Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

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Awake Loving Flow

2026-11-0301:13:06

In this episode, Loch reconnects with meditation teacher and author of The Mindful Geek Michael Taft for a deep dialogue about what happens after the first glimpse of awakening. Michael names a common source of confusion: some non-dual teachings stop at pure, spacious awareness and treat the world as a dream, while a fuller view finds awareness and appearances to be inseparable. Loch and Michael explore emptiness as interdependence, the Zen ox-herding pictures, and why most people need to unh...

How to Meditate Without Even Trying

2026-09-1751:41

In this episode, Loch welcomes Peter Russell, a physicist-turned-meditation-teacher and author of How to Meditate Without Even Trying, for a conversation about why the most direct path to presence may be the one that is most available. Peter traces his journey from theoretical physics and early Transcendental Meditation practice to decades of teaching what he calls a minimalist practice of allowing. He and Loch explore what "effort" and "effortless" really mean, where the individual self begi...

Effortless Mindfulness for Effortful Skeptics

2026-07-2201:39:35

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 consciousness and the power of micro-meditations, or "glimpses," eve...

What if the voice in your head isn’t who you really are?

2026-06-2501:25:54

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 more direct path to awake awareness can help us access greater p...

From Small self to Self Leadership

2025-06-2526:29

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. You’ll learn to recognize the levels of identity—from ego-centered small self to Self...

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