Maria Toso, The Heal What Hurts Process

09/21/2026

Are you a new yoga teacher who knows you probably need a website, but keeps putting it off?

When I teach Yoga Teacher Training, one of the subjects I teach is the Business of Yoga, and I have seen again and again that creating a professional presence can feel like a much bigger step than people expect. A website isn’t just about picking a template and adding your class schedule. It asks you to get clear about who you are as a teacher, what you want to offer, who you want to serve, and then have the confidence to actually put yourself out there and say, “This is what I do.”

I love helping new teachers through that process, so I’m now offering website creation specifically for yoga teachers. I can help you choose and purchase your domain, figure out what pages you actually need, organize your classes and offerings, build the site, and create a beautiful, professional home for your work. And because I’m also a professional writer and published author, I can help you with the words too, so your website actually sounds like you rather than generic yoga copy.

A simple website might include three or four pages introducing you and your teaching, your classes and offerings, and an easy way for students to connect with you. A shop can also be added if you need one.

My introductory website package is $1,200, and payment plans are available. I only take on one website per week so I can give each person my full attention, and I currently have room for two clients in October.

If you’ve been hesitating because creating a website feels overwhelming, send me a DM and tell me a little about where you are in your teaching journey. I’d love to help you get your work out into the world.

09/19/2026

09/16/2026

Join me for donation meditation on Zoom Wednesday night!

09/15/2026

I love to pray. I have prayed since I was a little kid. Sometimes inside myself, sometimes out loud, sometimes at my journal, sometimes with other people. Today I was contemplating how I got into Prayer and how my prayers have changed over the years. Specifically; how I used to pray to get out of something and now, I feel that what really works, is asking God, the divine, Loving Presence to descend with me into something painful and transform it rather than escape it… I wonder what your thoughts are. …

09/15/2026

I love to pray. I have prayed since I was a little kid. Sometimes inside myself, sometimes out loud, sometimes at my journal, sometimes with other people. Today I was contemplating how I got into Prayer and how my prayers have changed over the years. Specifically; how I used to pray to get out of something and now, I feel that what really works, is asking God, the divine, Loving Presence to descend with me into something painful and transform it rather than escape it… I wonder what your thoughts are. … healingjourney Godisgood

09/15/2026

I love to pray. I have prayed since I was a little kid. Sometimes inside myself, sometimes out loud, sometimes at my journal, sometimes with other people. Today I was contemplating how I got into Prayer and how my prayers have changed over the years. Specifically; how I used to pray to get out of something and now, I feel that what really works, is asking God, the divine, Loving Presence to descend with me into something painful and transform it rather than escape it… I wonder what your thoughts are. …

08/22/2026

Ages ago, a teacher told me that we have little spirit guides around us called “runners.” They’re always nearby, eager to help with the little things of daily life, especially finding those darn things that mysteriously disappear.

I taught my kids to ask the runners for help when they were little, and they both swear by it to this day. I even had a friend in Como Park who didn’t believe in anything supernatural tell me, “I don’t believe in any of this stuff, but I have to admit, the runners work.”

The trick is, you can’t be tight and frantic when you ask. You ask for help, then let go. Stop obsessively looking, loosen up, and somehow the thing tends to appear when you least expect it.

Which brings me to my favorite glasses. They’re perfect for traveling because they transition into sunglasses, and right before leaving for Ireland, they completely disappeared. I searched my car, bags, purses, pockets, everywhere. Nothing.

Finally I said, “Runners, when you see them, please show me where they are. I really want to take them to Ireland.” And I stopped looking.

TODAY, the day before I leave, I went to Mississippi Market for candied ginger and discovered their Concord grapes. Oh my God. Absolutely divine.

I got back into my car, pulled out a cluster, and one little grape escaped and disappeared under my seat. I reached down to find it, felt around, found the grape…and then my hand touched something else.

MY GLASSES.

Completely unscathed, sitting under my seat the entire time.

So thank you once again, runners. Apparently you knew exactly where they were. You just needed to wait for the right moment and enlist the help of a runaway Concord grape. 😂🍇

(Better than a wasp sting, but that’s another story.)

Ireland, here I come, favorite glasses and all. 🇮🇪

08/21/2026

1. You can’t change another person. Like, ever.
2. You can change yourself, with love. Loving Presence, right there where it hurts.
3. Sit in body scan meditation. Every. Single. Day.
4. Enjoy every second with your kids. Time really does fly, just like old people always say.
5. Discipline is good.
6. So is wasting time doing absolutely nothing.
7. Speak love over your body. All the time.
8. It’s okay if you no longer feel European but don’t quite feel American either.
9. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. The first time.
10. You’re going to need more and more alone time. And that’s okay.

08/16/2026

Even yogis get triggered.

We may know how to breathe through a difficult asana, quiet the mind in meditation, and talk beautifully about presence and equanimity. But what happens when someone says the one thing that gets under our skin? When an old relationship pattern gets activated and suddenly we’re reacting from a much smaller version of ourselves?

An emotional trigger isn’t just a thought. We experience it in the body as contraction, a place where breath, prana, and our natural loving presence no longer seem to flow freely.

When that contraction is activated, we tend to go out: we lash out, numb out, or check out.

Heal What Hurts offers another possibility: go in.

Join author and longtime yoga teacher Maria Toso for an experiential two-hour workshop based on her book Heal What Hurts, published by Llewellyn Worldwide.

Through yoga, breath, meditation, and somatic awareness, we’ll explore where emotional pain actually lives in the body and practice meeting those contracted places with loving presence rather than resistance.

In yogic language, we might understand this loving presence as Purusha, the deeper Self that can witness what is happening without becoming completely identified with it.

As the contraction softens, something beautiful becomes possible: we can respond from that deeper Self instead of automatically reenacting an old pattern.

Come with a real trigger from your own life. Leave with practices you can use when life, relationships, and yes, even your fellow yogis, inevitably push your buttons.

Yoga beyond the poses.
From emotional trigger to loving presence.

Saturday, August 29 | 3–5 PM
Temple Bar Yoga, Dublin art