Meeting the second and fourth Wednesday of the month, the Wednesday morning book club formed in February 2019. NOTE: This book club is no longer accepting new members. If you are not already a member of this group but are interested in joining as space permits, or if you’d like to be a part of […]
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) 8 Session Course: Wednesdays, Apr 24 - Jun 12, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm All Day Retreat: Sunday, Jun 2, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm For details about the free Introductory session on April 10, click here. Course flyer (pdf) MBSR is the most widely researched and utilized mindfulness program […]
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. Sacramento Insight Meditation events are sustained by the generosity of instructors in offering teachings freely and on the generosity of […]
Developing Right Effort in Our Practice Sit & Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Walt Opie WALT OPIE was first introduced to insight meditation in 1993 at Spirit Rock and began attending regular residential retreats in 2005. He is a graduate of both the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders' (CDL4) training program and the Sati Center […]
The Five Daily Recollections A One Day Retreat– with SIM's Community Teacher Rev. Diane Wilde The Buddha advised his followers to reflect on five topics daily: aging, sickness, death, separation form those we love, and our own karma. The surprising result from this practice is paradoxical… spending more time with these concepts, rather than continually […]
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening. For additional information, visit the 12 Step Sangha page at https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/12-step-sangha/
All are welcome to this open sitting for anyone interested in starting their morning out by sitting with others. The session is a 60 minute sitting hosted by a SIM Community Member. There’s a limited amount of meditation guidance, and a few comments at the end of the sitting to set a theme for moving […]
This Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction session is part of an eight week course instructed by Matt Russell. You must pre-register to the course before attending this session. For course registration details, click here.
Difficult, Problematic and Obsessive Thinking – Part II Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Founding Teacher Dennis Warren This will be the second talk, in a series of two, on working with difficult, problematic and obsessive thinking. A four page handout accompanied Dennis’ first talk on this topic on March 7th. It would be helpful to […]
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening. For additional information, visit the 12 Step Sangha page at https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/12-step-sangha/