Family Style Retreat in Cozy Living Forest
Heal What Hurts Retreat: How to Heal Emotional Triggers
Living Forest Retreat, Costa Rica | March 8-12, 2026
WITH MARIA TOSO
Emotional Freedom & Divine Embodiment
Join Maria Toso—author of Heal What Hurts: How to Heal Emotional Triggers—as we dive deep into the one-of-a-kind healing process laid out in her transformational book.
Over the past decade, Maria has guided hundreds of students to free themselves from compulsive reactivity—the unconscious patterns that keep us stuck in emotional pain, disrupt our relationships, and exhaust our bodies.
This retreat offers a sacred container to do the real inner work: to meet the contracted places inside your body with loving presence, and allow them to release back into Light.
Through the Heal What Hurts method—a gentle, Divinely assisted process—you’ll learn to:
Recognize your emotional triggers as doorways to freedom rather than obstacles.
Understand and transcend the Three Outs—the instinct to lash out, numb out, or check out.
Reverse those cycles and return home to the body, where true transformation occurs.
Dissolve the painful, repetitive patterns that have lived in your body for years.
Allow your Higher Self essence to fill the space that once held contraction, fear, or shame.
A 4-day journey of healing, empowerment, and deep connection with the Divine Light Within
Shedding the contracted knots inside sets you free
When we’re triggered, we tend to fall into one of what I call “the three outs”—our habitual ways of escaping discomfort:
Lash out – trying to change or control the other.
Numb out – using food, substances, or screens to avoid feeling.
Check out – retreating into the intellect or detaching from emotion altogether.
Each “out” leads us away from ourselves. In this retreat, you’ll learn to reverse that cycle—to go inward instead of outward, to meet the contraction instead of fleeing from it. You’ll practice the real work of healing: staying present with what arises in your body until it softens and releases back into love.
What you’ll experience
Heal What Hurts Workshops
Connect with your inner power to heal what is contracted inside
Breathwork & Soma Yoga
Release emotional blocks and step into deep self-love.
Therapeutic Art
Experience the healing power of allowing and flowing with color and shapes.
Nature Immersion & Movement
Let the natural hotsprings of Costa Rica help you release tension from the body
Daily Meditation and Visioning
Learn how to nourish and balance your life.
Evening Yoga Nidra Practice
Integrate and deepen your experience.
Where you’ll stay
Living Forest Retreat Center, Costa Rica
A sanctuary of peace surrounded by jungle and a melodic creek
✔ Shared family style accommodations (2 per room)
✔ All meals included – Fresh, local, nourishing cuisine
✔ Wood-fired Sauna & cool creek
✔ Let the vibrant energy of nature heal your body and mind
What’s Included
6 nights at Living Forest Retreat Center
All meals & snacks at the center
Daily yoga, meditation & embodiment practices
Day Trip to Hot Springs
Healing circles, rituals & workshops
Not Included: Flights, Taxi from airport (one hour drive) a few meals out, travel insurance, optional healing sessions.
Investment & Payment Options
Investment: $2,888
Secure your spot with a $500 deposit
Payment plans available – reach out to discuss options!
Your Guide
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Maria Toso
Somatic Healing Coach, Yoga Educator & Author
Maria Toso is a Danish-born somatic healing coach, internationally recognized yoga educator and theauthor of The Heal What Hurts Process. With over 30 years of teaching experience across the U.S. and Europe, Maria is known for her deeply intuitive approach to healing emotional triggers through movement, breathwork, and embodied presence.
A masterful guide in both personal transformation and professional training, Maria has led hundreds of students through yoga teacher certifications and healing intensives, empowering them to release long-held tension, regulate their nervous systems, and reclaim their inner radiance. Her work blends somatic awareness with spiritual depth, inviting students to return home to their bodies and live from a place of grounded clarity and grace.
This isn’t just a retreat—it’s a homecoming to yourself.
Are you ready to release, heal, and step fully into your power?