Feeling Safe in Meditation, with David Treleaven
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Meditation can help us heal from trauma, but only if we feel safe while practicing. 

By implementing strategies for safety in meditation, we learn to be present with discomfort without becoming overwhelmed. We develop agency over our practice, and in the process, we become empowered to direct our own healing.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with educator, author and trauma-informed meditation expert David Treleaven about the tools that can help us feel safe in meditation and how to best offer them as teachers.

For more insight into the meaning of trauma-sensitive mindfulness, listen to episode #022, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven).

Please note that any conversation about trauma can be evocative. As you listen, remain mindful and self-responsive.

This episode is an excerpt from David Treleavan’s appearance as a guest teacher in Sean Fargo’s Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program). This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics. 

Learn to help people feel safe during mindfulness meditation. In our new, 15-hour certification course for mindfulness teachers and meditation guides, you’ll learn the basics of trauma-sensitive mindfulness from world-renowned experts including David Treleaven, Willoughby Britton, and Chris Germer. Register now at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/trauma-sensitive-mindfulness-course/)

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• Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, with David Treleaven)

• Identifying Adverse Effects of Meditation, with Dr. Willoughby Britton)

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