Maeba Jonas
Writer • Speaker • Spiritual Somatic Guide
Some things can't be thought through. They must be moved through.
Rev. Maeba Jonas, M.Div.
Finding Your Sacred Compass Retreat
September 23 - 26, 2026.
Four days in the Shenandoah foothills, eight people, and the last retreat at this price. (Early bird: $1,200 through September 1 - $1500 full price)
Only 5 seats remaining!
I know you are already doing everything right. The therapy, the yoga, the meditation, and still something isn't moving. That's not a failure of effort. It's usually because there's a specific emotion still living in your body that you haven't consciously found yet, and self-care alone doesn't surface it.
As a somatic practitioner and spiritual guide, I help people discover what their spirit is trying to tell them, and learn how to face those emotions head on, in order to increase their capacity for care for themselves and others.
Take the quiz to discover the primary emotion your body is holding — and what is waiting for you on the other side
Ways to Work Together
A Single Season
One-on-one work for wherever you are in this particular season of your life. Three months of private sessions every other week, shaped entirely around what's actually holding you back, and creating real change from the inside out.
3-month coaching program
Leadership Training
A year-long formation for those carrying the weight of leading, in whatever form that takes for you. Over four seasons, you build the capacity to hold more, without it costing you everything.
Year-long program for thinkers and visionaries
Four days in the MountainsThe Retreat
Four days on fifty acres in the Shenandoah foothills, meeting what's underneath the exhaustion. A place to slow down enough for the deeper patterns to actually move.
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 believe this work is sacred, and to do it well, one must have done their own work — clinically, theologically, and in her own body. That is why I share my story and so much of my life through my work.
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