"Itzhak Beery, a powerful seer and agent of change."
Llyn Roberts, MA, award-winning author of Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness,
Taita Yachak. Pajé. Somba Uni. Hau’oli Kāna.
SHORT BIO:
Itzhak Beery is an international leading shamanic teacher, healer, speaker, community activist, and author of three Amazon bestseller books. Born in an Israeli Kibbutz, he had a fine art career and owned an award-winning boutique Ad agency in New York City. A midlife crisis led to his shift from a skeptical atheist and business executive into a passionate believer, aligned with his life purpose. Since 1995, Itzhak has bridged the spiritual and practical wisdom his indigenous and Western teachers entrusted to him. He was initiated into the "Circle of 24 Yachaks of Imbabura" by his Quechua teacher in Ecuador and Amazonian Kanamari Pajè in Brazil.
Itzhak is the founder of ShamanPortal.org, The Andes Summit, and co-founder of the New York Shamanic Circle, he is on major global spiritual centers faculties. Itzhak received the 'Ambassador for Peace Award' from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.
Itzhak Beery is an international leading shamanic teacher, healer, speaker, community activist, and author of three Amazon bestseller books. Born in an Israeli Kibbutz, he had a fine art career and owned an award-winning boutique Ad agency in New York City. A midlife crisis led to his shift from a skeptical atheist and business executive into a passionate believer, aligned with his life purpose. Since 1995, Itzhak has bridged the spiritual and practical wisdom his indigenous and Western teachers entrusted to him. He was initiated into the "Circle of 24 Yachaks of Imbabura" by his Quechua teacher in Ecuador and Amazonian Kanamari Pajè in Brazil.
Itzhak is the founder of ShamanPortal.org, The Andes Summit, and co-founder of the New York Shamanic Circle, he is on major global spiritual centers faculties. Itzhak received the 'Ambassador for Peace Award' from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.
LONG BIO:
Itzhak Beery (www.itzhakbeery.com) is a leading shamanic teacher, healer, speaker, community activist, and author of three Amazon bestsellers books. He received 'Ambassador for Peace Award’ from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.
Since 1995, he bridges the spiritual and practical wisdom his indigenous and Western teachers entrusted in him with a powerful contemporary approach relevant to our stressful and unbalanced modern times.
Itzhak lead and participates in numerous online webinars, shamanic circles, and trips to the Ecuadorian Andes and the Amazon and Yucatan.
He is the 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
Other Chapters and Forewords:
The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo. by Shirley Blancke (Author), Hank Wesselman Ph.D. (Foreword)
Siberian Shamanism: The Shanar ceremony of the Buryrats by Virlana Tkacz (Author), Sayan Zhambalov (Author), Wanda Phipps (Author), Alexander Khantaev (Photographer), Itzhak Beery (Foreword)
Shamanism: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Consciousness (2020)
by Christa Mackinnon (Author), Itzhak Beery (Foreword)
Itzhak apprenticed with Taita Don José Joaquin Pineda a well-known fifth-generation Ecuadorian Quechua Yachak (shaman) from the village of Iluman, who initiated him into the 'Sacred 24 Yachaks Circle of Imbabura'. He was also initiated by Shoré, an Amazonian Kanamari Pajè (shaman) on the riverbanks of the Rio Negro. Itzhak studied and assisted for 12 years with Ipupiara Makunaiman (Dr. Bernardo Peixoto) a Brazilian Pajé from the Ure-eu-wau-wau tribe and his Peruvian curandera wife. Additionally, Itzhak studied with elders and shamans in North and South America, Greenland, Siberia, and Africa. Some of his contemporary teachers are Michael Harner, John Perkins, Hank Wesselman, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, and Tom Cowan.
He is the founder/publisher of: -www.shamanportal.org the global shamanic resource hub.
-Co-founder of the New York Shamanic Circle. http://www.nyshamaniccircle.org/
-Founder of The Shamanic Andes Summit- https://www.theandessummit.com/
Itzhak's work has been featured in a variety of worldwide publications including the New York Times, radio, and television. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and festivals, and he hosts and participates in shamanic webinars. Itzhak was featured in the films The Hindenburg Omen and Dance of Liberation.
In 1999 Itzhak founded a program called The Bridge to inspire and motivate high school and college students, our future leaders, to connect with their inner knowledge and power and to chart a more peaceful and sustainable future.
An accomplished visual artist and owner of an award-winning advertising agency, he grew up on Kibbutz Beit Alfa in Israel and lives in New York. He is a husband, father of three, and proud grandfather of eight amazing souls.
Itzhak Beery (www.itzhakbeery.com) is a leading shamanic teacher, healer, speaker, community activist, and author of three Amazon bestsellers books. He received 'Ambassador for Peace Award’ from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.
Since 1995, he bridges the spiritual and practical wisdom his indigenous and Western teachers entrusted in him with a powerful contemporary approach relevant to our stressful and unbalanced modern times.
Itzhak lead and participates in numerous online webinars, shamanic circles, and trips to the Ecuadorian Andes and the Amazon and Yucatan.
He is the 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
Other Chapters and Forewords:
The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo. by Shirley Blancke (Author), Hank Wesselman Ph.D. (Foreword)
Siberian Shamanism: The Shanar ceremony of the Buryrats by Virlana Tkacz (Author), Sayan Zhambalov (Author), Wanda Phipps (Author), Alexander Khantaev (Photographer), Itzhak Beery (Foreword)
Shamanism: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Consciousness (2020)
by Christa Mackinnon (Author), Itzhak Beery (Foreword)
Itzhak apprenticed with Taita Don José Joaquin Pineda a well-known fifth-generation Ecuadorian Quechua Yachak (shaman) from the village of Iluman, who initiated him into the 'Sacred 24 Yachaks Circle of Imbabura'. He was also initiated by Shoré, an Amazonian Kanamari Pajè (shaman) on the riverbanks of the Rio Negro. Itzhak studied and assisted for 12 years with Ipupiara Makunaiman (Dr. Bernardo Peixoto) a Brazilian Pajé from the Ure-eu-wau-wau tribe and his Peruvian curandera wife. Additionally, Itzhak studied with elders and shamans in North and South America, Greenland, Siberia, and Africa. Some of his contemporary teachers are Michael Harner, John Perkins, Hank Wesselman, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, and Tom Cowan.
He is the founder/publisher of: -www.shamanportal.org the global shamanic resource hub.
-Co-founder of the New York Shamanic Circle. http://www.nyshamaniccircle.org/
-Founder of The Shamanic Andes Summit- https://www.theandessummit.com/
Itzhak's work has been featured in a variety of worldwide publications including the New York Times, radio, and television. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and festivals, and he hosts and participates in shamanic webinars. Itzhak was featured in the films The Hindenburg Omen and Dance of Liberation.
In 1999 Itzhak founded a program called The Bridge to inspire and motivate high school and college students, our future leaders, to connect with their inner knowledge and power and to chart a more peaceful and sustainable future.
An accomplished visual artist and owner of an award-winning advertising agency, he grew up on Kibbutz Beit Alfa in Israel and lives in New York. He is a husband, father of three, and proud grandfather of eight amazing souls.
Photo by Stephen Mark Sullivan
Honors
The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.
Accepting the 'Ambassador for Peace Award' – at the American Leadership Conference: America at Turning Point (2016) |
Kichwa - High Andes-Ecuador.
Taita Yachak Don José Diaz Joaquin Piñeda initiated me into the "The Sacred Circle of 24 Yachaks of Imbabura" (Birdmen). (2000). In 2016 Don José proclaimed me a Taita (Grandfather - Elder). |
Kanamari - Rio Negro Amazonia - Brazil.
Accepting the inner strength and healing powers of Pajé (shaman) Shoré (Highest level shaman in Kanamari), as a result of a combat testing ritual (2004) |
Siekopai-Secoya - Aguarico Rio -Ecuador's Amazon.
Coronation with Don Basilio Payaguaje - A Yajé Drinker (Shaman). Crown made by Augustine Payaguaje–Tin Tin (2016) Hawaiian Kumo Hula a master teacher in the art of Hula bestowed on me an Hawaiian name:
Hau’oli Kāna, happy, smiling man. (1996) |
Santo Domingo de Los Taschila - Cloud Forest -Ecuador.
Don Manuel, Don Augusto, and Don Juan Calaczión. Inducted me into their tribe's family. I was given a Taschila name (in Tsafiki, their language): Somba Uni Calazacón. A wise man, full of knowledge, a teacher, mentor, and spiritual guide (2023). |
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