The Flavors of Jhāna
📅 January 2 – 11, 2026
🧘🏻 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat
👥 Vince Horn & Brian Newman
📍 Lisbon, Portugal
“Like a skilled wine taster, one day you will learn to recognize these flavors.”
Jhāna refers to deep meditative absorption - an approach to cultivating unshakable concentration, tranquility, and bliss. This retreat will offer both freedom and structure, and is designed to reveal the deep structure beneath all jhāna practice.
Retreatants will be invited to choose their concentration object at the start of the retreat, and then will be guided on how jhāna arises through universal principles that apply across techniques and objects of concentration.
By attending this retreat, you will come to know all the flavors of jhāna in an integrated, practical way that unpacks this ancient practice across multiple dimensions: somatic, energetic, cognitive, and archetypal.
Meet the Teachers
Vince Fakhoury Horn
Vince is part of a new generation of teachers & innovators bringing dharma, meditation, & mindfulness to life in the 21st century. Vince began teaching dharma & meditation in 2010 and has been authorized in both the Hardcore Dharma lineage of Kenneth Folk & Daniel Ingram, as well as by Trudy Goodman & Jack Kornfield in the Insight Meditation tradition. Vince is rooted in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Swannanoa, North Carolina with his partner Emily and their son Zander.
Brian Newman
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.
About Terra Quinta
Only 30 minutes from the Lisbon airport, Terra Quinta is 5 hectares of beautiful nature that formerly held horse stables, and was rebuilt into a retreat center by a French artist couple. The rooms and facilities are constructed by local artisans and feature a blend of local wood and natural stone. The spacious meditation hall has a ceiling height of 5 meters, a fireplace for cool January nights, and can accommodate up to 30 meditators on this retreat.
🌱 Invest in your Sanity
Doing a meditation retreat is about investing in your basic sanity. It’s about having the time to go incredibly deep, on something that matters to you. Should this be you, and you decide to register for this retreat, you will find 2 options, both of which cover room & board:
Option 1️⃣: A Shared Room
A room shared by you and one other person.
$1,500 USD / $1,300 EURO
Option 2️⃣: A Single Room
You have this room all to yourself.
$3,000 USD / $2,600 EURO
*NOTE: The retreat registration fee does not compensate the teachers, who will ask for a financial gift at the end of the retreat, traditionally called dana (i.e. generosity) in the Buddhist context.
FAQs
Do I need to be able to attend the entire retreat in order to register?
Generally speaking, we do recommend that you be able to attend the entire retreat, before registering. That said, if you have an established relationship with one of the teacher’s, you’re welcome to contact them to see if it’s possible to make accommodations with your schedule.
Can you hold a spot for me?
No, I’m sorry, but we can’t hold any spots open for potential retreatants, given that this retreat is limited to 15 retreatants. That said, we do have a payment plan option that will allow you to break the retreat payment up over 5 payments of $300/each.
What are the check-in and check-out times for this retreat?
Check in is after 3pm on Friday, January 2nd. Check out is by 12pm on Sunday, January 11th.
What is the cancellation policy for this retreat?
All cancellations made prior to December 1st, 2025 will receive all of what they’ve paid, minus a $300 registration fee. We will not be able to refund any payments made after December 1st, as that doesn’t ensure that we have sufficient time to fill the empty spot.