Past Presentations

“From open-hearted awareness we can bear what seemed unbearable and feel free, creative and related.” ~Loch Kelly

Loch Teaching at Change Your Mind Day in Central Park, NYC – Sponsored by Tricycle Magazine

Media and Press

• Awards and Reviews for The Way of Effortless Mindfulness:
  • Gold Medal Winner in Enlightenment/Spirituality, Living Now Book Awards
  • Best Spiritul Books of 2019, Spirituality & Practice
• Awards and Reviews for Shift Into Freedom:
  • Best Spiritual Books of 2015, Spirituality & Practice
  • Top 10 Book of 2015, Spirituality & Health Magazine
  • Publisher’s Weekly, Book Review
  • Psychology Today, Book Coverage and Interview with Loch by Mark Matousek
  • Foreword Reviews, Book Review
  • New Spirit Journal, Book Review

• Video Interviews and Discussions about Shift Into Freedom and related topics:
  • Buddha at the Gas Pump, with Rick Archer
  • How to Find Inner Peace Instantly, with Michael Sandler
  • Indie Spiritualist on MindPod Network, with Chris Grosso
  • The Journey After Awakening, with Adyashanti
  • Interviews With the Leading Edge, with Dr. Michael Wayne
  • Nonduality Dialogues with Ken Bok

• Audio Interviews & Interview Transcripts about Shift Into Freedom and related topics:
  • New Dimensions Radio Interview, “Liberating Yourself Into Open-Hearted Awareness”
  • A Better World Radio with Mitchell Rabin, “Awakening as the Next Stage of Human Development.”
  • Pointers to Open-Hearted Awareness Part One, Insights at The Edge, with Tami Simon
  • Pointers to Open-Hearted Awareness Part Two, Insights at The Edge, with Tami Simon
  • Spirit Matters Podcast with Phil Goldberg
  • Seekers Forum Dialogue, with Mark Matousek
  • The One You Feed Podcast, Dialogue on Awake Awareness
  • Janet Connor’s Unity Radio Interview, “Living from Open-Hearted Awareness”
  • Rubin Museum blog, On Finding Tranquility in a Busy City
  • LifeTips Podcast, Living from Open Hearted Awareness
  • Falling Into Awake Awareness Interview Transcript by Iain McNay, Conscious.TV

• Excerpts from Shift Into Freedom
  • Tricycle Magazine Blog, “When Am I?”
  • DailyOM, “Waking up, Waking in, and Waking out.”
  • Conscious2, “The Anatomy of Awareness”
  • Omega Institute Blog, “Changing the Channel of Your Mind”
  • New York Open Center Blog, “How to Awaken”
  • Reality Sandwich, “Effortless Mindfulness vs. Deliberate Mindfulness”
  • “How To Practice Effortless Mindfulness” Tricycle Magazine, 2017

Faculty and Board Positions

Current

• Faculty and Meditation Teacher for Luminous Awareness Institute, 2017-2019
• Board of Advisors for iConscious
• NY Open Center Faculty 2018, 8- month program: Meditation and Contemplative Studies Certificate Training 
• One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, Yearly Presentation to Seminary Students, 2008 – present
• Ram Dass’ Be Here Now Network – Faculty, Guest Podcast Contributor, 2018-present

Past

• New York Insight Meditation, Teachers Council, 2001
• Mingyur Rinpoche, Teaching Support, 2006

Publications

• The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide to Living an Awakened Life, Sounds True, 2019 Print. Tantor Audio, 2019 Unabridged Audiobook.
• “How To Practice Effortless Mindfulness.” Tricycle Magazine, 2017. Online.
• Effortless Mindfulness Now: Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy, Sounds True, 2017, Audiobook.
• Shift Into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness, Sounds True. 2015 & 2017. Print & Unabridged Audiobook.
• Shift into Freedom: A Training in the Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness, Sounds True, 2015, Audiobook.
• The Journey after Awakening, Adyashanti & Loch, Open Gate Publishing, 2007, DVD.
• Watkins Magazine, Featured Article on Shift Into Freedom, Spring 2018.

Past Presentations

Online Events

Sounds True sponsored Online Events

• Psychotherapy and Spirituality Summit, Online Presenter, 2017
• Neuroscience Summit, Online Presenter, 2017
• Open Circle Berkeley, Online Presenter, 2017
• Meditation Summit: Online Presenter, 2016
• Waking Up, 30 Perspectives on Spiritual Awakening: Online Presenter, 2015

Tricycle Magazine sponsored Events

• Effortless Mindfulness Six-Week Online Video Course, October 2017
• Open-Hearted Awareness: 4 Part Online Retreat, September 2015
• Free Day of Meditation, Central Park, 2004-07, 2010, with Pat O’Hara, Lama Surya Das, Sharon Salzberg, Traleg Rinpoche and others

Shift Into Freedom Online Course with Google Group Discussion Community

• Four month online meditation course, Teacher, January – April 2016.

World Wide Insight

• Awakening as the Cure for Addiction, February, 2016: video recorded teachings — can be accessed by signing up through the website and searching for Loch’s class.

Adyashanti’s Open Gate, San Jose, California

• Guest host, CafeDharma call-in Internet radio program 2/14/08
• DVD with Loch and Adyashanti: The Journey after Awakening, 5/07

Webinar and Q&A with Stephan Bodian on Effortless Mindfulness, February 2018

Internal Family Systems Webinar Series with Richard Schwartz, March-April 2018

Mindfulness At Work Summit, Mindful Leader, Presenter, June 2018

Conscious Evolution Summit, Presenter, November 2018

Conference Presentations

Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference, San Francisco

• Pre-Conference Daylong Workshop & Conference Speaker, February 2017
• Nondual Practices and Neuroscience Studies: Presenter, November 2009
• Keynote Speaker, October 2008

Science & Nonduality Conference

• Individual Presentation, “The Unfolding After Initial Awakening”, October 2016
• Panel Discussion: Loch, Mukti, & Francis Bennett “Form is also Emptiness”, October 2016

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Psychotherapy Conference

• Individual Presentation, November 2018
• Individual Presentation, October 2017
• Individual Presentation: “How to Access Self,” November 2016

Spiritual Summit for Social Change, Keynote Speaker

• New York City, September 13, 2014

Contemplative Alliance Annual Conference

• Speaker and Panelist, Morgan Library, NY, NY, June 2013

United Nations

• Featured Speaker, NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns 5/26/11 and 10/22/09

Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy, New York

• Keynote Speaker at Annual Conference,  November 2009
• Featured Speaker at Annual Conference, March 2007

Integral Wisdom Conference, New York, February, 2014

Psychotherapy Networker Symposium

• Individual Presentation, March 2018

GFIM World Congress oft Integrative Medicines: Elements of Healing, March 2018

• Special Panel Presentation with Gerald Epstein

Trainings and Intensives

Mandali Center, Milan, Italy

• Five-Day Workshop, September 2019
• Five-Day Workshop, taught with Dick Schwartz, PhD, September 2018
• Five-Day Workshop, taught with Dick Schwartz, PhD, June 2017

Mt. Madonna Center, Watsonville, CA

• Weekend Residential Retreat: Teacher, April, 2017
• Weekend Residential Retreat: Teacher, February, 2016

Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY

• Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher: July, 2018
• Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher: July, 2017
• Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher: May, 2016
• Five Day Residential Retreat, Teacher: July, 2015
• International Dharma Teachers Gathering, Presenter: June 1-5th, 2015

Blue Spirit Retreat Center, Nosara, Costa Rica

• Weeklong Residential Retreat, Teacher: March, 2019

Pendle Hill Retreat Center, Wallingford, PA

• Weekend Retreat: Teacher, October 2016
• Weekend Retreat: Teacher, November 2015

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, Massachusetts

• Weekend Residential Retreat: Teacher, October 2018
• Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher: September 2017
• Weekend Residential Retreat: Teacher, October 2015
• Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher, May 2010
• Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher May 2009
• Residential Retreat, Teacher, April 2008

Meeuwenveen Accommodations, Havelte, Netherlands

• Four Day Residential Retreat, Teacher: July 2017

Adyashanti’s Open Gate, San Jose, California

• Asked to substitute teach for Adyashanti during his illness, 2008
• Five-Day Silent Retreat, Asilomar, California, February 2008
• Evening Presentation: Palo Alto, February 2008
• Evening Presentation: Palo Alto, March 2008

Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California

• Five Day Residential Retreat, Co-Teacher with Richard Schwartz, January 2018
• Five Day Residential Retreat, Teacher, January 2019

Aherlow Castle, Ireland

• Weekend Workshop, May 2017

Aspen Chapel

• Long Weekend Retreat, Teacher, June 2018

Presentations and Workshops

Open Circle Center, Bay Area, CA

• Weekend Workshop, Berkeley and Marin, October 2017
• Evening of Inquiry, April 2017
• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat, October 2016
• Evening of Inquiry & Daylong Retreats: January, 2016

Austin, Young Presidents Organization (YPO)

• Meditation Workshop, April 2017

New York Insight Meditation Center, New York

• The Way of Effortless Mindfulness Special Tricycle Magazine Book Signing Event & Meditation and Daylong Workshop, September 2019
• Evening & Daylong Workshop Book Launch, June 2019
• Evening of Inquiry: Teacher, October 2018
• Evening of Inquiry: Teacher, November 2017
• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, January 2017
• Evening of Inquiry: Teacher, September 2016
• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, September, 2015
• Teachers Council Member 1998–2004
• Meditation Classes, 1998–present

One Spirit Learning Alliance, New York

• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat with Loch and Francis Bennett, January 2017
• The Course of Awakening, 2008–2012
• Mystic Heart Course, 2011

Den Meditation, Los Angeles

• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, February 2017
• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, February 2016

Boulder, Colorado

• Daylong Retreat, Community United Church of Christ: Teacher, March 2017
• Daylong Retreat, Community United Church of Christ: Teacher, January 2015

Tara Brach’s Insight Meditation Community of Washington, Bethesda, MD

• Guest Teacher: Evening and Daylong Retreat, September 2016
• Guest Teacher: Evening and Daylong Retreat, September 2015

Aspen, Colorado

• Daylong Retreat, Aspen Chapel: Teacher, July 2016

Boston Center For Contemplative Practice, Newton MA

• Daylong Workshop: Teacher, March 2018
• Daylong Training/Presentations for IFS Therapists: Teacher, March 2018
• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, October 2016
• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: October 2015

Samadhi Yoga, Newton MA

• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, October 2016
• Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: October 2015

Rubin Museum, New York

• Brainwave Series: Dialogue with Physicist Piet Hut, February 2018
• Book Signing and Evening of Inquiry, September 2015
• Nonduality and Science Talk, March 2012
• Brainwave Series: How to Find Peace of Mind, with New York University neuroscientist Zoran Josipovic, PhD, March 2011
• BrainWave Series: How God Changes Your Brain, with author Andrew Newberg, MD, March 2009
• Spirituality, Science, and Consciousness Lectures/Presentations with Dr. Kurt Johnson, author of bestselling The Coming Interspiritual Age, January & March 2008

Ithaca, NY

• Evening of Inquiry, Teacher, April 2017
• Weekend Retreat, Living from Open-Hearted Awareness, March 2016

Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple, Portland, OR

• Evening of Inquiry & Daylong Retreat: January 15-16, 2016

Unity of Tustin Church, Tustin, CA

• Weekend Retreat: Living from Open-Hearted Awareness, December 2015

New York Open Center, New York

• The Way of Effortless Mindfulness Book Signing Event & Meditation, October 2019
• Evening Meditation and Book Signing, September, 2015
• Nondual Meditation and Inquiry, October 2010
• Meditation & Yoga Presentations, with yoga teacher Jill Satterfield September 2009
• Meditation in the Modern World Conference, panelist with Matthew Fox, January 2008
• Core Faculty, Year Long Training Programs, Spirituality and Psychotherapy, 2005-2008

Mandala Yoga Center, Amagansett, New York

• Meditation Class & Book Launch, August 2019
• Natural Meditation Classes, 2007–2016

Clear Light Meditation Institute, The Main Line Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA

• Benefit Daylong Workshop, October 2019

Heythrop College, University of London, London, UK

• Daylong Retreat, Teacher, June 2017

Lewes Friends Meeting House, Lewes, East Sussex, UK

• Evening of Inquiry, Teacher, June 2017

Watkins Books, London, UK

• The Way of Effortless Mindfulness Book Signing Event & Meditation, September 2019
• Shift Into Freedom Book Signing Event & Meditation, June 2017

Anthroposophical Association Ltd., Rudolph Steiner House, London, UK

• The Way of Effortless Mindfulness Book Signing Event & Meditation, September 2019

Alternatives UK, London, UK

• The Way of Effortless Mindfulness Book Signing Event & Meditation, September 2019

Somatische Akademie, Berlin, Germany

• Shift Into Freedom (German translation) Book Signing Event & Meditation, September 2019

Insight LA, Santa Monica, CA

• Evening of Inquiry, Teacher, February 2017

Synthego Corporation, San Francisco, CA

• Private Daylong Workshop, Teacher, January 2018

Finders Course

• Webinar, Teacher, January 2018

IFS Training in NYC, Teacher, April 2018

Chapel of Ease, Irishtown Gospel Hall, Dublin, Ireland

• Two-Day Non-Residential Retreat, Teacher: September 2018

Lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, September 2018

The Study Society, Colet House, London, UK

• Daylong Workshop, Teacher: September 2018

Essex Church, London, UK

• Evening of Inquiry, Teacher: September 2018

Strand Book Store

• NYC, Book Presentation & Signing, July 2019

East Hampton Library Author’s Night

• Book Presentation, August 2019

Other Experience, Presentations & Accolades

• Sports Psychology Consultant for the NCAA Men’s Singles Tennis Champion 2017
• Shift Into Freedom by Loch Kelly primary text for Consciousness Hacking course at San Diego State University, 2017-2018