Marissa Rose

Embodiment. Intimacy.
Spiritual mentorship.

About Marissa

I work with the whole woman. Body and belief. Sex and spirit. Nervous system and desire. Relationships and ritual. Healing and creation. The mystical experience and what you do with it when you wake up the next morning.

Marissa in white, standing beside the temple’s lace curtains.

Who am I?

I’m Marissa Rose—a women’s spiritual mentor, intimacy coach, bodyworker, ritualist, and lifelong student of what it means to be fully alive in a human body.

I’m also much sillier than I probably seem. I love storytelling, poetry, baths, and getting absorbed in stretching because something feels good. Nutrition and nourishment matter deeply to me. I’m madly in love with my husband, and there is a lot of laughter and goofiness in our life together.

Embodiment is woven into how I eat, love, listen, and meet what comes up. I’ve gained skills and gathered tools, and I’m still learning to stay with myself—to notice the ways I hide, the places I can soften, and how to bring what I know into how I live.

I’m not perfect, and I’m still on this journey. We all are.
Black-and-white portrait of Marissa looking toward the camera, her chin resting on her hand in a garden.

My story

I grew up between two opposite households: one filled with chaos, instability, and unsafety; the other shaped by religious dogma, control, and discipline. Between these worlds, I learned to hide parts of myself.

At nineteen, on a mission trip to Haiti, I had an experience I would later understand as a spontaneous kundalini awakening. I felt profoundly connected to Spirit and the oneness of everything. It changed the direction of my life, but I still carried the trauma and patterns I hadn’t learned how to meet.

The work that followed was learning how to stay with myself. To be alone. To listen to my body. To bring what I had experienced spiritually into the life I was actually living.

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Dissociation had become familiar. Sometimes that looked like overachieving; sometimes sex, substances, or external validation—anything that let me avoid being alone with myself.

I was taught to be a good girl, to remain a virgin until marriage, and to understand sex and pleasure as something for a man. Alongside these teachings, I experienced childhood sexual trauma. When memories surfaced in college, I began questioning Bible college, my religion, the narratives I’d inherited, and God.

I went to Haiti hoping to find God again. Near a sacred waterfall, I experienced that awakening, with very little language or support to help me integrate it. The years that followed were curious, experimental, and sometimes chaotic. I explored with a freedom I hadn’t known before—and can now see how some of that exploration helped me avoid the void I felt inside.

Eventually, I began listening to what was asking for my attention. That relationship with myself is still unfolding.

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Why embodiment?

Because the body is where everything meets. Your beliefs. Trauma. Desire. Sexuality. Intuition. Boundaries. Habits. Spirituality. Relationships. Pleasure. The way you move through an ordinary Tuesday morning. Embodiment gives everything we awaken somewhere to land.

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My own relationship with embodiment began to deepen at twenty-four, when I met my first embodiment mentor in Boston. When she mentioned conscious menstruation, I internally cringed. I hated my period. And yet something in me knew I wanted to work with her.

I began learning consent with my own body: how to listen and make room for what I felt, even when it conflicted with someone else’s voice. Through Reiki, ritual, sacred sexuality, Priestess Temple arts, and somatic practices, I discovered that I actually desired to live in my body.

I still have moments of disconnection. Nervous system regulation has been powerful in my life, and sometimes we can use tools as ways to hide from ourselves. For me, the practice is returning to what is here, moment by moment.

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Sexuality, pleasure + bliss

Because Eros is life force. It is the pulse underneath desire, creativity, sexuality, appetite, expression, and the instinct that says I want to be here. When a woman reconnects with her pleasure and erotic intelligence, she reconnects with an extraordinary source of information, vitality, and creative power.

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For me, reconnecting with pleasure began with questioning what I’d been taught. Who was pleasure for? What was I allowed to desire? Reframing “losing my virginity” as my sexual debut helped me question the stories I had inherited. I encourage women to explore their own narratives and discover what feels true for them.

Grief has been one of my biggest initiations into bliss. I’m learning to hold them together, allowing all parts of myself to exist. When I speak of bliss, I’m drawing from my experience of Ananda, the divine joy I’ve encountered through spiritual exploration.

In everyday life, that might be crying with someone I love and feeling deeply seen. Or a hot bath where nothing matters except the feeling of hands on skin. Bliss can be a healing balm, even when it is only a flicker in the shadows.

My background includes working as a nanny and earning a degree in early childhood education. Allowing Eros into motherhood is a passion of mine. I love supporting mothers postpartum as they reconnect with their bodies and discover what pleasure, desire, and intimacy mean in this season of life.

Sacred Union

My husband and I met when I was twenty-one. What began as young, passionate love has grown through many deaths and rebirths, from codependent patterns toward a more secure, conscious relationship.

Spirituality is at the core of our relationship. We practice Tantra and sacred sexuality together, sometimes in multi-hour ceremonies, deepening our intimacy and devotion to one another.

Partnership keeps teaching me to stay with myself while staying present with another—to notice when I want to run or hide, and to sit with discomfort, bliss, pleasure, joy, and grief.

We are still learning together. Our love is a living temple, built on devotion, practice, and transformation.

Marissa and Eric together on their wedding day.

What makes my approach different

I care about what happens after an awakening or a powerful experience—how it becomes part of your relationships, your choices, and your everyday life.

I begin with the belief that you are already whole, with parts of you waiting to be heard and capacities ready to awaken. Your own discernment matters. I want you to feel free to question, explore, and stay connected to your own truth.

In my presence

I want you to feel empowered. Confident in your own knowing. Excited about your desires and what is possible in your life.

I want you to feel seen in your radiance, supported in your growth, and free to be yourself. There is room for laughter, pleasure, and celebration here—and space to soften, cry, and meet what feels tender.

I’ll celebrate your bliss, hold space for your grief, and challenge you when familiar patterns get in the way of what you want. I’ll hold a candle while you learn to witness your own light.

Even the parts that feel difficult to love belong. So much of becoming is unbecoming everything that you aren’t. I’m walking that path too.

All parts of you are welcome here—shadow and light.

Philosophy

I believe pleasure is our birthright, Eros is a sacred life force, and the body is one of our greatest technologies for creation.

You are allowed to question the beliefs and expectations you’ve inherited, listen to your body, and make choices from a place of embodied agency.

My work is never about creating women who think like me. I want women who know how to think, feel, discern, choose, and create for themselves.

Training + credentials

  • B.S. in Education, Ohio Dominican University · Early Childhood Education
  • Trauma-informed Somatic Sexology · Sexological Bodywork training through the Institute of Somatic Sexology
  • Certified Cacao Facilitator through One World Cacao
  • Reiki Master · Energy healing + ritual practice
  • Tantric Priestess Temple Arts · Rose Lineage / sacred feminine mystery work
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