San Francisco Insight Dharma Center is a collaboration between six teachers and three insight sanghas based in San Francisco. Our sanghas share a love of San Francisco, a passion for the Dharma, and a desire to create a home and practice center in the city for insight practitioners.

Our Mission

Our meditation community is a welcoming, diverse place of refuge in San Francisco. We offer Insight meditation and Buddhist teachings for awakening wisdom and compassion in daily life. We are committed to nurturing friendship, lovingkindness, freedom, and peace—for ourselves, each other, and the world.

Our Insight Sanghas

Mission Dharma: Mission Dharma is a sangha led by our teacher Howard Cohn that has gathered in ​the Mission District of San Francisco for over 38 years. Sangha members come together as a community on Tuesday nights for meditation and to hear Buddhist teachings. As a sangha, we support one another in the process of awakening in order to live our lives with more mindfulness, compassion, and joy.

SF Insight: San Francisco Insight Meditation Community offers the teachings of the Buddha as they are developing in the West, including classes, retreats, and other events, as a community devoted to the embodiment of awakening in daily life.

Insight Upper Market: John Martin leads an on-going weekly Monday evening meditation group.