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Monday, 2 February 2026

[Downtown Dharma Sangha Listserv] Thu, Feb 12: DD Community Board Meeting

Please see the note below from MK re: next Thursday's meeting—you're warmly invited for community and pupusas!

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From: MK Vereen <mkvereen@icloud.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Subject: 2/12 Sangha Board Meeting

Hi all,

On February 12th, we will continue our tradition of hosting a quarterly board meeting and shared vegetarian meal.

These are open to the entire Sangha! It's a chance to gather and discuss new ideas or improvements for the community.

When: Thursday, February 12th, 7:00pm

Where: 1460 Newton St NW, Washington DC, 20010 (It's a row home; I'll leave the door unlocked)

Please RSVP here, and feel free to add in any topics you'd like to cover in the meeting. Additionally, please indicate if you'd like to chip in for pupusas.

With metta,

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[Downtown Dharma Sangha Listserv] Interested in reading group this month (Feb)? - seeking host and facilitator

Hi all,

Downtown Dharma typically has a meditation/Buddhist-themed reading group and vegetarian potluck every month. This is a wonderful chance to deepen connections and explore ideas outside the Sunday sits.

Recent readings have focused on: classic Buddhist works, working with this moment, social action, embodied awareness, and navigating life's challenges. Future topics could be whatever you want!

For a reading group to happen:

Someone needs to volunteer to host a group of ~10 people for a talk and vegetarian potluck, at a location centrally located in DC (usually on a Saturday evening);
and someone needs to volunteer to facilitate the group.

Facilitating involves choosing (easily available) reading(s) (could be a book, article, video, podcast, etc.), and leading a discussion.

If either (or both) of these roles sound like something you'd like to do this month (February), please let me know!

🙏

-Megan

(Reading Group Coordinator)

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Sunday, 1 February 2026

[Downtown Dharma Sangha Listserv] This Evening In-Person and Online: Where do we go for refuge?

Greetings Dear Sangha,

On behalf of the Downtown Dharma teaching team and volunteers, we invite you to join us this evening for our annual Refuge Ceremony where we honor the three jewels that support our practice—Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. After consulting with the volunteer team, we've decided bear the cold and to go forward with the in-person gathering at Yoga district.

We'll practice together then explore the meaning of these foundational elements of Buddhist wisdom and the value of rituals that remind us of their support.

We hope you'll be able to join us in-person and if that's not possible for you, online.

In-person: Sunday, 7:00 to 8:30pm @ Yoga District — 1910 14th Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC
Online via Zoom: Join here

Yours In Sangha,

Kristin & Mark

kristin barker

One Earth Sangha

Pronouns she, her and hers; on occupied land of the Piscataway.

kristin@1earthsangha.org

No mud, no lotus.

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Friday, 30 January 2026

[Downtown Dharma Sangha Listserv] Invitation to Hip-Hop Soundbath Retreat

Hello Sangha!

Please see retreat invitation below from Ofosu Jones-Quartey aka Born I in early March in Madison, Virginia. Would also like to add that there are typically applications for need-based scholarships available on the IMCW website for retreats.

Hip-Hop Soundbath Retreat

with Ofosu Jones-Quartey

Event Link

https://imcw.org/event/?eventId=1674

Blurb:

Join meditation teacher, author, and hip-hop artist Ofosu Jones-Quartey (Born I) for Hip-Hop Soundbath: Mindfulness, Music, Connection — a one-of-a-kind retreat weaving together guided meditation, contemplative sound, and live lo-fi hip-hop performance.

Rooted in mindful awareness and creative expression, this immersive weekend invites participants to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and remember their inherent worth and belonging. Through accessible mindfulness teachings, restorative sound baths, and intentional musical experiences, we'll explore how awareness and self-compassion can open the heart, ease the mind, and deepen community.

Flyer attached.

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Jackie Sue Powell

LinkedIn | Instagram

j ackiesuepowell@gmail.com

Pronouns: she/her/hers

cell: +1.540.718.4888

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Monday, 26 January 2026

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Sunday, 25 January 2026

[Downtown Dharma Sangha Listserv] Re: Tomorrow Evening, Shoveling Snow and Melting Ice: The Practice of Making a Path

Hi Everyone,

After speaking with tonight's volunteers, we'll forgo the in-person Sangha tonight and meet only online. Since conditions changed from snow to freezing rain just as temperatures are dropping, it doesn't make sense to take on travel risks when we have the online option. Harkening back to those lonely days of the Covid pandemic, we can take care of one another in this way yet I will nonetheless miss being with you in-person.

I hope you can join us for online Sangha tonight at 7:00pm via Zoom here.

With appreciation,

Kristin

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 5:57 PM Kristin Barker <kristin@1earthsangha.org> wrote:

Greeings Dear Sangha,

You might have heard that our annual Refuge Ceremony where we honor the three jewels that support our practice—Buddha, Dharma and Sangha—has been postponed to next Sunday, February 1 so more can participate in-person. We hope you'll be able to join us!
Yet on what portends to be a snow-covered night in D.C., amid possible power outages, weirdly empty grocery shelves, and a deep chill in the air, we will gather tomorrow evening nonetheless, either in-person if you can make it or online, where we will ask the question:
Why sit on our cushions when so much is at stake?
Why meditate—of all things—when so many others are suffering, when a new crisis looms almost every day, and when action seems urgent? We'll explore meditation and Dharma practice not as retreat or bypass, but as the slow, necessary work of keeping the Way clear. For if we can melt the inner ice, making a hearth for presence and forging the heat of authentic connection with ourselves, wisdom, and one another, our work for the world can be so much more trustworthy. We'll inquire into our Dharm pursuits as a means to remain open, present and increasingly wise even when the heart so wants to freak out, lash out, numb out, or just disappear. And we'll get real about making that possibility more than just a lofty idea but an evolving, practical reality.
I hope you can join us in-person or online as your situation allows and we'll find some helpful shelter from these storms.
In-person: Sunday, 7:00 to 8:30pm @ Yoga District — 1910 14th Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC
Online via Zoom: Join here

Yours In Sangha,
Kristin