Awakening the Body & Mind with Kate Coughlin, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays, April 23, 30 & May 7, 14, 21, 28
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. 

Selected Teachings of Ajahn Chah Affinity Group
Location: Virtual Only - see Zoom link below
Dates: 4 consecutive Wednesdays: May 14, 21, 28 & June 4, 2025 
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm PT

Registration: We encourage participants to pre-register for this 4-week series; this will help the discussion leaders to prepare for each session. However, it is not necessary to attend every session.
To register, please email: carol@mtstream.org

Cost: There is no registration fee associated with this Affinity Group. Participants are encouraged to consider providing dana/donations directly to Mountain Stream to sustain our continuing programs, as the facilitators freely offer their time as a service to the community. Any level of generosity that is received is deeply appreciated ~ thank you.
Affinity Group Dana

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9924543097pwd=bbqM2AMaA7rop29GBjFfdfaHXnBRnA.1
Meeting ID: 992 454 3097
Passcode: 942742
Join by Phone: +1(669) 900-6833

Series Description: This four-week discussion group is designed for both sangha members new to the profound teachings of Ajahn Chah, a primary teacher within Mountain Stream’s lineage, and for those familiar with his teachings who would like to deepen their understanding and application in daily life.

Carol Fernandes and Randall Harris, both long-time dedicated practitioners, will serve as discussion leaders; they are not dharma teachers. This same series was presented in previous years and participants have expressed appreciation for the value they received from each week’s reading, and through rich group discussion and further contemplation.

Program Overview:
Each week, participants will be asked to read a brief Ajahn Chah teaching prior to the session and come prepared to listen and discuss the contents to both deepen insight/understanding and to reflect on opportunities for direct practice.

Links to each week’s teaching are provided below.

May 14: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Reading_Natural_Mind1.php

A wonderful overview and introduction to include principles and elements of practice

May 21: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Training_Heart1_2.php

Foundational, timeless teachings around training the heart

May 28: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Still_Flowing_Water1.php

Inspiring wisdom about calming the mind

June 4: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/On_Meditation1.php

Ajahn Chah provides guidance in the practice of meditation

Click here for information about how YOU can design/lead an Affinity Group

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.

John 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.

John Travis: TBD

Join us in person:
John 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

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go to John- Thank you!
To donate by credit card: JOHN TRAVIS 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.
Thank you for all the ways you participate and for your generosity!

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.

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, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays, April 23, 30 & May 7, 14, 21, 28
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 Board meetings are scheduled for the fourth Wednesday of the month.

The next open meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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

Selected Teachings of Ajahn Chah Affinity Group
Location: Virtual Only - see Zoom link below
Dates: 4 consecutive Wednesdays: May 14, 21, 28 & June 4, 2025 
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm PT

Registration: We encourage participants to pre-register for this 4-week series; this will help the discussion leaders to prepare for each session. However, it is not necessary to attend every session.
To register, please email: carol@mtstream.org

Cost: There is no registration fee associated with this Affinity Group. Participants are encouraged to consider providing dana/donations directly to Mountain Stream to sustain our continuing programs, as the facilitators freely offer their time as a service to the community. Any level of generosity that is received is deeply appreciated ~ thank you.
Affinity Group Dana

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9924543097pwd=bbqM2AMaA7rop29GBjFfdfaHXnBRnA.1
Meeting ID: 992 454 3097
Passcode: 942742
Join by Phone: +1(669) 900-6833

Series Description: This four-week discussion group is designed for both sangha members new to the profound teachings of Ajahn Chah, a primary teacher within Mountain Stream’s lineage, and for those familiar with his teachings who would like to deepen their understanding and application in daily life.

Carol Fernandes and Randall Harris, both long-time dedicated practitioners, will serve as discussion leaders; they are not dharma teachers. This same series was presented in previous years and participants have expressed appreciation for the value they received from each week’s reading, and through rich group discussion and further contemplation.

Program Overview:
Each week, participants will be asked to read a brief Ajahn Chah teaching prior to the session and come prepared to listen and discuss the contents to both deepen insight/understanding and to reflect on opportunities for direct practice.

Links to each week’s teaching are provided below.

May 14: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Reading_Natural_Mind1.php

A wonderful overview and introduction to include principles and elements of practice

May 21: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Training_Heart1_2.php

Foundational, timeless teachings around training the heart

May 28: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Still_Flowing_Water1.php

Inspiring wisdom about calming the mind

June 4: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/On_Meditation1.php

Ajahn Chah provides guidance in the practice of meditation

Click here for information about how YOU can design/lead an Affinity Group

Open Temple Friday ~ Join us every Friday
The Temple is open to the public from 11:30 am - 1:15 pm.

SPECIAL OFFERING from Maeve Hassett on May 30
There will be a Dharma Discussion in the library from 11:45 am to 12:30 pm before the quiet sit ~
Theme: Why Do We Meditate? Maeve will read a short poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, share a bit of her own own evolving reasons, then invite questions, reflections, and comments.

As usual, there will be a quiet 30-minute sit that begins at 12:30.
Our intention is to co-create a gentle, safe, and quiet refuge for community.
Mountain Stream’s tea room, library and meditation hall will be open and available.

Donations (dana) to support our village temple (the Center) are gratefully and graciously accepted.

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!

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.

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series with Ken Bradford ~ Affinity Group

This session is a deepening of the study/discussion that was presented in February 2025.

Location: In Person Only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Drop-ins welcome
Dates: 4 Sundays: June 1, 8, 22, 29 (no meeting on June 15)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Cost: suggested donation $15 - $30 per class, no one turned away for lack of funds.
All donations for this Affinity Group go directly to Mountain Stream to sustain our continuing programs, as the facilitators freely offer their time as a service to the community. Any level of generosity that is received is deeply appreciated ~ thank you.
Affinity Group Dana

Questions: Please email vivian@mtstream.org

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series
Inspired by Ken’s book Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-Liberation, this series offers a teacher-led affinity group similar to the 2024 “Training the Mind” program. Meeting in 4-week blocks 2–3 times per year over two years (or as it unfolds), the series will include retreats and daylongs.

The program integrates three key streams of Buddhadharma—shamatha-vipassana, tonglen, and dzogchen—through embodied practice. Using a mandala of self-liberation, we’ll quiet the mind, tune into felt sensing, and deepen embodied presence. This approach allows us to befriend all parts of ourselves, including unresolved trauma and habitual patterns.

While deeply reckoning with the self is transformative, the series also emphasizes the “game-changing” insight of seeing through the illusion of self. This recognition—of the mind’s empty-openness—frees us from self-referencing and allows compassion and lucidity to arise naturally.

The series will build progressively, with each section and retreat building on the last. While serious practitioners are encouraged to attend all sections, participation is open to anyone drawn to the teachings. Weekly sessions will unfold spontaneously, responding to the group’s emerging needs.

Description of Section 1: We begin by unpacking the Buddhist psychology of the skandhas, exploring how we fabricate a seemingly solid sense of self “out of thin air.” Could it be that samsaric suffering is not something happening to us, but something we are complicit in creating? If so, we can stop doing it.

Through shamatha, vipassana, and self-inquiry, we’ll investigate how our inner sense of self is always tied to an “outer” world, raising the question: What is reality? Engaging with the Heart Sutra, we’ll explore its radical teachings—there is no fixed self, and reality is not as solid as it seems.

This inquiry challenges the notion of a gradual path toward enlightenment. Instead, we cut through the idea of “going somewhere” better, allowing us to fully embrace both our wounds and our intrinsic brilliance, contentment, and kindness.

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

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 - Exploring Gratitude and Interbeing as Gifts for Dealing with Our Times

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, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: June 4, 11, 18 & 25
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. 

Selected Teachings of Ajahn Chah Affinity Group
Location: Virtual Only - see Zoom link below
Dates: 4 consecutive Wednesdays: May 14, 21, 28 & June 4, 2025 
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm PT

Registration: We encourage participants to pre-register for this 4-week series; this will help the discussion leaders to prepare for each session. However, it is not necessary to attend every session.
To register, please email: carol@mtstream.org

Cost: There is no registration fee associated with this Affinity Group. Participants are encouraged to consider providing dana/donations directly to Mountain Stream to sustain our continuing programs, as the facilitators freely offer their time as a service to the community. Any level of generosity that is received is deeply appreciated ~ thank you.
Affinity Group Dana

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9924543097pwd=bbqM2AMaA7rop29GBjFfdfaHXnBRnA.1
Meeting ID: 992 454 3097
Passcode: 942742
Join by Phone: +1(669) 900-6833

Series Description: This four-week discussion group is designed for both sangha members new to the profound teachings of Ajahn Chah, a primary teacher within Mountain Stream’s lineage, and for those familiar with his teachings who would like to deepen their understanding and application in daily life.

Carol Fernandes and Randall Harris, both long-time dedicated practitioners, will serve as discussion leaders; they are not dharma teachers. This same series was presented in previous years and participants have expressed appreciation for the value they received from each week’s reading, and through rich group discussion and further contemplation.

Program Overview:
Each week, participants will be asked to read a brief Ajahn Chah teaching prior to the session and come prepared to listen and discuss the contents to both deepen insight/understanding and to reflect on opportunities for direct practice.

Links to each week’s teaching are provided below.

May 14: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Reading_Natural_Mind1.php

A wonderful overview and introduction to include principles and elements of practice

May 21: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Training_Heart1_2.php

Foundational, timeless teachings around training the heart

May 28: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Still_Flowing_Water1.php

Inspiring wisdom about calming the mind

June 4: https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/On_Meditation1.php

Ajahn Chah provides guidance in the practice of meditation

Click here for information about how YOU can design/lead an Affinity Group

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.

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series with Ken Bradford ~ Affinity Group

This session is a deepening of the study/discussion that was presented in February 2025.

Location: In Person Only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Drop-ins welcome
Dates: 4 Sundays: June 1, 8, 22, 29 (no meeting on June 15)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Cost: suggested donation $15 - $30 per class, no one turned away for lack of funds.
All donations for this Affinity Group go directly to Mountain Stream to sustain our continuing programs, as the facilitators freely offer their time as a service to the community. Any level of generosity that is received is deeply appreciated ~ thank you.
Affinity Group Dana

Questions: Please email vivian@mtstream.org

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series
Inspired by Ken’s book Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-Liberation, this series offers a teacher-led affinity group similar to the 2024 “Training the Mind” program. Meeting in 4-week blocks 2–3 times per year over two years (or as it unfolds), the series will include retreats and daylongs.

The program integrates three key streams of Buddhadharma—shamatha-vipassana, tonglen, and dzogchen—through embodied practice. Using a mandala of self-liberation, we’ll quiet the mind, tune into felt sensing, and deepen embodied presence. This approach allows us to befriend all parts of ourselves, including unresolved trauma and habitual patterns.

While deeply reckoning with the self is transformative, the series also emphasizes the “game-changing” insight of seeing through the illusion of self. This recognition—of the mind’s empty-openness—frees us from self-referencing and allows compassion and lucidity to arise naturally.

The series will build progressively, with each section and retreat building on the last. While serious practitioners are encouraged to attend all sections, participation is open to anyone drawn to the teachings. Weekly sessions will unfold spontaneously, responding to the group’s emerging needs.

Description of Section 1: We begin by unpacking the Buddhist psychology of the skandhas, exploring how we fabricate a seemingly solid sense of self “out of thin air.” Could it be that samsaric suffering is not something happening to us, but something we are complicit in creating? If so, we can stop doing it.

Through shamatha, vipassana, and self-inquiry, we’ll investigate how our inner sense of self is always tied to an “outer” world, raising the question: What is reality? Engaging with the Heart Sutra, we’ll explore its radical teachings—there is no fixed self, and reality is not as solid as it seems.

This inquiry challenges the notion of a gradual path toward enlightenment. Instead, we cut through the idea of “going somewhere” better, allowing us to fully embrace both our wounds and our intrinsic brilliance, contentment, and kindness.

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

Ken 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.

Ken Bradford: TBD

Join us in person:
Ken 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- 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

Teacher Support: All donations for this evening’s session will go Ken - 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, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: June 4, 11, 18 & 25
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.

No meeting today due to the Father’s Day holiday.
Please join us next Sunday, June 22.

Location: In Person Only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Drop-ins welcome
Dates: 4 Sundays: June 1, 8, 22, 29 (no meeting on June 15)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Cost: suggested donation $15 - $30 per class, no one turned away for lack of funds.
All donations for this Affinity Group go directly to Mountain Stream to sustain our continuing programs, as the facilitators freely offer their time as a service to the community. Any level of generosity that is received is deeply appreciated ~ thank you.
Affinity Group Dana

Questions: Please email vivian@mtstream.org

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series
Inspired by Ken’s book Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-Liberation, this series offers a teacher-led affinity group similar to the 2024 “Training the Mind” program. Meeting in 4-week blocks 2–3 times per year over two years (or as it unfolds), the series will include retreats and daylongs.

The program integrates three key streams of Buddhadharma—shamatha-vipassana, tonglen, and dzogchen—through embodied practice. Using a mandala of self-liberation, we’ll quiet the mind, tune into felt sensing, and deepen embodied presence. This approach allows us to befriend all parts of ourselves, including unresolved trauma and habitual patterns.

While deeply reckoning with the self is transformative, the series also emphasizes the “game-changing” insight of seeing through the illusion of self. This recognition—of the mind’s empty-openness—frees us from self-referencing and allows compassion and lucidity to arise naturally.

The series will build progressively, with each section and retreat building on the last. While serious practitioners are encouraged to attend all sections, participation is open to anyone drawn to the teachings. Weekly sessions will unfold spontaneously, responding to the group’s emerging needs.

Description of Section 1: We begin by unpacking the Buddhist psychology of the skandhas, exploring how we fabricate a seemingly solid sense of self “out of thin air.” Could it be that samsaric suffering is not something happening to us, but something we are complicit in creating? If so, we can stop doing it.

Through shamatha, vipassana, and self-inquiry, we’ll investigate how our inner sense of self is always tied to an “outer” world, raising the question: What is reality? Engaging with the Heart Sutra, we’ll explore its radical teachings—there is no fixed self, and reality is not as solid as it seems.

This inquiry challenges the notion of a gradual path toward enlightenment. Instead, we cut through the idea of “going somewhere” better, allowing us to fully embrace both our wounds and our intrinsic brilliance, contentment, and kindness.

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

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 - 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, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: June 4, 11, 18 & 25
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.

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series with Ken Bradford ~ Affinity Group

This session is a deepening of the study/discussion that was presented in February 2025.

Location: In Person Only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Drop-ins welcome
Dates: 4 Sundays: June 1, 8, 22, 29 (no meeting on June 15)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Cost: suggested donation $15 - $30 per class, no one turned away for lack of funds.
All donations for this Affinity Group go directly to Mountain Stream to sustain our continuing programs, as the facilitators freely offer their time as a service to the community. Any level of generosity that is received is deeply appreciated ~ thank you.
Affinity Group Dana

Questions: Please email vivian@mtstream.org

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series
Inspired by Ken’s book Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-Liberation, this series offers a teacher-led affinity group similar to the 2024 “Training the Mind” program. Meeting in 4-week blocks 2–3 times per year over two years (or as it unfolds), the series will include retreats and daylongs.

The program integrates three key streams of Buddhadharma—shamatha-vipassana, tonglen, and dzogchen—through embodied practice. Using a mandala of self-liberation, we’ll quiet the mind, tune into felt sensing, and deepen embodied presence. This approach allows us to befriend all parts of ourselves, including unresolved trauma and habitual patterns.

While deeply reckoning with the self is transformative, the series also emphasizes the “game-changing” insight of seeing through the illusion of self. This recognition—of the mind’s empty-openness—frees us from self-referencing and allows compassion and lucidity to arise naturally.

The series will build progressively, with each section and retreat building on the last. While serious practitioners are encouraged to attend all sections, participation is open to anyone drawn to the teachings. Weekly sessions will unfold spontaneously, responding to the group’s emerging needs.

Description of Section 1: We begin by unpacking the Buddhist psychology of the skandhas, exploring how we fabricate a seemingly solid sense of self “out of thin air.” Could it be that samsaric suffering is not something happening to us, but something we are complicit in creating? If so, we can stop doing it.

Through shamatha, vipassana, and self-inquiry, we’ll investigate how our inner sense of self is always tied to an “outer” world, raising the question: What is reality? Engaging with the Heart Sutra, we’ll explore its radical teachings—there is no fixed self, and reality is not as solid as it seems.

This inquiry challenges the notion of a gradual path toward enlightenment. Instead, we cut through the idea of “going somewhere” better, allowing us to fully embrace both our wounds and our intrinsic brilliance, contentment, and kindness.

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

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

Dennis Warren: 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: Dennis is the founding teacher of Sacramento Insight Meditation. He has been teaching in community and retreat settings for over 20 years. This includes guiding and teaching two month-long pilgrimages in Thailand, India and Nepal. He served as an adjunct clinical professor in the Division of Pain Medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine for more than a decade focusing on the use of contemplative practices for working with physical, emotional and psychological suffering.

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

To donate by credit card: MONDAY NIGHT 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!

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, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: June 4, 11, 18 & 25
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.

Mountain Stream invites you to a Daylong Retreat
with Dawn Mauricio & Adam Stonebraker

Topic: Returning to Wholeness: Bowing, Breathing, and Belonging in Uncertain Times
Location: In Person & Virtual
Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Or join us via Zoom; see below

Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm PT

Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90. Limited scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Pre-registration is required for both in-person and virtual participants. The Zoom meeting link will be provided to all participants once registered and paid in full.
To register, visit https://square.link/u/6Xo3GZe0
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.

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

What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.

Daylong Description: In these times of uncertainty, collective grief, and deep overwhelm, many of us are discovering that sitting silently in meditation alone may not be enough. Fortunately, the Buddhist tradition offers a wide field of supportive practices—ways to reconnect with the body, soften the heart, and remember our belonging.

In this daylong retreat, Dawn Mauricio & Adam Stonebraker will guide you through a range of grounding and nourishing practices beyond formal meditation. Together we’ll explore somatic awareness, breath practices, chanting, and embodiment —all held within a container of Dharma reflections, community, and silence.

These accessible and heartful ways of practice serve as pathways to steadiness, connection, and refuge. Through shared presence and embodied wisdom, we remember: we don’t have to carry it all alone.

Open to all levels of experience. All practices are invitational and offered with care.

Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer financial donations to Dawn & 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. 
DAWN MAURICIO DONAITON (DANA)
ADAM STONEBRAKER DONATION (DANA)

Dawn Mauricio graduated from Spirit Rock Meditation Center's 4-year Buddhadharma Retreat Teacher Training, has been a mentor in programs like Power of Awareness and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program taught by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and appeared on apps such as Ten Percent Happier and Insight Timer. Dawn also co-founded the True North Insight BIPOC practice group. Learn more about Dawn

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

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series with Ken Bradford ~ Affinity Group

This session is a deepening of the study/discussion that was presented in February 2025.

Location: In Person Only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Drop-ins welcome
Dates: 4 Sundays: June 1, 8, 22, 29 (no meeting on June 15)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Cost: suggested donation $15 - $30 per class, no one turned away for lack of funds.
All donations for this Affinity Group go directly to Mountain Stream to sustain our continuing programs, as the facilitators freely offer their time as a service to the community. Any level of generosity that is received is deeply appreciated ~ thank you.
Affinity Group Dana

Questions: Please email vivian@mtstream.org

Opening Yourself: Integrative Dharma Series
Inspired by Ken’s book Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-Liberation, this series offers a teacher-led affinity group similar to the 2024 “Training the Mind” program. Meeting in 4-week blocks 2–3 times per year over two years (or as it unfolds), the series will include retreats and daylongs.

The program integrates three key streams of Buddhadharma—shamatha-vipassana, tonglen, and dzogchen—through embodied practice. Using a mandala of self-liberation, we’ll quiet the mind, tune into felt sensing, and deepen embodied presence. This approach allows us to befriend all parts of ourselves, including unresolved trauma and habitual patterns.

While deeply reckoning with the self is transformative, the series also emphasizes the “game-changing” insight of seeing through the illusion of self. This recognition—of the mind’s empty-openness—frees us from self-referencing and allows compassion and lucidity to arise naturally.

The series will build progressively, with each section and retreat building on the last. While serious practitioners are encouraged to attend all sections, participation is open to anyone drawn to the teachings. Weekly sessions will unfold spontaneously, responding to the group’s emerging needs.

Description of Section 1: We begin by unpacking the Buddhist psychology of the skandhas, exploring how we fabricate a seemingly solid sense of self “out of thin air.” Could it be that samsaric suffering is not something happening to us, but something we are complicit in creating? If so, we can stop doing it.

Through shamatha, vipassana, and self-inquiry, we’ll investigate how our inner sense of self is always tied to an “outer” world, raising the question: What is reality? Engaging with the Heart Sutra, we’ll explore its radical teachings—there is no fixed self, and reality is not as solid as it seems.

This inquiry challenges the notion of a gradual path toward enlightenment. Instead, we cut through the idea of “going somewhere” better, allowing us to fully embrace both our wounds and our intrinsic brilliance, contentment, and kindness.

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

Dawn 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..

Dawn Mauricio: TBD

Join us in person:
Dawn 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: Dawn Mauricio graduated from Spirit Rock Meditation Center's 4-year Buddhadharma Retreat Teacher Training, has been a mentor in programs like Power of Awareness and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program taught by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and appeared on apps such as Ten Percent Happier and Insight Timer. Dawn also co-founded the True North Insight BIPOC practice group. Learn more about Dawn

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

Awakening the Body & Mind with Kate Coughlin, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: July 9, 16, 23 & 30
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 a daylong facilitated by Constance Washburn & Aryeh Shell

Grounded in Gratitude: A Community Gathering for Grief and Connection in Turbulent Times ~
An introduction to the Work That Reconnects 
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Cost: Sliding Scale TBD. Limited scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Pre-registration is required: details coming soon.
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.
The daylong will be followed by a tea time to socialize ~ Tea, cookies and treats provided. 

Daylong Description: How can we keep our hearts open and stay attuned to what’s ours to do as we witness and feel the impacts of a world in crisis? In this daylong community gathering we will take time to slow down, breathe and connect. We’ll engage in transformative practices and rituals designed to support us in exploring layers of grief and painful emotions so that we may metabolize them and re-awaken to our love for the earth and our passion for justice. Once we’re re-energized and reconnected within community, we are better able to feel into our role in the Great Turning. 

The Work That Reconnects (WTR) developed by Joanna Macy, is a life-affirming transformative group process that supports us in alchemizing our painful emotions, awakening our creativity, rekindling our deep love for this world, and remembering our belonging. In the Spiral Journey of the WTR, we begin by grounding in gratitude, create space for honoring our pain for the world, open into seeing with new and ancient eyes, and then we go forth with renewed connection, courage, clarity and purpose.

We will be spending time both inside and outside on the land. The day will include sitting practice, creative arts, grief rituals, community building activities and reflection.  

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

Constance is one of the founding Weavers of the WTR Network, as well as a founding member of the Elders Action Network where she leads workshops and retreats for Elders in the WTR. She’s 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.

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

Mountain Stream’s - Community Building Team (CBT) warmly invites you to our mid-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

Awakening the Body & Mind with Kate Coughlin, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: July 9, 16, 23 & 30
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. 

Awakening the Body & Mind with Kate Coughlin, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: July 9, 16, 23 & 30
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. 

Awakening the Body & Mind with Kate Coughlin, Yoga Series Continues
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Wednesdays: July 9, 16, 23 & 30
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’s - Community Building Team (CBT) warmly invites you to our mid-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