The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Daylong with John Travis (In Person Only)
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90. Partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Pre-registration is required: To register, visit https://square.link/u/iayY5U9Y
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
For questions and scholarship requests, email juanita@mtstream.org

What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.

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.

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. 
JOHN TRAVIS DONATION (DANA)

John Travis ~ The founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation, John M. Travis, has been a student of meditation since 1969. His vision and teaching have been very important in the growth and development of Buddhism and meditation in the Northern Sierra Nevada region.

Mountain Stream’s - Community Building Team (CBT) warmly invites you to our end-of-summer backyard picnic! A time to gather, connect and socialize. Invite your friends & let the good times roll.

Please bring:
A dish of food to share
A serving utensil
Your own plate or bowl

Create a label for your dish:
Gluten free
Dairy free
Vegan
Vegetarian
Omnivore

MSM will provide:
Tables + Chairs
Glasses + Silverware
Beverages

Adam will be teaching in-person at the Nevada City Insight Center! As always if you can’t make it in person, you can join via Zoom ~ link below.

Adam Stonebraker - Topic TBD

Join us in person:
Adam will be teaching in-person in the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

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

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to Adam - Thank you

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Join us for a 35-minute meditation followed by peer-led discussion/sharing. We will be exploring various teachings of the Buddha and will provide handouts at each session as a reference.

We begin the evening with a period of sitting meditation followed by a dharma discussion led by long-time Mountain Stream practitioners, Mountain Stream community leaders. Meetings will be held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Awakening the Body & Mind with Kate Coughlin, 6-week Yoga Series
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: September 3, 10, 17, 24 and October 1 & 8
Time: 10:00 to 11:30 am
Drop-ins Welcome.

Cost: 50/50 split between the teacher and Mountain Stream
Sliding Scale $15 - $30 per class https://square.link/u/klb5nTKs
Or prepay by check/cash $90 - $180 for all six classes, payable to Mountain Stream Meditation; In the memo, please write Kate Yoga.

Questions: asanakate@yahoo.com

Description: Join Kate weekly for an inspiring and informative yoga practice. 
We will investigate the yoga postures in both fundamental and subtle ways. A balanced body: both strong and flexible is the temple for a focused, attentive, and clear mind. Together we practice and discover tools for inner and outer transformation. 

All levels are welcome, from beginning students to seasoned practitioners.

Bio: Kate has 50+ years as a yoga practitioner and teacher. She created and taught the yoga program at Stanford University for 11 years and owned, directed and taught yoga for 20 years at “Downtown Yoga”. She lives in Grass Valley. 

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm.
This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together at the 12:30 Quiet Sit. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, Jenrose1961@gmail.com to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Temple Care & Quiet Sit - Please come join us!
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is noon to 12:30 pm)
Your service is a dynamic and rich part of the mindfulness practice of dana (giving and receiving). Everyone benefits from this embodied practice. All are welcome to participate. We appreciate your interest and engagement. Contact Jen Scott, jen@mtstream.org.

Constance will be teaching in-person at the Nevada City Insight Center! As always if you can’t make it in person, you can join via Zoom ~ link below.

Constance Washburn - Topic TBD

Join our Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to our teacher - Thank you

To donate by credit card: MONDAY NIGHT DONATION (DANA)
Or offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate donation to the teacher or the program date.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: Constance Washburn, MA, is a facilitator, educator and community organizer. She is currently co-director of the Spiral Journey- a Facilitator Development Program in the Work That Reconnects and is a founder and core member of the Weavers Team of the Work That Reconnects Network. She began studying with Joanna Macy in 1994. She started studying Zen in 1968, since 1984 has been part of the Vipassana community at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is a community dharma leader in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition under the guidance of Lama Palden.

She is a founding member of the Elders Action Network and she developed and facilitates their Empowered Elder Workshop. She is a trainer of the Community Resilience Model of the Trauma Resources Institute.

She served as Education Director at the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) and Marin Organic for almost 20 years educating the public about the value of local food and farms. She has a MA in Education and Theater and taught and directed multi – cultural theater companies as her first career.
Learn more about Constance: https://www.constancewashburn.com/

Join us for a 35-minute meditation followed by peer-led discussion/sharing. We will be exploring various teachings of the Buddha and will provide handouts at each session as a reference.

We begin the evening with a period of sitting meditation followed by a dharma discussion led by long-time Mountain Stream practitioners, Mountain Stream community leaders. Meetings will be held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Awakening the Body & Mind with Kate Coughlin, 6-week Yoga Series
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: September 3, 10, 17, 24 and October 1 & 8
Time: 10:00 to 11:30 am
Drop-ins Welcome.

Cost: 50/50 split between the teacher and Mountain Stream
Sliding Scale $15 - $30 per class https://square.link/u/klb5nTKs
Or prepay by check/cash $90 - $180 for all six classes, payable to Mountain Stream Meditation; In the memo, please write Kate Yoga.

Questions: asanakate@yahoo.com

Description: Join Kate weekly for an inspiring and informative yoga practice. 
We will investigate the yoga postures in both fundamental and subtle ways. A balanced body: both strong and flexible is the temple for a focused, attentive, and clear mind. Together we practice and discover tools for inner and outer transformation. 

All levels are welcome, from beginning students to seasoned practitioners.

Bio: Kate has 50+ years as a yoga practitioner and teacher. She created and taught the yoga program at Stanford University for 11 years and owned, directed and taught yoga for 20 years at “Downtown Yoga”. She lives in Grass Valley. 

Sound Healing with Miyu Tamamura
6:00 to 7:00 pm
An indoor, in-person evening with crystal bowls.

A suggested Donation of $15 - $30 to be shared equally between Miyu and Mountain Stream. Thank you!
To make a donation in advance, you can either mail a check made out to:
Mountain Stream Meditation, PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
or use a credit card by opening this link below:

Safety protocols and guidelines for participating:
We kindly ask that participants agree to follow the safety protocols and guidelines. In the spirit of non-harming, safety is achieved with everyone’s mindful participation.
Masking is optional. We ask that participants refrain from attending if they have had any respiratory or flu symptoms, including any of the following symptoms of Covid-19: loss of taste and smell, fever, chills, extreme fatigue, nausea or vomiting, dry cough, diarrhea, difficulty breathing, dizziness or confusion, sore throat, muscle aches. If you are experiencing seasonal allergies, please be sure and take an at home rapid test before attending - Thank you.

We also ask that you refrain from attending if you have had contact with anyone in the past 10 days that has been diagnosed with Covid-19 or was exhibiting any of the above symptoms unless you have passed two negative Covid tests since contact. 

If you have any questions, please consult with Miyu at (530) 205-8610 before attending.

About Miyu Tamamura: Miyu’s commitment to transformation and healing is the very energy that plays her orchestra of Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls, returning us to the silence within. Miyu has been teaching the monthly program of Sound Healing Meditation at Mountain Stream Meditation Center in Nevada City, California since 2019, as well as collaborating with various yoga, Qigong and meditation teachers, musicians and artists holding retreats, workshops and concerts in the U.S. and Japan.

Miyu was born and raised in Kyoto Japan, graduated from Kyoto University of Art with a bachelor degree in Modern Art before she moved to the U.S. in 2000. As a certified Shiatsu Therapist, Miyu’s practice is deep listening, holding a healing space for one to integrate and harmonize all aspects of self. Miyu established YU Healing Arts with her husband in Nevada City, California, the clinic has been dedicated to the healing arts including Sound Healing, Shiatsu Therapy, Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine since 2004. 

Miyu’s eclectic background and experiential approach to truth and Japanese heritage are infused in all her practices and artistic expressions.

More information about Miyu: www.yuhealingarts.com

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm.
This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together at the 12:30 Quiet Sit. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, Jenrose1961@gmail.com to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Join this evening’s sit and dharma talk in the Meditation Hall or via Zoom.

Gavrila Nikhila: Topic TBD

Join us in person:
Gavrila will be teaching in-person in the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join our Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Bio: Gavrila Nikhila is a dedicated dhamma practitioner, singer, and contemplative dreamer. Her journey through grief and the complexities of being human inspired her to study suffering and its cessation, leading her to teach mindfulness for over a decade and become a somatic psychotherapist. Working with diverse individuals, she believes that embodiment and mindfulness are accessible to everyone. Gavrila emphasizes awareness, ancestral wisdom, and innate wholeness in her collaborative approach to transformation. She co-founded the Trauma Aware Mindfulness Collective and is a guest teacher for various sanghas. Gavrila offers meditation series for youth with Spirit Rock Meditation Center and young adults with Dharma Gates. In collaboration with Lotus Compass, Gavrila serves as the mindfulness guide on annual trips on the Camino de Santiago. Gavrila identifies as a queer, Ashkenazi Jewess.
For more on Gavrila's therapeutic work visit connectedrootstherapy.com.
For more on trainings and insights, visit wholecompleteperfect.com.

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to Gavrila - Thank you!

To donate by credit card: MONDAY NIGHT DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate donation to the teacher or the program date.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Join us for a 35-minute meditation followed by peer-led discussion/sharing. We will be exploring various teachings of the Buddha and will provide handouts at each session as a reference.

We begin the evening with a period of sitting meditation followed by a dharma discussion led by long-time Mountain Stream practitioners, Mountain Stream community leaders. Meetings will be held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Awakening the Body & Mind with Kate Coughlin, 6-week Yoga Series
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: September 3, 10, 17, 24 and October 1 & 8
Time: 10:00 to 11:30 am
Drop-ins Welcome.

Cost: 50/50 split between the teacher and Mountain Stream
Sliding Scale $15 - $30 per class https://square.link/u/klb5nTKs
Or prepay by check/cash $90 - $180 for all six classes, payable to Mountain Stream Meditation; In the memo, please write Kate Yoga.

Questions: asanakate@yahoo.com

Description: Join Kate weekly for an inspiring and informative yoga practice. 
We will investigate the yoga postures in both fundamental and subtle ways. A balanced body: both strong and flexible is the temple for a focused, attentive, and clear mind. Together we practice and discover tools for inner and outer transformation. 

All levels are welcome, from beginning students to seasoned practitioners.

Bio: Kate has 50+ years as a yoga practitioner and teacher. She created and taught the yoga program at Stanford University for 11 years and owned, directed and taught yoga for 20 years at “Downtown Yoga”. She lives in Grass Valley. 

Mountain Stream invites you to attend ~
5-Week Eco Dharma Series - The Work That Reconnects (WTR)

Teachers: Constance Washburn, and guest teachers, Aryeh Shell and Frieda Nixdorf
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Five consecutive Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, 29 and November 5
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Cost: Sliding Scale $75 - $125. Partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Pre-registration is required: To register, please visit https://square.link/u/DaDfvcVT
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.

For questions or scholarship requests, email juanita@mtstream.org

“The Work That Reconnects arises in direct response to the ecological, social, and economic crises of our time. It helps people understand and meet these challenges with clear eyes and open hearts…”    — Joanna Macy  

Course description: This 5-week series will follow The Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. 
We will start October 8th with an introduction and overview of The Work then proceed around The Spiral of the Work which moves through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New & Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. This progression allows us to open our hearts by touching into gratitude. Then in feeling our grief for the world we discover our love. Stepping into fear we find our courage. Owning our rage awakens our passion for justice. And our despair or not knowing can allow us to open to seeing with New/Ancient Eyes the greater wisdom all around us. We find new ways of working for the healing of the earth. We then go forth with plans for co-creating with other humans and the living Earth a sustainable living culture.

We request that participants attend all 4 sessions after the orientation and overview to create a safe container for this deeply transformational work.

This series qualifies for 10 hours of WTR experience towards application to the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program.

The course is open to everyone, with no previous experience needed.
Here are some suggested readings to learn more about WTR:
COMING BACK TO LIFE - Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
ACTIVE HOPE - How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

For more information, visit www.workthatreconnecgts.org

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to the teachers part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana

Constance Washburn is an activist, educator, director and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects (WTR). Since 1994 she has attended many intensives with Joanna Macy and has been leading WTR retreats and workshops in Northern California for many years. In 2017 she co-founded the International Spiral Journey: a Facilitator Development Program.

Constance has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1968, a yoga teacher and a Community Dharma Leader. Constance has an MA in Theatre and Education with studies in psychodrama and sociodrama, and spent years teaching and directing theater. She trained in permaculture and For 20 years she engaged in land-based work, working in farmland preservation and education on behalf of organic local sustainable food systems. Learn more about Constance

Aryeh Shell: I help to create fertile conditions for people to learn, grow, heal and transform together. As a curriculum designer, facilitator, trainer and coach, I support individuals and groups to find that seed of potential inside, water it with love and practice, shine light on what is possible, pull the weeds of old paradigms and flourish. I seek to dismantle the myth of separation and supremacy by developing collaborative leadership skills and cultures of belonging, knowing that our liberation is bound together. Having lived, traveled and worked in over 30 countries with hundreds of communities, I know the power of art, story, community organizing and dialogue to protect our biological and cultural diversity, awaken our radical imagination and address the social and ecological challenges of our time. My work is inspired by social movements around the world and rooted in the traditions of the Work That Reconnects, popular education, deep ecology, systems thinking, somatics and cultural activism. I speak fluent Spanish and have two MAs in Education: Equity and Social Justice and International Relations: Peace, Conflict and Security.

Aryeh is currently the Climate Action Training and Community Engagement Director at the Pachamama Alliance; Previously the Director of Education and Training for Creative Action Institute, home of ArtCorps. Learn more about Aryeh

Frieda Nixdorf: My commitment is to drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, I have studied art, religion, psychology, yoga and the intricacies of the beautiful and broken world. I’ve taught Eastern and Western Psychology at the community college level, and Soul Purpose at the graduate level, and have been incorporating WTR practices into everything I do since I first met Joanna in graduate school in 2002. I live in northern California on the unceded land of the Nisenan people. Learn more about Frieda

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm.
This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together at the 12:30 Quiet Sit. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, Jenrose1961@gmail.com to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Mountain Stream invites you to a daylong retreat with Ayya Santacitta

Topic: With the World on Fire, Embodying Ethics, Grounding, Wisdom
Location: In Person & Virtual
Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Or join us via Zoom; see below
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Cost: Dana/Donation Offering
Pre-registration is required for both in-person and virtual participants.
To register, please visit https://square.link/u/lP1ifMAH
The Zoom meeting link will be provided to all participants upon registration.

For questions, email juanita@mtstream.org

Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Ayya Santacitta as part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana

What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.

Daylong Description: The Buddha gave the Noble Eightfold Path as a way to direct our lives away from bewilderment and towards true freedom. As we find ourselves moving into increasing ecological crisis and its impact on the planet and our lives, the Buddha’s teaching and the teachings of the Earth become ever more relevant and essential. Ayya Santacitta and Louije Kim will offer teachings on this theme with an encouragement to bring the path to the whole of our experience.

Ayya Santacitta: Santacitta Bhikkhuni was born in Austria and did her graduate studies in Cultural Anthropology, focusing on dance, theatre, and ritual. She also worked in avant-garde dance theatre as a performer and costume designer. In 1988 she met Ajahn Buddhadasa in southern Thailand, who sparked her interest in Buddhist monastic life. She trained as a nun in England and Asia from 1993 until 2009, primarily in the lineage of Ajahn Chah, and has also received teachings in the Shechen lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

Santacitta Bhikkhuni co-founded Aloka Vihara in 2009 and received Bhikkhuni Ordination in 2011. She is committed to Gaia as a living being and resides at Aloka Earth Room, currently located in San Rafael, CA.

Adam will be teaching in-person at the Nevada City Insight Center! As always if you can’t make it in person, you can join via Zoom ~ link below.

Adam Stonebraker - Topic TBD

Join us in person:
Adam will be teaching in-person in the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

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

Bio - Adam Stonebraker has been dedicated to Buddhist practice and meditation since 1999 and serves as the Guiding Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation in Nevada City, CA. Since 2010, he has been sharing the Buddha’s teachings with diverse audiences locally and internationally. His approach is deeply influenced by the Thai Forest Tradition, the Bodhisattva path, and the transformative power of meditation.

​Adam has been mentored closely by Kittisaro & Thanissara as a retreat and meditation teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and the Kuan Yin Dharmas as taught by Master Hsuan Hua. His teaching emphasizes trust in one’s innate wisdom, the cultivation of an open heart, and an embodied understanding of interdependence. While his primary focus is on Buddhism and meditation, his background in yoga and somatic practice informs his approach to embodied awareness and the integration of insight with daily life. Deeply attuned to the natural world, he draws inspiration from its rhythms and resilience as a source of practice and insight.

Adam has studied with a wide range of teachers, including Kittisaro & Thanissara, Sarah & Ty Powers, Zen Master Dae Gak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 2019, he earned a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently in the four-year Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training, further deepening his commitment to sharing the Dharma. Since 2020, his teaching and practice have been exclusively dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.​​ To learn more about Adam, visit, www.mtstream.org/adam-stonebraker

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to Adam - Thank you

To donate by credit card: ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Join us for a 35-minute meditation followed by peer-led discussion/sharing. We will be exploring various teachings of the Buddha and will provide handouts at each session as a reference.

We begin the evening with a period of sitting meditation followed by a dharma discussion led by long-time Mountain Stream practitioners, Mountain Stream community leaders. Meetings will be held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Mountain Stream invites you to attend ~
5-Week Eco Dharma Series - The Work That Reconnects (WTR)

Teachers: Constance Washburn, and guest teachers, Aryeh Shell and Frieda Nixdorf
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Five consecutive Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, 29 and November 5
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Cost: Sliding Scale $75 - $125. Partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds..
Pre-registration is required: To register, please visit https://square.link/u/DaDfvcVT
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.

For questions or scholarship requests, email juanita@mtstream.org

“The Work That Reconnects arises in direct response to the ecological, social, and economic crises of our time. It helps people understand and meet these challenges with clear eyes and open hearts…”    — Joanna Macy  

Course description: This 5-week series will follow The Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. 
We will start October 8th with an introduction and overview of The Work then proceed around The Spiral of the Work which moves through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New & Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. This progression allows us to open our hearts by touching into gratitude. Then in feeling our grief for the world we discover our love. Stepping into fear we find our courage. Owning our rage awakens our passion for justice. And our despair or not knowing can allow us to open to seeing with New/Ancient Eyes the greater wisdom all around us. We find new ways of working for the healing of the earth. We then go forth with plans for co-creating with other humans and the living Earth a sustainable living culture.

We request that participants attend all 4 sessions after the orientation and overview to create a safe container for this deeply transformational work.

This series qualifies for 10 hours of WTR experience towards application to the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program.

The course is open to everyone, with no previous experience needed.
Here are some suggested readings to learn more about WTR:
COMING BACK TO LIFE - Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
ACTIVE HOPE - How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

For more information, visit www.workthatreconnecgts.org

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to the teachers part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana

Constance Washburn is an activist, educator, director and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects (WTR). Since 1994 she has attended many intensives with Joanna Macy and has been leading WTR retreats and workshops in Northern California for many years. In 2017 she co-founded the International Spiral Journey: a Facilitator Development Program.

Constance has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1968, a yoga teacher and a Community Dharma Leader. Constance has an MA in Theatre and Education with studies in psychodrama and sociodrama, and spent years teaching and directing theater. She trained in permaculture and For 20 years she engaged in land-based work, working in farmland preservation and education on behalf of organic local sustainable food systems. Learn more about Constance

Aryeh Shell: I help to create fertile conditions for people to learn, grow, heal and transform together. As a curriculum designer, facilitator, trainer and coach, I support individuals and groups to find that seed of potential inside, water it with love and practice, shine light on what is possible, pull the weeds of old paradigms and flourish. I seek to dismantle the myth of separation and supremacy by developing collaborative leadership skills and cultures of belonging, knowing that our liberation is bound together. Having lived, traveled and worked in over 30 countries with hundreds of communities, I know the power of art, story, community organizing and dialogue to protect our biological and cultural diversity, awaken our radical imagination and address the social and ecological challenges of our time. My work is inspired by social movements around the world and rooted in the traditions of the Work That Reconnects, popular education, deep ecology, systems thinking, somatics and cultural activism. I speak fluent Spanish and have two MAs in Education: Equity and Social Justice and International Relations: Peace, Conflict and Security.

Aryeh is currently the Climate Action Training and Community Engagement Director at the Pachamama Alliance; Previously the Director of Education and Training for Creative Action Institute, home of ArtCorps. Learn more about Aryeh

Frieda Nixdorf: My commitment is to drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, I have studied art, religion, psychology, yoga and the intricacies of the beautiful and broken world. I’ve taught Eastern and Western Psychology at the community college level, and Soul Purpose at the graduate level, and have been incorporating WTR practices into everything I do since I first met Joanna in graduate school in 2002. I live in northern California on the unceded land of the Nisenan people. Learn more about Frieda

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm.
This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together at the 12:30 Quiet Sit. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, Jenrose1961@gmail.com to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Temple Care & Quiet Sit - Please come join us!
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is noon to 12:30 pm)
Your service is a dynamic and rich part of the mindfulness practice of dana (giving and receiving). Everyone benefits from this embodied practice. All are welcome to participate. We appreciate your interest and engagement. Contact Jen Scott, jen@mtstream.org.

Mountain Stream invites you to join an Eco Dharma Half-Day Retreat
Autumn on the Yuba: Between Falling Leaves and Resting Roots

Date: Sunday, October 19, 2025
Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: Gather at Mountain Stream Meditation, Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959. From there we’ll drive to Purdon Crossing and hike 15-20 minutes along the Yuba River.
Guides: Leslie Pace & Lakshmi Prasad

Cost: Dana Offering (supported by BESS Family Foundation)
Pre-registration is required: To register/questions, email lakshmi@mtstream.org

What to bring:

• Comfortable clothing and layers for changing weather

• Water bottle

• Snack

• Journal and pen/pencil

• Small cushion or blanket for sitting

• Sturdy shoes for an easy–moderate trail (max. 30 minutes each way)

Dana: During the half day retreat, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Leslie & Lakshmi as part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana

An Invitation
Autumn in the Sierra Nevada foothills is a season of turning — golden leaves, crisp air, the river slowing after summer’s rush. It is a time of letting go, a reminder that change is constant and thresholds are everywhere.
Together, we will spend time on the banks of the Yuba River, where we will explore what it means to be “in the in-between”: when the old is falling away and the new is not yet formed.
Through walking and hiking, gentle prompts, light movement, deep listening, and contemplative time in nature, we will draw on the wisdom of the land and of each other.
Our journey will be guided by teachings from Buddhism, Deep Ecology, poetry, and other contemplative traditions that speak to transitions and transformation.
This is a space for reflection, resting, and remembering that uncertainty can be fertile, and nature can be a refuge.

About the Guides
Leslie is an explorer and lover of wild lands, regenerative farming, fermentation, bikes, and poetry. She is on the path to support others in cultivating awareness, ritual, and deep connection with nature, especially in times of change and uncertainty. Currently training as a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain with the Sati Center, she is excited to share these practices with the Nevada City community.

Lakshmi is a dedicated dharma practitioner who recently completed a two-year training with her teachers, Thanissara and Kittisaro, rooted in the Theravada Thai Forest tradition and Kuan Yin Dharmas. New to Nevada City, she delights in the beauty of the land - befriending evergreens, resting by the Yuba River, and deepening her connection with the more-than-human world.

Join this evening’s sit and dharma talk via Zoom ~ or join us in the Meditation Hall

Dana DePalma - Topic TBD

Join us in person:
We will livestream the Dharma talk into the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join our Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session are being offered to Dana DePalma. - Thank You!

MONDAY NIGHT TEACHER DONATION
To offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Bio: Dana DePalma teaches Insight Meditation retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California and online through Dharma Ground, an organization she co-founded, www.dharmaground.org. She specializes in teaching Nine Bodies Insight, a method of practice which utilizes specific teachings on the structure of consciousness to balance, refine, and empower one’s Insight Meditation practice.

Dana began her Vipassana practice in 1993, when she was a psychology student at UC Berkeley. She graduated from Spirit Rock’s first Community Dharma Leaders (CDL) Program in 2000 and completed Spirit Rock’s four-year retreat Teacher Training Program in 2010. Dana was a Spirit Rock Board Member (2013 - 2023), Co-Chair of the Guiding Teachers Committee (2018 - 2022), and currently serves as a Stewarding Teacher. Dana holds a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and a Marriage and Family Therapist license, and is most influenced by Relational psychology, Depth psychology, and Jungian perspectives. She is a Bay Area native, married, mom to an awesome teen, and grateful to call the ancestral Coast Miwok Land also known as Marin County, with Mount Tamalpais and its rugged coast, home.

Join us for a 35-minute meditation followed by peer-led discussion/sharing. We will be exploring various teachings of the Buddha and will provide handouts at each session as a reference.

We begin the evening with a period of sitting meditation followed by a dharma discussion led by long-time Mountain Stream practitioners, Mountain Stream community leaders. Meetings will be held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Mountain Stream Board meetings are scheduled for the fourth Wednesday of the month.

Our next regularly scheduled meeting is October 22, 3:00 pm.

Join us in person at 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
or on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

If you would like a copy of the agenda, please email robyn.hennon@mtstream.org
If you’d like to receive the monthly approved minutes, please email juanita@mtstream.org

Mountain Stream invites you to attend ~
5-Week Eco Dharma Series - The Work That Reconnects (WTR)

Teachers: Constance Washburn, and guest teachers, Aryeh Shell and Frieda Nixdorf
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Five consecutive Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, 29 and November 5
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Cost: Sliding Scale $75 - $125. Partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds..
Pre-registration is required: To register, please visit https://square.link/u/DaDfvcVT
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.

For questions or scholarship requests, email juanita@mtstream.org

“The Work That Reconnects arises in direct response to the ecological, social, and economic crises of our time. It helps people understand and meet these challenges with clear eyes and open hearts…”    — Joanna Macy  

Course description: This 5-week series will follow The Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. 
We will start October 8th with an introduction and overview of The Work then proceed around The Spiral of the Work which moves through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New & Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. This progression allows us to open our hearts by touching into gratitude. Then in feeling our grief for the world we discover our love. Stepping into fear we find our courage. Owning our rage awakens our passion for justice. And our despair or not knowing can allow us to open to seeing with New/Ancient Eyes the greater wisdom all around us. We find new ways of working for the healing of the earth. We then go forth with plans for co-creating with other humans and the living Earth a sustainable living culture.

We request that participants attend all 4 sessions after the orientation and overview to create a safe container for this deeply transformational work.

This series qualifies for 10 hours of WTR experience towards application to the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program.

The course is open to everyone, with no previous experience needed.
Here are some suggested readings to learn more about WTR:
COMING BACK TO LIFE - Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
ACTIVE HOPE - How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

For more information, visit www.workthatreconnecgts.org

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to the teachers part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana

Constance Washburn is an activist, educator, director and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects (WTR). Since 1994 she has attended many intensives with Joanna Macy and has been leading WTR retreats and workshops in Northern California for many years. In 2017 she co-founded the International Spiral Journey: a Facilitator Development Program.

Constance has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1968, a yoga teacher and a Community Dharma Leader. Constance has an MA in Theatre and Education with studies in psychodrama and sociodrama, and spent years teaching and directing theater. She trained in permaculture and For 20 years she engaged in land-based work, working in farmland preservation and education on behalf of organic local sustainable food systems. Learn more about Constance

Aryeh Shell: I help to create fertile conditions for people to learn, grow, heal and transform together. As a curriculum designer, facilitator, trainer and coach, I support individuals and groups to find that seed of potential inside, water it with love and practice, shine light on what is possible, pull the weeds of old paradigms and flourish. I seek to dismantle the myth of separation and supremacy by developing collaborative leadership skills and cultures of belonging, knowing that our liberation is bound together. Having lived, traveled and worked in over 30 countries with hundreds of communities, I know the power of art, story, community organizing and dialogue to protect our biological and cultural diversity, awaken our radical imagination and address the social and ecological challenges of our time. My work is inspired by social movements around the world and rooted in the traditions of the Work That Reconnects, popular education, deep ecology, systems thinking, somatics and cultural activism. I speak fluent Spanish and have two MAs in Education: Equity and Social Justice and International Relations: Peace, Conflict and Security.

Aryeh is currently the Climate Action Training and Community Engagement Director at the Pachamama Alliance; Previously the Director of Education and Training for Creative Action Institute, home of ArtCorps. Learn more about Aryeh

Frieda Nixdorf: My commitment is to drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, I have studied art, religion, psychology, yoga and the intricacies of the beautiful and broken world. I’ve taught Eastern and Western Psychology at the community college level, and Soul Purpose at the graduate level, and have been incorporating WTR practices into everything I do since I first met Joanna in graduate school in 2002. I live in northern California on the unceded land of the Nisenan people. Learn more about Frieda

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm.
This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together at the 12:30 Quiet Sit. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, Jenrose1961@gmail.com to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Join this evening’s sit and dharma talk via Zoom ~ or join us in the Meditation Hall

Maeve Hassett - Topic TBD

Join us in person:
We will livestream the Dharma talk into the Meditation Hall
Nevada City Insight Center
710 Zion St
Nevada City, CA 95959

Join our Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2281834980?pwd=NExJbW5TL21tKzFnQlRvQ2tuajNNdz09
Meeting ID: 228 183 4980
Password: 2656111
Join by Phone: 669-900-9128

Bio: Maeve Hassett has been teaching and studying Buddhism for nearly 30 years. She is a graduate of both the Dedicated Practitioners Program and the Community Dharma Leaders program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Maeve has been teaching mindfulness and meditation through classes and dharma talks at Mt Stream since 2004. She is a cofounder of the Rocklin meditation group. Maeve is also a recently retired psychotherapist, a career that she engaged in for 40 years.

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session are being offered to Maeve Hassett. - Thank You!

MONDAY NIGHT TEACHER DONATION
To offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510
Nevada City, CA 95959

In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Join us for a 35-minute meditation followed by peer-led discussion/sharing. We will be exploring various teachings of the Buddha and will provide handouts at each session as a reference.

We begin the evening with a period of sitting meditation followed by a dharma discussion led by long-time Mountain Stream practitioners, Mountain Stream community leaders. Meetings will be held on a drop-in basis and no meditation experience is necessary.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $10 -$15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To donate by credit card: TUESDAY SITTING & SANGHA DONATION
Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Mountain Stream invites you to attend ~
5-Week Eco Dharma Series - The Work That Reconnects (WTR)

Teachers: Constance Washburn, and guest teachers, Aryeh Shell and Frieda Nixdorf
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Five consecutive Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, 29 and November 5
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Cost: Sliding Scale $75 - $125. Partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Pre-registration is required: To register, please visit https://square.link/u/DaDfvcVT
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.

For questions or scholarship requests, email juanita@mtstream.org

“The Work That Reconnects arises in direct response to the ecological, social, and economic crises of our time. It helps people understand and meet these challenges with clear eyes and open hearts…”    — Joanna Macy  

Course description: This 5-week series will follow The Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. 
We will start October 8th with an introduction and overview of The Work then proceed around The Spiral of the Work which moves through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New & Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. This progression allows us to open our hearts by touching into gratitude. Then in feeling our grief for the world we discover our love. Stepping into fear we find our courage. Owning our rage awakens our passion for justice. And our despair or not knowing can allow us to open to seeing with New/Ancient Eyes the greater wisdom all around us. We find new ways of working for the healing of the earth. We then go forth with plans for co-creating with other humans and the living Earth a sustainable living culture.

We request that participants attend all 4 sessions after the orientation and overview to create a safe container for this deeply transformational work.

This series qualifies for 10 hours of WTR experience towards application to the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program.

The course is open to everyone, with no previous experience needed.
Here are some suggested readings to learn more about WTR:
COMING BACK TO LIFE - Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
ACTIVE HOPE - How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

For more information, visit www.workthatreconnecgts.org

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to the teachers part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana

Constance Washburn is an activist, educator, director and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects (WTR). Since 1994 she has attended many intensives with Joanna Macy and has been leading WTR retreats and workshops in Northern California for many years. In 2017 she co-founded the International Spiral Journey: a Facilitator Development Program.

Constance has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1968, a yoga teacher and a Community Dharma Leader. Constance has an MA in Theatre and Education with studies in psychodrama and sociodrama, and spent years teaching and directing theater. She trained in permaculture and For 20 years she engaged in land-based work, working in farmland preservation and education on behalf of organic local sustainable food systems. Learn more about Constance

Aryeh Shell: I help to create fertile conditions for people to learn, grow, heal and transform together. As a curriculum designer, facilitator, trainer and coach, I support individuals and groups to find that seed of potential inside, water it with love and practice, shine light on what is possible, pull the weeds of old paradigms and flourish. I seek to dismantle the myth of separation and supremacy by developing collaborative leadership skills and cultures of belonging, knowing that our liberation is bound together. Having lived, traveled and worked in over 30 countries with hundreds of communities, I know the power of art, story, community organizing and dialogue to protect our biological and cultural diversity, awaken our radical imagination and address the social and ecological challenges of our time. My work is inspired by social movements around the world and rooted in the traditions of the Work That Reconnects, popular education, deep ecology, systems thinking, somatics and cultural activism. I speak fluent Spanish and have two MAs in Education: Equity and Social Justice and International Relations: Peace, Conflict and Security.

Aryeh is currently the Climate Action Training and Community Engagement Director at the Pachamama Alliance; Previously the Director of Education and Training for Creative Action Institute, home of ArtCorps. Learn more about Aryeh

Frieda Nixdorf: My commitment is to drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, I have studied art, religion, psychology, yoga and the intricacies of the beautiful and broken world. I’ve taught Eastern and Western Psychology at the community college level, and Soul Purpose at the graduate level, and have been incorporating WTR practices into everything I do since I first met Joanna in graduate school in 2002. I live in northern California on the unceded land of the Nisenan people. Learn more about Frieda

Each Friday, Mountain Stream opens the doors for Open Temple Friday from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm.
This is a chance to enjoy Sangha and tea, recharge with a new (or old) book from our library, and practice together at the 12:30 Quiet Sit. (On occasion, teachers offer pop-up Dharma discussions as well.)

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.
Suggested donation $5 -$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds).
To donate by credit card: OPEN TEMPLE FRIDAY DONATION

Or to offer a donation by check:
Mountain Stream Meditation
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959
In the memo line, please indicate the program date you are donating to.

Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

Calling for volunteers!
Open Temple Friday is possible because of the commitment and energy of our wonderful team of co-hosts. If you align with this offering, we encourage you to become a volunteer co-host. Contact Jen Scott, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, Jenrose1961@gmail.com to get started. There is a simple training involved and we work in teams of two.  We invite you onto this team! ~ Much Metta

The Buddha taught that due to craving, greed, anger and confusion, the mind may be a source of great suffering. 
Room to Breathe is a peer-led weekly recovery sangha where we explore a Buddhist approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds using the practices and principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. 

We use the Recovery Dharma format, emphasizing the ‘three jewels’ of the Buddhist practice: the Buddha (the potential for our own awakening), the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (our community of wise friends who we travel with on this path) as a way to transform our minds and behaviors. 

Each week we meet for a short meditation, a selected reading from the Recovery Dharma book and/or other recovery-focused Buddhist texts and teachings. The remainder of the meeting is a space for attendees to share about their experiences of addiction and recovery as they relate to Buddhist principles and practices, all within the open, safe and confidential environment of Mountain Stream.

You can find more information on Recovery Dharma along with all meeting materials including digital and audio versions of the Recovery Dharma book at https://recoverydharma.org/.

Please email dharma.recovery@mtstream.org if you have any further questions.

Donations (dana) are gratefully received and support our village temple (the Center). Thank you for your generosity.

Mountain Stream invites you to attend ~
5-Week Eco Dharma Series - The Work That Reconnects (WTR)

Teachers: Constance Washburn, and guest teachers, Aryeh Shell and Frieda Nixdorf
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Five consecutive Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, 29 and November 5
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Cost: Sliding Scale $75 - $125. Partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Pre-registration is required: To register, please visit https://square.link/u/DaDfvcVT
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.

For questions or scholarship requests, email juanita@mtstream.org

“The Work That Reconnects arises in direct response to the ecological, social, and economic crises of our time. It helps people understand and meet these challenges with clear eyes and open hearts…”    — Joanna Macy  

Course description: This 5-week series will follow The Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. 
We will start October 8th with an introduction and overview of The Work then proceed around The Spiral of the Work which moves through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New & Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. This progression allows us to open our hearts by touching into gratitude. Then in feeling our grief for the world we discover our love. Stepping into fear we find our courage. Owning our rage awakens our passion for justice. And our despair or not knowing can allow us to open to seeing with New/Ancient Eyes the greater wisdom all around us. We find new ways of working for the healing of the earth. We then go forth with plans for co-creating with other humans and the living Earth a sustainable living culture.

We request that participants attend all 4 sessions after the orientation and overview to create a safe container for this deeply transformational work.

This series qualifies for 10 hours of WTR experience towards application to the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program.

The course is open to everyone, with no previous experience needed.
Here are some suggested readings to learn more about WTR:
COMING BACK TO LIFE - Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
ACTIVE HOPE - How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

For more information, visit www.workthatreconnecgts.org

Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to the teachers part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana

Constance Washburn is an activist, educator, director and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects (WTR). Since 1994 she has attended many intensives with Joanna Macy and has been leading WTR retreats and workshops in Northern California for many years. In 2017 she co-founded the International Spiral Journey: a Facilitator Development Program.

Constance has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1968, a yoga teacher and a Community Dharma Leader. Constance has an MA in Theatre and Education with studies in psychodrama and sociodrama, and spent years teaching and directing theater. She trained in permaculture and For 20 years she engaged in land-based work, working in farmland preservation and education on behalf of organic local sustainable food systems. Learn more about Constance

Aryeh Shell: I help to create fertile conditions for people to learn, grow, heal and transform together. As a curriculum designer, facilitator, trainer and coach, I support individuals and groups to find that seed of potential inside, water it with love and practice, shine light on what is possible, pull the weeds of old paradigms and flourish. I seek to dismantle the myth of separation and supremacy by developing collaborative leadership skills and cultures of belonging, knowing that our liberation is bound together. Having lived, traveled and worked in over 30 countries with hundreds of communities, I know the power of art, story, community organizing and dialogue to protect our biological and cultural diversity, awaken our radical imagination and address the social and ecological challenges of our time. My work is inspired by social movements around the world and rooted in the traditions of the Work That Reconnects, popular education, deep ecology, systems thinking, somatics and cultural activism. I speak fluent Spanish and have two MAs in Education: Equity and Social Justice and International Relations: Peace, Conflict and Security.

Aryeh is currently the Climate Action Training and Community Engagement Director at the Pachamama Alliance; Previously the Director of Education and Training for Creative Action Institute, home of ArtCorps. Learn more about Aryeh

Frieda Nixdorf: My commitment is to drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, I have studied art, religion, psychology, yoga and the intricacies of the beautiful and broken world. I’ve taught Eastern and Western Psychology at the community college level, and Soul Purpose at the graduate level, and have been incorporating WTR practices into everything I do since I first met Joanna in graduate school in 2002. I live in northern California on the unceded land of the Nisenan people. Learn more about Frieda

Temple Care & Quiet Sit - Please come join us!
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is noon to 12:30 pm)
Your service is a dynamic and rich part of the mindfulness practice of dana (giving and receiving). Everyone benefits from this embodied practice. All are welcome to participate. We appreciate your interest and engagement. Contact Jen Scott, jen@mtstream.org.

Temple Care & Quiet Sit - Please come join us!
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is noon to 12:30 pm)
Your service is a dynamic and rich part of the mindfulness practice of dana (giving and receiving). Everyone benefits from this embodied practice. All are welcome to participate. We appreciate your interest and engagement. Contact Jen Scott, jen@mtstream.org.

Temple Care & Quiet Sit - Please come join us!
10:00 am to 12:30 pm (sit is noon to 12:30 pm)
Your service is a dynamic and rich part of the mindfulness practice of dana (giving and receiving). Everyone benefits from this embodied practice. All are welcome to participate. We appreciate your interest and engagement. Contact Jen Scott, jen@mtstream.org.