Marissa
Abisai Ceja
I did not study healing.
I lived it.
I have guided hundreds of clients through some of the most profound healing experiences of their lives. I work with breath, the body, sound, and the nervous system. I hold space for what talk therapy cannot always reach.
I was trained by some of the world's most respected teachers in breathwork and somatic transformation: Dan Brulé, Kute Blackson, Sadhguru, Bibi Brozozka, and Chris Keener.
But my deepest credential is not a certificate.
It is what I have been through.
The story
behind the work
I grew up learning to survive. Trauma at a very young age taught my body that pain was not safe to feel. I learned to hold my breath. To push forward. To perform. To build a life that looked like everything was fine.
By 15, I was a mother. By 16, married and working. By my 30s, I was a senior executive in retail - successful by every metric, and emotionally disconnected from myself in ways I could not yet name.
Born in Mexico City, raised in Orange County, California, and living between Laguna Beach and Tulum, I have always lived between worlds. And in that in-between space, I learned to disappear.
Inside, I was terrified.— Marissa
Outside, I looked unshakeable.
The turning
point
When my daughter left for college, and when a toxic marriage finally ended, there was nothing left to run to. For the first time, I had to sit with myself. And I did not know how.
I sought real help - not another coping mechanism, but a full-body intervention. I flew to Bali. I surrendered. I let my old life fall apart so something true could be born.
I discovered that you cannot heal in the same environment that shaped your trauma. You need space, depth, and complete presence - from yourself, and from your guide.
This is not a career.
This is a calling.
I live between Laguna Beach, California, and Tulum, Mexico - in places that hold the frequency I bring into every session.
My mission is singular: to create a space where the body can finally say what the mind has been afraid to feel.
I work with emotional release, breathwork, somatic pressure, inner child reconnection, and expanded states of consciousness. I am trauma-informed. I am intuitive. I have walked the path.
That is why I can guide you through it.