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 […]
Seeing With The Eyes of Kwan Yin Daylong Retreat with Visiting Mentor, Lori Wong In this daylong, we will explore blind spots: how to know what we don’t know, see what we don’t see — in the framework of suffering and compassion. We’ll look at personal and collective identity and privilege and their role in […]
The Art & Science of Letting It Be A Daylong Retreat with Ayya Santacitta and Rev. Diane Wilde Grasping is not something done by the self, but rather the self is something created by grasping. “What” are we letting be? What does it mean when we just let things be? Do we accept without concern the […]
SIM Residential Retreat with John Travis - Friday, September 7 through Friday, 12:00 Noon, September 14, 2018 John Travis, another of SIM’s Senior Teachers who has taught many of our retreats in the past, has graciously volunteered to teach for us again this year. SIM is very grateful to John for his willingness to step […]
Assessing Your Practice Daylong Retreat with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren PERFORMANCE SATISFACTION WELL_BEING A one day Mindfulness retreat with an in-depth exploration of a user-friendly practice self-assessment tool. DENNIS WARREN is the Founder Teacher of Sacramento Insight Meditation (SIM). He teaches traditional meditation and mindfulness practices as well as their contemporary uses 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.