Profile
Online courses and in-person retreats in US and Internationally. Founding Teacher, Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, awarded the Best Meditation App of 2026 on YT, author of two books a podcast. Loch studied in Nepal with Mahamudra teacher, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, in US with Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche. Loch is an authorized nondual Buddhist teacher by modern Zen teacher Adyashanti and trained as a psychotherapist at Columbia University. Loch has been part of meditation research studies designing protocols and being a subject at Yale, U Penn and NYU. Loch founded the nonprofit Effortless Mindfulness Institute to offer tools to reduce suffering and discover our already installed awake consciousness. Loch is creator of the award winning Best Meditation App of 2026, Mindful Glimpses, author of two books and integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) to liberate burdens. Loch teaches regularly at Tibet House, NY Insight Meditation, Esalen, Oxford and retreat centers internationally. The Effortless Mindfulness Institute offers online courses, live retreats, a meditation app, a podcast and supportive tools for living compassionately awake in the world.
