Name: Meditative, Daylong Retreat/Workshop - When Life Changes (with Dennis Warren)
Start: 2024-05-25T08:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-05-25T16:30:00-07:00
Location: Sacramento Dharma Center

$Meditative, Daylong Retreat\/Workshop - When Life Changes (with Dennis Warren)$

Daylong Retreat/Workshop with SIM's Founding Teacher Dennis Warren
Retreat Theme: When Life Changes
About This Onsite Retreat:
* The teacher will present in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. All participants will attend in-person as the retreat will not be available via Zoom.
* Pre-registration is required and we recommend you pay the registration fee in advance since registering early helps us determine how many people the meditation room should accommodate.
* After you’ve registered you may later offer a donation in gratitude of the teacher. To offer teacher dana, visit https://sactoinsight.org/retreat-dana-online/.
Retreat Theme: When Life Changes
This one-day retreat / workshop explores the one constant in all our lives – change.
Some of these changes are sudden. Some gradual. Some big. Some, at least initially, small. Changes in relationships, finances, jobs, living circumstances. Changes in capacity – mental, emotional, physical. Changes in health and quality of life. Changes in ourselves, in those we know, in the world as we have known it.
Our actual experience of change frequently catches us off guard even when the change itself is anticipated. We feel unprepared, disoriented, disorganized. Buddhist practices offer the possibility of being prepared for change, even when we have no idea what it will be. They offer the possibility of experiencing change as possibility, rather than primarily as obstacle or problem.
This day will explore Buddhist perspectives, tools and practices that help us work with change large and small. It will involve meditations, reflections, dharma talk, and small and large group discussions.
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All are welcome. (Pre-registration is required.)
Registration is $25.00 per person due before the start of the event. If you are able and interested in further supporting SIM financially, you have the option of a registration fee of either $35 or $50 dollars however no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
For the registration fee, you may pay online at https://sactoinsight.org/event/retreat-may-25-2/ ; please contact the registrar or visit the registration page for more information.
DENNIS WARREN is SIM’s Founding Teacher and has been teaching mindfulness, meditation and contemplative practices since 1998. He recently completed his 11th year as a Volunteer Clinical Professor in Mindfulness in the Division of Pain Medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center. He is certified as a Mindfulness Teacher, Professional Level (CMT-P), by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. He is a graduate of the professional trainings in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression. He also is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Medication Center’s Dharma leaders training program. You can learn more about Dennis’ background and activities at https://www.denniswarren.net/ .
Dennis has been participating in residential meditation retreats, and has maintained a daily meditation practice, in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition for over 30 years. 2018 was his 20th year of teaching Insight Meditation and mindfulness practices in residential, retreat, educational, medical, corporate and community settings. In 2007 and 2014, Dennis led month long pilgrimages and moving retreats in Thailand, India and Nepal. A third is being planned for late 2021.