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Workplace Wellness

Practical tools for easing stress, strengthening emotional awareness, and building connection. Experiential workshops and group programs with Maria Toso for businesses, colleges, public agencies, and community organizations.

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Make space to pause, reconnect, and respond.

Demanding work can leave people carrying tension long after the day ends. Powerfully Peaceful offers guided opportunities to notice stress, reconnect with the body, and practice meeting challenging moments with greater awareness and compassion.

Drawing on the eight-step approach in Maria Toso’s book, Heal What Hurts, sessions combine mindfulness, accessible breathing practices, gentle SomaYoga movement, and reflection. Participants explore practical tools they can bring into their workday and daily lives.

Staff Workshops

Engaging sessions for staff development, faculty in-service days, and employee wellbeing events. Topics can include stress awareness, self-compassion, emotional reactivity, and mindful communication.

Small-Group Practice

Facilitated spaces for reflection, mindful breathing, and somatic practice. Participants can explore shared challenges, practice easing bodily tension, and strengthen connection through respectful listening.

Customized Team Programs

A single workshop or a series shaped around your team’s needs. Sessions can combine education and guided practice, with time to explore how the tools apply to everyday workplace experiences.

A practical, embodied approach

Understanding stress is one part of the process. Learning to recognize how it feels in the body creates an opportunity to pause and choose a response. Maria guides participants through approachable practices with room for individual choice.

  • Mindfulness and attention practices.
  • Gentle pranayama and breath awareness.
  • SomaYoga movement and body awareness.
  • Reflection using the eight-step Heal What Hurts approach.
  • Tools for self-compassion and everyday stress management.

Programs can be delivered virtually or in person, with practices adapted to the setting and participants’ needs. No previous yoga or meditation experience is necessary.

Meet Maria Toso

Maria Toso is the author of Heal What Hurts and a yoga, meditation, and somatic practice teacher. She holds a 500-hour SomaYoga Therapy Teacher certificate from Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute and leads healing groups grounded in the approach presented in her book.

Her experience includes facilitating staff in-service sessions at Minneapolis College and Saint Paul College, including a session for approximately 80 faculty members at Saint Paul College. She has also delivered yoga teacher training at four locations. Her teaching brings together reflective learning, guided practice, and tools participants can continue using independently.

These programs provide education and guided wellbeing practices. They do not provide clinical mental health assessment or psychotherapy.

Bring Powerfully Peaceful to your workplace.

Tell us about your team, your goals, and the kind of support you are looking for. Together, we can explore a workshop or program that fits your organization.

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