In this bonus episode, we revisit some of the most insightful moments from Axel’s conversation with Alexis Santos about coming home and living a more present life.

In this episode, Axel speaks with Alexis Santos about the experience of coming home and how to live a more present life.

Alexis is a meditation teacher who leads retreats internationally. He has been a long-time student of Sayadaw U Tejaniya and spent several years training as a Buddhist monk under his guidance. Alexis also completed the four-year teacher training program through the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock. His teachings emphasize knowing the mind through a natural and relaxed continuity of awareness.

We talk about:

• The difference between natural and focused awareness
• What Alexis has learned from Sayadaw U Tejaniya
• The feeling of coming home
• The fruits of being kind to others
• Common misunderstandings on the path
• The habits of the mind
• Skillful and unskillful actions
• The superpower of saying sorry
• How we can help others let go
• Wise understanding and wise attitude
• Worldly and unworldly joy
• Why Alexis and Axel practise

Alexis ends our conversation by guiding a meditation on returning home.

For more information about Alexis, visit alexissantos.io.

Discover guided meditations, mindful movement and timeless wisdom in Mindfully, the app for living a more present life. Try Mindfully free for 30 days at mindfully.now/TheMindfullyPodcast.

In this bonus episode, Axel guides you through a meditation on four mindful attitudes. The meditation HACK is part of The Fundamentals, the introductory series in the Mindfully app.

If you’d like to listen to this meditation without the podcast introduction and explore more practices for living a more present life, download Mindfully. Try the app free for 30 days at mindfully.now/TheMindfullyPodcast. 

In this episode, Axel Wennhall shares some of the experiences that have shaped his inner journey.

He begins with a nervous visit to a coach in 2016 and the moment he first recognized that he was not defined by his thoughts, fears or different subpersonalities. He reflects on later insights from intensive meditation retreats, becoming a parent and going through a divorce, and how these experiences changed his understanding of awakening and what it means to live a more present life.

This is a personal story about waking up, waking down and learning to meet the beautiful and messy reality of being human with greater honesty, acceptance, curiosity and kindness.

Discover guided meditations, mindful movement and timeless wisdom in Mindfully, the app for living a more present life. Try Mindfully free for 30 days at mindfully.now/TheMindfullyPodcast.

In this introductory episode, host Axel Wennhall explores the idea at the heart of the podcast: mindfulness is not a special state we need to create, but a natural capacity for awareness that we can learn to recognize and return to.

Through conversations with some of the world’s most inspiring teachers and guides, the podcast explores what it means to live a more present life. It is not only about waking up and discovering presence, but also about waking down and learning to live from it with greater wisdom and compassion.

Axel also shares the story behind the podcast, what to expect from future episodes and how The Mindfully Podcast grew out of the Swedish podcast Meditera mera and the meditation app Mindfully.

Discover guided meditations, mindful movement and timeless wisdom in Mindfully, the app for living a more present life. Try Mindfully free for 30 days at mindfully.now/TheMindfullyPodcast.