Effortless Mindfulness Embodied
A 4-Day Retreat at the Garrison Institute
10/16-10/19
Join meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and Mindful Glimpses App creator Loch Kelly for this special 4-day in-person retreat.
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Want to take your Effortless Mindfulness practice to the next level?
You’re invited to Join Loch Kelly for an advanced experiential retreat at the Garrison Institute this Autumn in New York.
Effortless Mindfulness Embodied is an advanced yet simple form of “Off the cushion meditation in action.” This retreat is for you if you resonate with Loch’s synthesis of glimpsing and IFS-style psychological integration practices.
Awakening to our true nature is available as the next natural stage of human development. And in this advanced experiential retreat, you’ll learn tools to access your effortless, awake, loving nature and how to relate from Self leadership to others and nature.
In-person retreats are also an amazing opportunity to bond with fellow practitioners and forge enduring friendships. The in-person experience with Loch, the small groups, dyads, and community are powerful support in our isolated culture.
About Loch Kelly
Loch Kelly M.Div, LCSW is the creator of the meditation app, Mindful Glimpses, an award-winning author, psychotherapist, and nondual meditation teacher, Loch is the founder of the nonprofit Effortless Mindfulness Institute.
Loch has master’s degrees from both Columbia University and Union Theological, where he was awarded a traveling fellowship to Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. There, he trained with some of the great meditation masters of the modern era including Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche who said, “There are two types of mindfulness, deliberate and effortless.”
Loch teaches Effortless Mindfulness, an ancient form of nondual meditation informed by Indo-Tibetan wisdom and modern science. Loch has co-taught with IFS-founder Dick Schwartz and collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn, and NYU to study how awareness training can enhance compassion and well-being. He also worked as a psychotherapist in community mental health clinics in New York City for over 20 years.
Loch is known for his unique practical methods and warm sense of humor. He has a talent for leading people to know their true nature, which he frames as the next stage of human development.
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.”
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.”
“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.”
What makes Effortless Mindfulness different from
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Our unique methodology synthesizes ancient wisdom practices, neuroscience, and contemporary psychology (particularly Internal Family Systems). 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
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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Effortless Mindfulness In-Person Retreat
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4 Day Immersion with Loch Kelly
FAQ
This live and in-person retreat is designed for more seasoned practitioners of Effortless Mindfulness. You are welcome to join, but you may find the practices and content challenging without some background in Effortless Mindfulness.
Yes, Loch is specifically tailoring this four-day retreat to more advanced practitioners who are familiar with the Effortless Mindfulness teachings and have tasted the promise and potential of Awake Aware Mind in their own direct experience.
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 before the retreat begins. We will not provide refunds after Oct 1.
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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.
