Purpose/Vision:

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

Our vision is to remain a tight-knit community of practice, supported by an intimate circle of high-quality teachers.

Jhāna Community Features

  • 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.

Live Practice Groups

Each group meets weekly for an hour and is hosted by an experienced meditation teacher. Jhāna community members are welcome to join whichever group times they wish.

Vipassana Jhāna

  • TIME : Mondays @ 3pm ET / 9pm CET

  • TEACHER: Vince Fakhoury Horn

  • DESCRIPTION: In this group we’ll be utilizing the practice of clear seeing, or mindfulness meditation, to move through the phases of meditative insight. Special attention will be paid to investigating the parallels between vipassana jhānas and other forms of jhāna.

Metta Jhāna

  • TIME : Wednesdays @ 2pm ET / 8pm CET

  • TEACHER: Emily West Horn

  • DESCRIPTION: In this group we’ll take a deep-dive into the Buddhist Forms of Love–loving-kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity, forgiveness, gratitude, etc.–using these transcendent qualities of heart-mind as doorways into deeper levels of meditative absorption.

Shamatha Jhāna

  • TIME : Thursdays @ 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.

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 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.