Free meditation guide
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Meditation should feel like a treasure hunt, not a chore.
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Exercises from the retreat 1,350+ people attended.
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What's in the free guide?
Technique explanation
A short PDF guide that will walk you through the Jhourney technique, our approach to teaching medition and a walk-through of the exercises
4 short guided meditations
Try four different meditation techniques — memories, smiling, visualization and mantras. Discover which one works best for you
~15 minutes each.
Core ideas and teaching philosophy
Learn about our approach at Jhourney - what are the two wings of jhanas, the striving trap and how to overcome it and why jhanas are only a tool, not the destination
What changes when you learn these states
Four things we've observed across 1,300+ participants
Your nervous system runs the show — how you handle stress, how you relate to others, how fulfilled you feel. Turns out, you can train it.
Jhourney retreats teach jhanas — profound meditative states ranging from full-body bliss to deep peace that can durably reset your emotional defaults. Here is what we found.
Peak states are trainable
Jhanas are not mystical, random, or personality-dependent.
They're learnable — like playing an instrument.
We teach the specific conditions that produce it, reliably, in days. This shifts meditation from aspiration to training.
Altered states alter traits
Temporary experiences produce durable change. Accessing deep states shifts your emotional defaults to less reactivity and more steadiness in ways that persist long after the retreat.
This isn't about chasing peak experiences. It's about what they leave behind.
Better behavior gets easier
When your nervous system stops fighting you, the gap between knowing and doing narrows.
Decisions, relationships, showing up the way you want to takes less effort. This is leverage, not willpower.
Calm scales to people around
Participants consistently report that other people notice the shift first.
When you're regulated internally, the people around you feel it. Their nervous systems feel more at peace around you.
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Includes a PDF and four guided meditations
the shift
This isn't about altered states. It's about how they alter your traits.
These are patterns we've observed across hundreds of participants — not promises, but what tends to shift when people train their nervous system consistently.
Before the retreat
○ Meditation feels unclear — hard to tell if it's working or if you're just sitting there
○ Stress accumulates faster than you can process it
○ You notice yourself reacting in ways that don't match who you want to be
○ There's a gap between what you know you should do and what you actually do
○ You've invested in external optimization but haven't found a reliable internal practice
After the retreat
○ You have a practice that produces unmistakable repeatable states
○ Your baseline shifts with more access to calm, even under pressure
○ You are able to align yourself to who you want to be with more ease
○ The gap between knowing and doing narrows: better behavior requires less effort
○ You have a tool that compounds over time. The practice gets richer and easier
what people say
It's not really about the intensity. It's about the journey.
Probably one of the nicest things that's ever happened to me, like up there with beautiful events like marriage.
David Phelan
Songwriter for Zayn, Sia, and BLACKPINK
Absolutely amazing. A secret nobody is talking about, and I’ve never felt anything like it. I’m so grateful; I’m a better and happier person.
Francisco Larrain
CTO of Topsort, ex-VP of Engineering Groupon, investor in SpaceX, Lyft
To know there’s this infinite resource within me that’s accessible without external conditions…it’s just crazy. You can’t unsee that.
Zach Lauzon
Google software engineer
This experience was the best thing that’s happened to me this year. I had no idea how enjoyable meditation could be.
Ruby Yu
Founder of YC-backed 10 Lives, formerly at UCSF & Harvard
Why would I have a second piece of chocolate cake when I know I can beat that by 100x in 10 minutes with my eyes closed?
Nick Cammarata
AI Safety Researcher & former founder
The jhanas may be the single most important thing on the planet right now. You may think it’s superintelligence or longevity. That’s nothing without wellbeing.
Shamil Chandaria
Oxford neuroscientist, ex-DeepMind
I just finished a @jhanatech retreat. I can now conjure up feelings of immense happiness on-demand, not conditioned on any achievements. Most impactful meditation I've ever learned. Can't recommend it enough:
The retreat I just completed with @jhanatech was my 8th meditation retreat. 6 out of 7 other retreats were great experiences, but I feel like this Jhourney retreat was 5x more effective at levelling me up as a meditator in ways I can take home moving forward.
Ever since my @jhanatech retreat a couple weeks ago, any time I either sit or go dancing, I eventually get to a place where I find a profound and infinite sense of love for the universe. Im kinda shocked because I am not even trying!
I attended the in-person @jhanatech retreat last month and had a mind-blowing experience! I accessed several jhanic states and this caused a massive update to my world model.I will write a long-form piece to summarize but in the meantime if you're curious AMA.
so far my experience with @jhanatech is: a field of green flags
there’s so much i like and respect about the work, approach, team, the atmosphere and their integrity
one of the clearest and cleanest (read: unconflicted) experiences i’ve had with a retreat/course so far
just chatted with Judah, my teacher on the Jhourney retreat a couple weeks ago. extremely fun to chat with him, and i really believe in him as a teacher. this is another plug for @jhanatech retreats. you don't have to be into jhanas or whatever, it's just good practice
began day with 120 min jhana sit led by Judah from @jhanatech stress levels plummet almost immediately upon grounding the positive impact of a metta + concentration practice is not pseudoscience. With today’s sensors, we can see the impact objectively
@jhanatech @stephen_zerfas & @nickcammarata are the two resident jhana experts, but I know @jhanatech have been getting something like 60% of their beginner meditators into jhana states (i.e. evoking tears of joy + mdma-like states) from a week long retreat.
Also increasingly promising…
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the gatekeeping around these states def prevented me from exploring them early on. wild that you can just learn 'em in a week at a twim or @jhanatech retreat
i’d highly recommend doing specifically a jhana retreat (hard to find) bc i don’t think i could’ve learned them on just a regular retreat (shout out to @jhanatech)
So I was on a Jhana retreat with @jhanatech until about a week ago – it was great – and I feel like I've learned something about the Jhanas: They're all about collectedness.
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