Practice at Stream
Enjoy our small but growing collection of resources for your practice. Heather creates snippets of wisdom (video, writing, imagery) to inspire you on the path to peace:
100 Days of Care Autumn 2025
with Heather Fenton
Step into 100 Days of Care, a freely offered at-home meditation retreat that gently weaves self-compassion and mindfulness into your daily rhythm. Together, we’ll explore the ten far-reaching attitudes of Buddhism, supported by weekly Zoom gatherings, shared reflection, and the steady encouragement of community.
Turn Towards Your Suffering
What if your suffering is the path? Turning toward our deepest struggles—like craving, hatred, and confusion—can soften their hold and reveal unexpected wisdom. The path of awakening is not about fixing, but meeting what’s hard with honesty, steadiness, compassion and care.
6 minutes of calm guided meditation
Need a moment to relax and reset? This 6-minute guided meditation offers a gentle, beginner-friendly way to calm your mind and body using simple breath awareness.
A lamp for the path: a guided self-love meditation
The practice of metta, or loving-kindness, helps cultivate compassion starting at the source: with yourself. It’s not always easy. For many of us, receiving love — even from our own hearts — can feel unfamiliar or out of reach. But with time and practice, it becomes a way to meet yourself with tenderness and build the inner conditions for ease, connection, and resilience.
This 9-minute meditation is a small lamp for your own path. Something to return to when you need reminding that you, too, are worthy of love and care.
A Path to Immovable Peace
Inner peace isn’t just a poetic idea—it’s a real possibility. It’s not something that will happen at some future time, when we get all our ducks in a row. Neither is it a state of constant bliss or managing to avoid hardship.
Inner peace is a steady and growing sense of ease that can carry us through the unpredictability of life, moment by moment. It doesn’t happen overnight, but with guidance, practice, and support, inner peace is something we can cultivate.
Attuning to Presence | Guided Meditation
This 25-minute guided meditation invites you to settle in—to find that balance of ease and alertness, to let the body breathe, and to simply know experience as it unfolds.
You’re invited to practice with us weekly in person in Port Colborne, Ontario or live online on Zoom.
Insight Meditation, Wednesdays 7pm ET (90 mins), with Heather Fenton — Start and/or maintain a regular meditation practice. Each week, guided meditations are combined with instructions for bringing mindfulness into daily living. This meditation class is offered freely.
A Quiet Mind Satsang, Second Sunday each month 10am (60 mins, followed by refreshments and social time) — Join us for a monthly gathering of stillness, insight, and shared inquiry. These Sunday morning sessions offer a gentle space to explore awakening, inner knowing, and the timeless invitation to “know thyself.” By donation.
Book now! or email us at hello@gentlydownthestream.org if you’d like more info.
If you have enjoyed a freely offered class, event, pre-recorded session, or you are simply inspired to support our vision, our teachers and community, we deeply appreciate donations.