A healing practice, a learning space, and a pretty cool shop.
Intuitive sessions, creative classes, special events, and a community of people who are curious about what else is possible. Downtown Easton.
Creative Spirit is a healing practice, a learning space, and a shop. People come here for all kinds of reasons. Some are in the middle of something hard. Some are curious about the parts of life that don’t fit neatly into language. Some walk in because they saw the candles through the window and wanted to see what was inside.
The work here is intuitive and energy-based. It’s also direct, grounded, and sometimes funny. I don’t do scripts. I don’t do formulas. I sit with you and I tell you what I see. If you’ve never tried anything like this, you’ll find the door is wider than you think.
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Holistic Healing
An Expansive, Deeply Therapeutic Approach to Spirit Therapy
A form of spirit therapy that blends intuitively guided conversation, psychic reading, and energy healing into one expansive session.
Holistic Healing is a name given to a form of healing that is actually pretty hard to name. It is deeply therapeutic, but it is not therapy. It blends psychic work and intuitive guidance, but it is not a psychic reading—and it is not something you'd find at a boardwalk, a fair, or a metaphysical shop. It is deeply spiritual, but it is not dogmatic, religious, or prescriptive.
Is This Session For You?
These sessions are designed for anyone who has felt disconnected from their life force. Specifically, they are for:
The Quietly Lonely: The people who feel different from those around them, experiencing a subtle isolation that permeates every corner of daily life.
The Over-Analysed: The person who has done all of the traditional therapy, who can intellectually name all the ways they’ve been broken and rebuilt—and yet, still feels something vital is missing.
The Emotionally Disconnected: Those who hold an intellectual belief in things greater than themselves and have a deep sense of meaning, but feel a total emotional disconnect from the feelings that should accompany such faith.
The Grieving & Transitioning: Anyone struggling to process the loss of a loved one, the loss of a life they once thought was theirs forever, a loss of purpose, or a loss of faith. It is for those learning to believe that they deserve forgiveness, second chances, and new opportunities.
The Anatomy of a Session
Honoring Space, Not the Clock
Every session lasts around three hours. I don't set a timer, and I don't watch a clock. When clients come, they come carrying loads so old and heavy that time cannot have a say in how we work through it. I always tell clients to put three hours on the parking meter, knowing we might need to re-up.
Our time together is structured in intentional, gentle waves:
Hour 1: Acclimation & Archaeology
Our time together is deep and intimate. I spend the early minutes helping us both acclimate to each other's energy and the work ahead. I help you feel completely safe, opening up aspects of your personal energy field that have been hard to reach. By the end of our first hour, we are synced up and moving through the same field of energy—exploring artifacts together, noting the markings on them, and uncovering the hidden history behind the exact energies you brought into the room.
Hour 2: Connection & Dissolving Blocks
By the second hour, we begin seeing the grand connections. We dissolve energetic blocks through simple awareness and understanding, unlocking whole rooms of potential that may have been closed to you for your entire life.
Hour 3: The Shift & 10,000-Foot Perspective
We reach a place of full understanding. We step back to a 10,000-foot perspective, looking down to see both the history and geography of the landscape of your soul, your human lifetime, and the divine purpose in it all. From that perspective comes a physical, emotional, and spiritual shift. We leave the old stories where they are, prepare the body, mind, and spirit, and get ready to head into new terrain.
The Energy Healing Room
Integration and Deep Rest
When the intellectual and intuitive shift happens, we switch physical and spatial gears. We move to the energy healing room—a safe, quiet space filled with soft textures, warm glows, and soothing music.
This is a process of love, peace, comfort, and hope that requires nothing of you but rest.
You will lie on a massage table, fully clothed, covered in blankets, and supported by pillows. Clients are offered eye masks, candles are lit, and scents and sounds bring the physical and spiritual into communion. While your physical body gets the deep, molecular-level rest it needs to heal, I begin the work of energy healing—an ancient, intuitive blend of healing on the energetic plane that spans space, time, and lifetimes.
Using prayer, shamanic healing methods, and frequency work, I connect with your energy to dust away old blocks and patch up old wounds. Together, we call upon your higher self, guides, and protective beings to experience the beauty of becoming loving awareness—consciousness remembering who you really are and where you have always belonged.
The Integration & Beyond
Hour 4: Grounding & The Echo
By the fourth hour, we are wrapping up—drinking water, grounding with chocolate or snacks, and discussing where to go from here.
After you leave, the work continues. You will receive a full, detailed summary of our session via email, along with a curated set of suggested readings and integration exercises. These post-session emails are often as powerful as the sessions themselves; clients hold onto them for years as touchstones to note how far they’ve come.
The Ripple Effect
In a giant nutshell, that’s the experience—but it is also so much more. This work has an expansive, miraculous ripple effect on the lives of those around you. Transformation takes place in ways that make it clear: this work isn't just about healing ourselves, it's about healing ourselves on behalf of those who aren't able to do it yet.
Continuity of Care
The Initial Journey: Clients typically find that three Holistic Healing sessions over a six-month period allow them to feel fully complete with this deep layer of work. The cadence is entirely guided by your own readiness and need.
Maintenance: Afterward, clients often return purely for Energy Healing to maintain their new frequency, or for shorter Intuitive Guidance sessions when life presents fresh challenges and requires a quick reconnection to a higher perspective.
Nervous System Reset: For those simply wishing to return to the peace and magic of our space, we offer sessions on our sound bed—a vibroacoustic therapy lounge that induces homeostasis, resets the nervous system, and provides physical relief from pain and anxiety.
What Clients are Saying
The sessions that take place post Holistic Healing are potent and powerful experiences in their own right. They are each designed to give clients a specific type of peace and confidence. Read below to understand when to book which session and how to use the offerings at Creative Spirit to help your life feel light, hopeful, and full of joyful possibility. No matter what your starting point.
Beyond Holistic Healing
Intuitive Guidance
This is a pathway for those seeking clarity about things happening in life that feel big, challenging, and worth understanding from a spiritual perspective.
In its simplest form, this is therapeutic psychic work. Clients come with questions, issues, worries, and concerns and together, through psychic exploration, we uncover the reasons, the ways forward, and the lessons these moments are trying to teach.
Clients find these sessions helpful when the noise is loud and the answers feel like they’re coming in a whisper.
75 Minute SessionEnergy healing
Energy Healing is a process of tuning into a client’s energy field to find the places that are holding onto pain, blockages, and stagnancy. These are the energies that prevent us from truly connecting with the beauty, hope, and possibility of life- things available to us even in the darkest of times.
Clients come ready to surrender to the work, rest and allow, release and reset. Through prayer, hands on and hands off energy movement, and shamanic practices, something is able to upgrade in our personal energy raising our frequency, expanding our light, and connecting us to the energy of a divine life force that flows through everything.
75 Minute SessionThe Threshold
A guided journey experience that helps you access the realms many use psychedelics to access. This is not about me, Marisa, offering you anything but steadiness in an exploration through your consciousness, other dimensions, and even other lifetimes.
People take these journeys through “inner-space” to find things that are beyond the realm of our thinking brain yet help us to reconcile so much of what we experience in our day to day existence.
It is recommended that clients who come for this do so knowing they will be the navigator and pilot of this ship while resting easy that Marisa will be ready to offer guidance, assistance, and integration of what is discovered on the journey.
Once your session is booked, you will be given a workbook to help you prepare, help me tailor your experience, and help you once the journey is over.
This is a truly powerful and transformative experience that has the power to unlock inner wisdom and higher planes of consciousness.
75 MinutesExperiences and Classes
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Monthly Classes
Group energy healing. Intuitive writing. A bookclub for the spiritually curious. A monthly gathering around the big “life and the nature of reality” questions. And so much more. These are the things that happen here every month, and the people who come tend to keep coming.
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Guest Facilitators
Cacao ceremonies with Jessie Mino. Business and soul astrology with Marissa Fontana. Art experiences with Kelly Forté. Yoga nidra, creative writing, business leader led workshops, and more. All led by practitioners I know and trust, bringing their own work into this room for one-night-only experiences you won’t find anywhere else in the valley.
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Deeper Study
Multi-session courses for people who want to go further. The Invisible Architecture: learning to see the belief systems running your life. Intuitive development. Energy work fundamentals. The seven chakras and more. This is where curiosity turns into a real practice.
The shop
In 2020, during a pandemic and a time of deep personal turmoil, I felt rather lost. Creative Spirit was already a thing, my sessions were popular by word of mouth alone, and I was experiencing a time of real success despite the imposed isolation the world was experiencing. I was a lucky one.
But the weight of what was going on around me, the pressure of trying to make things feel safe, happy, and full of hope for the children that depended on me all created a sort of empty paralysis inside of me. Friends were losing faith, family members were watching funerals on zoom, and the remnants of a life that felt familiar and predictable were eradicated and, along with them, my own creative spark.
Creativity was something that healed me, brought me somewhere sacred, and connected me with a sense of faith in the world that I was terrified I was losing.
In a moment that I can only call fate, I scrolled my phone looking for “art supplies that I can keep with me on the couch.” I knew I wasn’t getting back to my large canvases anytime soon. The jewelry I used to love making had too many parts and the effort involved had at times made me tired before I even took it all out.
The paints I found, Vivia Watercolors, were the spark for what has now become the entire shop. Easy, pocket friendly, watercolors that made the most amazing things and, most importantly, could be used while watching mindless TV and sitting on the couch.
In 2020, it was all I could muster.
That rabbit hole of searching for those water colors took me to the weirdest places and I swear something divine was guiding me the whole time. I ended up seeing these pillows on Pinterest during my search that just wouldn’t leave my brain. Cai and Jo, a brand of bright vibrant colors and images inspired me to freshen up my space with throw pillows that I just didn’t know were out there. Then I stumbled upon these rainbow sun catchers that made me feel so inspired when I spotted them. Soon, I was hanging them in the windows of my home.
Like so many people, online shopping got me through. It soothed a pain I was feeling and it gave me the low stakes, low effort inspiration to start changing exactly what I needed to change in my life: my energy!
I tell people all the time, a throw pillow saved me from the true depths of despair! When my creativity returned from the lazy person’s watercolor painting I was doing, when my inspiration returned through a sprucing up of my home and an adding of new colors and images that made me happy, I realized that there was something I was always certain of really showing itself to be true through my actions: shopping can be completely cathartic!
Sometimes in 2021, I moved Creative Spirit from an art studio on the second floor of a building in Easton to a prime location in the heart of downtown right on the street level. And it had the space to start a storefront with the rooms in the back to do my healing work.
No one thought I was crazy when I said I might add on a “little boutique” space to Creative Spirit. No one!
And so, I filled that space with products that I had been encounter in all my couch bound online shopping adventures during the roughest parts of the pandemic. I brought in those exact watercolor paints, the throw pillows, sun catchers, and crystals that I fell in love with. And from there, it caught fire.
People liked what I was curating. They felt inspired by the products, too. I saw that they were having the same reaction I was and the products were having the same impact on their energy that they were having on me: they inspired, they uplifted, and dare I say they started to heal.
What you’ll find here at Creative Spirit is 1000% curated by me, Marisa. I choose things that have an energy that is positive without being performative, things that have the power to inspire and uplift, and things that might even start someone down the path to healing things that have been stuck for far too long.
This shop isn’t everything I do here. In fact, its the side of my business that I’m likely to say “I suck at.” Selling isn’t an energy I like engaging in. Its hard as hell for me. Curating, introducing people to things that I love and think they will love, too, well, that’s more my speed.
When you come to the shop, you’ll some lovely people working it that I rely on to do the stuff I don’t have it in me to do…sell. Sometimes its my kids, sometimes its my friends or family, sometimes its the amazing Lafayette College girls who I have been privileged enough to meet along the way.
I try to keep my prices as low as humanely possible while still paying the bills. I’m not aiming to make a fortune through this work through Creative Spirit, but I hope to pay the rent, give my kids some money to see a movie from time to time, and maybe, just maybe, take a weekend trip to Saratoga in the summer to see the horses run.
So, yes, we have a shop. Yes, I think you’re going to LOVE it! But know you’re walking into so much more when you enter the halls of Creative Spirit! And what you find just might change your life, too!
Meet Marisa, founder of Creative Spirit.
I've been doing this work since 2018. It started in my living room with a handful of people and a feeling I couldn't quite explain yet, and it became Creative Spirit, which is now a healing practice, a teaching space, a shop I'm a little obsessed with, and a growing community in the heart of downtown Easton.
Before any of this I spent thirteen years teaching writing and rhetoric at the university level. I'm a mom of five. I was good at the life I'd built, and then something shifted, the way it does, and I found that I could do things I hadn't been trained for. I could feel what people were carrying in their bodies, pick up on what was sitting underneath a conversation, receive specific information about someone before I'd even met them. It kept being accurate. So I kept going.
Holistic Healing is the work at the center of everything here. Three hours of conversation, intuitive guidance, and energy work. Most people who come to Creative Spirit start there. But this place has grown into something bigger than sessions. There are classes every week, guest practitioners I trust bringing their own work into the room, a community of people who keep coming back, and a shop full of things I've chosen with real intention, from hand-finished French tapestries to small-batch tarot decks by independent artists.
What I care about is doing this with integrity. People come here during some of the most honest moments of their lives and I don't take that casually. I also care about building something that lasts, a space where healing and creativity and curiosity all live under the same roof, and where walking through the door feels less like entering a wellness center and more like finding a place you didn't know you were looking for.