Greetings Dear Sangha,
Apologies for the confusion, and thank you, Kirstin, for your note. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be holding space with you all tomorrow as we explore themes that many of us encounter on the spiritual path—and perhaps are meeting very directly in this tumultuous season: faith, doubt, and prayer. In uncertain times, it's natural to find ourselves questioning what we trust, what sustains us, and whether the practices we return to again and again are truly enough to meet the world as it is.
As we gather tomorrow, we'll reflect on how faith, doubt, and prayer show up in our lived experience. Rather than seeing faith as something we either have or don't have, we'll explore it as an ongoing practice—the willingness to take the next step, even when the way forward isn't clear. Drawing from Buddhist and yogic teachings, we'll consider how doubt can become a teacher, how intention and mantra can steady the heart, and how prayer might be understood not as a request for certainty, but as a gesture of opening more fully to love and care.
Our time together will include meditation, reflection, and shared inquiry, with space to listen inwardly and to one another. Whether you're feeling grounded or uncertain, inspired or weary, you are welcome exactly as you are.
I hope you'll join us, in person or online, as you're able.
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,
Griffen
--Greetings Dear Sangha,I had some confusion on the schedule and so I will not be teaching this Sunday but the following one instead.I do hope you can all join the community and Griffen Saul for his offering this Sunday. I look forward to seeing you March 1st.With appreciation,Kristinkristin barkerPronouns she, her and hers; on occupied land of the Piscataway.
No mud, no lotus.— Thích Nhất Hạnh
On Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 5:35 PM Kristin Barker <kristin@1earthsangha.org> wrote:Greetings Dear Sangha,
These days, many of us live with a kind of low-grade bracing: an ambient vigilance and thoughts that easily hurl toward worry, outrage, or exhaustion. It can seem like the world is actually spinning faster and faster. If you're feeling a bit dizzy and losing your footing amid all the headlines, projections, and rehearsed fears, you're not alone.
This Sunday, we'll explore an inquiry rooted in something profoundly simple: sense contact. Before the mind builds its stories—before "me," "them," "future," "ruin," or "fix it now"—there is the immediacy of the senses: the long breath, the weight of flesh and bones, sounds arriving and then vanishing into silence. Even thoughts themselves are only ever happening right here, in contact with this body, through these senses. The body can be an unglamorous, faithful friend to attention: always here, always offering a path to just a little more ease, just a little more freedom. And yet it doesn't stop there; so much more is on offer.I hope you can join us in-person or online as your situation allows and we'll practice coming to our senses together.
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
--kristin barkerPronouns she, her and hers; on occupied land of the Piscataway.
No mud, no lotus.— Thích Nhất Hạnh
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