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Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World
A story-based guide to the techniques of shamanic healing
• Details indigenous medicine tools and soul healing techniques, including diagnosis and energy cleansing with plants, stones, fire, flower essences, and sound
• Offers protection and self-defense techniques for confronting negative energies such as spirit attachment and possession
• Shares healing stories that each address a specific condition, such as panic attacks, PTSD, depression, cancer, chronic pain, grief, and relationship problems
Shamanic healing is making an astonishing comeback all over the modern technology-driven and consumerist world. Millions of people have felt called to integrate both ancient and modern healing systems into a new model of healthcare. But what makes shamanic healing so powerful? Why have indigenous healers kept it alive for thousands of years?
Revealing his personal journey and stories from his more than 20 years as a shamanic healer, Itzhak Beery explains who a shaman is and how he or she works, demystifying and destigmatizing the shamanic healing worldview. He shares shamanic wisdom from two of his a Yachak from Ecuador and a well-known Brazilian Pagé. He details indigenous medicine tools and soul healing techniques that you can practice with your own clients or in your own personal healing, including diagnosis and energy cleansing with plants, stones, fire, rum, eggs, flower essences, and sound. He shares protection and self-defense techniques for confronting negative energies, such as spirit attachment and possession. Sharing healing stories that each address a specific condition, such as panic attacks, PTSD, depression, cancer, chronic pain, grief, and relationship problems, Beery explains how a shaman is not responsible for curing everyone and will consult with the patient’s soul to determine its needs, which sometimes includes learning from the illness experience.
By sharing these healing methods, Beery reveals the importance of shamanic practices in resolving our 21st-century emotional and physical problems and their importance to the future of humanity and the planet.
• Details indigenous medicine tools and soul healing techniques, including diagnosis and energy cleansing with plants, stones, fire, flower essences, and sound
• Offers protection and self-defense techniques for confronting negative energies such as spirit attachment and possession
• Shares healing stories that each address a specific condition, such as panic attacks, PTSD, depression, cancer, chronic pain, grief, and relationship problems
Shamanic healing is making an astonishing comeback all over the modern technology-driven and consumerist world. Millions of people have felt called to integrate both ancient and modern healing systems into a new model of healthcare. But what makes shamanic healing so powerful? Why have indigenous healers kept it alive for thousands of years?
Revealing his personal journey and stories from his more than 20 years as a shamanic healer, Itzhak Beery explains who a shaman is and how he or she works, demystifying and destigmatizing the shamanic healing worldview. He shares shamanic wisdom from two of his a Yachak from Ecuador and a well-known Brazilian Pagé. He details indigenous medicine tools and soul healing techniques that you can practice with your own clients or in your own personal healing, including diagnosis and energy cleansing with plants, stones, fire, rum, eggs, flower essences, and sound. He shares protection and self-defense techniques for confronting negative energies, such as spirit attachment and possession. Sharing healing stories that each address a specific condition, such as panic attacks, PTSD, depression, cancer, chronic pain, grief, and relationship problems, Beery explains how a shaman is not responsible for curing everyone and will consult with the patient’s soul to determine its needs, which sometimes includes learning from the illness experience.
By sharing these healing methods, Beery reveals the importance of shamanic practices in resolving our 21st-century emotional and physical problems and their importance to the future of humanity and the planet.
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240 pages, Paperback
Published June 13, 2017
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About the author
Itzhak Beery
5 books20 followersItzhak Beery, the Amazon bestseller author of:
-The Gift of Shamanism: Visionary Power, Ayahuasca Dreams, and Journeys to the Other Realms
-Shamanic Transformations: True Stories of the Moment of Awakening
-Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World
Itzhak contributed to other books:
- The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of Don Alberto Taxo, by Shirley Blancke
- What Is The Meaning Of Life?: A journey into the wisdom of life, by Nicolai Tanase;
- Siberian Shamanism, by Virlana Tkacz
- Shamanism: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Consciousness, by Christa Mackinnon
He is a leading shamanic teacher, speaker, and community activist. He bridges the indigenous shamanic traditions his teachers entrusted with a contemporary shamanic approach relevant to modern life.
Born in Israel, he is a New York-based practitioner who conducts shamanic healing ceremonies, teaches seminars internationally, and co-lead trips to Ecuador and Brazil's Amazon.
Itzhak apprenticed intensively and initiated by don Jose Joaquin Diaz Pineda, an Ecuadorian Quechua Yachak from Iluman, into his family tradition and the Sacred 24 Yachaks Circle of Imbabura. He was also was initiated by Shoré a Kanamarie -North Amazonian Pajé in Brazil. He studied with and assisted Ipupiara Makunaiman, a Brazilian Amazonian Pagé from the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe for 12 years until his passing and with his wife, a Peruvian Curandera, and also with other indigenous and contemporary elders and shamans from around the world.
He is on faculty at the Kripalu Center, NY Open Center, The Shift Network, Faiths Seminary International, The College of Psychic Studies, -London, and a staff teacher at the Omega Institute, where he was a Hermitage Program honorary guest.
He is a co-founder of the NY Shamanic Circle (NYSC) in 1997. He is a member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners (SSP), The Foundations for Shamanic Studies. (FSS). He's the publisher of www.shamanportal.org, the most comprehensive global shamanic resource website today. Itzhak received the 'Ambassador for Peace Award’ from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.
Itzhak's work has been featured in various worldwide publications, including the NY Times, radio and video interviews, and he is often invited to speak on panel discussions, press conferences, and festivals and to host and participate in Shamanic Webinars.
He was featured in the feature film "The Hindenburg Omen" and Parashakti's "Dance of Liberation" documentary. He is also the featured shaman in the upcoming TV show "Soul Search."
Itzhak also developed and facilitated a special program geared to high school students called The Bridge.
-The Gift of Shamanism: Visionary Power, Ayahuasca Dreams, and Journeys to the Other Realms
-Shamanic Transformations: True Stories of the Moment of Awakening
-Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World
Itzhak contributed to other books:
- The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of Don Alberto Taxo, by Shirley Blancke
- What Is The Meaning Of Life?: A journey into the wisdom of life, by Nicolai Tanase;
- Siberian Shamanism, by Virlana Tkacz
- Shamanism: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Consciousness, by Christa Mackinnon
He is a leading shamanic teacher, speaker, and community activist. He bridges the indigenous shamanic traditions his teachers entrusted with a contemporary shamanic approach relevant to modern life.
Born in Israel, he is a New York-based practitioner who conducts shamanic healing ceremonies, teaches seminars internationally, and co-lead trips to Ecuador and Brazil's Amazon.
Itzhak apprenticed intensively and initiated by don Jose Joaquin Diaz Pineda, an Ecuadorian Quechua Yachak from Iluman, into his family tradition and the Sacred 24 Yachaks Circle of Imbabura. He was also was initiated by Shoré a Kanamarie -North Amazonian Pajé in Brazil. He studied with and assisted Ipupiara Makunaiman, a Brazilian Amazonian Pagé from the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe for 12 years until his passing and with his wife, a Peruvian Curandera, and also with other indigenous and contemporary elders and shamans from around the world.
He is on faculty at the Kripalu Center, NY Open Center, The Shift Network, Faiths Seminary International, The College of Psychic Studies, -London, and a staff teacher at the Omega Institute, where he was a Hermitage Program honorary guest.
He is a co-founder of the NY Shamanic Circle (NYSC) in 1997. He is a member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners (SSP), The Foundations for Shamanic Studies. (FSS). He's the publisher of www.shamanportal.org, the most comprehensive global shamanic resource website today. Itzhak received the 'Ambassador for Peace Award’ from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.
Itzhak's work has been featured in various worldwide publications, including the NY Times, radio and video interviews, and he is often invited to speak on panel discussions, press conferences, and festivals and to host and participate in Shamanic Webinars.
He was featured in the feature film "The Hindenburg Omen" and Parashakti's "Dance of Liberation" documentary. He is also the featured shaman in the upcoming TV show "Soul Search."
Itzhak also developed and facilitated a special program geared to high school students called The Bridge.
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June 11, 2017
I loved reading this book! It is broken into 4 sections: 1st is the Author's journey to becoming a Shaman, 2nd is explaining Shamanic Healing, 3rd Healing Teachings, Ceremonies & Techniques & 4th Healing Stories. As a nurse, in Western Medicine, I have always been fascinated with Shamanic Healing. This book gave me a lot of great basic information & I really enjoyed reading the healing stories. I am left wanting to read & learn even more about Shamanic Healing. I loved the author's passion for Shamanic Healing!
February 6, 2018
Itzhak provides great information on the role of shamanism in our ‘advanced’ society. He kindly shares specific techniques he employs as well as case studies of how he implemented them with clients. I loved this book—many thanks itzhak!
March 4, 2018
Shamans and Shamanism has always caught my interest from childhood seeing many of the rituals, speaking in tongues, different musical instruments for different rituals, offerings in Manipur (India). It’s interesting to see more and more people in the western world learning, practicing and talking about this. You will find many participating in the drum and sunrise ritual in a park right in New York City. I picked up Itzhak Beery’s book Shamanic Healing and flipped the pages with fascination as he shared about the rituals, smokes, candles, herbs, stories of his healing sessions.
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October 8, 2019
An excellent book for beginners. It focuses on the Ecuadorian and Amazonian healers. Having studied with Mexican and Q'ero healers, I much prefer their methods of healing, but in the end it is what one is familiar with and feels most comfortable using that matters.
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May 12, 2018I will forever give Itzhak Beery massive credit for the coining of this phrase, with describes my own experience with Western medicine exactly:
"Hit-and-Run Medicine. I coined this phrase to describe allopathic medicine because of its sick-based model, profit-minded assembly line, speed-dating-like, impersonal human interactions, and the use of medicine by trial-and-error methods."
Sometimes, you want that, or your condition is disposed to 'proven' methods. I have put proven in those marks because I'm concurrently reading Cure by Jo Marchant, which if nothing else establishes through a concise placement of studies -- that many healers in more alternative communities are well aware of -- that no one knows everything. That sometimes a placebo is as or more effective, and if that is the case, why judge placebos? Use it to your advantage.
In any case, I am fairly certain that the effectiveness of a system of healing is related directly to our mindset about it, and possibly the memories embedded in our genetic make up (much in the way that our bodies are more capable of pulling appropriate minerals out of foods we're used to as opposed to foods from other areas, even if the foods themselves have the same nutrient measurements).
The stories we know and believe matter, so if you need to heal, choose what works for you, without regard to judgment. And be careful what you let in. Fin.
"Hit-and-Run Medicine. I coined this phrase to describe allopathic medicine because of its sick-based model, profit-minded assembly line, speed-dating-like, impersonal human interactions, and the use of medicine by trial-and-error methods."
Sometimes, you want that, or your condition is disposed to 'proven' methods. I have put proven in those marks because I'm concurrently reading Cure by Jo Marchant, which if nothing else establishes through a concise placement of studies -- that many healers in more alternative communities are well aware of -- that no one knows everything. That sometimes a placebo is as or more effective, and if that is the case, why judge placebos? Use it to your advantage.
In any case, I am fairly certain that the effectiveness of a system of healing is related directly to our mindset about it, and possibly the memories embedded in our genetic make up (much in the way that our bodies are more capable of pulling appropriate minerals out of foods we're used to as opposed to foods from other areas, even if the foods themselves have the same nutrient measurements).
The stories we know and believe matter, so if you need to heal, choose what works for you, without regard to judgment. And be careful what you let in. Fin.
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