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Follow These Top Latinx Wellness Influencers to Attract Buenas Vibras in 2021

Jan 8 2021 - 1:10pm

There's no doubt that 2020 was incredibly stressful. As we watched the world change month by month, wellness became a top priority and many Latinx folks began to turn to self-care [1] and sacred customs to work through experiences and uplift their consciousness. Whether you grew up attending a traditional Catholic church to honor La Virgen de Guadalupe or waitng in silence for Walter Mercado's [2] monthly zodiac predictions, spirituality is embedded within the Latino culture. The ancestral gifts that come with connecting to our mind, bodies, and spirits protect, honor, and celebrate our identities. While we welcome 2021, Latinx self-care Instagram accounts are spreading resources of healing modalities, bruja rituals [3], plant-medicine practices, and astrological reports to nourish our energies. Ahead, you'll find Latinx reiki masters, tarot-card readers, astrologers, and more to bring you buenas vibras all 2021 long.

Tatiana Morales

What You'll Find: A community that celebrates generational bruja gifts and mediumship with daily tarot-card readings for the collective and monthly #Tarotscopes for all the zodiac signs. This Puerto Rican intuitive tarot therapist uses her skills to lead others to trust their intuition, for deep spiritual downloads, and to practice rituals that speak to their personal briefs. As a ritual practitioner, Tatiana hosts virtual spiritist circles where participants' ancestors and spirits elevate to communicate and connect. She's known for her mystical freebies for all to channel their own magic, such as a 2021 tarot forecast workbook [4] to see themes to make the most of the year ahead.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "As I approach the new year, I generally like to hold space and set intentions into all areas of my life. Some people vision board, but I personally like to read a recap of the Astro forecast for 2021 and lightly plan my year around the most favorable times for me," said the mystic. She went on to explain her process, "I typically use a physical planner or journal to map out my quarterly goals, intentions, and visions."

Where to Follow Her: @tatiannatarot [5]

Dr. Veroshk Williams

What You'll Find: Inspiring daily posts and Instagram Lives by this Latina who has a doctorate in clinical psychology and serves as a professional astrologer. Her diverse background encourages Spanish-speaking Latinx followers to meditate and practice positive affirmations. The proud Afro-Boricua also offers mental health services, astral charts, and full-moon rituals through memberships. When she's not spreading good vibes via social media, Dr. Williams is hosting a podcast, AstroTerapia [6], where she empowers listeners to embody their personal relationship with health and wellness. Check out her weekly #astroforecast as she sets the tone for the days ahead.

Spiritual Wellness Motto:

"Start the year with all the illusion that accompanies a new beginning. Are you giving yourself a chance to dream again? Dare to do it. Work with mantras to tap into your goals," Dr. Williams urged her audience. Acknowledging how emotionally draining last year was for many in our cultura, the Puerto Rico-based healer celebrates medical innovation while recognizing how the planets and eclipses can affect our mental health.

Where to Follow Her: @vroshk [7]

Kimberlynn Acevedo

What You'll Find: A safe space that centers the energetic and emotional wellness of sensitive and socially conscious women, queer people, and the transgender BIPOC community. Through virtual reiki healing and group workshops, the first-generation Salvadoran-American transformational healing coach utilizes her DJ talents and educational-trauma background to guide her clients to new heights. For this San Francisco-based energy worker, it's all about decolonizing and deprogramming from capitalist grind culture. Her methods help to realign and set free unconscious cultural bias set by society. She offers seekers EFT-tapping techniques as an alternative treatment for physical pain and emotional distress.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "Personal healing work is necessary for collective liberation," Acevedo told POPSUGAR. "These sessions are especially beneficial for folks who are feeling alone, anxious, stressed out, isolated, or are just in need of connection. I'm honored to be able to offer these services for everyone to be held and cared for."

Where to Follow Them: @lafemmepapi [8]

Mariel Buquè

What You'll Find: Weekly guided meditations and sound baths by a clinical psychologist, who guides you back to your inner child, aiding you to shed adult pressures and play again. As an intergenerational-trauma expert, she provides her community with journal prompts, mental health mantras, and herbal facial beauty rituals. She believes in pen to paper magic, as she encourages followers to write down their worries and let the paper have it as a form of therapy.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "Make peace with your wounded parts; they also deserve love," urged Dr. Buquè. "They say it takes 21-days to build a habit. I would like to build a new habit of having mental health conversations that center on the healing of the soul for these first 21 days of the year. It also occurred to me that the angelic message aligned with 21-21 is that peace and harmony will come so long as you take the initiative."

Where to Follow Her: @dr.marielbuque [9]

Melanie Santos

What You'll Find: A community of spiritual wellness where women of color get to be vulnerable about mental health and honor their mind, body, and soul. As a mental health advocate, Melanie does not shy away from being honest about her personal experiences with anxiety and depression in hopes to provide light for all. The Cuban-Dominican healer also offers digital soul circles to release, attune, and set intentions for the months ahead.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "Leading you to remember wtf you are," said Santos. "These days, I pray that we give ourselves grace, acknowledging that we were chosen for this path. That we continue to show up, even when people don't want to make space for us. That we stand up and speak entirely from the heart, even when it feels broken. And that we move past stagnancy and choose the beauty of the unknown.⁣"

Where to Follow Her: @melaniesantos.co [10]

Robyn Moreno

What You'll Find: If you're looking to get grounded and recharge yourself for the year ahead, look no further than Robyn's free-spirited account. Join the Mexican-American curandera's (healer) quarterly workshops as she teaches Curanderismo, an ancient Mesoamerican earth-based healing tradition. From cooking traditional dishes that honor your descendants to revisiting your childhood with journal prompts, Robyn's healing spirit guides one back home. In her six-week course, you'll call in ancestors and remove sustos and old ways of thinking that prevent you from seeing your own power and joy. Be sure to listen to Get Rooted With Robyn Moreno to stay inspired all year.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "What I've learned more than anything this past year is the power and necessity of community. Let's harness our collective energy and inspiration to dream, heal, rise and make some beautiful magic together in 2021," said Moreno.

Where to Follow Her: @robynnmoreno [11]

Alejandra Kanashiro

What You'll Find: Daily posts and innovative tactics by a human design expert that helps people unwire by limiting beliefs and rewire with a new belief system that supports you and your energy flow. Maybe you're wondering what human design is. It's a system that combines astrology, chakra system, Kabbalah traditions, and more to give you a comprehensive manual of an individual's structure. Within Ale's feed, you'll discover what alignment looks like for you, how you self-sabotage, what your core wounds are, and truly give yourself a permission slip to be exactly how you are. She offers personal human design blueprints that provide a complete look at how you make decisions, environments you'll thrive in, better communication styles, learning styles, and more.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "The shift experience is not just a "Let me lay all the facts on you," kind of thing, it's a deep experience that you get to embody, you get to experiment, heal, and release in each process," said Kanashiro. "I am more interested in your transformation according to your human design. Working with me, you can experience and integrate your gene makeup. Because that's where the magic is at, where the magnetism begins," explained the expert.

Where to Follow Her: @alekanashiro [12]

Eliza Boquin

What You'll Find: A space that celebrates sexual confidence and brings people more intimacy with themselves and others. The Afro-Latina relationship therapist and founder of The Flow and Ease Healing Center guides her community to have healthier, mutually satisfying, pleasure-filled partnerships. She empowers Black and Latinx folx through virtual events that speak to chakra alignments, sexual healing, and cultural taboos.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "I just want to spend my life helping people feel less damaged, less fearful, less anxious, less unlovable, and, most of all, less SHAME," said Eliza. "I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing my part to clear and help heal the shame of the world by committing to always work on releasing my own."

Where to Follow Her: @elizagboquin [13]

Candy Calderon

What You'll Find: A variety of Latinx-inspired nutritious recipes, wellness treatment tips, and more content highlighting BIWOC. As a certified holistic health and wellness coach, the Dominican guru loves tackling taboo topics such as vagina steaming and colonics. Acknowledging the lack of diversity and inclusion within the wellness community, Candy launched the Glow Wellness Tour [14]. This year, on Jan. 9, the virtual event will have live panels of wellness and mental health experts, workouts, meditations, and vision-board classes.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "I'm committing to being more consistent with my spiritual practices, my meditations, taking care of my physical body, being FIERCELY PROTECTIVE of my energy," said Calderon. "I commit to being here with you every step of the way supporting you and sharing my journey, and helping other women, especially women of color regain their health, unapologetically embrace their wellness, and live life on their own terms."

Where to Follow Her: @candycalderon_ [15]

Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez and Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon

What You'll Find: A sacred space that honors neglected communities of color through Instagram Lives by performing eclipse rituals and speaking about anti-Blackness within the Latinx culture. The Dominican twin sisters of Brujas of Brooklyn believe spiritual healing comes with the light and dark. Both urge their audience to conquer inner anger with their 40-day Kundalini Yoga Sadhana practice to burn through dense layers of hurt and tap into the sadness that lies at its core to set yourself free. After 2020, it's safe to say there's pain that can be used for power in 2021.

Spiritual Wellness Motto: "Now it's time to re-align and usher [16] in new versions of ourselves; those that will be ready to meet the gifts, challenges, and unexpected turns of a brand new year," said Dr. Rodriguez and Dr. Rodriguez-Solomon.

Where to Follow Them: @brujasofbrooklyn [17]


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