Hi All,
One of our lovely housemates has gotten her dream job out of state. This is sad news for us, but a wonderful opportunity to invite you to join our community.
If you aren't familiar with us, we are a group house centered around meditation and yoga, as well as laughter, good food, and hopefully soon, a flourishing garden. Each of us has an ongoing daily practice, with Buddhist vipassana meditation and yoga strongly represented.
We also welcome the broader DC community into many of these activities, so that the house is a space for supporting the practice of others. We host meditation three times a week, as well as occasional dharma talks and a half daylong meditation retreat once a month. We host yoga (in the Dharma Mittra tradition) three times a week, plus LGBTQIA+ yoga once a week. We are also hoping to open our space to other events like potlucks, book clubs and classes on meditation and the dharma.
Living in a community like the Lamont Dharma House is a unique opportunity to bring your meditation and/or yoga practice to the center of your life, and to explore how community can support your practice in powerful ways.
Who are you?We are seeking a housemate who has an established spiritual practice and wants to deepen that practice in community with others. You should also be fun and respectful to live with as we all explore how to integrate spirituality into daily life in this wild, beautiful, challenging city.
We are open to people with a wide range of spiritual backgrounds, beliefs, and practices. But you should be interested in participating in and sometimes hosting some of the meditation, yoga, or other events we regularly have in our home. We'd be particularly excited if you want to help build up our community by fostering events and creating connections to broader spiritual communities in DC.
You should be willing to contribute time and emotional and spiritual energy to the house because you, like us, feel that this community-building work is well worth the rewards. That said, like most people in DC, we are busy professionals who balance all of this with demanding professional and personal lives. We are not a commune that's going to ask you to sign over your first-born child. But we do require more time and energy than a typical group house.
Our spaceOur 3-story townhouse is divided between a meditation and yoga space on the first floor and private living space - bedrooms, kitchen, living/dining room, washer/dryer - on the second and third floors. There is also a backyard with a beautiful garden and a firepit, a shaded deck off the second floor, and a basement for storage. There are 5 total long-term residents, and 1 shorter term resident, and 3.5 bathrooms
The house is located in the heart of Mt Pleasant, next to a seasonal farmer's market as well as many restaurants and cafes in Mt Pleasant. A number of bus lines (43, 43, S2, S4) pick up within a block from the house. Rock Creek Park is nearby. Columbia Heights Metro is about a 10-minute walk.
Rent is $1,045/month plus about 50 for shared expenses. The room is about 128 square ft, and shares a bathroom with one other person.
If you're interested, please send us an email. Here are some things we'd be interested to know...
1. What is your spiritual practice? What do you do for fun and work?
2. Tell us why you are interested in being a part of the Lamont Dharma House.
3. Tell us your experiences living in community: have you lived in community before? What were the challenges and what did you enjoy? If you haven't lived in community before, what is calling you to it now?
4. What, if any, engagement have you had with our house?
5. If you were to move in, what activities and responsibilities would you be most interested in participating in or leading?
For details and pictures, please see the house opening web page here:
https://lamontdharma.org/about/house-openings2/
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