Maeba Jonas
Author • Speaker • Spiritual Guide
Some things can't be thought through. They must be moved through.
Rev. Maeba Jonas, M.Div.
Ordained minister, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and somatic practitioner.
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Hi, I'm Maeba — an ordained minister, clinical hypnotherapist, and somatic practitioner.
I spent ten years as a college chaplain, with clinical training in the trauma bays of a Level 1 hospital. I climbed high enough in higher education to become an acting associate vice president, so I know from the inside what it is to hold a job that never rests.
Then I lost my mom to cancer. My own health broke open not long after. I left the career I'd spent my life climbing, because staying was costing me my body.
Now I teach leaders and helpers to build communities that thrive, starting with their own capacity — pastors, mothers, founders, nonprofit directors, organizers, the people everyone else leans on. Not by telling you to get more rest. Through real work, in the body, in a community of support, that actually changes how you show up and what you have to offer, without depleting yourself.
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About Me
I hold a Master of Divinity from Yale and I'm an ordained minister in the UCC, a progressive Christian denomination. I'm a certified clinical hypnotherapist, a trauma-informed yoga instructor, and a Gottman-trained relationship coach, and I learned somatic retreat leadership at Shalom Mountain, in a lineage of embodied practice refined over fifty years.
My spiritual study runs wide — I've sat with Buddhist leaders, Christian mystics, Tantric teachers and scholars across many traditions.
I share all that for one reason: this work goes deep, and depth deserves a guide who has trained for it — clinically, theologically, and in her own body.
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You already carry more wisdom than you realize. Much of it you have already thought through. What's left just needs somewhere to move. And a place to land.
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