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 […]
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 […]
This 45-minute course is suitable for beginners or anyone who would like a refresher. It is offered on the fourth Thursday of every month before the regular sitting and dharma talk. There is no fee. RICH HOWARD has been an active practitioner and volunteer at SIM since 2004. His area of interest is bringing meditative […]
Endings And Beginning A Year-End One Day Retreat– with Sim’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren This will be a day of practice and an opportunity to rest a little from all the events of 2018. We’ll engage in some thoughtful reflection on the nature of change and how our choices and decisions shape our lives, and […]
Nurturing Sangha Over Dinner meets informally at six o’clock on the second Thursday of the month, before the regular dharma talk and sit. Please bring your dinner and something extra to share, if you would like. We can continue to get to know one another and talk more about how SIM can support us in […]
This class is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. Classes meet Tuesday evenings, January 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26, with a daylong retreat Saturday, February 16, 2019 and details for this event are posted on the Course Overview page. Registration Details Walk-in registrations are not available since the […]
This 45-minute course is suitable for beginners or anyone who would like a refresher. It is offered on the fourth Thursday of every month before the regular sitting and dharma talk. There is no fee. DENNIS WARREN is SIM’s Founding Teacher and has been teaching mindfulness, meditation and contemplative practices since 1998. He recently completed […]
Beginning Anew A One Day Retreat– with Sim’s Founding Teacher Dennis Warren This will be a relaxed day of practice involving alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, movement and discussion. We’ll explore what it means to “look in the right place” and “look the right way” when trying to work with challenges like doubt, confusion, […]
Not clinging to self-identity A One Day Retreat– with SIM's Community Teacher Diane Wilde Not clinging to Self-identity is the first “marker” on the path to liberation — and could be divided into both exterior and interior ‘processes’. Our exterior self-identity fixates on how we need to be seen by acquaintances and strangers with our […]
This is the first meeting for the newly formed study-group/book-club where most members preferred to meet in the afternoon or evening. We plan to choose a book and hopefully folks will bring a title and/or a book to this meeting. We’ll introduce ourselves and discuss how and where the club will be meeting in the future. […]