The Artifact

by Meditation Artifacts

Issue No. 3 · July 2026

Dear Artifacts readers,

I wanted to delay this issue until we had some of the interviews to share from The Contemplative Futures Series we recorded at Edge Esmeralda. Unfortunately, those need a few more days. So this July issue comes in on the last day to share updates from the community. We have MonX happening next week and today is the last day to join. Please consider joining. We’d love to have you, and it’s going to be a meditator’s paradise. Not that any of our residencies aren’t paradisiacal, but this one is especially beautiful and uses all our learnings from MonasteryX and other residencies. So come join us, or send a member of Meditation Artifacts team a message to learn more.

Check out our exciting next thing, meditation hacker houses! We haven’t decided on names for these yet, and it’s very co-creative, but this is our first foray into longer-term residency experiences. It’s founder/creative/researcher/practice focused, with an interest in intersections of culture, tech, and science. If you’re interested, apply and check it out. It’ll be great to connect you with the community and talk it through. Come live with meditators, founders, and researchers in September, in either San Francisco or Cambridge!

There’s also an interest application for Edge City Goa. Plans are very early stage for this as well. But if you’re interested in living with passionate meditation people in Edge City India this October, this is for you. It’s also in partnership with a “startup eco-ashram” supporting Indian entrepreneurship in that region. Startup eco-ashram is not something I ever thought I’d say but it’s fantastic that I get to.

A couple things to highlight from the community: first, we’re sharing an opportunity to support Meditation Artifacts if you also happen to be curious about Jhourney’s retreats. For those without context, Jhourney is a sort of tech-aesthetic meditation retreat. It’s definitely pulling from traditional practices, particularly with the framing of Jhana states which are a big part of their focus, but the context feels rooted in a contemporary secular culture more common to the Bay Area. If you join their retreats through our referral then some of the proceeds support Meditation Artifacts, so consider doing that if you are intrigued by their unique approach.

The other community submission to note is the Human Flourishing & AI Retreat in Yorkshire. This is in partnership with the Buddhism & AI initiative, which is interested in using AI to support Buddhism and in turn have the future of artificial intelligence supported by Buddhism. That retreat has scholarship seats for researchers and creatives that are passionate about the future-building opportunities there. Please check this out.

Finally, Meditation Artifacts is a non-profit dedicated to building the future of meditation. Recently we’ve run a number of initiatives that have been incredible yet also required a lot of time, energy, and resources from the volunteers and founders. We’d love to keep offering these initiatives and grow to the point of more sustainable leadership. If this is work that appeals to you, please help support this work. We’re looking for donors and supporters who want to be intimately connected to this work to be our champions. If you know someone like this, or if you are this person, please reach out about how you can get involved and support us to keep this work going.

Thank you all for being a part of this. We’re still only getting started.

Luca Del Deo, Founder of Meditation Artifacts

Featured this month

MonX, Meditation Residency in the Catskills, NY
A focused meditation and work residency lasting one week in the Catskills of upstate New York. Focus on the work that matters to you most while held in community with meditation teachers, a private chef, and a work coach to make one week the model to live by for the rest of your live. This program is perfect for founders, designers, creatives, researchers, and anyone self-motivated to live life to the fullest.
Learn More & Apply →

Things to keep an eye on.

Meditation Artifacts
Date: Moves in after September 1, 2026
Location: San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA
Applications are open for our first long-term residency, a co-living house in two cities for people who want to accelerate their work in community with others who care about the future of our minds. Founders, researchers, creatives, and meditation teachers under one roof, with a daily practice culture and house tuition based on local rent. Special support is available for researchers, creatives, and meditation teachers.
Learn More & Apply

Meditation Artifacts
Date: October 11 to November 1, 2026
Location: Goa, India
Our second hacker house runs for three weeks in Goa as part of Edge City India, a pop-up village gathering builders, researchers, and practitioners. Expect a shared house, a daily practice rhythm, and time to work on what matters to you inside a much larger community. Note that Edge City India tickets are separate and are required for this residency.
Learn More & Apply

The events to know about.

Meditation Artifacts
Date: August 2, 2026 – August 7, 2026
Location: Catskills, New York
A focused meditation and work residency lasting one week in the Catskills of upstate New York. Focus on the work that matters to you most while held in community with meditation teachers, a private chef, and a work coach to make one week the model to live by for the rest of your live. This program is perfect for founders, designers, creatives, researchers, and anyone self-motivated to live life to the fullest.
Learn More & Apply

Meditation Artifacts
Date: Ongoing
Mindful Makers is an initiative partnered with Meditation Artifacts. Every other Saturday, join a mindfulness-themed hackathon developing new technologies, ideas, and interventions related to meditation or mindfulness.
Join the Next Hackathon

Date: September 13 to 19, 2026
Location: Broughton Sanctuary, Skipton, Yorkshire
A week of contemplation at the intersection of AI and human flourishing, drawing on a range of Indo-Tibetan lineages including Kagyu, Nyingma, and Shambhala. The teaching team includes Sophie Maclaren, who trained in the Shambhala tradition as a child and has taught since her twenties, neuroscientist Dr Ruben Laukkonen of the Oxford Flourishing Intelligence Programme, and Jonathan Garner of Mind over Tech and the wisdom + ai initiative, with support from Chris Scammell of the Buddhism & AI Initiative. Stride.VC is sponsoring at least four seats for AI founders and researchers who could not otherwise attend.
Retreat Details & Applications

Any opportunities we have, we share here. Submit your opportunities and we’ll share them in the next Artifact.

Join a citizen science initiative to help build the largest, most comprehensive study of meditation brainwaves ever conducted. The goal: 1,000 meditators. 10,000 sessions. 1,000+ brain features. Every major tradition. Any group of three or more experienced meditators willing to share a loaner Muse headset. Participants receive brainwave-based coaching based on their style and level of practice, plus the warm fuzzy feeling they are contributing to meditation science. Apply at www.IMBR.org.
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Jhourney runs retreats teaching the jhanas, deep states of concentration and pleasure, using modern instruction that helps most participants reach them within a week. Readers of The Artifact can take $250 off an upcoming retreat with the code ARTIFACTS at checkout.
View Upcoming Retreats

If Meditation Artifacts has been a valuable part of your life, consider becoming a Member and supporting us with a donation. We’re a small team and every bit of support means a lot right now. Want to donate to a particular initiative? Contact us for ways to direct your donation.

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