Unbound Joy.
Ungraspable Freedom.
Coaching for learning the Jhanas and recognizing Nonduality
Jhanas
Beautiful, absorptive meditative states — from ecstatic bliss, to deep quiet contentment, to a dissolving into formless peace — taught through learning to open to your emotional life rather than override it.
Nonduality
Underneath the sense of being a separate self trying to find completion, there’s a freedom already present — unconditional, and available to be recognized right now.
ABOUT
Jonas Mahari
I’ve been practicing for over a decade, including 20+ retreats and several months living in a meditation center. I’m trained as a Three Principles coach, completed the Unified Mindfulness Foundations Teacher Training, and currently teach the Jhanas as a lead facilitator with Jhourney.
Learning the Jhanas has had an immensely healing and integrating effect on me, teaching me to relate to my emotions — especially the difficult ones — with a kindness I didn’t have before.
Discovering nonduality has been the single most impactful thing in my life. Over time, it has led to an immense reduction of my suffering and to a baseline wellbeing that still surprises me. What I bring to coaching is direct experience, a lot of trial and error, and a real passion for helping people find their own way into both the depth of feeling and the freedom underneath it.
A CLOSER LOOK
Jhanas
The jhanas are states of meditative absorption, ranging from ecstatic bliss, to deep quiet contentment, to a felt sense of unity or dissolution into formless peace. I teach the open aware Jhanas, most strongly influenced by the Jhourney approach. Rather than building strong concentration on an object like the breath, you learn to cultivate such a genuine, embodied enjoyment of a positive emotion that the mind becomes fully absorbed in it.
Getting there means meeting the emotions you’ve been avoiding too and learning to open toward them instead of suppressing them. That shift in how you relate to your emotions is arguably as valuable as or even more valuable than the states themselves, because it can lead to less inner conflict, more capacity to actually meet your life instead of struggling with it. Learning the Jhanas in this way really means learning the skill of letting go into your experience without resistance.
Nonduality
We usually live as a separate self — someone defined by a past, a personality, a body, moving through a world that feels solid and out there. Underneath that, there’s often a restlessness, a sense that something is missing, a search for something to complete us.
Nonduality points to the possibility of recognizing that this separation is only apparent — and that the search itself is what creates the restlessness. The recognition itself isn’t something you build toward; it’s simply seen, or it isn’t, in this moment. And yet learning to live from that recognition, letting it settle into how you actually meet your life, tends to be its own unfolding — one that mostly consists of recognizing, again and again, that there was never really a process, or a someone, developing anything.
Discovering Nonduality means discovering a freedom that has no purpose, that is not a means to an end, that’s not reducible to a feeling or a state. As a side effect, this often brings with it the freedom from having to constantly search for something else, from believing the thoughts and stories about who you are, from needing to earn your own okay-ness first, from feeling like life is something you need to figure out.
Working together here can take a lot of different shapes depending on what fits you: sometimes conversation, sometimes direct inquiry, sometimes meditation. The one real requirement is curiosity — a genuine willingness to look.
Opening up emotionally through jhana practice sometimes moves people toward nondual recognition. And nondual recognition sometimes loosens things enough that jhana practice — or life in general — gets easier. You’re welcome to come for one, or both, or start in one and find yourself curious about the other along the way.
How we work together
Sessions look different depending on you and what you’re focused on — sometimes close, technical work refining jhana technique; sometimes a systematic inquiry into the nature of self; sometimes a more free-flowing conversation.
That can include live exploration together — an inquiry question you explore right there, or a guided meditation I lead you through dialogically, adjusting in real time to what you’re experiencing. It can also mean more abstract conversation, or a technique or reflection to take away and work with on your own between sessions.
Pricing
€110
/ session
€110 / session
I usually suggest starting with at least 3 sessions — it tends to take that long to build some real momentum together. If the cost is a barrier, reach out anyway; we can usually find something that works. A free introductory call is always available first, so we can figure out together whether this is a good fit.
What clients say
“When I started doing sessions with Jonas, I had already been on the spiritual path for years, but no matter how long or hard I meditated, a real breakthrough would not come.
It was only in the sessions with Jonas that I experienced profound insights into a deeper truth. I saw through the falseness of the ego ‘I’ and even the illusion of the world as it is usually perceived. In those moments, I often burst into deep, joyful laughter, as everything suddenly became so clear and obvious. This brought a silence and peace within that I had been searching for throughout my spiritual journey.
For me, Jonas is a very special, beautiful human being who has a unique gift for helping people go deep within themselves. I am deeply grateful to him, as he has changed something profoundly in my journey.”
“After years in the Three Principles and a retreat where I’d struggled to navigate the Jhanas, I was looking for support that could meet both my background and my experience. Jonas helped me bridge my understanding of the Three Principles with the direct experience of the Jhanas. His kindness, clarity, and simple approach made deep awareness feel natural and accessible – something woven into life rather than reserved for retreats. Working with him brought a sense of ease and confidence to my practice, and a deeper appreciation for how ordinary and profound awareness can be.”
“Jonas is a real gift in my life. I‘ve met other teachers, but only with him I finally saw clearly what before I knew only on a intellectual level. Each time we speak, he points me back to my true nature, and helps me to see through the veil of thinking and illusion.
Even if they are just short glimpses, but these moments of clear seeing are so profound that they are changing completely my view of the life and the world as I knew it before.”
“I’ve been working with Jonas for several months. Despite my own years of consciousness work, I’m very grateful to have found him. Through his clarity and presence, he helps me see more clearly that I don’t need to identify with my intense thoughts. This gives me inner spaciousness, healthy neutrality, and greater equanimity. If you want to learn more about yourself and achieve greater inner peace and clarity, I warmly recommend Jonas!”