sanctuary for Embodied Wisdom in New Mexico, in Santa Fe.

Welcome everyone to the Mindfulness Exercises podcast.

My name is Sean Fargo.

Today I'm speaking with Scott Berman, founder of Sky Cave Retreats, a darkness retreat center nestled in the wilderness of Southern Oregon.

At Sky Cave, people enter private earth-sheltered cabins where they spend several days in complete darkness without phones, screens, books, work, or the usual ways we distract ourselves from what's happening on the inside.

Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises podcast.

I'm Sean Fargo.

Today, I'm very happy to be joined by Solula Towler, a longtime teacher of Qigong, Taoist meditation, tea ceremony, and the author of many books on Taoist wisdom and practice.

One of the things I appreciate about Solala's work is that it does not present meditation as something rigid or painful or overly serious or really cut off from ordinary life.