Purpose/Vision/Strategy:

The purpose of this community is to encourage a small & passionate group of practitioners to deepen their meditative capacity together.

Our vision is to remain a relatively small community of practice, supported by an intimate circle of quality meditation teachers.

Features of the Jhana.community

  • Jhāna Practice Groups

    Share how your practice has been going, ask your questions, and practice together with others.

  • Live Stream Teachings

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

  • Pre-Recorded Courses

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

Jhāna
Practice Groups

Each group meets weekly for an hour and is hosted by a trained meditation teacher. Jhāna community members are welcome to join either and/or both group times.

Multiplayer Jhāna

  • TIME : Mondays @ 3pm ET / 9pm CET

  • TEACHER: Vince Fakhoury Horn

  • DESCRIPTION: In this group we’ll be leveraging the power of multiplayer meditation–an approach to practice that is done out-loud, with others, in a peer-to-peer format–in order to explore & deepen our jhāna practice.

Deep Jhāna

  • TIME : Wednesdays @ 12pm ET / 6pm CET

  • TEACHER: Brian Newman

  • DESCRIPTION: In this group, designed for practitioners called to the deep end of jhāna practice, we will adopt both traditional and pragmatic approaches leading to fully absorbed jhāna as described in the Vissuddhimagga and Pa Auk practice tradition.

Interested in the Jhāna community?

We accept new applicants, on a rolling basis. Our next application period will open up December 15th, 2024.

Meet the 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 child 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.