Kelly has co-designed and delivered mindfulness and resilience programs at the UN, Google, and in San Quentin State Prison. She specializes in mindfulness-based yoga nidra meditation, and her voice can be found on the Oura Ring, Mindfulness.com, the Simple Habit app, and the Waking Up app. She works with the Foundation for a Mindful Society to help grow their Mindful Cities Initiative. Kelly is passionate about the intersection of spiritual awakening and applied mindfulness, and enjoys coaching people on their blind spots. She also loves consulting with large institutions to help them create and roll out scalable mindfulness programs.

Kelly Boys is a mindfulness trainer and coach, and specializes in the NSDR (non sleep deep rest) practice of yoga nidra.

Yoga Nidra Teaching

Kelly has developed a unique blend of mindfulness-based yoga nidra. She specializes in NSDR (non sleep deep rest) and her yoga nidra teaching focuses on deep rest and integrating nondual spiritual wisdom. It is practiced in a lying-down position and promotes relaxation as well as transformative psychological healing. Kelly teaches self-inquiry groups, classes and retreats focused on this practice.

*NSDR was coined by neuroscientist and Stanford professor Dr. Andrew Huberman to describe the yoga nidra practice of being motionless yet aware, which evidence suggests can increase neuroplasticity and heart rate variability, as well as reset dopamine levels.

4-week Self-guided Yoga Nidra Immersion

Includes: a yoga nidra masterclass, course, and bonus sleep meditations

The Art of Non-Sleep Deep Rest

A rejuvenating yoga nidra retreat at the Esalen Institute, June 7-9, 2024

  • "I have worked with Kelly for over 2 years & find her to be an exceptionally grounded, warm & insightful spiritual coach. She trusts in the deep wisdom of embodied inquiry as well as the potential of re-membering one's essential nature, & inherent belonging."

    —A coaching client

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  • "In The Blind Spot Effect, Kelly Boys skillfully reveals profound insights into our own conditioning and lays out a path to positive change in our lives. A deeply helpful look at this underexplored topic."

    —Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness and Real Love

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  • "After having worked with many, many coaches over the years and spending time in numerous modalities, I found my way to working with Kelly after reading her book, “The Blind Spot Effect”. In a relatively short period of time, my sessions with Kelly have had a huge impact by helping me to see previously hidden blockages and thought patterns that were holding me back from achieving my goals and from being truly present in my life."

    —Coaching client

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The Blind Spot Effect

From our earliest years, we all acquire blind spots in the way we perceive, feel, and think. Driven by our biology, life experiences, cultural messages, and physical environment, they profoundly affect us throughout our lives.

This informative and practical guide invites us to understand: how we get them, how to bring them to light, and how to work with that newfound awareness to improve our lives.

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“Kelly Boys explores powerful new science about the important things we miss each day—and the simple, practical things we can do to see the good news about ourselves and the world that’s right under our noses. In an informal and friendly style, she helps us see the unseen, shed needless stress and worries, and open into something quite profound.”

— Rick Hanson, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain and Resilient

“The Blind Spot Effect is a fresh and illuminating take on how to step out of lifelong patterns that keep snagging us . . . highly recommended!”

— Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge