The SIM Legacy Teacher Project is a vision for sustaining our sangha’s future and the future of Vipassana/Insight meditation in our community through the expansion of the core teaching faculty. The Legacy Teacher Project has the potential to create new educational and practice opportunities, and new possibilities for relationships and community, that will serve as a dynamic, living foundation for SIM’s future.

The intention of the Legacy Teacher Project is to create the conditions for future generations to experience and enrich their lives through these teachings. Our original Mission, Vision and Means statement describes our expansive view of what is possible when we live together based on these teachings.

Our vision for the Legacy Teacher Project is to build on this foundation by creatively working to express these teachings in a way that is more welcoming, diverse, and relevant to those who are not yet part of our community, as well as those who are.

Starting in January 2023, we expanded our core faculty to include three younger teachers: Diana Clark, Walt Opie, and Vance Pryor. We want to support these teachers in finding their teaching voices while at the same time we reach out to a larger community of individuals who may be interested in our courses, programs, and community life. These teachers, all fully trained and authorized in our Vipassana/Insight tradition, will be involved in all of SIM’s core assets: Thursday night sit and Dharma talks, monthly Saturday daylong retreats, faculty-led classes, and the annual residential retreat.

Together, we have a vision of gradually building a stable, long-term, and more inclusive community based on how we offer the teachings of the Historical Buddha.

Three senior teachers support Sacramento Insight Meditation’s Legacy Teacher Project. For biographical details about the teachers, click here.