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, supported by a small circle of high-quality teachers.
Jhāna Community Features
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Jhāna Groups
Explore a particular theme in a teacher-led practice group for 12 weeks with the same cohort of practitioners.
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Guest Teachings
Regular live stream teachings, from a variety of guest teachers, that members can engage with live, or watch later.
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Self-Paced Courses
We’ve got a ever-growing catalog of self-paced digital learning material organized around learning the jhānas.
🆕 The Jhānas as Described in the Suttas
💡 A Guest Teaching Series with Leigh Brasington
📅 Tuesdays: 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, & 11/18 @ 1pm ET
The Jhānas as Described in the Suttas is a four-session series with Leigh Brasington exploring the early Buddhist presentation of deep meditative absorption. Beginning with practical instructions for entering the first jhāna, we’ll move through the first four jhānas as described in the Digha Nikāya (DN2), exploring their broader context and connection to insight practice, concluding with the formless jhānas and nirodha.
🆕 Upcoming Jhāna Groups
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Kasina Jhāna
Here, we’ll center our attention on a visual orb–aka kasina–as a means of deepening concentration. By using the visual sense field as a subject of meditation, we play to one of our species' natural strengths!
When: Mondays @ 2pm ET // Starting: Sept 29, 2025 -
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.
When: Tuesdays @ 3pm ET // Starting: Sept 30, 2025 -
Heartful 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.
When: Tuesdays @ 12pm ET // Starting: Oct 1, 2025 -
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.
When: Thursdays @ 12pm ET // Starting: Oct 2, 2025
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.