Meet Maria Toso

Maria Toso is the author of Heal What Hurts: How to Heal Emotional Triggers (Llewellyn Worldwide, September 2025) and the creator of the Heal What Hurts Method, an eight-step somatic and spiritual process that transforms emotional triggers into opportunities for healing, presence, and awakening.

Her work is founded on a simple but profound insight: emotional triggers are not the problem. They are invitations. The recurring conflicts, disappointments, and relationship patterns we experience often reflect unresolved contractions held within the body. By meeting these places with compassionate awareness rather than resistance, the patterns that have shaped our lives can begin to dissolve.

Just as the image projected onto a screen cannot change until the lens is cleaned, our external experience begins to change as the energetic contractions within us soften. As these contractions release, people naturally reconnect with the Divine Light that has always been present beneath fear, shame, and protective patterns. Emotional triggers become sacred doorways to greater freedom, clarity, love, and authentic connection.

Originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, Maria emigrated to the United States in 1998 and has made Minnesota her home while maintaining deep ties to her European roots. Since 2015, she has trained yoga teachers within the Minnesota college system and has led retreats throughout the United States and Europe.

Today, Maria guides people through the Heal What Hurts Method in intimate online coaching circles, retreats, and private mentoring. Her coaching circles offer a profound yet accessible way to practice the eight steps of the process in a supportive community, allowing participants to transform emotional triggers into lasting shifts in how they relate to themselves, others, and life itself.