and Founder of Open-Hearted Awareness Institute
Loch Kelly
Discover simple, yet advanced practices validated by neuroscience to move beyond fear, worry, and shame — and access your intuitive heart-mind.
Apply Effortless Mindfulness to connect with the wisdom of the larger field of consciousness... anytime and anywhere.
Mindfulness is more than a practice... it‘s a portal to awakening.
And this awakening is available to you right NOW… in every moment.
The reality is you are already loving, wise and “awake awareness”... and Effortless Mindfulness reconnects you to this truth.
Effortless Mindfulness is a simple, yet advanced form of practice that you can do anytime and anywhere. It evokes a sense of calm and joy, and allows access to a “flow state.”
Your “new normal” can be a life filled with unconditional love, free from fear, worry, and shame...
Effortless Mindfulness techniques — performed with your eyes open — help dissolve thought-based self-identify, perceptions of separation, and often unconscious negative attachments.
Loch Kelly, an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of Open-Hearted Awareness Institute, has created a unique synthesis of meditation (drawing on the world’s great meditation masters), psychology, and neuroscience, to attain inner peace and non-dual awareness through Effortless Mindfulness.
An Effortless Mindfulness practice empowers you to enjoy a full emotional life without shutting down or attaching to your feelings. And if you identify as an empath or a highly sensitive person, the techniques can transform your energetic and emotional overwhelm into a safe, interconnected sense of wellbeing.
During this 7-part training with renowned psychotherapist and meditation teacher Loch Kelly, you’ll:
- Deepen your understanding of the differences between deliberate mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness
- Receive a map and methods for moving through the 5 levels of awakening — including experiencing the blissful presence from your “heart-mind”
- Unburden the shame-based parts of you that try to convince you that you are not worthy of your birthright of love and awakening
- Taste awakening immediately through “small glimpses” and shifts of awareness
- Move from a thought-based separate self to your awareness-based loving Self
- Learn how your awake Self allows you to be compassionate with parts of you that are hurt or protective
- Move beyond the traps of being too mindfully detached or too energetically enmeshed
- Realize that your ground of being is supportive and effortless
- Return and remain at home in the heart, welcoming and healing all parts of your Self
- Realize the innate unchanging ground of wholeness is already installed within you
Moving Beyond the Mind: Deliberate vs. Effortless Mindfulness
Research shows that mindfulness lowers stress-related symptoms, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain, and has also been proven to improve cognitive function, boost immunity, and lower blood pressure.
Yet, the focus of traditional mindfulness practices is on observing the contents of consciousness — the feelings, sensations, and mental images that we can notice as they arise and dissipate.
In Effortless Mindfulness, you shift from focusing on the contents to focusing on the context of consciousness, awareness itself... You open to what or who is aware of these contents.
This seemingly subtle shift can heighten your sense of freedom, joy, and wisdom — similar to experiencing the beauty of nature, making love, or being in the zone while playing a sport or creating a work of art.
Transitioning from everyday mind to awake awareness, you become more energetically embodied and interconnected with everything.
Join Leading Spiritual Teacher & Author Loch Kelley to Awaken to Your Effortless Nature
Your awakening begins with a glimpse...
“A glimpse is not a meditative state, a positive thought, an altered state, or a belief,” says Loch. “A glimpse is a shift of center, from an ego-identified location of perception into a new way of seeing from Being.”
Loch has transformed advanced practices of Zen and Tibetan meditation techniques into practical micro-meditations, which can be done with your eyes open — any time of day.
If you’re seeking a “next-level” teacher for your path of awakening, Loch can guide you in the practice of Effortless Mindfulness, a simple, yet deep practice and set of teachings rooted in non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science, and psychotherapy.
Loch created Effortless Mindfulness to help seekers become aware of and embody different expressions of awake awareness. His techniques influence brain activity in ways that enhance wellbeing and compassion, according to neuroscientists at Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and New York University.
This 7-part training is your opportunity to experience the profound shifts in consciousness available to you through Effortless Mindfulness.
Imagine the peace that comes from shifting your focus from your head to your heart and away from conceptual thinking... into what Loch calls “continuous, intuitive knowing.”
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, you’ll receive practical Effortless Mindfulness techniques that will open you to experience the five levels of awakening.
This course will feature teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices with Loch. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to move beyond fear, worry, and shame — and access your intuitive heart-mind.
Module 1: Five Levels of Awakening Through Effortless Mindfulness (May 15)
Effortless Mindfulness is both a natural capacity and a skillful way to connect with ourselves and others. It is a way of being mindful from a different level of mind than we are used to. There is more to Effortless Mindfulness than meditation.
Effortless Mindfulness is primarily an off-the-meditation-cushion way of weaving together contemplation and compassionate actions. Effortless Mindfulness begins by opening to a natural spacious awareness in order to become wiser, more embodied, and more creative.
Effortless Mindfulness will help you immediately shift out of your cloud of thoughts and emotions, and into the spacious, embodied, interconnected loving Self you have always been.
In his book, Rainbow Painting, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche says “There are two types of mindfulness: deliberate and effortless.” Mindfulness could be described as the ability to become focused and connected. Deliberate mindfulness is usually considered the introductory practice. Effortless Mindfulness is an advanced, yet simple form of mindfulness designed to relieve the deepest levels of suffering.
In this module, you’ll:
- Deepen your understanding of the differences between deliberate mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness
- Receive a map and methods for shifting through the 5 levels of awakening
- Discover how to taste awakening immediately through small glimpses and shifts of awareness
- Move from a thought-based separate self to an awareness-based loving Self
- Understand how your awake Self allows you to be compassionate with the parts of you that are hurt or protective
- Move beyond the traps of being too mindfully detached or too energetically enmeshed
- Realize that the innate unchanging ground of wholeness is already installed within you
Module 2: Small Glimpses, Many Times — Shifting Into Boundless Awareness (May 22)
It takes practice to upgrade from thought-based small mind to your awareness-based open mind. In this second class, you’ll explore ways to shift out of small mind and small self into your awake, loving Self. The primary way of shifting is to feel how local awareness can move from being identified to returning home to open-hearted awareness.
The main approach of Effortless Mindfulness is small glimpses, many times during the day. A glimpse is a micro-meditation that takes a few minutes and is often done with your eyes open.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover 5 distinct foundations of Effortless Mindfulness
- Learn about wordless, timeless, awake awareness as the boundless ground
- Discover “local awareness,” the tuner for changing consciousness, which is different from attention
- Feel local awareness shift out of the cloud of your mind and into spacious, awake awareness
- Feel local awareness unhook from your small mind and drop down into your heart-mind
- Experience the difference between being aware through thought and being aware through awareness-energy
Module 3: Beyond Subtle Body & Subtle Energy — Awareness Energy as the Ground of Being (May 29)
Discover how to access your effortless, awake nature and know the intelligence of your body from within. Embodying Effortless Mindfulness allows you to work, move, and relate to others from an open-hearted presence.
Just as we can become too “spaced out,” we can become too “blissed in,” or caught in subtle energy. For empaths and highly sensitive people in particular, Effortless Mindfulness is the way to experience the support of awake awareness as the boundless ground of interconnected consciousness that is compassionate but does not take on other people’s energy.
In this module, you'll:
- Distinguish subtle-body energy from interconnected awareness energy
- Know your body from within and all around from Simultaneous Mind
- Discover your Ground of Being as a supportive, effortless sense of wellbeing
- Feel boundless awareness, interconnected energy, and relational boundaries
- Find out how to shift your awareness and return to your true nature in the midst of daily life
Module 4: Discover Your Awake Loving Self — Healing Your Shadow Parts (June 5)
It is important, in order to embody awakening, to discover the non-dual relationship between formlessness and form. We begin to experience open-hearted awareness as the foundation of Self.
Our changing experience shows up in everyday life not just as thoughts and emotions, but as subpersonalities or parts of us. We can learn to discover the foundation of our awake Self that can welcome and love all parts back to health.
Loch will guide you from the traps of small self and into your awake Self so you can heal shadow parts with Effortless Mindfulness.
In this module, you'll:
- Access open-hearted awareness as the loving intelligence of Self
- Identify and ask a part for some space, and shift into awake Self
- Feel Self as the foundation of "who I am," which also includes relationship to parts and people
- Discover natural, loving self-energy toward all parts, whether hurt or powerfully protective
- Discover ways to listen to and unburden parts so they are part of the team
Module 5: Mindful Glimpses & the Neuroscience of Awakening (June 12)
Mindfulness meditation is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Over the past 20 years, scientific research has shown that mindfulness alleviates stress-related symptoms, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain, and has also been proven to improve cognitive function, boost immunity, and lower blood pressure.
More recent studies of the Effortless Mindfulness approach show measurable changes in our body and perceptions. Awakening is possible.
In this class, you’ll learn how to do mindful glimpses that “reverse-engineer” the neuroscience findings to:
- Move from initial empathy to compassion — instead of empathetic burnout
- Balance the default-mode network of the brain so you feel seamlessly interconnected
- Stop trying to be in the present moment, and discover how to be in the Now
- Do the “Drive Yourself Happy” open-eyed glimpse to shift into a flow state
Module 6: Open-Hearted Awareness — Leaving Behind Fear, Worry & Shame (June 19)
From effortless heart mindfulness at this stage, we sense that we can know information as needed without referring to thought. We can remain at home in our heart-mind and have thoughts come to us from the office in our head via wifi.
From this stage, many people report that they feel the coming together of a boundless heart and a tender human heart. Many say that they feel like they are looking out of “the eyes of the heart.” This heart-mind is not the physical heart, heart chakra, or emotional heart, but compassionate intelligence that is like continuous intuition. They describe an experience of unconditional love, free from fear, worry, and shame.
In this module, you'll discover how to:
- Shift from head to heart, from thought-based knowing to open-hearted awareness
- Feel compassionate intelligence and make choices from that state
- Talk and relate to other people from effortless heart mindfulness
- Return and remain at home in the heart, welcoming and healing all parts of your Self
Module 7: Living Daily Life in Awakened Awareness (June 26)
Over the past sessions, you’ve learned to shift through five levels of awakening and access a loving Self that is compassionate with the painful and angry parts of you. You’ll continue to see that no parts are bad, and that they are all looking for love in the ways they thought were best.
It is important to keep this simple, new orientation and do small shifts of awareness each day to discover the wisdom within you.
Loch will guide you to heal and unburden the shame-based parts that try to convince you that you are not worthy of your birthright of love and awakening.
In this module, you'll:
- Recognize when you’re caught in small mind —and know how to drop down into your heart-mind
- Integrate small glimpses into your daily life and restart your day anytime
- Navigate the traps, detours, and protective parts that keep you from living an awakened life
- Connect with your community and find new motivation for compassionate activity
The Effortless Mindfulness Bonus Collection
In addition to Loch’s transformative 7-part virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful bonus sessions, which complement the course and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Relieving the Root of Suffering
Set of 3 Video Teachings From Loch Kelly
In these three Effortless Mindfulness meditation videos, you'll learn to unhook local awareness from thinking. Local awareness can then return home to open-hearted awareness and relieve suffering.
- Beyond the Meditator
- Effortless Focus
- Effortless Mindfulness Pain Reduction
Turn Yourself Around
7-Part Audio Teaching From Loch Kelly
This audio teaching features clear descriptions and lively discussion around Loch Kelly’s approach and glimpse practices. The focus is on shifting into freedom through learning how to turn awareness around to be aware from Effortless Mindfulness. There is a shift from our small mind to an open mind, and support on how to live from open-hearted awareness. Includes almost four hours of audio!
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life
PDF Excerpt From the Upcoming Book by Loch Kelly
In this excerpt from The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, you’ll receive an introduction to Loch’s teaching on how we can “unhook” awareness from chattering thoughts to access a peaceful mind and a naturally embodied wakefulness. From this heartful space, Loch’s students have reported that right action comes easily and a loving tenderness for all of life is freely available. The Way of Effortless Mindfulness offers a compelling introduction to the next stage in the ongoing mindfulness revolution.
What People Are Saying About Loch Kelly...
“Practicing under Loch Kelly’s guidance is mind-blowing.”
Practicing under Loch Kelly’s guidance is mind-blowing. You shift out of your chattering mind, and awareness emerges — clear, fearless, unconditionally accepting.
— Amy Gross, Meditation teacher and former editor-in-chief of O, The Oprah Magazine
“Loch is among the best ‘pointing within’ teachers in the world right now.”
Loch is among the best “pointing within” teachers in the world right now. By “pointing within,” I mean someone who can experientially introduce — and then continue to mentor — folks into authentic higher consciousness and heart.
— Kurt Johnson, PhD, Author of The Coming Interspiritual Age and Nabokov’s Blues
“There are very few who can guide with such mastery.”
Loch Kelly offers a rich array of unique mindful glimpses that reveal our naturally awake, open-hearted awareness. His guidance is clear, precise, and arises from a wise, caring heart. There are very few who can guide with such mastery.
— Tara Brach, PhD, Author of Radical Acceptance
“Loch helps us discover an awareness that’s already effortlessly awake.”
Now that mindfulness is widely embraced by mainstream culture, it may be possible for greater numbers to take a deeper step into effortless mindfulness. Though there is an initial effort, Loch helps us discover an awareness that’s already effortlessly awake.
— Terry Patten, Author of A New Republic of the Heart
“Loch Kelly presents a groundbreaking approach with a unique form of mindfulness...”
Loch Kelly presents a groundbreaking approach with a unique form of mindfulness: a path both gentle and powerful. Loch makes an important contribution to our growing understanding that spiritual awakening and personal healing are two sides of the same valuable coin.
— Judith Blackstone, PhD, Author of Trauma and the Unbound Body
“... teachings that... allow us to easily recognize our most essential nature...”
Through simple yet powerful exercises, Loch Kelly provides direct-path teachings that exquisitely point to and allow us to easily recognize our most essential nature that lies at the heart of unbreakable wellbeing.
— Richard Miller, PhD, Author of The iRest Program for Healing PTSD
“Loch Kelly offers us ways to glimpse the natural, ever-present awareness that is our True Nature...”
With deep simplicity and subtle clarity, Loch Kelly offers us ways to glimpse the natural, ever-present awareness that is our True Nature, and presents mindfulness teachings and micro-meditations that reveal it “effortlessly” within ourselves.
— Krishna Das, Chant leader and Grammy®-nominated vocalist
“[Loch’s] effortless mindfulness practices are directly in line with the beneficial qualities of effortless awareness...”
Loch has a deep understanding of meditation, and manifests the wisdom and compassion that comes from this. His effortless mindfulness practices are directly in line with the beneficial qualities of effortless awareness that my neuroscience lab has studied. I wholeheartedly recommend these practices to my students, and to you.
— Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, Director of Research at Brown University Mindfulness Center and author of The Craving Mind
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Recorded Class Sessions With Loch Kelly
Experience a rare opportunity to learn from author, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist Loch Kelly — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a video teaching and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to awaken to your natural state... loving, wise and joyful — through simple, yet advanced practices validated by latest neuroscience.
Seven PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Effortless Mindfulness Bonus Collection
- Relieving the Root of Suffering
Set of 3 Video Teachings From Loch Kelly
- Turn Yourself Around
7-Part Audio Teaching From Loch Kelly
- The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life
PDF Excerpt From the Upcoming Book by Loch Kelly
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Effortless Mindfulness Virtual Training
We feel honored that Loch Kelly has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a rare opportunity to learn from an author, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations, and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Loch’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — and at your own pace!
If you’re serious about awakening to your natural state and connecting with the wisdom of the larger field of consciousness, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please contact our friendly Support Team within 14 days of your date of purchase and we’ll happily issue you a refund.
About Loch Kelly
Loch Kelly, MDiv, LCSW, is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the nonprofit Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. Loch teaches in a non-sectarian human being lineage using an adult education style based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science, and psychotherapy.
Loch is grateful to all his teachers and shares from his own experiences, which have given him great joy, freedom, and love. Loch’s mission is to help people access awakening as the next natural stage of human development. He offers in-person retreats, workshops, and online video and audio courses. He served on the New York Insight Teachers Council, studied extensively with Mingyur Rinpoche, and was invited to teach direct realization by Adyashanti.
Loch has collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn, and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing. As a licensed psychotherapist, Loch has been teaching seminars, supervising clinicians, and practicing awareness psychotherapy in NYC for 30 years.
Loch is a graduate of Columbia University and Union Theological. He was awarded a fellowship to study forms of non-dual meditation in Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal from 1981-1982 and has studied with teachers from around the world. He studied Buddhism with Professor Lily de Silva at the University of Kandy, Sri Lanka, Insight Meditation with Godwin Samararatne and at the Theravada monasteries, Inter-Spiritual Contemplative Meditation with Father Bede Griffiths and Anthony de Mello, Advaita at Sri Ramana Ashram, and Dzogchen and Sutra Mahamudra with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in Nepal.
Loch spent 10 years establishing homeless shelters and community lunch programs and working in a community mental health clinic in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as Coordinator of Counseling and Interspiritual Chaplain at Union Theological Seminary and worked extensively with families recovering from the trauma of 9/11. Loch currently lives in New York City with his wife Paige and their cat Duffy.
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