Purpose/Vision:

The purpose of this community is to encourage a small & passionate group of practitioners to master the multi-faceted art of jhāna meditation.

Our vision is to remain a tight-knit community of practice–no more than 150 members–supported by a small circle of high-quality teachers.

Jhāna Community Features

  • Jhāna Groups

    Explore a particular theme in a teacher-led practice group for 12 weeks with the same cohort of practitioners.

  • Guest Teachings

    Regular live stream teachings, from a variety of guest teachers, that members can engage with live, or watch later.

  • Self-Paced Courses

    We’ve got a ever-growing catalog of self-paced digital learning material organized around learning the jhānas.

🆕 Recent Jhāna Groups

  • The 9th Jhāna

    Unlike the other jhānas, the 9th jhāna focuses on resting in the 'isness' or 'suchness' of experience, without seeking to modify or alter anything at all. In this group we’ll learn different ways of trusting awareness.

    👤 Vince Horn

  • Vipassana Jhāna

    In this group we’ll explore what it’s like to find a dynamic balance between concentration & investigation. We’ll use this initial access concentration as a general platform for going through the 8 vipassana jhānas.

    👤 Vince Horn

  • Metta Jhāna

    In this group we’ll take a deep-dive into the Buddhist forms of love–loving-kindness, joy, compassion, equanimity, etc.–using these transcendent qualities as doorways to deeper levels of absorption.

    👤 Emily Horn

  • Shamatha Jhāna

    For practitioners called to the deep end of jhāna practice, we’ll adopt both traditional & pragmatic approaches, leading to fully absorbed jhāna as described in the Vissuddhimagga & Pa Auk tradition.

    👤 Brian Newman

  • Karuna Jhāna

    Here, we’ll explore compassion as a meditative doorway. Through practices that awaken the heart’s response to suffering, we’ll cultivate a steady, embodied presence that naturally opens into absorption.

    👤 Emily Horn

Jhāna Community Teachers

Vince Fakhoury Horn is part of a new generation of teachers & innovators bringing dharma, meditation, & mindfulness to life in the 21st century. Vince spent his 20s co-founding the ground-breaking project, Buddhist Geeks, while doing a full year, in total, of silent retreat practice. He began teaching dharma & meditation in 2010 and has been authorized in both the Pragmatic Dharma lineage of Kenneth Folk, as well as by Trudy Goodman and Jack Kornfield in the Insight Meditation tradition. Vince is rooted in the Blue Ridge Mountains, outside of Asheville, North Carolina, with his partner Emily and their son Zander.

Emily West Horn is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher via the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She is also authorized to teach meditation, dharma, and long retreats by Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society, and InsightLA.

Emily has been called a “power player of the mindfulness movement" by Wired Magazine. Her work is featured in 10% Happier, Boston Children's Hospital's Comfort Ability Project, Buddhist Geeks, and apps such as Brightmind and buddhify. She's also been mentoring mindfulness teachers in a certification led by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D and Tara Brach Ph.D for over 8 years.

For her, a mindful life is simply learning to dance with all of this human experience: from transcendence to dirty dishes, evolutionary edges to ancient roots, solitary practice to deepening relationships. She lives the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with her husband, Vince, and son, Zander.

Residing in Asia for more than 30 years and fluent in Japanese, Brian Newman currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal where he manages TERMA, an executive coaching and developmental training firm. Brian is a dedicated meditator with access to absorbed concentration states, and has been authorized to teach jhāna by his root teacher Kenneth Folk, and the Buddhist nun Sayalay Susīlā of Appamāda Viharī Center in Malaysia.