“I love the work I do,” says Merrill Black, founder and owner of the Temperance Center, in Eastchester. “It is so rewarding providing healings in a variety of formats for those who are seeking a different way to cope with everyday stressors.”

Whatever hat she’s wearing—licensed clinical social worker, reiki master, hypnotherapist, registered yoga teacher—Black is inspired by the transformations she witnesses daily.

“I watch how people’s energy changes when we talk, whether I’m doing a reiki healing, teaching LifeForce Yoga or facilitating my Guided Channeling Meditation group,” she says.

The meditation is especially powerful, she notes. “It shifts energy. I’ve watched it over and over again. People walk in in a variety of moods and or in different kinds of discomfort or physical pain. Within the short time together, it shifts into a lighter healing space. After the meditation, people describe feeling lighter in their mind and body. They even say they sleep better.”

The Guided Channeling Meditation group is all about “healing and expansion,” she says. “I love watching the people who attend evolve, raise their consciousness and wake up to their true selves, expanding their intuition. We all have that sixth sense; it’s just a matter of tapping in. These alternative modalities can help you open yourself up to the universal signs, trust yourself more and manifest what you want in your life.”

Location: 453 White Plains Rd., Ste. 201/203, Eastchester, NY. For more info, visit TheTemperanceCenter.com.