Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle Package

Get the EM Level One and Two Training Programs and save $80

In this hybrid virtual live + self-paced training, you’ll learn the Five Levels of Mind and discover your unique doorways to living awake in the world. 

Join meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and Mindful Glimpses App creator Loch Kelly and begin the path of deepening your personal meditation practice and facilitating the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process for others.

Live dates down below.

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(Loch Kelly is only offering this hybrid training once in 2024.)

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How will these trainings support you?

  • Have you had glimpses or peak experiences but then get triggered back to your old sense of self?
  • Do you yearn to live from your awake consciousness, but don’t know how to remain or live from there?
  • Do you find yourself stuck in your practice, and unclear about what’s blocking you from going deeper? You hear powerful reports from other practitioners and you’re just not experiencing it yourself. What gives?
  • We all want to go to the next level with our practice (especially when we’ve experienced early benefits!) But how do we know what that next level actually is? And how do we learn the most effective ways to ground and stabilize here?
  • How do we identify the obstacles to awakening and the parts of us that become afraid or disoriented? And how do we reassure these parts (rather than suppress or exile them) that the goal is positive for every part of us?
  • Are you looking for a map, method, and markers to help you go to the next stage in your journey of healing, growth, and awakening?
  • Do you find the feeling of ‘letting go’ confusing or scary? Learn the subtle shifts that enable you to be aware from a calm, clear, compassionate new view.

This training is for you if:

  • You’ve glimpsed awake consciousness but haven’t been able to sustain it
  • You feel the openness of awareness but not the embodiment or the love when meditating or glimpsing
  • You can access awake awareness but loose it when complex tasks or emotional situations arise
  • You’ve been meditating for a while and experienced genuine benefits from meditation, but feel like you’ve hit a wall
  • You have some understanding and interest in nonduality but want to have a direct experience and find someone who can help guide you
  • You have difficulty with concentration or your mind won’t settle
  • You feel calm after your meditation but then get triggered during the day and you don’t know what to do to reclaim your equanimity
  • You’re a helping or healing professional who wants to learn how to directly access your true nature and master self-management, so you can effectively hold space for others on their healing journeys (without burning out)
  • You’re looking for an approach to meditation that allows you to ground yourself in awakened awareness and function from awake loving flow throughout the day
  • You encounter blocks in your practice and want support navigating these obstacles so you can abide in the subtle dimensions of consciousness without getting destabilized or stuck
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EM Level One

(Self Paced)

In this unique training, you’ll learn the map, method, and markers that make up the powerful Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process. 

Specifically, you’ll experientially immerse yourself in the map, which Loch calls The Five Levels of Mind.

  • Learn the common roadblocks that many mindfulness practitioners face (and how to move beyond them so that you experience a richer more rewarding practice)
  • Get a comprehensive overview of Effortless Mindfulness (including the map, method, and markers that help you move beyond the limits of conventional mindfulness schools)
  • Discover and immerse yourself in the dimension of your own self that is already and always free from stress, worry, and fear
  • Discover an approach to meditation and waking up that doesn’t take time
  • Develop inner tools to easily access an awake loving flow consciousness so you can stay clear and focused during work, in your relationships, and in play
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EM Level Two

(Live)

EM Level Two narrows the lens and hones in on the details of the method you’ll need to establish yourself in Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heart Mind. In Level Two, we’re going to focus on the method and markers. The key to embodying this new stage of life is to find the doorways and learning style that are best for you.

Why is this important? Because each of us has a different learning style. And every learning style features different supports and different obstacles to awakening.

You’ll Learn:

  • How to distinguish thought-based learning from awareness-based learning
  • How to confidently stop checking back with the Thinker
  • How to identify and optimize the doorways that best align with your learning style
  • How to ensure that you don’t get stuck anywhere in the awakening process: the mindful witness, blissful experiences, the void, etc
  • How to avoid state-chasing and spiritual bypassing
  • How to identify the triggers that take you out of awakening
  • How to return when you lose access and then remain and integrate with everyday consciousness

Welcome!

Hi, I’m Loch Kelly. I’m excited to bring this new offering into the world and to share it with you. It’s called the Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle and it’s the culmination of over 40 years of my work as a psychotherapist and meditation teacher.

This training cycle marks a major turning point in my teaching work. I’ve been synthesizing the Effortless Mindfulness teachings for many years and gathering feedback from students to make the experience practical and optimal for different types of learners.

A Map, Method, and Markers

And now I feel that I’ve distilled Effortless Mindfulness (EM) into a simple method and map with clear experiential markers that can help beginners and advanced practitioners alike to stay grounded in our ever-present already awake mind. 

The EM method synthesizes an advanced yet simple Indo-Tibetan form of mindfulness with modern neuroscience and psychology, particularly Internal Family Systems (IFS).

This means that EM is accessible and easy to put into practice during our busy lives as we learn to welcome all inner parts of us and outer situations that trigger us. 

Indeed, awakening and grounding in your essential nature (and the calm, confidence, and compassion that comes with it) isn’t confined to your meditation cushion.

Instead, EM gives you simple ways to stabilize your access to that equanimity, buoyancy, and tender loving heart through all the ups and downs of daily life.

As you embody EM more fully, you’ll find it easier to live from an awake flow consciousness that helps us create and relate in an optimal way.

Effortless Mindfulness Levels One and Two are the first two parts in this 3-part training cycle. Level three culminates in a facilitator certification program.

In this unique live and self-paced offering, you’ll take the self-paced version of Level One and then join me and others in a live cohort for Level Two, where you’ll continue your path of deep healing, awakening, and growth.

The EM Training Cycle is the beginning of a learning path where you’re going to focus on directly accessing the subtlest dimensions of your consciousness. 

I call these dimensions the five levels of mind.

Level One: An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind

EM Level One is an experiential journey into the five levels of mind, serving as an introduction to this system.

  • I’ll give you a map to demystify the process (and the landscape) of awakening.
  • Then you’ll learn glimpsing the method, so you can navigate the path.
  • And I’ll provide you with the essential markers (think signposts on the path) so you know exactly where you are and how to proceed.

Level Two: Discover Your Unique Doorways to Living Awake in the World

In Level Two, you’ll graduate from Learning Effortless Mindfulness to Living it

You’ll begin the process of creating a personalized meditation manual that will help you identify and focus on the doorways and obstacles that are particular to you and your learning style.

And then I’ll help you clarify the methods and markers you need to: 

  1. Realize each stage of your unfolding and… 
  2. Overcome those obstacles based on your distinct learning style.

 

Unlike other systems, which often feature a one-size fits all approach, the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process shows you how to open the distinct doorways to awakening that best align with your personal learning style.

If you’re unable to attend any live sessions in Level Two, you’ll have lifetime access to your course area so you can always access replays the next day.

I hope you’ll join me on this life-changing journey and sign up below. See you in the course!

With a Grateful Heart,

Loch Kelly

The Five Levels of Mind

The first level of mind that we’re going to discover and explore together is one we all know already. It’s the basic, Everyday Mind of our psychology, our brain, and those parts of us that we call me. It includes our conditioned mind’s programs and our limited subpersonalities from which we try to manage our lives

The second level of mind is the Subtle Mind, where a lot of us have explored and developed insight into thought, energy, and emotions that come and go. This is the mindful witness and the subtle body. It includes our first attempts to shift out of everyday mind.

The third level of mind is Awake Aware Mind, which is foundational. This is a unique and important marker, and one of the most exciting on the EM path. At this level, you realize the subtlest and most fundamental dimension of your consciousness—a wordless, silent, and alert space that is forever free from anxiety, worry, and terror. My goal is to directly introduce you to this transformative level of your own consciousness.

And this then opens up into the:

Fourth level of mind, called the Unity Mind, where we come home from this pure awareness to a ground of interconnected embodied presence. A presence that allows us to feel safe without scanning for danger in our everyday mind. It also allows us to bring the natural compassion of self-energy into our life and to the inner world of our parts.

In the fifth level of mind we encounter the Heart Mind. This means living from a level of consciousness that I call awake loving flow. Like flow consciousness, you’re able to create and relate inside and outside in a way that feels safe, friction-free, and yet highly functional. You feel creative and bursting with inspired clarity about the purpose of your life.

Here's What You'll Get

This Level One & Two package includes live (Level Two) and pre-recorded (Level One) content. Your live day-long retreats and weekly interactive sessions with Loch Kelly will take place online via Zoom. If you can’t attend live for Level Two, replays are provided for all live sessions (including the opening and closing retreat). You’ll access all your replays, recordings, and course materials in your online course area. 

Live Expert Instruction

25 Hours of LIVE expert instruction with Loch Kelly

Lifetime Access

Lifetime access to all course replays and media in your virtual classroom

Micro-meditations

Weekly mindful glimpses to support each lesson module

PDF Support Materials

PDFs, charts, poems, quotes and other support materials

Expert Instruction

12 Hours of pre-recorded expert instruction with Loch Kelly

PEER GROUPS

5 hours of small group peer practice

RETREAT DAYS

Two days of immersive teachings to launch and close the course

INTEGRATION CALLS

Calls to keep you connected in Jan & Feb

Compassionate Community

Build and deepen your mindfulness practice among supportive fellow practitioners

How are Level One and Level Two Different?

In level one, you’ll experience a broad introduction to the five levels of mind. And you’ll be introduced to the map, method, and markers that define the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process. Most importantly, Level One focuses primarily on the Map of Awakening. 

Why? Because the first obstacle to awakening, for most of us, is the absence of a complete map. We all need a full map so we can heal, grow, and flourish at all the layers and levels of our consciousness. Without this full map we can get stuck half way in an eddy or cul-de-sac.

There are so many opportunities to get waylaid along the path. That’s why EM Level One provides you with numerous perspectives on the map. And the key point to remember is that awakening doesn’t stop with emptiness. It’s not just a blissful state experience. There’s so much more to it.

Without a full map, and without knowing it, most of us will stop short of the goal. We will:

  • Get caught in the mindful witness, working with the contents of consciousness on an incremental improvement path and working at the relative levels. At this stage of detached witness, we don’t move beyond symptom relief.
  • Mistake subtle body energetic empathy for Awake Awareness-based Self Energy. So feel bliss and connection but then get high on love, overwhelmed, or burnt out.
  • Get stuck in the void of non-doing or no-self and lose clarity around what’s next. You’ve made progress but then you stop and your practice dries up.
  • Keep going back to thought for a second opinion instead of discovering the not-knowing that knows from Awake Awareness.
  • Get trapped in the powerful experience of Pure Awareness and freedom from relative suffering but don’t embody it. You get it and lose it and end up in an intellectual bypass or spiritual ego.
  • Make progress on the path but don’t do the psychological and shadow work and so get triggered back and can’t embody awakening.

EM Level Two - Identifying Your Doorways of Awakening

Build Your Custom Approach

After taking EM Level One, you’ll know the map. Then you can move on to focus on the method, which is all about learning styles and deepening your experiential understanding.

How do you live it?

The short answer: Make it your own, and understand the territory that you’re practicing within. 

Because, it’s crucial that we don’t confuse the map for the territory. The map is essential, but the territory is where the action is. That’s where we put all this into practice.

For that, we need to focus on the method and the markers.

At the same time, Level Two will give you more variety and practice options so you can deepen your experiential understanding of the path while clarifying the specific doorways that open your mind and heart.

For example, we will explore the principles and practices to dis-identify with or let go of the everyday ego mind and safely shift into your Awake consciousness. 

We will explore:

  • Who or what lets go?
  • How do you begin and what does this feel like?
  • And what do you let go into that makes all the difference?
  • And finally, how do you confirm the new normal and learn to reside and respond from here?
 

And as you start to hone in on the learning styles that work best for you, you’ll begin to understand that you don’t need to master every glimpse or doorway presented. That’s a popular misunderstanding. In fact, you only need to become familiar with the ones that work for you. Why?

It Only Takes One Doorway

Because it only takes one doorway–one shift–to untie the existential knots that bind us. And in the end, the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process is not about higher state experiences. 

It’s about the Markers and Method that will help you untie the knots of existential discontent so you can fully inhabit Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heart Mind. And if you can untie just one of those knots, it can change everything! 

When you untie the knots, you return to your natural condition which is not many minds but the nature of mind or simply being. From here you are embodied and can act from the ground of Being as you get a feel for trust in Self leadership.

The Method - Moving from Recognizing to Realizing

Key to the method of Effortless mindfulness is the shift from Recognizing to Realizing. What does that mean? 

It’s the same as shifting our base of operation from Everyday Mind to Awake Mind. And this will be a primary focus in EM Level Two.

In EM Level One, Loch was teaching to your Everyday Mind, and you had experiences of the Five Levels of Mind from that ground. In EM Level Two, Loch speaks directly to your already Awake Mind.

Here are some of the essential hallmarks of the EM Method:

  1. Direct: EM is a direct practice. Rather than fixing the problem first to get to the solution, we go to the solution to fix the problem. 
  2. Awake: Your conceptual mind is not inquiring. The pointers you learn are for your already awake mind to know, be, and then move and do from being. 
  3. Levels: We don’t focus on what’s arising. Instead we focus on the level of mind it’s arising to. That changes the experience of what’s arising.
  4. Untying: It is not about creating new meditation states, rather it’s about untying existential knots.
  5. Transcend and Include: This path is not one of negation or deconstruction or stopping at no-self/centerless/headless or detached pure awareness or witness consciousness. It’s a path of transcendence and inclusion. Effortless Mindfulness is a “via positiva”path—an inquiry method leading to direct experience of and from.
  6. Calming: Start with the body, everyday mind, and subtle body/mind to calm and appreciate.
  7. No Bad Parts: We don’t aim to renounce, fight, suppress, judge or even initially change any of our exiled and protective parts. There are no bad parts.
  8. Orientation: Not only is awake awareness within you, it is the ultimate subject who we’re asking to move, glimpse itself, know, and realize. Shifting from Recognition to Realization is key.

The Markers - Workshopping the Essential Steps

There are also some essential steps and distinctions—markers—you need to internalize as you build your nondual practice and process for awakening. And in EM Level Two, we’re going to really workshop these markers.

For example:

  1. How do you confidently begin to distinguish thought-based learning from awareness-based learning?
  2. How do you stop checking back with the Thinker and uproot the deep habit of thought-based learning so that it becomes an active choice instead of your default?
 

We’re going to slow down the tape right at the point of contact with those markers, approaching them from different angles by using different doorways for different learning types so you can confidently download and start to embody these shifts in consciousness.

For Meditators & Helping Professionals

For Helping Professionals: Strengthen Your skills and Make a Greater Impact (with less burnout)

If you’re a mental health professional, meditation teacher/coach, healing arts practitioner, or coach EM Level Two will help you show up resiliently for your clients while diversifying your tool-kit.

 Here’s what’s in store for you: 

  • Embody a meditative system that integrates Internal Family Systems with a nondual approach (bringing together psychology and ancient wisdom under one roof)
  • Strengthen your self-leadership (so that you can remain grounded while facilitating 1.1 and group experiences) 
  • Work with your own parts (so that you can help others from a place of higher capacity)
  • Elevate your equanimity 
  • Learn how to manage your own sensory system (which directly helps you manage your energy as you support individuals and groups on their own healing journeys)
  • Decrease burnout simply by stabilizing in Awake Awareness 
  • Master self-management (so that you can have healthy boundaries with clients)
  • Role model the way and make a greater impact through embodying the EM principles
  • Prepare for the third and final stage of the EM Training Track – the facilitator certification track (we must first embody the system before we can share it with others)

For Meditation Practitioners: Deepen Your Practice 

EM Level Two is about shifting from learning the system to truly living it. If you’re interested in deepening your practice and integrating the method and markers into your whole life, then you’ll love EM Level Two. 

Here’s what’s in store for you: 

  • Prevent spiritual bypassing
  • Shift from sitting meditation to meditation in action
  • Learn how to live in the world from a ground of Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heart Mind
  • Tap into greater flow by integrating meditation and your emotional life
  • Learn how to not just access Awake Awareness, but return to embodied awake awareness anytime
  • Gain insight into the obstacles to your awakening, allowing you to feel more connected, compassionate, and clear
  • Embrace a custom approach that removes the guilt and shame

What Thought Leaders say about Loch...

“With wisdom, clarity and care, Loch Kelly offers teachings and practices that directly evolve consciousness and liberate the heart.”

Tara Brach, Ph.D.

World-renowned psychologist and meditation teacher. Founder of Insight Meditation Community. Bestselling author.

“Awakening is moving your inner center of gravity from your protective parts to your magnificent essence. Loch not only makes you realize that such a shift is possible, but provides exercises to help make it happen.”

Richard C. Schwartz. Ph.D.
Faculty in the Dept. of Psychiatry at Harvard. Founder of the Internal Family Systems approach to psychotherapy.

“In many years of knowing and working with Loch Kelly I feel that he is one of the clearest expressions of authentic awakened freedom and love that I know.”

Adyashanti
Internationally-recognized spiritual teacher and author of eleven books, including “The Direct Way”

What makes Effortless Mindfulness different from
other mindfulness approaches +
psychological interventions?

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Combines ancient wisdom and modern science to give you the most effective set of tools to live a fulfilling life.

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Unique micro meditations that you can do in the midst of your day with eyes open to immediately shift you into flow.

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Glimpses that heal anxiety at the root, uncover natural compassion, and shift you into flow at home and work.
✔️ Designed for the modern human

Our unique methodology synthesizes ancient wisdom practices, neuroscience, and contemporary psychology. This distinct combination is designed to help you get the most out of mindfulness in this modern world (even if you’re busy, struggle with focus, or wear many hats in your life).

✔️ An effortless path to greater peace, clarity and calm

With Effortless Mindfulness, the focus is not on developing the skill of mental stability or concentration (which is the defining feature of many mainstream mindfulness systems). Rather, you’re shifting OUT of an unstable stage of adult development into a calm, clear and knowing awareness that can become the foundation from which you live more skillfully

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✔️ A system for greater resilience

This practice style essentially helps you unplug the computer and hit refresh on your inner system. Doing this consistently actually helps your system function more effectively for the long term, leading to strong resilience to face life’s joys and challenges with enduring balance.

✔️ Address the root issues This practice style is about familiarizing yourself with a new stage of human development. You are updating the whole operating system, so the patterns that consistently play out in that operating system start to shift or dissolve. If you have a hard time going deeper with your meditation practice, we think you’ll love this feature of Effortless Mindfulness.

✔️ Stop trying so hard We invite you to stop ‘focusing more,’ and tap into an effortless awareness. Thousands of our students are enjoying a deep meditation practice, as well as higher levels of compassion, calm, and clarity more often (without as much effort).

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Peer Groups

In Effortless Mindfulness Level 2, we introduce small group work to support your development. Small group work like this offers a host of benefits like building community and getting feedback and support from your peers.

Each small group session will include the following elements:

  • Glimpse practice
  • Sharing and reporting after practice
  • Integration discussion
  • Reporting on progress and integration between weekly sessions

You’ll also have the opportunity to continue your small group meetings beyond the course.

Level One Course Structure

Every great meditative tradition the world over has major maps of the significant steps or stages in meditation as their tradition has come to understand and practice them. And what significant research has demonstrated is that virtually all of them follow the four or five major natural states of consciousness given cross-culturally and universally to all human beings. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Philosopher and Author

The Five Levels of Mind are these five major natural states of consciousness. In Effortless Mindfulness Level One, we’ll spend one session on each level of mind. You’ll learn how to access each of them and move from temporary state experiences to abiding trait changes that can fundamentally shift your sense of self.

The goal of EM Level One is to introduce you to each level of mind. While you may have immediate experiences within our 6-session immersion, this is not the goal of EM Level One. Instead, we want to give you the framework, the Mindful Glimpses, and set you up to explore EM well beyond the EM Level One course so you can progress through the five levels of mind at your own pace.

  • Session 1 – The Five Levels of Mind: Introduction to Effortless Mindfulness
  • Session 2 – Subtle Mind: Developing Insight into the Nature of Thoughts, Energy, Emotions & Parts
  • Session 3 – Awake Aware Mind: Realizing the Ever-present Freedom of Effortless Awareness
  • Session 4 – Unity Mind: Coming Home to the Ground of Fundamental Safety and Well-Being
  • Session 5 – Heart Mind: Living from Awake Loving Flow
  • Session 6 – Integration: Tools To Live a Life of Meaning, Compassion, and Purpose

Each session module will include a mix of recorded teachings with Loch followed by a guided Glimpse practice to integrate the new material.

Between sessions, Loch provides you with dedicated Mindful Glimpses that you can practice from week to week to integrate and internalize the lessons and experiences from each module.

You will also have access to supportive materials like quotes, poems, charts, book chapters, and supportive research papers to sooth your thinking mind!

Level Two Course Schedule

The EM Level 2 training program includes six weekly 2-hour live sessions with Loch Kelly, an opening and closing retreat led by Loch, and two live practice calls with Loch before the course starts.

  • Live Practice, Integration, Q&A with Loch – January 14, 12-2pm ET, 2025
  • Live Practice, Integration, Q&A with Loch – February 11, 12-2pm ET, 2025
  • Opening retreat: March 16th – 11am-4pm ET
  • Weekly Session: March 25 – 12-2pm ET
  • Weekly Session: April 1 – 12-2pm ET
  • Weekly Session: April 8 – 12-2pm ET
  • Weekly Session: April 15 – 12-2pm ET
  • Weekly Session: April 22 – 12-2pm ET
  • Weekly Session: April 29 – 12-2pm ET
  • Closing retreat: May 4 – 11am-4pm ET

Each weekly module will include a mix of live teachings with Loch, a guided Glimpse practice, breakout groups, and Q&A. If you can’t make any of the live sessions, you’ll get access to replays for each session, including the one-day retreats.

What Are Mindful Glimpses?

During this training, you’ll gain familiarity with the cornerstone practice of EM, short meditation inquiries called Mindful Glimpses.

These glimpses serve as your doorways to deeper levels of awareness that yield clarity, confidence, and buoyant compassion.

And most importantly, they enable you to discover and gain access to your Awake Aware Mind—the hidden but ever-present dimension within us that can unlock your higher potentials.

A Glimpse is not an altered state or a peak experience, but a “peek” into our true nature. Glimpses help you break the trance of the ego mind so you can seamlessly shift into the natural already awake condition inherent within each of us.

Most deliberate mindfulness practices require you to sit quietly and take time to calm your mind by concentrating or waiting for it to clear. In contrast, Glimpses enable immediate access—like changing the channel of your mind. They collapse the time needed between stabilization, awakening, and expression. You can even practice it in an agitated state and get immediate results.

How is that possible?

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Because Glimpsing practice immediately and intentionally shifts you from your current state of mind into an already-awake, already-installed consciousness that’s effortlessly aware.

After this transformative awakening experience, Mindful Glimpses provide the process, path, and practice of getting comfortable with this new holistic way of seeing and being.

We begin with our current small and thought-based way of knowing and doing, and then we’re going to shift into an awareness-based, spacious, interconnected, and open-hearted way of being and seeing.

Through Mindful Glimpses, you’ll learn to shift and flow through the five levels of mind, pivoting from the mundane mind of daily life to the subtle dimension of your embodied and wise Heart Mind.

Our invitation is to take your practice from exclusively focusing on stabilization to a whole new level and depth. This system helps our clients experience a range of long-term benefits, including greater and more consistent creative flow, heightened focus, more inner peace, emotional empowerment and the capacity to go much deeper in their practice (not from a place of force, but from the roots of inner safety and compassion).

Effortless Mindfulness + IFS Parts Work

I practice and teach an original synthesis of IFS-style parts work and Effortless Mindfulness. Taken together, these two models of Mind and Self offer a powerful path of healing that leads you to the deepest levels of the integration.

What is parts work? And why is it such a transformative healing modality when integrated with Effortless Mindfulness?

The IFS model of parts work describes the nature of the human psyche as organizing into subpersonalities, or parts, that all have Self as their source.

The approach is not to judge, minimize, or get rid of these parts, but instead to notice and lovingly embrace all of our parts from our interconnected Self, which is also within all parts.

This creates a middle path between most psychotherapies that regard a healthy ego as the goal and some meditative paths that call ego or small self an illusion. 

Effortless mindfulness helps us access Self and the nature of Mind, directly giving us a new view and wise capacity.

As we get to know and distinguish our parts from Self—even the most difficult ones—we can discover that all parts are looking for love, and there are no bad parts.

In our growing up and waking up, we begin by recognizing and thanking our protective parts as a way to overcome reactivity and find the natural calm needed to shift into our ever-present Awake Aware Mind. 

But how do you actually give that love to these difficult and burdened parts? This is where the fusion of parts work and effortless mindfulness is so effective. 

Having collaborated and co-taught with Dick Schwartz, I’ve combined IFS insights with the liberating wisdom practices of EM to facilitate access to Self—the whole of who we are beyond any part.

Mindful glimpses give us the tools for embodying and living an awakened life. And I find that this is the most effective way of healing our shadows—those unconscious, repressed, or denied parts.

It’s also the key to embody awakening. The goal of both IFS and EM is to upgrade our sense of identity and mind to live a life of Self leadership with the ability to heal inner parts and live from an awake loving flow to create and relate to others. 

In EM Level One, you’ll get get a sense of parts work and how EM can help you begin to heal and unburden your parts on the path to fundamental wholeness, awakening, and flourishing.

EM Level One & Two Bundle

An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind & Discover Your Unique Doorways to Living Awake in the World
$799
$ 719
  • Level One Course: 12 hours of self-paced video trainings and Mindful Glimpses
  • Six weekly sessions with Loch Kelly
  • Two virtual day-long retreats with Loch Kelly
  • Two integration Zoom calls with Loch in Jan & Feb​
  • Replays for all live Level Two sessions for self-paced students​
  • Five Hours of small group peer practice
  • Lifetime access to all course materials

FAQ

That’s great that you have the app! The Mindful Glimpses app and the Levels One and Two programs pair well together, allowing you to integrate both a foundational step-by-step training, teacher and peer support, as well as self-paced recordings and practices that you can weave into all moments of your life. There’s a few key differences between the app and theses programs. 

Level One is a pre-recorded multi-week journey. If your learning style benefits from sequential training, teacher-led and live multi-week format, then you’ll love the Level Two program. Level Two offers more accountability, real-time support, and community than the app. 

The app is more of a independent-study resource, and also provides you with a library of Mindful Glimpses to leverage in support of your practice. The app serves as a great stepping stone and preparation for the Level One and Two programs, allowing you to get versed in the basics, so that you can dive more deeply into the 5 levels of mind (which is the main focus of the Level One program).

No problem! If you can’t make it to any of the sessions, you’ll have access to all the replays in your course platform. You can revisit those anytime, anywhere, with lifetime access. We do encourage you to attend as many sessions as your schedule permits, but we recognize that life happens. We designed this program to benefit all who can attend live and those who cannot. 

You’ll have access to all the video recordings, downloadable supplemental materials, guided and Mindful Glimpses – all housed in your course platform upon signing up.

Yes! This program will offer you an in-depth overview of the path and practice of Effortless Mindfulness with a seasoned teacher. No previous experience is necessary. You’ll learn the system and receive an introduction to the Five Levels of Mind. After that, in Level Two you’ll learn how to embody and live the system, with a range of opportunities to deepen your practice independently and in the group forum.

Loch has designed this training course to benefit new and seasoned practitioners alike.

For more seasoned practitioners, this training gives you a way to shift from sitting meditation to meditation in action.

EM Level One will provide you with a deeper foundation in integrating awake awareness with thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

EM Level One will help advanced practitioners to integrate meditation and your emotional life so you feel more grounded with a deeper capacity to flow in your life.

Advanced practitioners will learn unique tools to apply at deeper levels to seamlessly return to embodied awake awareness anytime.

Finally, you’ll gain insight into the obstacles to your awakening, allowing you to feel more connected, compassionate, and clear.

And in Level Two, advanced practitioners will benefit from customizing EM to your unique learning style. Working with Loch directly, you’ll have the opportunity to diagnose and address the obstacles holding you back from fully establishing yourself in this awakening system.

Yes, anyone who wishes to get the facilitator certification will need to take EM Level One & Two before taking the EM Facilitator Training. However, if you can’t make it live, you can take the course at your own pace.

We feel that price should not be a primary barrier to people discovering and studying the dharma. If you are a student or need a scholarship, click the Enroll Now button above and follow the scholarship link to apply.

If this program doesn’t meet your needs, please email [email protected] to request a cancellation and refund by October 7th at 5pm ET. This will give you an opportunity to attend Session #1 live on October 1st. 

 
After October 7th, refunds are no longer available. Thank you for understanding. 

Great question. Learning how to manage your own sensory system can directly help you manage your energy as you support individuals and groups on their own healing journeys. Being able to track your parts during a client session, or notice your own patterns emerge as you serve others – this is key in order to make a sustainable impact and prevent burnout over the long term.

If you’re a helping or healing professional, you’ll walk away from EM Level One and Two understanding how to directly access your true nature. 

Not only that, you’ll also learn the meditative tools for mastering self-management, so that you can effectively hold space for others on their healing journeys (without burning out). The more you know yourself (and all your parts), as well as how to manage your system skillfully anytime, anywhere, the more you’ll widen and strengthen the space for others to heal, learn and fully be themselves in your container.

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Effortless Mindfulness is brought to you by Natural Wakefulness Center, a 501(c)3 public charity. NWC is dedicated to teaching direct methods to access awake awareness, living from a flow state, nondual mindfulness, and heart mindfulness. It is the Center’s goal to make awakening learnable, teachable, and more accessible to everyone. 

NWC wants to make these teachings accessible to everyone regardless of their ability to pay. To request a scholarship please click on the Enroll Now button above and click the scholarship link on the checkout page.

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