The Wednesday morning sitting meditation that Tom Hopkins has been hosting on SIM’s behalf has been canceled as of June 12. Thanks to Tom for his volunteer commitment in leading the sits and to those who have participated in the past.
NEWS
A new Support Group for Persons with Life-Threatening Illness, Disability, and Health Challenges, will be meeting in the SDC Library the first and third Tuesdays of the month starting July 2, 2019 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm . Please note this is not a drop-in group. Click the flyer image for details or visit the SDC calendar.
The group facilitator, Wendy Alger, has been a student of the Dharma since 2005 practicing under the guidance of Gil Fronsdal. She is a graduate the Sati Center Chaplaincy program applying her work as a volunteer chaplain. Wendy continues learning from programs at Insight Meditation Center and attends silent retreats yearly. 
The Sacramento Dharma Center invites you to include your stuff in the Rummage Sale scheduled for Saturday, June 15th from 9 am until 2 pm. For details in PDF format, click here or you can check the SDC calendar.
Thank you to all the Facebook users who have visited our page and given it a thumbs up! Back in November 2016, our Facebook page had 398 “Likes” and today our page likes have grown to 755. We hope you’re enjoying the links, photos, and events we’ve been posting over the years. If you haven’t had a chance yet to Like our page, please do! Just visit https://www.facebook.com/sactoinsight/ and Like our page. If you’re not sure how to do this, make a comment to this news post and we’ll send you a LIKE invitation via Facebook.
And if you’ve already given us the thumbs up, consider leaving a Facebook review of SIM. Currently our review rating is 4.9 out of 5, based on the opinion of 11 people.
The Sacramento Insight Meditation Board is pleased to announce that we have two new members who will be joining us this summer: Alice Carney and Jon Siiteri. Please congratulate Jon and Alice when you see them, and thank them for their service to SIM.
SIM will be taking a break from our monthly community dinners over the summer, so no dinner is planned for Thursday, June 13. We can re-evaluate in the fall whether we want to begin again with a monthly event, or find a new way to “nurture sangha over dinner.” Thanks to everyone who has participated in these events, and have a wonderful summer!
Save the date! The first Young Person’s Shangha meeting will be on May 14, 2019 at 7 PM at the Sacramento Dharma Center (SDC). You can find details about this new sangha in the news post “Young Persons Sangha forming at SIM“. The meeting is also posted to the SDC calendar.
Today we open the online registration to our six week Beginning Meditation Course that starts September 17, 2019. This course will be lead by SIM’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren. Here is the Course Flyer in PDF format.
The SIM residential retreat has filled fast and is currently full but we encourage you to sign up for the wait list as there’s a good chance you may still be able to attend since people’s plans change and there will likely be some cancellations. Proceed with the registration process to add your name to the wait list. As soon as a spot is open, we’ll notify you and if you don’t get into the retreat, we’ll refund your deposit.
Our annual residential retreat is now open for registration. Our teachers this year are Kamala Masters and Vance Pryor. The retreat will be held at the Mercy Center in Auburn where we have reserved 35 single occupancy rooms. We hope that you’ll be able to join us!