Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

In this deeply illuminating episode, Loch sits down with Theravāda Buddhist monks Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho to explore the profound practice of Effortless Mindfulness.

Together, they bridge the gap between conventional and non-dual wisdom traditions, mapping direct realization to traditional experiences like samādhi, the Unborn, and the Deathless. Loch introduces us to "local awake awareness” which is what navigates our c...

In this conversation, Loch joins Radiant Voices host Jeremy de Tolly to explore effortless mindfulness, awake awareness, and the profound shift from identifying with thoughts and parts to recognizing that there is a type of knowing awareness prior to thought. Loch shares practical insights from decades of nondual mindfulness practice and teaching, explaining why traditional concentration-based meditation can be calming and how a mo...

In this episode, we take a fresh look at the journey from our everyday, habitual sense of ego-centered identity—the “small self”—toward discovering and living from our True Nature or what IFS calls Self Leadership. Through a guided glimpse practice and gentle inquiry at the end, we explore how to unblend from the thinker or manager part of the mind and shift into the spacious, compassionate presence of Self.

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In part two of this deep conversation, two “happy” masters of meditation, Loch Kelly and Henry Shukman, explore a range of topics and questions through the lens of awakening as a natural human potential. What can we learn about how to shift into awake mind and heart to live with and recover from injury and long Covid? What is effortless focus and flow, aka Flow Know? And why is it so important for meditation and mindful...

In this deep conversation, two “happy" masters of meditation, Loch Kelly and author of Original Love, Henry Shukman, explore their similar and unique approaches to awakening. With delight and curiosity, they share some of their own initial awakening experience. They also discuss their process of discovering and unfolding and how they share it with students. 

To this end, they unpack and illuminate the contemplative art an...

What if there were another way to focus that is not stressful or exhausting? And what if this other way of effortless focus and flow gave us more energy and tapped us into an inherent sense of clarity, compassion, and wholeness?  

Three Kinds of Effortless Flow

In this episode of the Effortless Mindfulness podcast, Loch Kelly introduces us to different types of awareness and uncovers a remarkable and innate human capacity called...

In this episode, Loch introduces the map and practices of non-dual presence. A lot of us have heard about non-duality before. But how many of us have a truly embodied experience of this profound and transformative dimension of our own consciousness? 

Nondual Presence Map

In Loch’s model of The Five Levels of Mind, he refers to non-dual presence as the Fourth Level of Mind — Unity Mind. Throughout the episode, Loch le...

In this episode, Loch explores the progressive stages of mindfulness. This contrasts with common definitions of mindfulness which only feature the first stages of concentration and witnessing. In addition, Loch introduces a nuanced map of consciousness which includes important distinctions and levels. 

In this model,  which is based on the Indo-Tibetan approach, mindfulness begins similarly with calm abiding—focusing...

In this episode, Loch unpacks how his unique approach to awakening fuses two powerful and transformative systems—Effortless Mindfulness (EM) and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Each of these systems asserts that our true Self is ever-present and inherent. We don’t need to create or develop anything to realize our true nature. In Effortless Mindfulness, we uncover this ever-present Self (aka the IFS Self) directly. Each o...

In this episode, Loch introduces you to the essential shift in the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process (EMAP)—Awake Aware Mind. He addresses the often elusive but essential question: What is it like to directly experience our already Awake Mind? 

The goal in EMAP is not a sustained experience. Instead, we aim for an orientation, recognition, and realization of this already awake and ever-present dimension of our own ...

In this podcast episode, Loch explores the three main obstacles to awakening. As part of the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process, he emphasizes the importance of having a map, a method, and markers to help us understand where we are on the path at any given time. In Effortless Mindfulness, that map is called the Five Levels of Mind, and Loch spends time illuminating the different levels. He then goes on to pinpoint the three b...

Join Loch Kelly - creator of the Mindful Glimpses app - here as he welcomes Dr. Dan Siegel, a pioneering researcher and author in the field of interpersonal neurobiology. In this episode, they delve into Siegel’s interdisciplinary framework for understanding the mind and its relationship to the brain, body, and human connections.

Dr. Dan Siegel (Wheel of Awareness) introduces the concept of mind as an "emergent self-or...

In this episode, Loch introduces a pillar of the Effortless Mindfulness model called the Five Levels of Mind. He refers to these five levels as Everyday Mind, Subtle Mind, Awake Aware Mind, Unity Mind, and Heartmind. In this show, Loch explores and unpacks how the first two levels of mind involve working with the body and mind to calm and stabilize them. The next three levels of mind make up a second tier, so to speak, providing ac...

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he welcomes spiritual teacher and author Mirabai Starr about how grief is a portal to the sacred. They explore the mystics' poetic teachings on embracing both the transcendent and immanent - the ultimate reality and our embodied human experience. 

Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr is about “living the fierce and tender wisdom of the women mystics.” Drawing on...

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he welcomes his dear friend and colleague Adyashanti for an insightful conversation on different doorways for awakening. This conversation is significant as it's the last public interview before the official Adyashanti retirement announcement. Loch has been an authorized teacher by Adyashanti since 2007 and he carries on the modern nondual tradition. Adyashanti meditat...

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app here as he welcomes his colleague and author of The Heart of Who We Are Caverly Morgan. They explore the intersection of personal and collective practices for spiritual awakening. Caverly shares her journey of reconciling various teachings and traditions to arrive at an integrated approach. Loch highlights his Effortless Mindfulness teaching as a way to access non-dual awarene...

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app here as he welcomes psychologist Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman as his special guest. Together, they embark on a profound exploration of transcendence, self-awareness, and awakening as the next stage of human potential. In this Scott Barry Kaufman podcast episode, they explore the experience of unconditional love and unconditional positive regard and their transformative power in hea...

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he welcomes his dear friend and colleague Adyashanti for an insightful conversation on different doorways for awakening. This conversation is significant as it's the last public interview before the official Adyashanti retirement announcement. Loch has been an authorized teacher by Adyashanti since 2007 and he carries on the modern nondual tradition. Adyashanti meditat...

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he shares a deep dialogue with psychologist, meditation teacher and author, Tara Brach. Together they explore the path to awakening presence and deepening the connection to inner wisdom. The conversation navigates through practical techniques for shifting awareness, mindfulness cultivation, and the transformative power of embracing beliefs without being bound by them.&...