Daylong Retreat with Adam Stonebraker at the conclusion of the Householder Retreat (In Person Only)
Date: Saturday, June 1, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Where: In Person only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90. Limited scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports Mountain Stream and your fellow practitioners.
Registration required.
To register, visit https://square.link/u/5A9qVljT. Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
For questions email juanita@mtstream.org

Mountain Stream hosts a day of meditation held in the tradition of Insight Meditation (Vipassana). Vipassana is known as a vehicle for mindfully opening the heart, seeing clearly and embodying our present-moment experience. 
All levels of practitioners are welcome. The daylong includes periods of sitting and walking meditation with Dharma teachings from Adam. There will be time for questions but most of the day is held in Noble Silence. As mental chatter subsides, we have more capacity to listen deeply to our heart’s inner wisdom.

Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Adam as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 
ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)

What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.

Bio: Adam Stonebraker is Mountain Stream Meditation’s guiding teacher as of October 2023. He has been practicing and studying meditation in various schools since 1999, and began teaching meditation, mindfulness, and yoga in 2010. He is a core teacher and leadership council member with Sacred Mountain Sangha and leads teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops internationally, in yin yoga, meditation, and mindfulness.

Adam is a graduate of Sacred Mountain Sangha’s 2-year Dharmapala Training, is a mentee of Thanissara & Kittisaro, and is a graduate and endorsed teacher with the Insight Yoga Institute. In addition, Adam earned his MA in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University.

Adam is committed to an all-inclusive dharma, where no aspect of the human experience is left out. He has particular interest in the transformative power of the natural world, early-Buddhism, inter-faith dialogue, and the bodhisattva way of life. To learn more about Adam, please go to, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Ken Bradford - Difficult Divine Messengers: Befriending the wolfpack of anxiety, guilt & despair
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90. No one turned away for lack of funds. Limited partial scholarships are available.
Where: In Person only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Registration required:
To register, visit https://square.link/u/dHOeGfsI. Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
For questions email juanita@mtstream.org

Description:
The Buddha spoke of sickness, old age & death as Divine Messengers that inspired him to seek a deeper awakening. These physical wake-up calls are joined by psychological sister emissaries of anxiety, despair & guilt. If we listen properly to what these existential messengers have to say, they have special power to open us to the essential nature of our mind.

But if we identify with these disturbing mindstates, thereby solidifying a story of me, rather than awakening us, they entrap us in compulsive thinking and negative self-talk. When that happens, divine messengers can turn demonic, as lucid existential anxiety dulls into fear & worry, genuine remorse degrades into self-blame & shame, and the sadness of heartfelt despair devolves into heartless, self-criticizing depression.

Leading up to the daylong, there will be 3 evening talks & discussions – In-person and Virtual - addressing each messenger:
March 11, 6:00 to 7:30: Existential anxiety vs. Neurotic worry & fear
April 8, 6:00 to 7:30: Sadness & despair vs. Numbing depression
May 13, 6:00 to 7:30: Genuine guilt vs. Toxic shame

This daylong is devoted to more deeply opening to and befriending these difficult mindstates. Through self-inquiry, guided and open meditation and discussion, we will explore the difference between being opened by emotions versus being dominated by them. This is difference between letting e-motions flow in heightened wakeful awareness, versus grasping on and making ourself ill by identifying with them or trying to block them.

Bio- Ken Bradford is a contemplative yogin, author and Dharma teacher integrating a wide arc of Buddhist, Dzogchen and psychological thought and practice. His heart teachers include Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Joseph Goldstein, Ruth Denison and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, among others. Formerly, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS. His publications include Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation (2021); The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity (2013); and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 (2007, with John Prendergast); as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles intertwining psychology and spirituality. Website: www.authenticpresence.net

Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Ken as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 

What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.

Mountain Stream invites you to attend a course in Awakening Insight ~ A 4-Week Introduction to Insight Meditation

Teacher: Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Four consecutive Sundays: April 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $120. Limited partial scholarships available.
No previous experience necessary.  All levels welcome. 
Location: In person only, Mountain Stream Meditation Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959

Registration required and includes all four days.
To register, go to https://square.link/u/61Mv8lS5
For questions email robyn.hennon@mtstream.org 

Course description: In this immersive workshop, we'll explore the timeless teachings of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and learn practical techniques to cultivate mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. Each session will delve into various aspects of the practice, providing you with tools and guidance to deepen your mediation practice and experience the profound benefits. 

Through guided meditation sessions, reflective exercises, presentations, and lots of discussion, you'll learn ways to quiet the endlessly chattering mind, reduce stress, and cultivate inner space and clarity. 

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned practitioner, "Awakening Insight" will help unlock the boundless potential of your mind and heart. 

Week 1: Meditation: What is it good for? 

Week 2: Abiding Calm & the Way of Breathing

Week 3: Seeing Clearly: Polishing the Windows of the Mind

Week 4: The 'Real' World: Integrating the Practice

Bio: Adam Stonebraker has been practicing and studying meditation in various schools since 1999, and began teaching meditation, mindfulness, and yoga in 2010. He is a core teacher and leadership council member with Sacred Mountain Sangha and leads teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops internationally, in yin yoga, meditation, and mindfulness.

Adam is a graduate of Sacred Mountain Sangha’s 2-year Dharmapala Training, a mentee of Thanissara & Kittisaro, and a graduate and endorsed teacher with the Insight Yoga Institute. In addition, Adam earned his MA in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University.

Adam is committed to an all-inclusive dharma, where no aspect of the human experience is left out. He has particular interest in the transformative power of the natural world, early-Buddhism, inter-faith dialogue, and the bodhisattva way of life.

Registration is closed.

Mountain Stream invites you to attend a half daylong: Conscious Dying ~ Sponsored by The Living/Dying Project

Facilitator: Dale Borglum, PhD, AKA RamDev
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (No lunch needed)
Cost: Sliding Scale $30 - $45
A separate donation of $50 for the Living/Dying Project is suggested ~ All gifts are received with gratitude
Location: In person only, Mountain Stream Meditation Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959

Registration required:
For questions and to register email juanita@mtstream.org. Registration closes at 7 PM on Friday, April 26, 2024.

Half daylong description: Together we will explore an experiential overview to the contemplative path of caregiving, grieving and conscious dying. This developmental approach is devoted to realizing our inherent wholeness; including motivation, embodied mindfulness, devotion and compassion, tantric empowerment and finally non-duality. Our time will include guided meditations and experiential exercises in addition to group discussion.

Bio: RamDev Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in the San Francisco Bay Area www.livingdying.org/. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement, having taught with Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Joan Halifax, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, and Rev. Wayne Muller, among others. And has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illnesses and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility in the United States, The Dying Center, for people who wished to die consciously.

He has taught and lectured extensively on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, on caregiving as a spiritual practice, and on healing at the edge — the edge of illness, of death, of loss, of crisis. Dale has a BS from UC Berkeley and a PhD from Stanford University. He is the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook and has taught meditation for the past 35 years.

He has intensively immersed himself in the practices of devotion, meditation, and contemplative prayer for over forty years, studying with many of the greatest masters of the last century including Neem Karoli Baba, Suzuki Roshi, Ananda Mayee Ma, Kalu Rinpoche, the 16th Karmapa, Dilgo Khyentse, Mahasi Sayadaw, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Trungpa Rinpoche, Goenka, Dudjom Rinpoche and HH the Dalai Lama. His life’s work and passion has been and continues to be the healing of our individual and collective relationship with death and using our mortality as an inspiration for spiritual awakening.

Mountain Stream invites you to attend a course in Awakening Insight ~ A 4-Week Introduction to Insight Meditation

Teacher: Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Four consecutive Sundays: April 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $120. Limited partial scholarships available.
No previous experience necessary.  All levels welcome. 
Location: In person only, Mountain Stream Meditation Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959

Registration required and includes all four days.
To register, go to https://square.link/u/61Mv8lS5
For questions email robyn.hennon@mtstream.org 

Course description: In this immersive workshop, we'll explore the timeless teachings of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and learn practical techniques to cultivate mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. Each session will delve into various aspects of the practice, providing you with tools and guidance to deepen your mediation practice and experience the profound benefits. 

Through guided meditation sessions, reflective exercises, presentations, and lots of discussion, you'll learn ways to quiet the endlessly chattering mind, reduce stress, and cultivate inner space and clarity. 

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned practitioner, "Awakening Insight" will help unlock the boundless potential of your mind and heart. 

Week 1: Meditation: What is it good for? 

Week 2: Abiding Calm & the Way of Breathing

Week 3: Seeing Clearly: Polishing the Windows of the Mind

Week 4: The 'Real' World: Integrating the Practice

Bio: Adam Stonebraker has been practicing and studying meditation in various schools since 1999, and began teaching meditation, mindfulness, and yoga in 2010. He is a core teacher and leadership council member with Sacred Mountain Sangha and leads teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops internationally, in yin yoga, meditation, and mindfulness.

Adam is a graduate of Sacred Mountain Sangha’s 2-year Dharmapala Training, a mentee of Thanissara & Kittisaro, and a graduate and endorsed teacher with the Insight Yoga Institute. In addition, Adam earned his MA in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University.

Adam is committed to an all-inclusive dharma, where no aspect of the human experience is left out. He has particular interest in the transformative power of the natural world, early-Buddhism, inter-faith dialogue, and the bodhisattva way of life.

Mountain Stream invites you to attend a course in Awakening Insight ~ A 4-Week Introduction to Insight Meditation

Teacher: Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Four consecutive Sundays: April 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $120. Limited partial scholarships available.
No previous experience necessary.  All levels welcome. 
Location: In person only, Mountain Stream Meditation Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959

Registration required and includes all four days.
To register, go to https://square.link/u/61Mv8lS5
For questions email robyn.hennon@mtstream.org 

Course description: In this immersive workshop, we'll explore the timeless teachings of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and learn practical techniques to cultivate mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. Each session will delve into various aspects of the practice, providing you with tools and guidance to deepen your mediation practice and experience the profound benefits. 

Through guided meditation sessions, reflective exercises, presentations, and lots of discussion, you'll learn ways to quiet the endlessly chattering mind, reduce stress, and cultivate inner space and clarity. 

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned practitioner, "Awakening Insight" will help unlock the boundless potential of your mind and heart. 

Week 1: Meditation: What is it good for? 

Week 2: Abiding Calm & the Way of Breathing

Week 3: Seeing Clearly: Polishing the Windows of the Mind

Week 4: The 'Real' World: Integrating the Practice

Bio: Adam Stonebraker has been practicing and studying meditation in various schools since 1999, and began teaching meditation, mindfulness, and yoga in 2010. He is a core teacher and leadership council member with Sacred Mountain Sangha and leads teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops internationally, in yin yoga, meditation, and mindfulness.

Adam is a graduate of Sacred Mountain Sangha’s 2-year Dharmapala Training, a mentee of Thanissara & Kittisaro, and a graduate and endorsed teacher with the Insight Yoga Institute. In addition, Adam earned his MA in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University.

Adam is committed to an all-inclusive dharma, where no aspect of the human experience is left out. He has particular interest in the transformative power of the natural world, early-Buddhism, inter-faith dialogue, and the bodhisattva way of life.

Mountain Stream invites you to attend a course in Awakening Insight ~ A 4-Week Introduction to Insight Meditation

Teacher: Adam Stonebraker
Dates: Four consecutive Sundays: April 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $120. Limited partial scholarships available.
No previous experience necessary.  All levels welcome. 
Location: In person only, Mountain Stream Meditation Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959

Registration required and includes all four days.
To register, go to https://square.link/u/61Mv8lS5
For questions email robyn.hennon@mtstream.org 

Course description: In this immersive workshop, we'll explore the timeless teachings of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and learn practical techniques to cultivate mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. Each session will delve into various aspects of the practice, providing you with tools and guidance to deepen your mediation practice and experience the profound benefits. 

Through guided meditation sessions, reflective exercises, presentations, and lots of discussion, you'll learn ways to quiet the endlessly chattering mind, reduce stress, and cultivate inner space and clarity. 

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned practitioner, "Awakening Insight" will help unlock the boundless potential of your mind and heart. 

Week 1: Meditation: What is it good for? 

Week 2: Abiding Calm & the Way of Breathing

Week 3: Seeing Clearly: Polishing the Windows of the Mind

Week 4: The 'Real' World: Integrating the Practice

Bio: Adam Stonebraker has been practicing and studying meditation in various schools since 1999, and began teaching meditation, mindfulness, and yoga in 2010. He is a core teacher and leadership council member with Sacred Mountain Sangha and leads teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops internationally, in yin yoga, meditation, and mindfulness.

Adam is a graduate of Sacred Mountain Sangha’s 2-year Dharmapala Training, a mentee of Thanissara & Kittisaro, and a graduate and endorsed teacher with the Insight Yoga Institute. In addition, Adam earned his MA in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University.

Adam is committed to an all-inclusive dharma, where no aspect of the human experience is left out. He has particular interest in the transformative power of the natural world, early-Buddhism, inter-faith dialogue, and the bodhisattva way of life.

Bruce Pardoe - Wellspring of Gratitude
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90
Where: In Person only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Registration and Information: Contact juanita@mtstream.org

Description: The fulsome energies of Spring are emerging. Life’s renewal celebrating the joy of its own vibrancy. What better time to connect to the wellspring of gratitude that is always available to us as practitioners of the dharma. Gratitude is not only the absence of wanting any more or less from the moment, but actually bubbling over with happiness at that relief. This is a taste of the awakened state the Buddha tells us is our birthright. During our day together we will discover our access to gratitude even in challenging times, and also feel it as a direct experience. We will see how happiness not for only ourselves, but also for others, is the truest form of gratitude that leads to awakening and liberation.

Bio: Bruce Pardoe’s personal healing journey with complex trauma led him to develop the radically gentle Heart Fluency method for engaging emotional wounds and afflictive patterns as portals to our essential well-being and happiness. Heart Fluency combines neuroscience and the unconditional nourishment of a healing awareness in an uplifting, heart-centered approach.

For more than 40 years Bruce has been navigating and facilitating the path of inner healing. After spending over two years on silent retreat he became a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. He has completed Spirit Rock’s Meditation Center’s 2 year Community Dharma Leader training and has studied extensively in Asia in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita. Bruce has also trained in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and Hakomi’s body-centered psychotherapy.

Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Ken as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 

What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.

Dennis Warren - Uncertainty, Confusion, Doubt and Disappointment
Date: Sunday, February 25, 2024
Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90
Where: In Person only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Registration and Information: Contact juanita@mtstream.org
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Outline:
Why does our progress in practice, and the use of practice in everyday life, seem to stall and lose its value or power?
Why do we seem to have significant practice Insights and breakthroughs , large and small, but are unable to integrate them into the way we live?
Why can some teachings or practice methods seem so clear and meaningful, but seemingly  prove ineffective in our regular practice and life?
These common experiences can result in uncertainty, confusion, doubt and disappointment. They can easily turn into obstacles to practice if not worked with skillfully.
This daylong retreat will involve a relaxed exploration of these questions and potentially troubling states of mind. Participants will explore a number of recommendations for working more skillfully with them.

The day will be appropriate for all levels of experience. Please bring a pen/pencil and paper and your own lunch.

Bio: Dennis Warren is the founding teacher of Sacramento Insight Meditation. He has maintained a daily meditation practice in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition for over 30 years. Since 1998, Dennis has taught Insight Meditation and mindfulness practices in residential retreat, educational, medical, corporate and community settings. He is 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, and a graduate of the Spirit Rock Medication Center’s Dharma leaders training program.
For further biographical information go to https://sactoinsight.org/about-us/faculty/

Mountain Stream invites you to attend a course in EcoDharma explorations
Building community around climate change, inequality, social justice issues, and the dharma, while we explore together what it is to remember our own innate connection with life/the earth through the lens of the Buddha Dharma. Flyer

Teacher: Kirsten Rudestam
Title: Belonging to this Earth: EcoDharma Explorations for Planetary and Personal Wellness
Dates: Three consecutive Wednesdays: January 17, 24 and 31
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm (PT)
Cost: Sliding Scale $50 - $75. Limited partial scholarships available.
Registration required and includes all three days of the course series
To register, contact Robyn.hennon@mtstream.org
Location: Virtual only - Zoom meeting link to be provided once registered and paid in full.

Course description: As we face increasing uncertainty and social and environmental losses, we are asked to delve into the depths and breadths of our spiritual lives and face these times with compassion, integrity and clear seeing. How do we, as critical scholar Donna Haraway suggests, "stay with the trouble of living and dying in response-ability on a damaged earth"?

To become response-able is to become responsive, and responding entails opening to our lines of connection with self, kin and earth. In this class series we will explore our relationships to our planetary crises from a place of inner wisdom, spiritual resource and emotional resilience. Each class will include guided meditation, a short talk, and participatory exercises to help us gain clarity, confidence, and community in moving forward together.

Bio: Kirsten Rudestam has been practicing vipassana meditation in the Theravadan tradition since 2001 and teaching since 2005. She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied climate resilience and environmental justice. She has twenty years of experience offering field-based and classroom-based college courses in environmental studies and sociology, and is a facilitator for Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects. She, Gil Fronsdal, and Susie Harrington are the co-founders and core faculty for the Sati Center's Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy training program.

Mountain Stream invites you to attend a course in EcoDharma explorations
Building community around climate change, inequality, social justice issues, and the dharma, while we explore together what it is to remember our own innate connection with life/the earth through the lens of the Buddha Dharma. Flyer

Teacher: Kirsten Rudestam
Title: Belonging to this Earth: EcoDharma Explorations for Planetary and Personal Wellness
Dates: Three consecutive Wednesdays: January 17, 24 and 31
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm (PT)
Cost: Sliding Scale $50 - $75. Limited partial scholarships available.
Registration required and includes all three days of the course series
To register, contact Robyn.hennon@mtstream.org
Location: Virtual only - Zoom meeting link to be provided once registered and paid in full.

Course description: As we face increasing uncertainty and social and environmental losses, we are asked to delve into the depths and breadths of our spiritual lives and face these times with compassion, integrity and clear seeing. How do we, as critical scholar Donna Haraway suggests, "stay with the trouble of living and dying in response-ability on a damaged earth"?

To become response-able is to become responsive, and responding entails opening to our lines of connection with self, kin and earth. In this class series we will explore our relationships to our planetary crises from a place of inner wisdom, spiritual resource and emotional resilience. Each class will include guided meditation, a short talk, and participatory exercises to help us gain clarity, confidence, and community in moving forward together.

Bio: Kirsten Rudestam has been practicing vipassana meditation in the Theravadan tradition since 2001 and teaching since 2005. She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied climate resilience and environmental justice. She has twenty years of experience offering field-based and classroom-based college courses in environmental studies and sociology, and is a facilitator for Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects. She, Gil Fronsdal, and Susie Harrington are the co-founders and core faculty for the Sati Center's Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy training program.

Mountain Stream invites you to attend a course in EcoDharma explorations
Building community around climate change, inequality, social justice issues, and the dharma, while we explore together what it is to remember our own innate connection with life/the earth through the lens of the Buddha Dharma. Flyer

Teacher: Kirsten Rudestam
Title: Belonging to this Earth: EcoDharma Explorations for Planetary and Personal Wellness
Dates: Three consecutive Wednesdays: January 17, 24 and 31
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm (PT)
Cost: Sliding Scale $50 - $75. Limited partial scholarships available.
Registration required and includes all three days of the course series
To register, contact Robyn.hennon@mtstream.org
Location: Virtual only - Zoom meeting link to be provided once registered and paid in full.

Course description: As we face increasing uncertainty and social and environmental losses, we are asked to delve into the depths and breadths of our spiritual lives and face these times with compassion, integrity and clear seeing. How do we, as critical scholar Donna Haraway suggests, "stay with the trouble of living and dying in response-ability on a damaged earth"?

To become response-able is to become responsive, and responding entails opening to our lines of connection with self, kin and earth. In this class series we will explore our relationships to our planetary crises from a place of inner wisdom, spiritual resource and emotional resilience. Each class will include guided meditation, a short talk, and participatory exercises to help us gain clarity, confidence, and community in moving forward together.

Bio: Kirsten Rudestam has been practicing vipassana meditation in the Theravadan tradition since 2001 and teaching since 2005. She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied climate resilience and environmental justice. She has twenty years of experience offering field-based and classroom-based college courses in environmental studies and sociology, and is a facilitator for Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects. She, Gil Fronsdal, and Susie Harrington are the co-founders and core faculty for the Sati Center's Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy training program.

A 3-hour Half Day Retreat with Tracy Lease & Miyu Tamamura
Relaxed & Awake - Welcoming In The New Year: Expanding Our Heart Capacity through The Five Invitations
In-person program at Mountain Stream Meditation, Nevada City Insight Center
Sunday, January 14, 2024
1:00 to 4:00 pm

When we bring our whole self forward, we include our brokenness. We make room for the blemishes as well as purity, strength as well as vulnerability, success as well as screwups.  Judgment focuses on what’s wrong; it feeds an “either/or” mentality.  Embracing wholeness is a loving act of reclamation, a “both/and” way of meeting life.  Frank Ostaseski

We invite you to bring your whole-self to this retreat and, in doing so, to expand your heart’s capacity. Together we will greet the New Year, drop into our hearts, align with our intentions, and invite the gifts of the New Year to emerge from the inside and out. 

This retreat was inspired by Frank Ostaseski’s book, “The Five Invitations: Discovering what death can teach us about living fully.”  The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, Frank has paused on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. From these experiences he learned what many, in those vulnerable moments, valued most in life. From these experiences Frank offers us five Zen-influenced invitations to help us live fully. 

We will practice these “Five Invitations” in community, through the flow of Qigong and breath, various meditations, contemplations, and restorative yoga. These hours will be deeply supported by the therapeutic vibrations of crystal singing bowls and moments of silence.  

No prerequisite is necessary to attend this retreat. You are welcome to read the book to deepen your experience. Or, perhaps the retreat will inspire you to read the book later. Regardless, everyone and all levels are welcome!

*Pre-registration is required. Please register first before sending dana. Thank you!
20 person limit
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation (dana): $75 - $115
(Dana is greatly appreciated and shared equally amongst MS, Tracy and Miyu).

To register and if you have any questions about the retreat, contact Tracy at: tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Please send Dana to complete the registration:
By Credit Card:
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By Check mail to:
Mountain Stream Meditation Center
Attn: R&A 1/14/24
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959 

Mountain Stream invites you to attend an In Person, Half Daylong Retreat

Teacher: Ken Bradford
Title: Clarifying Life Purpose
Date: Sunday, December 17
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Cost: Registration sliding scale $30 - $45. Limited scholarships available
Registration is required: Contact juanita@mtstream.org
Location: In-person program at Mountain Stream Meditation, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St. Nevada City, CA

Brief Course Description: As another year turns, we will take a morning, take a breath, take a clarifying look within to sense how truly we are living life in attunement with our deepest aspiration. Cutting through the chatter, we will dip into stillness and open to inner guidance: To what do I devote my life?
Inquiry & guided meditation will be combined with teaching and discussion.
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Bio- Ken Bradford is a contemplative yogin, author and Dharma teacher integrating a wide arc of Buddhist, Dzogchen and psychological thought and practice. His heart teachers include Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Joseph Goldstein, Ruth Denison and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, among others. Formerly, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS. His publications include Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation (2021); The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity (2013); and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 (2007, with John Prendergast); as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles intertwining psychology and spirituality. Website: www.authenticpresence.net

Daylong Retreat with John Travis (In Person Only)
Date: Saturday, October 14, 2023
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90
Registration opens Monday, September 25
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Mountain Stream hosts a day of meditation held in the tradition of Insight Meditation (Vipassana). Vipassana is known as a vehicle for mindfully opening the heart, seeing clearly and embodying our present-moment experience. 
All levels of practitioners are welcome. The daylong includes periods of sitting and walking meditation with Dharma teachings from John. There will be time for questions but most of the day is held in Noble Silence. As mental chatter subsides, we have more capacity to listen deeply to our heart’s inner wisdom.

Pre-registration is required ~
To register contact: juanita@mtstream.org
Registration sliding scale: $60 - $90
No one turned away for lack of funds. Limited partial scholarships are available.

Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to John as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. 

What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.

Fall Householder Evening Program with John Travis
Five Consecutive Evenings
Mon - Fri, Oct 9 - 13, 6:00 - 7:30 pm (PDT)
Join us in person or via Zoom
No registration necessary for Householder - drop in throughout the week.
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Our Monday - Friday evening Householder concludes with a daylong on Saturday, October 14, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration for Daylong is Required: registration info

Our Monday - Friday evening Householder concludes with a daylong on Saturday, October 14, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration for Daylong is Required: read more

Householder Description - Each evening John will offer meditation instructions, inspirational teachings, and dharma discussions to energize and cultivate a deeper practice in the midst of everyday life. There will also be an opportunity for you to share your reflections on the evenings’ topics.
Householder - Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Householder DONATION FOR THE NEVADA CITY INSIGHT CENTER
A suggested donation range for each evening is $10 - $20. Consider making a one-time donation for attending multiple evenings
Or to offer a donation by check and mail to:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate Householder.

Householder DONATION FOR JOHN TRAVIS
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: John Travis is the founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City and is a teacher emeritus at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin. He has practiced Insight Meditation for over 50 years, and completed a four-year teacher training with Jack Kornfield.
In the 1970’s & 80’s, John lived and studied in Asia with many of the premier meditation masters of our time. John’s practice included periods of monastic ordination in the Theravadan and Tibetan traditions.
His dynamic teaching style focuses on a non-dualistic approach that emphasizes the body, heartfulness, and the nature of awareness. In addition to his meditation training, John has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and is a certified Hakomi therapist.

Fall Householder Evening Program with John Travis
Five Consecutive Evenings
Mon - Fri, Oct 9 - 13, 6:00 - 7:30 pm (PDT)
Join us in person or via Zoom
No registration necessary for Householder - drop in throughout the week.
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Our Monday - Friday evening Householder concludes with a daylong on Saturday, October 14, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration for Daylong is Required: registration info

Householder Description - Each evening John will offer meditation instructions, inspirational teachings, and dharma discussions to energize and cultivate a deeper practice in the midst of everyday life. There will also be an opportunity for you to share your reflections on the evenings’ topics.
Householder - Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Householder DONATION FOR THE NEVADA CITY INSIGHT CENTER
A suggested donation range for each evening is $10 - $20. Consider making a one-time donation for attending multiple evenings
Or to offer a donation by check and mail to:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate Householder.

Householder DONATION FOR JOHN TRAVIS
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: John Travis is the founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City and is a teacher emeritus at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin. He has practiced Insight Meditation for over 50 years, and completed a four-year teacher training with Jack Kornfield.
In the 1970’s & 80’s, John lived and studied in Asia with many of the premier meditation masters of our time. John’s practice included periods of monastic ordination in the Theravadan and Tibetan traditions.
His dynamic teaching style focuses on a non-dualistic approach that emphasizes the body, heartfulness, and the nature of awareness. In addition to his meditation training, John has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and is a certified Hakomi therapist.

Fall Householder Evening Program with John Travis
Five Consecutive Evenings
Mon - Fri, Oct 9 - 13, 6:00 - 7:30 pm (PDT)
Join us in person or via Zoom
No registration necessary for Householder - drop in throughout the week.
Flyer

Our Monday - Friday evening Householder concludes with a daylong on Saturday, October 14, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration for Daylong is Required: registration info

Householder Description - Each evening John will offer meditation instructions, inspirational teachings, and dharma discussions to energize and cultivate a deeper practice in the midst of everyday life. There will also be an opportunity for you to share your reflections on the evenings’ topics.
Householder - Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Householder DONATION FOR THE NEVADA CITY INSIGHT CENTER
A suggested donation range for each evening is $10 - $20. Consider making a one-time donation for attending multiple evenings
Or to offer a donation by check and mail to:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate Householder.

Householder DONATION FOR JOHN TRAVIS
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: John Travis is the founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City and is a teacher emeritus at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin. He has practiced Insight Meditation for over 50 years, and completed a four-year teacher training with Jack Kornfield.
In the 1970’s & 80’s, John lived and studied in Asia with many of the premier meditation masters of our time. John’s practice included periods of monastic ordination in the Theravadan and Tibetan traditions.
His dynamic teaching style focuses on a non-dualistic approach that emphasizes the body, heartfulness, and the nature of awareness. In addition to his meditation training, John has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and is a certified Hakomi therapist.

Fall Householder Evening Program with John Travis
Five Consecutive Evenings
Mon - Fri, Oct 9 - 13, 6:00 - 7:30 pm (PDT)
Join us in person or via Zoom
No registration necessary for Householder - drop in throughout the week.
Flyer

Our Monday - Friday evening Householder concludes with a daylong on Saturday, October 14, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration for Daylong is Required: registration info

Householder Description - Each evening John will offer meditation instructions, inspirational teachings, and dharma discussions to energize and cultivate a deeper practice in the midst of everyday life. There will also be an opportunity for you to share your reflections on the evenings’ topics.
Householder - Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Householder DONATION FOR THE NEVADA CITY INSIGHT CENTER
A suggested donation range for each evening is $10 - $20. Consider making a one-time donation for attending multiple evenings
Or to offer a donation by check and mail to:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate Householder.

Householder DONATION FOR JOHN TRAVIS
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: John Travis is the founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City and is a teacher emeritus at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin. He has practiced Insight Meditation for over 50 years, and completed a four-year teacher training with Jack Kornfield.
In the 1970’s & 80’s, John lived and studied in Asia with many of the premier meditation masters of our time. John’s practice included periods of monastic ordination in the Theravadan and Tibetan traditions.
His dynamic teaching style focuses on a non-dualistic approach that emphasizes the body, heartfulness, and the nature of awareness. In addition to his meditation training, John has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and is a certified Hakomi therapist.

Fall Householder Evening Program with John Travis
Five Consecutive Evenings
Mon - Fri, Oct 9 - 13, 6:00 - 7:30 pm (PDT)
Join us in person or via Zoom
No registration necessary for Householder - drop in throughout the week.
Flyer

Our Monday - Friday evening Householder concludes with a daylong on Saturday, October 14, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration for Daylong is Required: registration info

Householder Description - Each evening John will offer meditation instructions, inspirational teachings, and dharma discussions to energize and cultivate a deeper practice in the midst of everyday life. There will also be an opportunity for you to share your reflections on the evenings’ topics.
Householder - Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Householder DONATION FOR THE NEVADA CITY INSIGHT CENTER
A suggested donation range for each evening is $10 - $20. Consider making a one-time donation for attending multiple evenings
Or to offer a donation by check and mail to:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate Householder.

Householder DONATION FOR JOHN TRAVIS
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: John Travis is the founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City and is a teacher emeritus at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin. He has practiced Insight Meditation for over 50 years, and completed a four-year teacher training with Jack Kornfield.
In the 1970’s & 80’s, John lived and studied in Asia with many of the premier meditation masters of our time. John’s practice included periods of monastic ordination in the Theravadan and Tibetan traditions.
His dynamic teaching style focuses on a non-dualistic approach that emphasizes the body, heartfulness, and the nature of awareness. In addition to his meditation training, John has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and is a certified Hakomi therapist.

Dennis Warren - Living on the Other Side of Suffering
Date: Sunday, August 13, 2023
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90
Registration and Information - juanita@mtstream.org
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The Historical Buddha taught that finding deep satisfaction, enjoyment and nourishing happiness is essential to living well and progressing on the path, as well as diminishing suffering. These elements of healing and becoming whole are not, in other worlds, something we experience only after we have “crossed the river of suffering.” This one-day retreat will explore how Buddhist psychology, and specific teachings and methods, help us embody this way of understanding practice and life. The day will be led by Dennis Warren, founding teacher of Sacramento Insight Meditation. For further biographical information go to https://sactoinsight.org/about-us/faculty/

Bio: Dennis Warren is the founding teacher of Sacramento Insight Meditation. He has maintained a daily meditation practice in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition for over 30 years. Since 1998, Dennis has taught Insight Meditation and mindfulness practices in residential retreat, educational, medical, corporate and community settings. He is 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, and a graduate of the Spirit Rock Medication Center’s Dharma leaders training program. read more

Relaxed & Awake Retreat: Power of the Present Moment ~
Practicing the Five Keys: Attention, Acceptance, Affection, Appreciation and Allowing~
A Half Day Retreat with Tracy Lease & Miyu Tamamura flyer
Sunday, May 28, 2023
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
In-person program at Mountain Stream Meditation Center, 710 Zion St. Nevada City, CA
Pre-registration required. To register, contact Miyu at: miyu@yuhealingarts.com
Suggested donation: $60 - $90

 “To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available NOW. “ Thick Nhat Hanh

The focus of our retreat is to practice arriving in the present moment and then to sustain deep connection, with full awareness and presence, through various creative practices. We will be using the Five Keys inspired by David Richo in his book How to be an Adult in Relationships. We will create a conscious relationship with, and embody, the quality of each key.  Only in the present moment are we able to heal the past and make positive and conscious changes for the future.

Our practices include a nourishing blend of qigong, restorative yoga, breath work, heart-opening poems and meditation woven together with the soothing and expansive sounds of crystal singing bowls. Everyone and all levels welcome!

 *Pre-registration is required. Please register first before sending Dana. Thank you!
*20 person limit
*Masks are optional. Updated and appropriate safety protocols will be posted as the retreat date approaches. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Miyu at: miyu@yuhealingarts.com  Miyu will be home from her travels at the end of April and will respond to sign-up requests then.

No one turned away for lack of funds. Suggested donation: $60 - $90
(Dana will be greatly appreciated and shared equally amongst MS, Tracy and Miyu).
To register, contact Miyu at: miyu@yuhealingarts.com