Chloe Garcia Ponce, a Curandera (Mexican Healer) and herbalist, healing work are based on the shamanic teachings of the Mayan Elders and her Cherokee Grandmother, she sits for a portrait in her Brooklyn home on Nov. 14, 2014 in New York. Ponce says the “turtle is my medicine I embody her wisdom when I am doing my healing work”.

Chloe Garcia Ponce’s altar holds the four elements; fire, water, air and earth… Every object symbolizes her medicine.

Shelley Poovey, an Advanced Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, holds a neutral pendulum in her Harlem home on Jan 17, 2015 in New York. A neutral pendulum is used by tapping into inner intuition using your own subtle psychical reactions, bypassing the "should" and "ought to's" of your mind.

Dee Savoy, intuitive coach healer and womb priestess, plays her drum named “Wild Child” while posing for a portrait at her Bronx office on Jan. 23, 2015 in New York.

As a coach she helps her clients by tapping into their own intuition and guidance they receive from their helper spirits to awaken their true Goddess nature. As a healer, Dee uses her knowledge of Reiki, essential oils; sound healing, Shamanism and dream work to provide individualized healing experiences.

Chad Brigockas, acupuncturist and healer, practices Qigong outside his Brooklyn home on Feb. 2, 2015 in New York. Brigockas says it’s his goal to help people reconnect with whom they are, where they came from and where they want to go by restoring the body to its natural balance, both physically and emotionally.

Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical postures, breathing techniques and focused intention. The word Qigong (Chi Kung) is made up of two Chinese words. Qi is pronounced chee and is usually translated to mean the life force or vital-energy that flows through all things in the universe.

Andréa Takacs-Carvalho, Wellness Counselor and Spiritual Healer, burns Palo Santo on March 13, 2015 in New York, New York. Palo Santo is a natural wood used for centuries by the Incas and indigenous people of the Andes as a spiritual remedy for purifying and cleansing, as well as to get rid of evil spirits and misfortune. It is common to smudge people and places to clean the area before some meditation or sessions.

Karen Rosales (Mia Fortuna), Tarot Card reader and Healer follows in the Native American, Mayan and Incan traditions, poses for a portrait in her Union City home on Feb 7, 2015 in New Jersey. Tarot Cards are used to measure potential outcomes and influences around you, like a person or event.

Jocelyn James, intuitive Reiki healer, performs Reiki on a patient in her mid-town offices on Feb. 3, 2015. Reiki is a spiritual practice, which Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui developed in 1922.

White Sage, also called a Smudge Stick, is used to ward off evil spirits and negative energies. It’s also used in ceremonies to seek blessings of health, prosperity and protection.

Regina Georges, a clinical hypnotist and natural medium, poses for a portrait in her Rochelle Park office on Nov. 15 2014 in New Jersey. Georges uses her spiritual abilities, in conjunction with hypnosis, to help clients free themselves from unwanted issues such as weight, anxiety and phobias; guiding them through a past life experience to find the root cause of the issue.

Irma StarSpirit Woman is a medicine woman honoring the ways of the curanderas and medicine elders poses for a portrait on March 9, 2015 in New York, New York Irma plays her favorite drum while singing, which she has painted Maria Sabina, a Mexican curandera, who is one of her allies and medicine helpers.

Albert Maldonado, Shaman teacher of sixteen years at The Sacred Stone, poses for a portrait on Feb. 9, 2015 in Babylon, New York in the lodge he built behind his home and shop. A Shaman is a person who acts as intermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds.

Barbara Dominick, energy and sound healing practitioner, says she doesn’t consider what she does to be work; rather it is service in love after meditating on Feb 12, 2015 in her Bronx home. Some people say the mole over her eye holds her psychic gifts.

Karen Rosales (Mia Fortuna), Tarot Card reader and Healer, lays out her favorite deck of cards in her Union City home.

Bill Bradley, psychic and clairvoyant, poses for a portrait outside his Lake Hopatcong home on Dec. 7, 2014. Bradley has the ability to tap into energy fields and extract negative blocks from the past that hold you back and keep you from recognizing your full potential.

Barbara Dominick presents some crystals she works with as an energy and sound healing practitioner on Feb 12, 2015 in her Bronx home.

Andréa Takacs-Carvalho, poses for a portrait while meditating on March 13, 2015 in her New York City home.

Julie Addario, intuitive healer and channel, poses for a portrait in her Brooklyn home on Nov. 24, 2014 in New York. Addario integrates quartz crystals into her healing sessions as a tool to amplify energies and provide further clarity to the chakra fields the crystals lie on.

Susana Guadalupe Tapia performs a healing on Chloe at hotel Casa Violeta in Tulum Mexico on Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Tapia, an Ecuadorian healer, assists women in the “recovery of sacred memory as stored in our ‘first heart,’ the womb.”

Chloe Garcia Ponce collects offerings of flowers for the Goddess of the Sea, Yemayá at hotel Casa Violeta in Tulum, Mexico before the Spring Equinox Ceremony on Friday, March 20, 2015.

Miren Ascua Popelka reaches for a dream catcher hanging over her bed on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 in Tulum Mexico. Popelka was pursuing a doctoral career when she discovered healing, which completely changed her lifestyle.

Volcanic stones, known as “abuelas” or “grandmothers” sit in the grass before getting heated for a Temazcal ceremony on Monday, March 23, 2015 in Tulum Mexico. Temazcals are more commonly known as “sweat lodges” in the Western world.

These stones are called Abuelas, because they have existed since the beginning of time, and therefore contain an incredible amount of wisdom. They receive the offerings and the energies being released by participants inside the temazcal.

Lauren Rees Salm gets cleansed with copal before beginning a Temazcal ceremony on Monday, March 23, 2015 in Tulum, Mexico.

Seaweed lies on the ground in the shape of the sun with offerings of flowers and fruit for the Goddess of the Sea, Yemayá during a Spring Equinox ceremony on Friday, March 20, 2015 in Tulum Mexico. Spring Equinox is celebrated to leave the winter days behind and welcome the life force of spring – a time of increased light and fertility.

Susana Guadalupe Tapia, center, leads a Spring Equinox Ceremony on Friday, March 20, 2015 in Tulum Mexico. The intention for this ceremony was to heal the sacred waters: due to global warming, Tulum beaches have had an unusual amount of flowering seaweed, which has unbalanced the ecosystem of the region.

Lauren Rees Salm and Chloe Garcia Ponce lean against each other during a Spring Equinox Ceremony on Friday, March 20, 2015 in Tulum, Mexico.

Lauren Rees Salm poses for a portrait in her Tulum home on Thursday, March 26, 2015. Salm says, “Working with herbs, energy and art has always been what’s closest to my heart but I never thought that was a viable career option so I pushed it aside until now.”

Chloe Garcia Ponce uses sage to clear Susana Guadalupe Tapia of negative energy before beginning a healing session at Casa Violeta in Tulum, Mexico on Tuesday, March 24, 2015.

Katarina Prochazkova plays her drum in the mangroves behind her home in Tulum, Mexico on Saturday, March 28, 2015. Prochazkova has chosen not to practice healing while pregnant because “creating life is the most sacred time in the universe” and the baby could soak up the negative energy if not careful.

Lauren Rees Salm holds up a pendulum in her Tulum home in Mexico on Thursday, March 26, 2015. A pendulum taps into your inner intuition via your own subtle physical reactions, bypassing the "shoulds" and "ought to’s" of your conscious mind.

Women call on the energy of the west while greeting the four directions before Lauren Rees Salm performs a Temazcal on Monday, March 23, 2015 in Tulum, Mexico.

Susana Guadalupe Tapia drums to the ocean to heal the waters from the unusual amount of flowering seaweed during a Spring Equinox Ceremony on Friday, March 20, 2015 in Tulum, Mexico.

As a Curandera, Yerbera and Oracionista Chloe Garcia Ponce works on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels of the body. Ponce does a healing session on Lauren Rees Salm using flowers to cleanse the body in Tulum, Mexico on Thursday, March 26, 2015.

Women cleanse each other before Lauren Rees Salm performs a Temazcal on Monday, March 23, 2015 in Tulum, Mexico.

Susana Guadalupe Tapia walks into the ocean in Tulum, Mexico holding up the sahumador at the end of the Spring Equinox Ceremony on Friday, March 20, 2015 in Tulum, Mexico. Ceremonial leaders use a sahumador, containing burning copal and herbs, to offer prayers and perform spiritual cleansings.

Lauren Rees Salm and participants sing and drum before the start of the Temazcal ceremony on Monday, March 23, 2015 in Tulum, Mexico.

Chloe Garcia Ponce uses a sahumador in her healing work to cleanse Lauren Rees Salm in Tulum, Mexico on Thursday, March 26, 2015. A sahumador is the expression of the four directions and the four elements of the cosmos; fire-water-wind-earth. Earth is represented by carbon; Water by copal, a liquid resin which vaporizes in the hot coals; Air is the healer’s breath, which is used to stoke and honor the fire, and; Fire is obvious in its representation. In healing work, the sahumador is used to cleanse and in ceremonies it’s used to represent the cosmos and help to hold space in ceremony.

Chloe Garcia Ponce organizes offerings of flowers for the Goddess of the Sea, Yemayá at hotel Casa Violeta in Tulum, Mexico before the Spring Equinox Ceremony on Friday, March 20, 2015.

Chloe Garcia Ponce plays her drums during a healing session in Tulum, Mexico on Thursday, March 26, 2015. Ponce says, when drumming it tapes into the universal heart using sound and vibration, which helps you, journey and connect with your heart singing prayers from the spirit world, thanking them for guidance and presence.

Lauren Rees Salm closes her eyes while Chloe Garcia Ponce performs a healing session in Tulum, Mexico on Thursday, March 26, 2015. Plants are used to remove negative energy from the body, every plant has it’s own power, protection and healing properties. Ponce uses plants while praying over the body asking for allies to cleanse, heal and protect the body, mind and spirit.

Lauren Rees Salm stands in a circle with fellow healers in a goodbye ceremony for Susana Guadalupe Tapia on Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Tapia travels throughout the Americas healing womens’ “first heart,” the womb.

Katarina Prochazkova poses for a portrait in her Tulum home on Saturday, March 28, 2015. Prochazkova says, “Everyone wants to be heard, loved and understood and I am grateful that I was chosen to be of service.”