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Video teachings from Loch Kelly & Steven Kotler
Loch Kelly has guided thousands of people to glimpse and to learn to live in the freedom and flow of awakened awareness. He is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute.
In this video, Loch will guide you through two different 'doorways' to awakened awareness. These seemingly simple practices have had a transformative impact on both non-meditators and long-term practitioners.
Steven Kotler is one of the world’s leading experts on high performance who passionately dives into the realm of Flow. He is the Executive Director at the Flow Research Collective, a New York Times bestselling author, and an award-winning journalist.
In this video, Steven lays out exactly what you can do to create the conditions for you to enter into flow states. The science is in. Take these steps and you will experience high performance and deep satisfaction in the areas of life most important to you.
*Unconditional 30-day refund.
We know these times are extraordinarily challenging for many. Partial scholarships are available. email us at
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recordings of presentations and workshops with downloadable audio & video streaming.
bonus "Awaken & Thrive" video series from Loch Kelly & Steven Kotler.
Steven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He’s the author of eleven books, including The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, Bold, Abundance and The Rise of Superman. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Wired, and Forbes. He is also the cofounder of the Rancho de Chihuahua dog sanctuary.
“Since flow is a fluid action state, making better decisions isn’t enough: we also have to act on those decisions. The problem is fear, which stands between us and all actions. Yet our fears are grounded in self, time, and space. With our sense of self out of the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity. With time gone, there is no yesterday to regret or tomorrow to worry about. And when our sense of space disappears, so do physical consequences. But when all three vanish at once, something far more incredible occurs: our fear of death—that most fundamental of all fears—can no longer exist. Simply put: if you’re infinite and atemporal, you cannot die.”
Using neuroscience, psychology, and ancient wisdom traditions Loch Kelly spreads awareness of how to enter an optimal flow state, access peace of mind, and live from open-hearted awareness. He is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute.
“Effortless mindfulness is a way of opening to a natural, wise, and loving awareness that is already present within us, which reveals qualities of well-being, clarity, and compassionate action. It is a way of shifting out of the chattering mind and into the source of our mind, which is already awake and aware — where we can rest, engage, and feel unconditional love.”
Katie Goodman is a comedian who has been seen on Showtime, TruTV, and waiting in line to get a mocha latte with extra whipped cream. Through her training and speaking she has taught over 10,000 people how to use the tools of improv comedy in their lives to handle absolutely anything and be more creative, courageous, and confident.
“The practice of improv or any creative endeavour is just that: practice. Allowing yourself to lose your perfectionist streak and to try again and again will let you live the life you want, without fear of failure or shame. And supporting others around you will create the kind of world we want to live in.”
Internationally known contemporary spiritual teacher and bestselling author, Patricia Albere has helped 200,000 people transform their lives and their consciousness over the last 40 years. In 2007, she founded the Evolutionary Collective, a global organization that provides different opportunities for people to come together inside shared unity.
“In the world of spiritual enlightenment, people who have experienced awakenings almost always experience them individually – eyes shut, in quiet solitude. In fact, the spiritual paradigm of the last three thousand years has been singularly devoted to our individual salvation or solo enlightenment. The Evolutionary Collective offers a different kind of realization, a dual realization that happens with another. That shared awakening points to a new dimension of consciousness and an extraordinary possibility for humanity’s future.”
Diane Allen, known as The ‘Own Your Potential’ Speaker & Violinist, is a sought-after speaker and consultant to organizations, influential leaders and entrepreneurs, looking for that edge of performance that only a fifty-year Copper Dragon Violinist can deliver.
“Innovation is a really important thing right now. And so getting into the flow state is what gets people so deeply engaged with what they’re doing. It gets them into that innovative stage. It gets them into having purpose. It’s cultivating the humanity.”
Craig Hamilton began his spiritual journey in the ashrams and monasteries of the East, but ultimately found himself at the forefront of consciousness research in the West. He is a pioneer in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality and a leading voice in the movement for conscious evolution.
“I’m pointing to something more. I’m speaking about the possibility of awakening to our divine nature so fully that we become a superconductor for the creative power of the cosmos, for the evolutionary impulse itself. In this miraculous discovery, our personal need to have and get for ourselves is replaced by a passion to give everything for the greatest good. In this profound alignment with the sacred, the human being becomes a living, breathing force for higher evolution.Whatever you do and wherever your path takes you, don’t settle for less than this kind of ultimate awakening.”
Martin has been practicing meditation intensively for 30 years and has been teaching dharma and guiding people in their practice since 1999. Martin is a pioneer in offering online Dharma and meditation teachings, and today teaches online through a number of different platforms.
Martin introduces Mara, the inner critic, as the tendency to judge, measure and limit our sense of self and unpacks the mechanisms by which we get caught in self doubt and deficiency.
He explores how our psychological history shaped this aspect of our psyche, and uses the story of Buddha’s struggle with Mara as a guide to our own explorations, transforming self-doubt, fear and insecurity, through Buddhist practices, psychological inquiry and emotional healing.
“We’ve become so seduced by our creations and imaginings that we have overlooked the importance and relevance, the depth, the liberating potential of actually learning, actually evolving I would say, our consciousness beyond the capacity of abstraction to a capacity, to actually stay in the heart of experience. So that rather than being fixated on the creations of awareness, we’re able to stay enough to understand something fundamental about the fact of being aware, the fact of our human existence. And as we said, this human existence happens right here.”
Terry Patten is a philosopher, author, activist, social entrepreneur, consultant, coach, and the author of the groundbreaking book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.
“It’s game time on Planet Earth. Our evolutionary crisis is forging a new kind of 21st-century hero — one who looks just like you. Our evolutionary crisis is forging a new kind of 21st-century hero—one who looks just like you. Who will you be in this time of great transition?”
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center. Agape is a trans-denominational community headquartered in Los Angeles comprised of thousands of local members and global live streamers.
“We embody an understanding of our oneness with God and we consciously practice this truth in our everyday lives. Through the New Thought Ageless Wisdom teachings and the energy of unconditional love, we are committed to individual transformation and to being a beneficial presence on the planet.”
“Michael Beckwith eloquently unfolds the secrets of the deep inquiry for spiritual development, which leads to infinite possibilities in our lives.” – Deepak Chokra
“Michael Bernard Beckwith… teaches that the vision we set for our lives begins a sacred process of unfolding that unlocks everything that is unique, mighty and magnificent inside each of us.” – Oprah Winfrey
Cameron Norsworthy is a coach, keynote and TEDx speaker, author and founder and CEO of The Flow Centre.
“This industrialized mindset of prioritizing our external over internal, productivity over presence, outcome over process is a problem. It negates the very self-management and self-optimization required of us to meet our optimal experience. We need to get to a state where things are flowing through us. Where we are letting it happen, rather than making things happen. So the next time you face a challenge, adopt this simple paradoxical shift: Instead of focusing on this predetermined outcome or the fear in the rhetoric around it, prioritize flow and the quality of your experience. Instead of these many fight, flight, freeze responses we can find flow.”
Paul Austin helps steward humanity 2.0, contributing to greater individual and collective well-being by normalizing responsible psychedelic use. He’s not only an entrepreneur, but he also speaks about the intersection of psychedelics, personal transformation, and professional success.
“What’s really going on at the fundamental level with microdosing is just like meditation, just like breath work just like yoga. It’s just helping us to be more present. We’re not sort of in this anxious sympathetic state, but we can actually drop back and relax into a parasympathetic state, and respond to things and be creative from that position. And then with creativity comes flow and productivity and all these other sorts of things that people will often read about with microdose. But at the fundamental level, its presence, its mindfulness.”
Tami Simon is the founder and CEO of Sounds True, a multimedia company with the mission of disseminating spiritual wisdom. Since starting out as a project with one woman and her tape recorder, we have grown into a multimedia publishing company with more than 110 employees, a library of more than 3,000 titles featuring some of the leading teachers and visionaries of our time, and an ever-expanding family of beloved customers from across the world.
“It can be challenging to grow and transform. It takes courage, receptivity to feedback, and introspection to confront our areas of unconsciousness, feel the pain of old patterns, and commit to new ways of being. This is the path of self-awareness, the path of waking up to our full potential to connect and contribute.”
The Diamond Approach offers an immense and precise body of knowledge about the nature of reality and the process of spiritual realization. Rather than positing an end goal or condition, it points to an open-ended, continuous process of discovery. Even non-dual realization is recognized as a step toward greater mysteries and forms of freedom.
“It is a living, palpable presence, a process of bursting forth from within. This presence comes from inside, runs in our veins, and pushes things out for us to see.”
Dr. Jeffery A. Martin is a founder of the Transformative Technology space, serial entrepreneur and social scientist who researches personal transformation and the states of greatest human well-being. Jeffery’s current work involves helping people use what’s been learned to make the life-changing transformation into Fundamental Wellbeing.
“One of the most important things that we’ve learned is that this notion of enlightenment or ”extraordinary well being” is not a binary state. It’s not something that is simply turned on and then is the same for everyone. There actually is a range or continuum — and where someone falls along it determines the experience that they have in relation to the world.”
Rick Barrett teaches t’ai chi ch’uan, ch’i gung, xingyiquan, and push hands in NYC and in seminars all over the country. Under the umbrella of Polarity Therapy, he integrates craniosacral balancing, myofascial restructuring, Biosonic Repatterning, and integral life mentoring. The internal martial arts support his healing practice and vice versa.
“Our experience shapes our attitudes. Our attitudes color our experience of the world. I am certain that my generally positive attitude has allowed me to heal much more rapidly than the norm. It generates more coherence which allows the body-mind to work more efficiently, including healing.”
“My passion is to contribute to the evolution of consciousness (personal and global) on this planet in whatever way I can. I try to empower all individuals who seek my assistance to better help themselves through body/mind/spirit integration. Each student and each client has his/her own unique assets and needs which must be recognized to fully engage the next step of their own personal journey.”
Justin Faerman and Jackie Knechtel are the co-founders of The Flow Consciousness Institute — a research body dedicated to understanding the mechanics of consciousness, reality, and human potential.
“The Flow Consciousness Institute offers a wide range of cutting-edge trainings that combine the latest research and tools from the fields of psychoneurobiology, neuroscience, quantum physics and parapsychology with time-honored wisdom from the great spiritual traditions and beyond. All courses are designed to help you integrate advanced Flow Consciousness skills into your everyday experience to help you live a more richly fulfilling and effortless life.”
Kierra Foster-Ba has studied the 5Rhythms® with Gabrielle Roth, the founder, for 15+ years. Kierra appears in Gabrielle’s Power Wave video and in the documentary “Dances of Ecstasy”. She also dances with PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment) an international organization of artists devoted to using belly dance to promote peace and end suffering.
“We center by dancing our truth; we connect with others understanding our shared humanity, and contribute what we learn in our dances to the world around us.”
Raised in Buffalo, New York, and garnering degrees from Yale University and San Francisco Art Institute, Suiko brings her experience as a competitive synchronized swimmer, professional knitter, and co-founder of the Art Monastery Project to inform her work. Investigating the relationships among contemplative practice, studio practice, and other kinds of practice (such as swim practice), her work explores breath, repetition, and pattern.
“I am for art that awakens the maker & the viewer. I am for art that creates chaos out of order. I am for art that systematically repeats a mistake until it becomes a world-mending stitch. I am for welcoming the divine through simple practice. I am for the beauty of things as they are. I am for art that describes inner space & points a way in.”
Sara Ness is a facilitator, teacher, consultant, and coach, who has become internationally notorious as the leader of one of the largest Authentic Relating communities in the world.
Sara has trained or consulted over 500 leaders from 40+ different cities in the art of emergent leadership, and contributed to the founding of at least 14 communities.
“I don’t care whether or not Authentic Relating becomes “the thing” that everybody goes to. I love the community and friendships, self-empowerment, and world-improving creation that comes out of this work. I have seen thousands of people transform and discover their potential through my events. I love waking up every morning and knowing my spark of being can light others’ flames.”
Christabel Zamor is the founder of Breath of Bliss Academy, a somatic mystery school for lightworkers that offers a 200 hour training for facilitators to share breathwork as a path of self-illumination.. Breath of Bliss helps you open your heart and WAKE UP with ecstatic dance, deep sharing and an hour-long breath journey. Move emotions, upgrade your beliefs, unleash creativity and connect with the Divine.
“Get out of your head and into your body. Breathe deep, open your senses, and build new neural pathways. Warm up the lungs and access the “now”.”
Jonathan Robinson explores ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. He is the co-founder of the illuminating podcast “Awareness Explorers,” with Brian Tom O’Conner. Jonathan is the author of 12 books, has been a frequent Oprah guest, and has interviewed spiritual leaders such as the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, and Wayne Dyer.
“If you want to awaken peace and love in daily life, pure awareness is always available as the background of all experience.”
“Awareness is the background of all of our experience. When we shift our attention from the content of awareness to pure awareness itself, it offers us instant peace and a sense of compassion and love. Yet most of us only tune into it during times of meditation.”
Monk, mystic, author, artist and spiritual teacher, Peter is a spiritual catalyst. He helps birth the awakened consciousness that lies hidden in most of us. Although it lies hidden behind the conditioned thoughts of the dream world, it is always here ready to awaken.
“Look at your own heart. Can it be separate from your lungs that supply the heart cells and all other cells with the oxygen they need? Can it be separate from your parents or grandparents? If they never met, where would your heart be now? Is the food you eat separate from your heart? Is whether you exercise or not separate from the condition of your heart right now? Are your thoughts, beliefs and emotions separate from your heart? If you are able to see your heart clearly, you will realize that nothing in all existence has ever been separate from your heart.”
Laraaji is a celestial musician and healing laughter meditation practitioner. He has performed in the United States and abroad since late 1970’s with his innovative style of electric open tuned zither/harp. After studying piano, music theory & composition at Howard University School of Fine Arts in Washington , DC during the mid nineteen-sixties he became inspired to move to New York city to follow his passion for both musical sound composition and comedy acting.
“Laughter has been said to be our best complimentary medicine, and an excellent way to release stress and tension. This empowering, entertaining, educational and experiential ‘Play-Flow’shop involves joyful chant-singing, and laughter games for boosting our immune system, our lung capacity, our blood circulation, our hormone flow, our abdominal organs massage and our overall social energy level. Followed by relaxing sonic immersion with Celestial Gong Tones. Closing with grounding body movement and Om Circle. Dress comfortably and expect to have some serious fun.”
One World in Dialogue was created in 2015 by Elizabeth Debold with her partner Thomas Steininger. Elizabeth is a developmental psychologist, gender futurist, and pioneer of emergent dialogue. Thomas is a philosopher, host of Radio evolve, and creator of emergent dialogue and co-conscious We processes. The idea behind OWiD is simple: to develop a living global network of change-makers and activists committed to deep dialogue in order to create new approaches and collaborations that support change.
“We are no longer living in a world where individual genius can solve the problems that we face–even when we individually achieve peak performance. The new threshold is the space between us, the mysterious power of co-conscious dialogue. When the space between us shimmers with aliveness, a new momentum arises that draws individual genius into collective scenius. Then we can experience a dynamic flow that comes from a co-creative intelligence emerging from the unknown mystery of life itself.”
Brooke McNamara is an artist, teacher, and Zen dharma holder. She has published two books of poetry, has instructed Yoga Studies at Naropa University, and is the creator and instructor of online courses Write to the Heart of Motherhood, and others.
“In living and making art, we can be quite creative in laying subconscious traps to inhibit our full authenticity. As teacher or coach, I help you access the deeper, more life-giving reasons for enacting your unique artistic path. Pulling from an endurance and enthusiasm born of many years of personal experience, I will serve as a mirror for your deep wisdom and wellness as you take healthy risks to realize your own deepest creative aliveness.”
Tami Simon is the founder and CEO of Sounds True, a multimedia company with the mission of disseminating spiritual wisdom. Since starting out as a project with one woman and her tape recorder, we have grown into a multimedia publishing company with more than 110 employees, a library of more than 3,000 titles featuring some of the leading teachers and visionaries of our time, and an ever-expanding family of beloved customers from across the world.
“It can be challenging to grow and transform. It takes courage, receptivity to feedback, and introspection to confront our areas of unconsciousness, feel the pain of old patterns, and commit to new ways of being. This is the path of self-awareness, the path of waking up to our full potential to connect and contribute.”