Our online and in-person meditation retreats teach you how to tap into profound joy and wellbeing on demand.

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What Past Students Are Saying

2025–Early 2026 Meditation Retreat Dates

• January 17th to 26th: work-compatible retreat
• February 2nd to 9th: full-time online retreat
• February 13th to 23rd: work-compatible retreat
• March 1st to 8th: in-person retreat in Northern California
• March 14th to 21st: full-time online retreat
• April 4th to 11th: full-time online retreat
• May 15th to 25th: work-compatible retreat
• June 6th to 13th: in-person retreat on the East Coast
• July 19th to 26th: in-person retreat in Costa Rica
• September 27 - October 4: Online Full-Time Retreat
• October 9 - October 19: Online Work-Compatible Retreat
• October 26 - November 2: In-Person Retreat at Kripalu (Massachusetts, near New York City)
• November 9–16: In-Person Retreat at Zephyr Point (Nevada, near Lake Tahoe), sold out!
• December 13–20, 2025: Online Full-Time Retreat
• January 8–18, 2026: Online Work-Compatible Retreat
• January 25 – February 1, 2026: In-Person Retreat at Mount Madonna Center (2 hours south of San Francisco)
• February 6–13, 2026: Online Full-Time Retreat
• February 20–27, 2026: In-Person Retreat at Kripalu (near New York and Boston; Massachusetts)

More dates are coming in 2026!

Stay tuned—we’ll update this page as details are confirmed.

What do you teach?

Our team has had our minds blown by jhanas & think they should be practiced more widely by both beginning and seasoned meditators alike.

What are the jhanas?

• Extraordinarily pleasurable and non-addictive altered states you can learn to enter on demand with meditation practice
• The “opposite of an anxiety loop”. A positive feedback loop between attention and pleasure, leading to greater physiological & neural response
• A method to tap into an innate sense of inner wellbeing that enables inner psychological work

For years, the existence of jhanas has been an “open secret” in some communities of serious meditators. Modern research at Harvard, McGill, and others are validating their existence. Our track record suggests these states can be learned more easily than people believe.

“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.”

— Google Deepmind Strategic Advisor

“This is absolutely amazing. The fact that you can build a feedback reward mechanism with dopamine from just sitting down is unbelievable. This is 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 Lorrain, CTO of Topsort, Former Head of Engineering at Groupon

Results

• About two thirds of our retreat participants have self-reported experiencing a jhana
• For those who experienced a jhana
• Over 60% say it’s the best thing that’s happened in 6 months or more
• 10% say it’s the best thing that’s happened in their lifetime
• 85% of participants rated the program a 9 or a 10 when asked “how likely would you be to recommend this experience to a friend”

Investment

All our online retreats cost $1,695, with the option to pay in full or in four monthly payments of $424. In-person retreats vary by venue and room type, but prices typically start around $4,000. Payment plans are also available for in-person retreats.

We have a limited number of scholarships available — just let us know when you save your spot.

Meditation Retreat Programs and Schedule

For full-time online and in-person retreats:

Participants adhere to silence throughout the week and meditate for 6-10 hours a day (including individual and group sits). We may incorporate tools like biofeedback from our ongoing jhana research, but the focus will be on traditional teaching methods.

Participants are expected to meditate ~8 hours per day. Daily programming will be from 7:30am - 8:30pm Pacific Time. Lectures will be recorded to make attendance easier for remote timezones, but group experiences will need to be attended between 7am - 5pm PT. Online retreats work best with time zones in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. For Asian and other time zones, email us to discuss before booking.

For work-compatible meditation retreats:

We will have full retreat days on both weekends (requiring time off on each Friday). We’ll pair this ~1.5 hours of practice before and after your workday during the week. Please join if you’re excited, open minded, and happy to try something a bit different. Learn meditation conducive to jhanas without taking too much time off work!

Teaching principles

• Engineers, not Dharma Teachers: We’re focused on sharing practical meditation guidance as efficiently as possible, tracking our results, and using every tool we think appropriate for the job. We are not teaching Buddhist Dharma or metaphysics.
• Experimentation, not Dogma: There is no one correct way to learn a skill. We aim to provide you with the context and ideas you need to run your own experiments. We’re inspired by various meditation traditions, breathwork, and our own EEG research.
• Community of Peers: We think experience sharing is a valuable part of the learning process, and at times will structure group discussion instead of traditional lecture or instruction.

Instruction

Participants are expected to join from an environment that allows them to embrace not speaking for the duration of the retreat. Traditionally, silence and sensory reduction in meditation retreats have been instrumental in teaching these states. We ask participants find a way to create these conditions from wherever they’re joining.

We’ll be teaching a secular interpretation of the jhanas inspired by several contemplative traditions (e.g. TWIM, Kemma/Brasington, Thanissaro/Burbea) and western psychology. These traditions focus on making meditation consistently enjoyable, and we’re especially excited to teach these states to meditators who haven’t experienced them before.

Curriculum

Each morning we will have meditation instructions and group sit. The meditation instructions will build on each other over the course of the week.

At night we will have another group meditation followed by learning about a framework which is useful for integrating our meditation experience. These frameworks will help us understand the role of meditation and how to best utilize this practice.

Example Schedule

How You May Benefit

• Unlock the ability to enter into temporary altered states of peace and joy described by many as the best experience of their year
• Experience firsthand how access to altered, joyful states can lead to a felt sense of abundance that makes it easier to let go of reactive habits and cultivate virtuous qualities
• Boost your baseline wellbeing with a sense of fundamental okay-ness that comes from periodically entering into unprecedentedly grateful or relaxed states
• Master your attention, not through fixation & effort, but relaxation and finesse, so that you can enter flow inside and outside of meditation
• Discover how in the right headspace, it’s possible to spot and then permanently adjust mental habits that lead to personality & psychological growth
• Cultivate mastery by activating joy and peace in daily life while walking, off-the-cushion, and in everyday conditions
• Generate more progress in less time by blending insights from multiple meditation traditions, Western positive psychology, and engineering design principles
• Discover that altered states on-demand are just the beginning — deeper insights into your own nervous system await; we’ll leave you with ideas to explore next after the course
• A community of practice with other curious, technically-minded explorers

“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

Is Our Meditation Retreat For You?

A few groups that have benefitted so far:

• Engineers and tech operators who believe meditation or psychedelics can be transformative, but find it challenging to sift through vastly different teachers and techniques.
• Execs and founders who have realized their moment-to-moment mental habits determine wellbeing and performance, and are ready to learn technical relaxation techniques.
• Experienced meditators with a 30+ minute regular practice who have not yet learned to have deterministically blissful experiences when they sit.

This program may not be for you if:

• Buddhist metaphysics is a requirement for your meditation. We’re happy to refer out to teachings that are compatible with this view. We emphasize how these practices can fit into your life with an attitude of flexibility and pragmatism.
• You don’t want to commit ~7-10 days (or two weekends) to meditating ~6+ hours a day.
• You’ve recently experienced trauma or mental health challenges that you think may have a serious adverse impact on your emotional state during the retreat. We’re here — join us when the time is right! You can learn more about our policy and screening process here.

“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