Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
is a welcoming refuge and teaching center for all who seek inner peace and wise action through the liberating practice of Insight Meditation (vipassana).
CIMC is dedicated to integrating contemplative practice into daily life. We seek to cultivate ethics, tranquility, wisdom, and compassion, and to ease suffering in our communities and in our world.
2026 CIMC Membership: Join or Renew Now
Your 2026 CIMC membership offers benefits that will support and deepen your own practice and help make CIMC a welcoming community for all.
What We Offer
Announcements
Explore Larry Rosenberg’s new book
Join Matthew Daniell for a six-week online practice group starting on March 30. The group will draw out and apply some of the wisdom contained in Larry Rosenberg’s latest book, The World Exists to Set Us Free: Straight Up Dharma for Living a Life of Awareness. We hope you can join us!
There’s still time to register for EcoSattva Training
We hope you can join Chas Dicapua for EcoSattva Training: Dharma Wisdom for Our Changing World (online) on Sundays March 8 – May 3 (updated dates) from 5:30 – 7:00 PM ET.
RECENT NARAYAN DHARMA TALK
Click here to listen to Narayan’s Dharma Talk from October 22, an introduction to the Way of Council.
Upcoming Programs
Recovery and the Dharma (in-person)
Saturday, March 7, 10 AM – 5 PM
Workshop with Chris Willard
EcoSattva Training: Dharma Wisdom for Our Changing World (online)
Sundays, Mar 8 – May 3, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM ET
Practice Group with Chas DiCapua
The Way of Awareness: An Introduction to Insight Meditation (in-person)
Thursdays, Mar 12 – Apr 16, 6:30 PM – 8:15 PM
Practice Group with Madeline Klyne
Nonviolent Communication: Bridging Mindfulness and Connection (online)
Saturday, March 14, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Workshop with Phoenix Soleil
Bodyfulness (hybrid)
Sunday, March 15, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Retreat with Matthew Hepburn
Our Drop-ins
Please check the drop-in page or the calendar to make sure a drop-in is happening and if it’s in person, online, or hybrid.
• Dharma in Daily Life: Weekdays, 8:45 – 9:00 AM (Zoom link)
• Evening sit: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 6:00 – 6:45 PM
• Teatime Dharma: Mondays, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
• Sitting & Sangha: Mondays, 6:00 – 7:15 PM
• Beginners Drop-In: Tuesdays, 6:00 – 7:00 PM
• Beginners Drop-In Tea: 2nd Tuesday, 7:00 – 7:45 PM
• Wednesday Evening Dharma: 6:30 – 8:45 PM
• Thursday Morning Retreat: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
• Sunday Afternoon Extended Practice: 2:00 – 5:15 PM
Affinity groups:
• Elders: two Tuesdays a month, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
• Parents: one Thursday a month, 8:00 – 9:15 PM
• POC: one Friday a month, 6:30 – 8:15 PM
• LGBTQIA+: one Friday a month, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
• Chronic Illness & Disability: one Sunday a month, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
• 35 & Under: two Sundays a month, 6:30 – 7:45 PM