Join us for SIM’s Residential Retreat at the beautiful Mercy Center in Auburn, CA from Sunday, August 28, 5:00 PM through Sunday, September 4, 2022, 11:00 AM. Please read through the information below. We will update this registration page as further details are announced. Retreat Theme: Awareness, Wisdom & Love Awareness is a natural capacity of the mind […]
Is your meditation “working?” Daylong Retreat with SIM Community Teacher Diane Wilde (click here for biographical details) Is your meditation “working?”For a new practitioner as well as a person who has been meditating for some time, it’s important to periodically evaluate our meditation practice. Perhaps you have fallen into a practice that has become as […]
Mind and mirage - A neurodharma perspective on the five aggregates (skandhas) Daylong Retreat with Rick Maddock About This Hybrid Retreat Retreat Theme: A neurodharma perspective on the five aggregates (skandhas) This is a teaching and practice daylong that will include dharma talks alternating with sitting & walking meditation periods. Today's theme will be the […]
A Day of Continuous Awareness Practice Daylong Retreat with SIM Legacy Project Teacher Vance Pryor About This Onsite Retreat Retreat Theme: A Day of Continuous Awareness Practice Spend a day in community returning to this foundational aspect of practice; cultivating a gentle and continuous awareness throughout all postures and activities. This simple practice is the […]
What is Samma Samadhi/Skillful Concentration? Daylong Retreat facilitated by Rev. Diane Wilde, SIM Community Teacher For biographical details of the teacher Diane Wilde, click here. About This Hybrid Retreat Retreat Theme: What is Samma Samadhi/Skillful Concentration? Right or Skillful Concentration (samma samadhi) is the last of the Noble Eightfold Path. It can be a very […]
Insight Meditation Retreat with Greg Scharf GREG SCHARF, an Insight Meditation Society guiding teacher, has practiced with Western and Asian teachers in the Theravada tradition since 1992. He has been teaching residential retreats since 2007, including the annual Three-Month Retreat at IMS. Greg’s love of nature and the outdoors deeply informs both his practice and […]
We don't plan to have a retreat in November, but we encourage you to join us in December. Register Now.
Uncertainty, Confusion, Disappointment, Doubt Daylong Retreat with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren For biographical details of the teacher Dennis Warren, click here. About This Onsite Retreat Retreat Theme: Uncertainty, Confusion, Disappointment, Doubt Why does our progress in practice, and the use of practice in everyday life, seem to stall and lose its value or power?Why […]
Daylong Retreat with Senior Teacher Heather Sundberg For biographical details of the teacher Heather Sundberg, click here. About This Online Retreat Retreat Theme: Awakening through the Body from an Emptiness, Suchness Perspective The Body – the vehicle for awakening in this very lifeEmptiness – Things are not solid and separate as they appearSuchness – Deeply […]
Daylong Retreat with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard For biographical details of the teacher Rich Howard, click here. About This Hybrid Retreat The Three Trainings of the Noble Eightfold Path: Theory and PracticeCommunity Teacher Rich Howard will combine Thursday 2/22 and Saturday 2/24 into an extended exploration of the four noble truths. You may attend […]