This class is currently taught by SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard and SIM Community Mentor Sandra Sigrist, and is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. For details, visit the Course Overview page. After registering , if you’d like to make a donation to support SIM and the course instructors, consider donating online via credit card or Paypal.
Registration – Get Tickets After Feb 3
Pre-registration is necessary since the course registrar provides follow-up information required prior to this first class meeting.
Before making the $35 registration payment, click here to review the terms of use for this website. On Thursday, February 4, online registration opens. Pay the registration fee online using the “Tickets” section at the bottom of this page. Specify the number of people you are registering to this course and click the button “Get Tickets”. You’ll be automatically directed to a secure web-page where your registration payment can be made by credit card as a guest (no PayPal account required) or payment can be made by PayPal after you sign-in to your PayPal account if you have one. After you’ve paid the fee, you’ll receive an email with the subject “You have tickets!” (but no need to print the ticket on paper).
Note that all registrants will receive an email communication from the course registrar on the following dates: March 29, April 19, and May 7.
If you can’t attend this class now or the course is full (sold out), we invite you to add your name to the wait list (click here) and we’ll contact you when the next course offering is scheduled or if a space has opened up. If you need to contact the course registrar with any other questions, click here.
01/21/2021 “Reconsidering Mindfulness” with Dennis Warren
Audio DharmaMindfulness is the operational centerpiece of good practice, sound problem solving and living well. It supports and enables all the different teachings, methods and psychology of the historical Buddha which are designed to help us live a rich, full, satisfying life.
One way of understanding mindfulness is that it has two interlocking dimensions: One is practical and functional. The other is oriented towards awakening or liberation. As a community practitioner, we can inadvertently slip into the habit of relating to mindfulness, and practice itself, as only functional and practical.
When this happens, mindfulness and practice can become self-restricting and self-limiting. Such an approach can accidently obscure, and potentially cut us off from, spontaneous discovery and the deep, intuitive, healing wisdom of our bodies and hearts. We can become disconnected from the beauty and power inherent in exploring the mystery, and the dilemma, of being human, of being in relationships and of being alive on this planet.
This is the territory we’ll explore on Thursday evening: functional mindfulness; awakening or liberating mindfulness; and the unifying and inspiring experience at the center of practice which is beyond words, language and concepts.
The subject matter of this evening is appropriate for all stages of practice. All that is necessary is showing up with an open, questioning mind.
Special 2020-Tax Note
NewsSIM is grateful for all our donors and we’ve already emailed tax letters to those who gave $250 or more in 2020. If you have not received the tax letter and you think you should have, please check your email Inbox, as well as your Spam or Junk folder. If you still don’t find it, please contact SaraD@sactoinsight.org.
Beginning Meditation Course Starts May 2021
NewsFor 2021, we’ve changed the 6-week Beginning Meditation course meetings from Tuesday to Wednesday. The class start time has shifted 30 minutes earlier with a 90 minute duration. The Spring 2021 course begins Wednesday, May 12th and general registration opens on Thursday, Feb 4. Rich Howard and Sandra Sigrist will be instructing. For more information, visit the course summary page at https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/meditation-courses/.
(Remote) Beginning Meditation (6-Week Course)
Classes, Meditation Course, Online Remote, Upcoming ClassesThis class is currently taught by SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard and SIM Community Mentor Sandra Sigrist, and is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. For details, visit the Course Overview page. After registering , if you’d like to make a donation to support SIM and the course instructors, consider donating online via credit card or Paypal.
Registration – Get Tickets After Feb 3
Pre-registration is necessary since the course registrar provides follow-up information required prior to this first class meeting.
Before making the $35 registration payment, click here to review the terms of use for this website. On Thursday, February 4, online registration opens. Pay the registration fee online using the “Tickets” section at the bottom of this page. Specify the number of people you are registering to this course and click the button “Get Tickets”. You’ll be automatically directed to a secure web-page where your registration payment can be made by credit card as a guest (no PayPal account required) or payment can be made by PayPal after you sign-in to your PayPal account if you have one. After you’ve paid the fee, you’ll receive an email with the subject “You have tickets!” (but no need to print the ticket on paper).
Note that all registrants will receive an email communication from the course registrar on the following dates: March 29, April 19, and May 7.
If you can’t attend this class now or the course is full (sold out), we invite you to add your name to the wait list (click here) and we’ll contact you when the next course offering is scheduled or if a space has opened up. If you need to contact the course registrar with any other questions, click here.
01/14/2021 “Cultivating Fearlessness” with JD Doyle
Audio Dharma(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online Remote, Weekly MeditationOur 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/.
(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online Remote, Weekly MeditationOur 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/.
(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online Remote, Weekly MeditationOur 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/.
(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online Remote, Weekly MeditationOur 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/.
(Remote) Buddhist Recovery Group
Buddhist Recovery Group, Online Remote, Weekly Meditation<blockquote>Join online meeting: <a href=”https://zoom.us/j/97343989624″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>https://zoom.us/j/97343989624</a>
Passcode: 633878
Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( Meeting ID: 973 4398 9624 )
For tips and instructions on how to participate, <a href=”https://sactoinsight.org/instructions-to-join-a-remote-meeting/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>check this news blog</a>.
To make a donation for this event, <a href=”https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/12-step-sangha/#dana” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>click here</a>.</blockquote>
Our Buddhist Recovery Group meets every Monday evening. For additional information, visit the 12 Step Sangha page at <a href=”https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/12-step-sangha/”>https://sactoinsight.org/activities/practice-opportunities/12-step-sangha/</a>.