Healing and Awakening: 2 Truths, 2 Paths, 1 Goal ~ Daylong Retreat with Ken Bradford
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2026
Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location: In Person Only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Pre-registration is required. THE EVENT WILL BE CANCELLED IF LESS THAN 8 PEOPLE ARE REGISTERED BY 10:00 AM THE DAY BEFORE THE PROGRAM BEGINS.
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Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
Sliding Scale Registration Fees:
Scholarship - $50
Reserved for those who live on a limited or fixed income
Helps cover basic operating costs for the program like utilities, flowers and supplies
Standard — $80
For those who are on a tight budget, but who have some funds available to support social and spiritual activities.
Covers program expenses for the day
Sustaining — $108
For those who are on a modest budget but who are more financially comfortable
Helps sustain Mountain Stream’s ongoing offerings
Covers operating expenses for the day, as well as program expenses
Steward — $150
For those who have the means to give a bit more in support of the Dharma
Helps Mountain Stream break even, provide ongoing dana-based programming and builds the foundation for us to grow and thrive
Covers operating and program expenses and helps provide scholarships for others
Service Trade
For those who are unable to pay, we offer a service trade option where volunteer hours are traded for attending the program.
For those with physical limitations or disabilities, full scholarships are available without offering service- reach out to lauren@mtstream.org.
If you are interested in sponsoring lunch for the teacher or offering flowers, please email lauren@mtstream.org
If you would like to contribute to our scholarship fund, please donate here.
Daylong Description: A complete path integrates emotional healing with spiritual awakening. Healing involves calming the frightened, distracted mind, better managing stress reactions, and finding the courage to open to and release emotional wounds & trauma. This psychological work respects the relative truth of our being in relationship to others and otherness. It proceeds through a gradual deepening of openness, equanimity, kindness and insight into the nitty-gritty conditions of our predicament.
Awakening goes a happy furlough further, allowing the relative conditions of mindful self awareness to dissolve into their essential truth & unconditioned basic nature. That the dissolution of our self-boundary and collapse of defensive shields should yield blissful, lucid tranquility is the liberating wonder of wonders.
This is a day for opening to both ‘old friends:’ those habit formations and inner wounds that cry out for healing, as well as to the basic sanity of our always already awakened nature. We will combine practices of mindfulness, tonglen and instant, nondual presence with guided inquiry and dialogue.
Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Ken as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. Ken Bradford Dana (Donation)
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