PRACTICE · CONNECTION · PERSONAL SUPPORT
Find Your Way to Begin.
Everyone's journey is different. Whether you want practices you can return to at home, a monthly opportunity to release tension, the support of a small circle of women, or dedicated individual guidance, you can find a way to begin that feels right for you.
PRACTICE AT YOUR OWN PACE
Practice with Maria
Support for the moments when you need to slow down and reconnect.
A growing collection of guided meditations, yoga classes, and talks to help you settle your mind, reconnect with your body, and cultivate loving presence. Practice at home, on your schedule, whenever you need a place to return to.
$12 / month First month free with code FREEMONTH. On-demand meditations, yoga classes & talks.
EXPLORE PRACTICE WITH MARIALIVE MONTHLY BODY PRACTICE
Monthly Nervous System Reset
When stress and tension have become your body's familiar way of being.
Six guided workshops combining SomaYoga, mindful movement, gentle stretching, pranayama, meditation, and deep relaxation. Slow down, explore releasing accumulated tension, and rediscover what it feels like to be comfortable and present in your own body.
$297 / six workshops Six 90-minute workshops · Live on Zoom · Replays included
EXPLORE NERVOUS SYSTEM RESETHEALING IN COMMUNITY
Heal What Hurts Women's Circle
When you're ready for personal guidance and the support of other women.
A supportive, women-only circle limited to six participants. Meet weekly to explore emotional triggers, practice the Heal What Hurts Process, and develop greater self-trust and emotional steadiness. Receive individual attention within a caring community.
$197 / month Weekly 90-minute Zoom sessions · Monthly Nervous System Reset included
EXPLORE THE WOMEN'S CIRCLEINDIVIDUAL GUIDANCE
Private Coaching with Maria
When painful patterns are affecting your relationships and daily life.
A twelve-week private journey shaped around your own experience. Together, we explore emotional triggers and relationship patterns, practice meeting what hurts with loving presence, and develop ways to respond with greater clarity, steadiness, and self-trust.
$2,700 / 12 weeks Begin with a complimentary 30-minute introductory call
EXPLORE PRIVATE COACHINGNot sure where to begin? Experience the free Heal What Hurts meditation and practice companion. No signup required.
MARIA TOSO · AUTHOR & CREATOR OF THE HEAL WHAT HURTS PROCESS
Heal What Hurts. Come Home to Yourself.
Are you tired of being at the mercy of your emotional triggers?
An unanswered message. A critical comment. Someone you love pulling away. Your stomach tightens, your thoughts race, and suddenly you may lash out, numb out, or check out.
There is another way to meet what hurts.
Guided Heal What Hurts meditation and printable four-page practice companion. Free access. No signup required.
Loving Presence Heals.
WHAT MAKES HEAL WHAT HURTS DIFFERENT
You Can Understand Your Triggers and Still Be Controlled by Them.
Sometimes we know exactly why we're reacting. We understand our childhood experiences, recognize our relationship patterns, and can explain why certain situations hurt. Yet when the next trigger comes, our reactions can feel just as powerful as before.
Perhaps you know that being ignored reminds you of feeling abandoned as a child. Perhaps you understand why criticism makes you feel inadequate, or why someone's anger immediately sends you into anxiety.
You may have spent years reflecting on these experiences. And that understanding can be valuable. But when the familiar situation arises, your stomach still contracts, your chest tightens, and your old reactions return.
Emotional pain isn't experienced only in our thoughts. We also experience it physically, through sensations of tightness, heaviness, pressure, or contraction in the body.
In the Heal What Hurts Process, we learn to recognize these sensations and gently turn toward them with loving presence. Rather than automatically escaping what we feel, we practice staying connected to ourselves.
With patience and practice, this can open the possibility of responding with greater steadiness, compassion, and emotional freedom.
EXPLORE THE HEAL WHAT HURTS PROCESS →You don't have to keep escaping what hurts inside you. You can learn to become your own loving presence.
A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR GUIDE
Hello Friend, I'm Maria.
I'm an author, yoga and meditation teacher, and the creator of the Heal What Hurts Process. For more than thirty years, I've explored how movement, meditation, and loving presence can help us find a steadier connection with ourselves.
My teaching brings together somatic awareness, yoga, meditation, and prayer. Whether you practice independently with my guided meditations and yoga classes, join me for a live Nervous System Reset workshop, become part of the Heal What Hurts Women's Circle, or work with me privately, my invitation is the same: listen to your own experience and meet yourself with greater kindness.
I'm also the author of Heal What Hurts, published by Llewellyn, and the founder of Powerfully Peaceful, bringing yoga and mindfulness into schools and communities.
You can learn to stay connected to yourself, even when something hurts.
With love, Maria
MORE ABOUT MARIAMEET MARIA · HEAL WHAT HURTS
Hear the Story Behind Heal What Hurts.
At the launch of my book, I shared why emotional triggers can keep us caught in familiar patterns, how we experience emotional pain in the body, and how loving presence offers another way forward.
Loving Presence Heals.
This recording includes my book-launch talk, an experience of the Heal What Hurts practice, and a conversation with the audience. You're welcome to watch at your own pace.
BOOK-LAUNCH RECORDING · BEGINS AT 5:37
EXPERIENCE HEAL WHAT HURTS — FREETHE BOOK BY MARIA TOSO
Heal What Hurts
How to Heal Emotional Triggers
What if an emotional trigger could become an invitation to return to yourself?
In Heal What Hurts, I share the eight-step process at the heart of my teaching: learning to recognize what is happening within you, understand how emotional pain is experienced in the body, and meet it with loving presence.
Discover a more compassionate response to the moments that make you lash out, numb out, or check out. This is a practice you can bring into everyday life, supporting a steadier relationship with yourself and the people you love.
Curious about the process? Experience the free Heal What Hurts meditation and practice companion.
By Maria Toso · Published by Llewellyn
Bring the practice into your life.
EXPERIENCES OF WORKING WITH MARIA
In Their Own Words.
Sometimes the most meaningful part of working with someone is feeling genuinely seen, heard, and supported. Here are two personal reflections from people who have worked with me.
A HEARTFELT RECOMMENDATION
RUN, don't walk to work with Maria Toso!
She's kind, relatable, and has an amazing gift to share with the world. If you're open to changing up the same stories you've been telling yourself for years, contact Maria immediately.
FEELING SEEN AND HEARD
I felt seen and heard by her in a way that I have only rarely experienced.
My first session with Maria was powerful.
Selected excerpts from testimonials about individual experiences of working with Maria. Each person's experience is unique.
A LITTLE PRACTICE · A LOVING RETURN
Begin Where You Are. Come As You Are.
You don't need to have everything figured out to begin. Make a little room to breathe, reconnect with your body, and listen to what is asking for your attention.
Whether you begin with a free meditation, develop a practice at your own pace, join a live workshop or a supportive circle, or explore private coaching, my invitation is always the same: meet yourself with loving presence, exactly where you are.
The guided meditation and practice companion are free, with no signup required. The complimentary 30-minute introductory call is for those considering private coaching.
With love, Maria