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Jhourney

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Jhourney

@jhanatech

We teach meditative states most people never knew were possible. In a week.

Joined November 2023

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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Jan 28
NEW retreats announced for 2026! 🧘 - Online Work-Compatible: Mar 5-15 (2 weekends) - Apr 2-9 at Zephyr Point (Lake Tahoe) - Jul 11-18 at Blue Spirit (Costa Rica) - Aug 28-Sep 4 at Kripalu (MA near NYC & Boston) - Nov 8-15 at Zephyr Point (Lake Tahoe) More online retreats TBA
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Mar 8, 2025
Just wrapped up our retreat at Mount Madonna with a sunset hike. It was a magical week surrounded by redwoods and warm company. Thank you everyone for coming out, don't be strangers and let us know how we can support after the retreat 💛
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Mar 1, 2025
All jhana is is a feedback loop between attention and emotion. You need 1) a spark, usually a pleasurable sensation or emotion like loving-kindness and 2) the ability to sustain attention on this spark until you hit an explosive feedback loop, and you're golden
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
May 25, 2025
definitely the jhanas: a series of non-addictive, fully immersive, mindblowingly blissful & peaceful meditative states you can enter by closing your eyes and focusing on pleasant sensations is the closest thing to a free lunch available to human consciousness
maddie rune🪰
@themaddierune
May 22, 2025
What is the most pleasant, non-sexual, non-drug, experience a human can have?
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Sep 5, 2025
and the next step not pictured: direct love towards those feelings and realize they were on your side the whole time
Brett Kistler
@AirKistler
Sep 5, 2025
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Feb 25, 2025
Our retreats are funny because we essentially created a Trojan horse that appeals to achievement and optimization-oriented people and then we teach them how to channel those skills into relaxation and self-compassion, which ends up breaking them out of self-limiting beliefs
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Oct 24, 2025
Zen practitioner with 20+ years of experience attends a Jhourney retreat and finds his zazen practice transformed by learning to welcome distractions:
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Apr 8, 2025
Figuring out how to enter the jhanas is a mini-exercise in agency. Couple examples of skills that can be applied to any area of your life: - Tune into what’s present in your experience and welcome all aspects, including distractions and difficult emotions —> (Generalizes to) —>
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Dec 7, 2024
Meditation isn’t one-size-fits-all. We use every Jhourney retreat to refine our approach and help meditators learn the jhanas faster. Last retreat, we tested a new framework for participants that breaks the path into clear stages. It helps people run their own experiments,
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Aug 30, 2025
This is a common objection. Several things going on here: 1) You *already* experience joy unrelated to accomplishments, even if you feel like it should *only* come from accomplishments. Joy spontaneously arises when you encounter something delightful, like cute dogs or sunny
loambones
@loambones
Aug 25, 2025
Jhanas feel like "cheating" to me. I've got a Puritanical sense that joy should come from tangible accomplishments. Am I just misunderstanding jhanas?
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Jan 25, 2024
In 3 years you'll see Huberman talking about jhana protocols for hypertrophy, and you'll know you saw it here first
Guy
@nosilverv
Jan 23, 2024
Ok, SO, I did a Jhana Jhourney retreat and I have to say that if ANYTHING they're being under-hyped: I VISIBLY put on muscle during this retreat loool (in addition to all else, noticed by both me and gf, independently [all else = infinite eternal bliss, etc.])
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Oct 21, 2025
If the craving persists, then it's not actually being satisfied. The purported target of the craving (when attained) fails to extinguish the compulsive pattern, so you keep going back for more. But then how do you actually break the pattern? What the part doing the craving
xepo
@xepo_
Oct 13, 2025
I’m wondering if cravings are only bad because they lead to looping. Like “Eat a sweet > crave more sweets > eat more sweets”. Any loop inherently reduces your freedom. But if you can find a way to satiate a craving that isn’t loop-inducing, maybe that’s even better than the
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Jun 23, 2025
There are many ways to enter the jhanas, but the approach we like is anti-dissociative by nature: meaning emotions are not antagonized or sidelined while in pursuit of some advanced meditative state. By choosing to take an openhearted feeling such as loving-kindness as our
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Jhourney
@jhanatech
Jul 2, 2025
Two people have tagged us under this. Learning the jhanas (intensely blissful meditative states) is one of the best investments you can make in well-being as we enter uncertain times. Previously known only to psychonauts/advanced meditators, we're making them widely accessible.
Paras Chopra
@paraschopra
Jul 1, 2025
What's the closest thing to what Bitcoin was in 2009? i.e. something fringe that a few nerds are obsessing over, but likely to create immense value in a decade or so?
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