Shamanic Healing

Traditional Medicine for the Modern World

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Pub Date Jun 13 2017 | Archive Date May 12 2017
Inner Traditions | Destiny Books
Health, Mind & Body | Religion & Spirituality

Description

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 teachers: 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.

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...

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“Shamanic Healing is an important book for the times we live in as so many people in the Western world  are searching for alternative ways of healing. Itzhak Beery clearly  shows how to integrate ancient and modern wisdom and healing methods to benefit the health of the whole person. Beery teaches about the power of shamanism as practiced in Central and South America through his own engaging stories describing his experience with the practice and how it has helped others. Shamanic Healing provides a wealth of shamanic healing methods from these indigenous cultures that can be integrated into anyone’s life and/or their work with clients. Itzhak Beery did a brilliant job bringing this work to us.”

Sandra Ingerman, MA author of 10 books including Soul Retrieval and Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life


"Itzhak beautifully describes an extraordinary personal journey that upends our conventional understanding of medicine and healing. Like a scientist on a deep quest he presents the shamanic model for healing and how effectively it has worked over the ages. He brings forth stories and case histories that reveal ways to complement and greatly add to what modern medicine can offer. This brilliant book expands our possibilities for health and healing. A must read to be prescribed to all seeking healing, as well as for their health professionals."

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD – Founder of Blue Spirit Costa Rica and Omega Institute


"In this Consciousness Revolution we must question all the old paradigms. It is a time to learn from wisdom keepers — ancient and current. This intriguing book is a call to action and a challenge to integrate shamanic knowledge about health care with modern science. Itzhak’s latest contribution to this body of wisdom guides us along that path. I highly recommend it."
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John Perkins, New York Times Bestselling Author


“Itzhak Beery is a modern Western shaman, born and raised in Israel, living in New York as a successful business man, and steeped in indigenous spiritual wisdom passed to him from South American shamans of high degree. In Shamanic Healing, he has created an extraordinary book that records generous teachings brought to life through his accounts of adventures and healing stories from which readers may extract techniques and insights that may enrich their lives. Itzhak is a medicine man and he has created very good medicine indeed."

Hank Wesselman PhD., anthropologist and author of The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder, the award-winning Awakening to the Spirit World (with Sandra Ingerman), The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman, and the Spiritwalker Trilogy. "


"Itzhak Beery is a stalwart champion of shamanic ideas and healing practices and the leader of a vibrant community in New York City. His book provides a clear, coherent introduction and overview of these ancient practices, which are ever-more popular. Shamanic Healing supports the ongoing revolution in health as the modern world discovers alternative methods can be effective for many types of maladies - physical, psychological, and even spiritual."
 
Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Notes from the Edge Times and How Soon Is Now.


​"Belief structures tend to put a fence around our consciousness as Itzhak Beery shows in his new book on shamanic healing. He creates a bridge between ideals that no longer serve us and the ancient yet current practices of ancient shamanism up until today. Beery's book offers a new model to transform our sick care into holistic health care."

Lynn V Andrews international author, shaman and teacher


"Itzhak Beery is an amazingly authentic shamanic healer and teacher. His heart and compassion encompasses all of his teachings and his fierce commitment to the integrity of this work is an inspiration to all who come in contact with him. His brilliant writing will open you to the beauty and elegance of walking the shamanic path."

Michael Stone, Shamanic Teacher, host of KVMR’s award winning show, Conversations


"Through crisp narrative and excellent storytelling Itzhak Beery takes on the timely and powerful subject of shamanic healing and its relevance in our modern world. In a world where we find our medical model bankrupt and too often causing illness and death instead of healing, people are seeking alternatives including the ancient effective ways of shamanism. Based on his own shamanic training and experience, he guides the reader with the wisdom of his teachers and guides. Here you will find an excellent and comprehensive introduction to the world of shamanic healing based on South American traditions. His book is a real contribution to Shamanic literature."

Jose Luis Stevens PH.D. Author of “Encounters With Power”, “Awaken the Inner Shaman” Transforming Your Dragons” and numerous books and articles. He is co-founder of the Power Path with his wife Lena.


"Itzhak’s medicine tools and soul healing techniques have jumped-started my own long-neglected emotional and physical immune system and exposed me to a tsunami of ecstatic healing compassion for myself. Itzhak's book is an eloquent and practical invitation to a healing journeys along that path." 

Ariel Orr Jordan, a healer and a prize winning writer/director of thirty docudramas, he co-conceived (With Eve Ensler) the global hit play “The Vagina Monologues.”


"Itzhak Beery has written a spectacular book from his deeply personal journey into the mysterious world of Shamanic Medicine, which is in truth the oldest and original tradition of healing medicine on our planet.  This honest, non linear journey into the very heart and soul of shamanism, rekindled my heart's flame  and strengthened  my commitment and deep connection to the shamanic path that we share. Shamanic Consciousness is needed more than ever on our sacred planet."

Linda Star Wolf Founder/Director - Venus Rising Association for Transformation and Venus Rising University & Shamanic Breathwork (TM) Author of 9 books of Shamanic Consciousness including Soul Whispering, the Art of Awakening Shamanic Consciousness.


“Shamans’ laugh a lot. Sometimes that is all you can say about this world we live in - giggle and hold your belly. I shared a lot of laughter of this kind with Itzhak Beery over the many years of our friendship. The fact that he could find words to compose a book about his powerful shamanic healing practices–which I and my family had experienced– is a true gift for anyone who wants to learn about practical shamanic healing that actually works.”
 
Pele - Ohad Ezrahi, Rabbi, author of "Kedesha" and six other books, ISTA lead facilitator in Sexual Shamanism, founder of KabaLove.


"Shamanic Healing:Traditional Medicine for the Modern World expertly illuminates the shaman’s path and the ancient teachings from which all medical knowledge and practices have been derived. Thank you Itzhak for this brilliant contribution to the evolution and balance of the health systems on our planet."

Shaman Durek, 3rd generation shaman, author of Uyanis – bestselling book on shamanism in Turkey, public figure, women’s empowerment leader, evolutionary innovator



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PAGES 240

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I love the stories in this book: within each story, a teaching relating to healing and the human condition. A point that struck me was how some of the "mental illnesses" modern medicine has decided to diagnose as were simply difficulities of another kind. It is a timely reminder that humans are disconnected from nature.
I was initially afraid that books of this kind would be dry but it was not. Itzhak Beery showed great wisdom in the method of his instructions.

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