Are you Looking for more friends and dates?? Do you want to meet more people fast? New to Town and wondering how to make new friends quickly? If you are, This is how!! Speed Friending Events are for you!! Come see what everyone is talking about. Speed Friending Events is a fast new, super fun, and very low pressure way to make lasting friendships around town. Our events are the quickest, safest, most effective low-pressure way to meet new people in town. This is the ONLY place in DC where yo …

Whether we hope to network, volunteer, build our professional portfolio, learn / improve personal skills, or meet new people and have fun, it requires courage to take that first step forward.  (If it were that easy, you would have done it already.)  It takes courage to change our personal story and be the kind of person we aspire to be.  So, let this be the year where you find your courage and live boldly!  Together, we'll make ourselves better individuals and our community a better place. Who a …

THE WEEKLY THURSDAY NITE SESSIONS These brief evening sessions provide deep relaxation and stress reduction through guided meditations and contemplations. Additionally, they provide opportunities for self-reflection, resolution of internal tensions, and increased self-awareness that can enrich the experience of day-to-day life. Equally importantly, they provide an opportunity for individuals with shared values and beliefs based on compassion and loving kindness to form a community of shared inte …

Our purpose is to provide a community forum to increase awareness of all NIA activities in the DC, MD, VA area, including local area JAM sessions, special performances, classes and other events.  All local area practitioners are welcome to list events open to the entire community and to place notices on our message board so that information can be shared to all current students and potential new students. Local area class schedules are shown below the Meetup Description as well as in the "About" …

Fellowship X is a social and spiritual fellowship serving Generation X (those born in the '60s and '70s). We are affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington (UUCA). We hold spiritual services each Friday night that are run by our members, followed by food and conversation at a local restaurant of the group's choosing. Our Friday Night Services provide a safe, contemplative environment for focusing on our spiritual centers, in all their various manifestations. All are welcome. …

Welcome! This meetup group is about outdoor adventure.  The person who is an adventure enthusiast will simply love this meetup group.  All of our members have a wide variety of interest and different levels of experience.  We host easy, moderate, and some extreme adventure outings. People join for different reasons, some want to push their limits and experience an adrenaline rush, others want to meet new friends or re-charge their batteries surrounded by nature. We have a great group of males, …

Craving some fellow readers to explore good Buddhist text with, I decided to start this group. Together, we'll choose books to delve into to enrich our spiritual practice, our lives and the lives of others.

This group provides opportunities to meet and greet, meditate and intuitively deepen our connection to those around us. We celebrate life and living in all its shades and shapes by slowing down, going back to basics, and connecting with our inner selves. Simply being and consciously integrating with the energies around us, we foster a greater sense of interconnectedness with, respect for, and responsibility to each other and our world.

Welcome! We are a supportive and relaxed group of people who meet to meditate and affirm each others efforts to work on ourselves.  An energy can appear in a group that is working sincerely that assists one's aim. The group can be useful for those who wish to learn to relax, meditate, meet like minded seekers and explore an introduction to this system of inner work. In the group we begin with relaxing the body, mind and the emotions, with listening and with sensing our presence.  From a newly re …

The Real Deal Investment Club is a unique, one-of-a-kind Investment Club with an unwavering commitment to our Faith ~ Family ~ Community and Country. The Real Deal Investment Club proudly embodies the diversity of our members while strongly encouraging and promoting a positive results oriented real estate networking community. The Real Deal Investment Club embraces an atmosphere of uncompromising culture with an emphasis on the personal growth and professional development of each member. T …

The ultimate freedom is to have a completely clear and free mind. The human mind is always changing and is always trying to add more desirable experiences. There is no end to this addition. The way to find peace and clarity is to know the real world, the True world, by subtracting the past that has been recorded and stored within the body and mind as pictures. There is nothing more valuable than one's mind. It shapes the entire world that one knows. Through subtracting in Maum Meditation the Un …

Tibetan meditation master Tai Situ Rinpoche has given his permission to begin the planning process for a Palpung Institute center in the Washington DC region. If you are a Tibetan Kagyud practitioner and would like to be part of this historic endeavor please join this group. We will prepare a plan to start a center in the Washington DC area. I will present the plan to Rinpoche in April 2013 and with his permission return to the US to establish the center. I am a long-time mahamudra student of T …

W.E. Within Everyone, Wisdom Everywhere, World Enlightenment Feel like life is passing you by? Feel like you don't have enough time? Living in the past of the future? Practice living the present moment. Mindfulness is about becoming aware of the present moment to live a happier, wiser, more productive life.  In this non-denominational approach, W.E. bring people together to tap into their own inner wisdom on how to live a kinder, more productive life. Come Join us Monday, May 6th at 6-7:00pm in …

Meet with African American people who like adventures and coed sports - getting thrills through adventurous sports like camping, hiking, white water rafting, coed flag football, coed kickball, paintballing, coed volleyball etc. All active and outgoing people welcomed!

This group is fighting the mundane! Open to weekenders (men and women) in their 30's to mid 40's. A few examples of the activities this group will participate in: Wine tasting, gun ranges, trapeze lessons, rock climbing, visiting the monuments and museums, traveling to NY to see the holiday windows, snow & water tubing, attending plays on and off Broadway, drag queen brunches, bicycling, cooking class, visiting the various islands around the Washington, dc metro area; I'm Open to suggestions for …

Welcome to Annandale Toastmasters! Meetings are open and all visitors are welcome. Whether it's prepared presentations or off-the-cuff topics, Toastmasters will improve your public speaking and communication skills. Gain confidence in you ability to express yourself and be persuasive and engaging in different situations; overcome your fears. You'll give speeches in a supportive environment, acquiring valuable experience and feedback from fellow members. As you progress in Toastmasters, you’l …

In 2001 I studied Chinese calligraphy at the Smithsonian Resident Associates with an artist from Shanghai. That summer I enrolled in Chinese language courses at the Northern Virginia Community College. I have been studying Chinese ever since. In 2010 I completed a graduate program at the Hopkins- Nanjing Center (HNC). Shortly after I returned to the US I started the Arlington Chinese Corner hoping to meet others in Arlington with similar interests and to find opportunities to keep speaking Chine …

This is a group for anyone interested in yoga, meditation, connecting with their inner spirit, self healing,chanting,prayer. All skills levels are welcome. I started this group because to meet other people who are interested in yoga. Looking forward to exploring the outdoors with everybody through your mind,body and spirit.”

Are you a young widow/widower who's having a hard time finding others in your situation because of your age? The goal of this group is to get together those under 55 in the northern VA, MD and DC metro area who have lost their partners. We talk, laugh, cry, and support each other as we navigate our new lives. This group is only open to people who have lost a partner, regardless of marital status or sexual/gender orientation. Although members of our group have gone on to form relationships based …

Alexandria Treetops is a proud member chapter of Toastmasters International, a nonprofit organization with nearly 250,000 members in more than 12,500 clubs in 106 countries. Our meetings are comprised of approximately 15-25 people who meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month from 7:30 to 9:00 PM at Jack Taylor's Alexandria Toyota at 3750 Jefferson Davis Highway, Alexandria, VA. Participants practice and learn skills by filling a meeting role, ranging from giving a prepared speech or an imp …

This meetup is targeted for teachers, especially those in Fairfax, Alexandria, and Arlington.  Teachers are great people--kind and knowledgeable, resourceful and responsible, friendly and fun.  So, let's get to know each other better!  Our signature activity will be EARLY HAPPY HOURS (HH 301).   Some restaurants may even offer us specials.  During vacations and summers, events may expand to include weekday activities--e.g., hikes, book discussions, movies, conversational Spanish, and travel.   M …

The New District REIA is home to Real Estate Entrepreneurs in VA, MD and DC where “Real Life – Real World – Real Estate” converges with the latest state of the art information, education, market updates, tools and resources for your personal growth and business development. ---> http://districtreia.com/

(formerly The Washington, D.C. Area Dreams Meetup Group) The 24-Hour Dreamer Working with your night dreams, daydreams, moods, body feelings, and other wanderings with the unconscious We are extremely prolific dreamers, pouring unconscious material into our sleeping and waking lives. With a bit of training, these messages will become more observable and, with lots of practice, more understandable and useful. This monthly class uses the dream group method to explore night dreams and in-class and …

This Toastmasters Club will soon be celebrating its 21st anniversary. We want more people in the West Alexandria/South Arlington area to know about it.

This meetup is for singles in the DC Metro area. It's geared to move from the bar scene to a healthy setting where singles can meet each other to form real connections. We will offer some partner focused classes where you partner with someone for the poses and then rotate partners, kind of speed dating style.

This group is open to anyone interested in learning how to see and draw like an architect! Architectural Sketching Workshop is for: 1) Beginners: (Middle & High School), great exposure for someone who is interested in architecture as a college major. 2) Architecture Students: architect / designers looking to augment their portfolio with beautiful drawings. 3) General Artists: people who enjoy learning about the architecture of Old Town Alexandria and drawing outside.

Cultivating Mindfulness Practices in Alexandria, Virginia.

This group will focus on practical methods for handling Bad Stress and Good Stress on-the-go and when you have quiet moments. We won't concentrate only on just one approach (i.e. meditation) but try the many methods of de-stressing. Sometimes that will be with guided imagery, meditation, passive muscle relaxation, biofeedback, etc. Other times we will look at how our minds push us towards stress and away from relaxation. Cognitive therapy, The Sedona Method, the Work of Byron Katie and more will …