This retreat is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. You must pre-register to the course before attending this retreat.
Resting In Awareness and Experience A One Day Retreat with SIM’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren At the center of long term practice is the ability to rest, to abide, in awareness. Practice becomes a refuge, a comfort, a self-restoring experience when we learn this skill, even when challenges are present. This will be a day […]
Reflections on a Year of Practice A One Day Retreat with SIM Community Mentor Rich Howard This will be a day of practice, reflection, and discussion as we honor the end of the year. Sitting and walking meditation will alternate with periods devoted to looking at how our practice is evolving. SIM Community Mentor Rich […]
Awareness, Insight and Liberation Daylong Retreat with Visiting Senior Teacher, Steve Armstrong The day will focus on integrating the mindfulness meditation instructions of Mahāsi Sayadaw with the practical mindful awareness guidance of Sayadaw U Tejaniya. This event is suitable for both new and experienced meditators. People of all walks of life are warmly welcome. Steve […]
What have you learned from your “teachers”, and what lessons do you provide others. Daylong Retreat with SIM Community Mentor, Diane Wilde We will start the morning off with gentle movement and move into periods of sitting and walking meditation throughout the day. During this daylong we will go into further depth about what we […]
Integrating Insights into Our Daily Lives This will be a beautiful peaceful day of Practice including both Sitting and Walking Meditation. There may also be time for questions, answers and reflections. All are welcome. Come for all day or for a portion of the day. Please bring your lunch. Sacramento Insight Meditation events are sustained […]
“Blowin’ in the Wind”: The Eight Worldly Winds are “the way of the world”. Only equanimity brings balance. Daylong Retreat with SIM Community Mentor Rev. Diane Wilde Equanimity is a protection from the “eight worldly winds”: praise and blame, success and failure, pleasure and pain, fame and disrepute. Becoming attached to or excessively elated with […]
This retreat is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. You must pre-register to the course before attending this retreat.
Qigong and Meditation Daylong Retreat You will learn (besides other moves) the "Master-Exercise", a simple and beautiful Qigong movement meditation from the Wudang mountain in China. “Ehi Pasiko”...come and see for yourself! Everyone welcome. Those with any previous Qigong practice experience and current/past workshop participants encouraged to attend. FRANZ MOECKL has practiced Qigong and Tai […]
A One Day Retreat With Exploratory Experiential Practices 7 Factors of Awakening, 8 Fold Path, Sitting Meditation, Daily Life, Relationships. Those pre-registering will receive a set of questions and an experiential exercise to work with prior to the one day retreat. Retreat Flyer (.pdf) DENNIS WARREN is SIM’s Founder Teacher. He teaches traditional meditation and […]