This class is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. You must pre-register to the course before attending this class. For course details, click here.

This class is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. You must pre-register to the course before attending this class. For course details, click here.

This class is part of a six week meditation course offered twice a year. Classes meet Tuesday evenings, September 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23, with a daylong retreat Saturday, October 13, 2018 and details for this event are posted on the Course Overview page.

Registration Details

Walk-in registrations are not available 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. Note that all registrants will receive an email communication from the course registrar on the following dates: Jun 18, Aug 6, Sep 3.

Pay Now

Use the “Tickets” section at the bottom of this page to pay the registration fee now.  Tickets will be available on Thursday, May 3, 2018 when the course online registration opens. It’s not necessary to Log in before purchasing and you won’t need to print the ticket on paper. On the left side, specify the number of people you are registering to this course. On the right side, click the button “Buy now” and you’ll be automatically directed to a secure webpage 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.

If there are no tickets available, the course is full but you can still add your name to the waitlist (click here).

Pay Later

If you are not prepared to pay the registration fee online, please contact the course registrar and request your name be added to the class roster. At your earliest convenience

1. Write a check payable to “SIM” and note in the check memo “Reg Fee – BMC“.  The amount is $35 per person.
2. If the name of the person(s) registering differs from the name(s) on the check, please include a note indicating whose registration fee the check covers.
3. Mail the check to
     Sacramento Insight Meditation
     c/o SDC
     3111 Wissemann Dr.
     Sacramento, CA 95826

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 awareness into everyday life. He participated in SIM’s 2007 India Pilgrimage and is a graduate of SIM’s second Practice Development and Leadership (PDL) program. The pilgrimage and the PDL program led to an interest in establishing the SIM Kalyana Mitta (Pali for spiritual friends) groups. He coordinated SIM’s network of Kalyana Mitta groups until he joined the SIM Board in 2010. He was one of the SIM representatives to the Inter-Sangha Coordinating Committee, predecessor to the Sacramento Dharma Center Board, which now runs our shared space for Buddhist sanghas in Sacramento. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in southern Africa in the 1970s and is fluent in Spanish. He is a past president of the SIM Board. His teachers are Dennis Warren and Steve Armstrong.

Sacramento Insight Meditation events are sustained by the generosity of instructors in offering teachings freely and on the generosity of students and members of the meditative community in the form of financial support, service and participation in events. With our practice of dana, we support our Sangha.

At the bottom of this page, you may enter the number of people planning to attend and select the button “Confirm RSVP“.