Coverage
Where Jhourney and Stephen Zerfas have been written about and interviewed by other people. Every link goes off-site.
Articles and essays
Deep State: The New Science Of Advanced Meditation
feature by Claudia Canavan · 2024
My Week at the Buzzy Meditation Retreat That Promises Bliss on Demand
retreat report by Naina Bajekal · 2024
What if you could have a panic attack, but for joy?
essay by Oshan Jarow · 2024
Manufacturing Bliss
feature by Nadia Asparouhova · 2024
The Meditation Start-Up That's Selling Bliss on Demand
feature by Ross Andersen · 2024
Podcasts and appearances
How To Pursue Goals without Striving
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg · Jul 2026
Spencer Greenberg and Stephen on why meditation is so hard to teach, and on reaching blissful states without grasping for them.
You're Optimizing Everything Except the Thing That Runs It All
Thrive State Podcast, with Dr. Kien Vuu · May 2026
Stephen and Dr. Kien Vuu on why the state you run your life from shapes everything downstream of it.
How to Access Deep Bliss and Wellbeing with Jhana Meditation
Elevating Consciousness, with Artem Zen · Apr 2026
A long-form conversation on what jhana practice actually is, who it's for, and how people learn it.
A Panic Attack for Joy?
Nervous System Mastery, with Jonny Miller · Jan 2026
Jonny Miller and Stephen on jhana as the inverse of a panic attack — an escalating loop of ease rather than alarm.
What Jhana Meditation Feels Like — From the Inside Out
AI & I, with Dan Shipper · Dec 2025
Stephen walks Dan Shipper through what the jhanas feel like from the inside, one state at a time.
Stephen Zerfas, Guest Explorer
Awareness Explorers, with Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor · Sep 2025
Stephen joins the hosts to talk through jhana practice and where it sits alongside other awareness techniques.
Making the Jhanas Accessible
Teaching Meditation, with Tucker Peck · Jun 2025
Tucker Peck and Stephen on the pedagogy question: what it takes to make the jhanas teachable at scale.
On the Jhanas, Pleasure, and the Mathematics of Meditation
YouTube, with Andrés Gómez Emilsson · Mar 2025
A conversation on pleasure, valence, and whether the jhanas can be described mathematically.
#29 — Jhanas and Hacking Agency
The Metagame, with Daniel Kazandjian · Nov 2024
Daniel Kazandjian and Stephen on the jhanas, agency, and what changes when bliss becomes a practiced skill.
I Did An 8 Day Meditation Retreat To Rewire My Brain For Joy — Here Are My Biggest Takeaways
The Liz Moody Podcast · Nov 2024
Liz Moody devotes a solo episode to the eight days she spent at a Jhourney retreat and what she took away from it.
Jhana as a Service
Founder Meditations, with Weiting · Jul 2024
Stephen on Jhourney's origins and the bet that jhana can be made reliably learnable rather than rare.
Scaling Jhāna Responsibly: Comments and Concerns
Natural Awakening, with Wystan Bryant-Scott · May 2024
Wystan Bryant-Scott presses Stephen on the risks and responsibilities that come with teaching jhana widely.
Jhanas, Technology, and Tradition
Deconstructing Yourself, with Michael Taft · May 2024
Michael Taft and Stephen on where a modern, tech-informed approach to jhana meets the traditional lineage.
Stephen Zerfas on the Jhanas and Jhourney
Psychotechnologies Live · Jan 2024
An early conversation about what the jhanas are and what Jhourney was setting out to build.
What Are The Jhanas And How Can They Change Your Life?
Evolution FM, with Scott Britton · Dec 2023
Scott Britton and Stephen on what the jhanas are and why they're worth a week of your life.
Jhourney, Meditation, Learning and Feedback Loops
The Talking Brains Podcast, with Brendan Foster · Oct 2022
Stephen on meditation as a learning problem, and what tighter feedback loops could do for it.
Written by attendees
I glimpsed heaven & it showed me the door
La La Chimera, retreat report by Tyler Alterman · 2026
A jhourney in Costa Rica: experiencing the jhanas
Nintil, retreat report by Jose Luis Ricon · 2025
My Week of Magical Thinking: A Jhourney retreat report
Anzalogue, retreat report by Jake Eaton · 2024
How to do the jhanas
nadia.xyz, essay by Nadia Asparouhova · 2024