Itzhak Beery, Israeli native, is a NYC-based shamanic practitioner who conducts shamanic healing ceremonies, teaches workshops for adults, seniors, teens and children in the USA, Europe, Israel and Hawaii and co-lead trips to Brazil's Amazon.
He apprenticed intensively and initiated by don Jose Joaquin Pineda an Ecuadorian Quechua Yachak from Illuman, into his family tradition. He was also initiated by Shoré a North Amazonian Pagé and studied with
Ipupiara Makunaiman a Brazilian Amazonian Pagé from the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe, Cliecha, Peruvian Curandera and other South and North American indigenous elders and shamans.
Itzhak is a co-founder of the
NY Shamanic Circle (NYSC). He is a member of the Society of
Shamanic Practitioners (SSP),
The Foundations for Shamanic Studies. (FSS).
He is the publisher of
www.shamanportal.org the most comprehensive global shamanic resource website today.
Itzhak's work has been featured in a variety of publications, radio and video interviews and he is often invited to speak on panel discussions and press conferences. He was featured in the feature film "The Hindenburg Omen" and Parashakti's "Dance of Liberation" documentary.
Itzhak also developed and facilitates a special program geared to high school students, called
The Bridge.
Some of the venues Itzhak taught and presented:
NY Open Center; Learning Annex (NY & SF); Stiftung G-19 (Zurich); Imajon Institute; Fabbrica Europa Festival 2010-Stazione Leopolda (Firenze); Rishis (Amsterdam); Kalani Honua (Hawaii); Dorot - Senior Citizens Center; Queens Library; Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; Stuyvesant High School; Wagner College; Playwrights Horizon Theater: Evolver NYC Spore (NY & NJ): Mahut Hachaim; (Tel Aviv, & Miami); Hamakom, Dead Sea; Derech Acheret; Reidman Alternative Healing College, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Sea of Galilee (Israel)
