Shamanic Healing
Top Customer Reviews

"Just wanted to say that I read your book on shamanic healing and it was amazing!! I had been longing to connect to this world as it deeply resonates with me. After reading your book I did my own research on shamans in my home city - Vancouver bc. ✨💓I wish to join a retreat or healing ceremony one day. Thank you for sharing your story and the shamanic world. So incredible! - Instagram
“Just started this and I literally can’t stop reading. Your books are magical. I loved every single one and I’m sad I’m reading the last one by you. I truly hope there’s more books to come! Your books have done so much for me. Your presence to this earth is a blessing and you have helped me more then you will ever know. Im forever grateful for you: thank you…” –A.E. NJ
"Thoroughly enjoying my teacher's new book [Shamanic Healing]. Thank you Itzhak ❤️ " –L.W
"Reading Shamanic Healing right now! What a beautiful book!" –P.C
Pattie rated it 5.0 out of 5 stars
It was amazing
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!
Findingthevoices By Monica Ingudam rated it 4.0 out of 5 stars
Really liked it
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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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Jaime
I 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."
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My deepest gratitude
Tenzin Choedon - the United States on 30 November 2019
"I started reading this book couple days ago and I haven’t finished it yet but so far it was mind blasting!!!!! I always have respect to our indigenous brothers and sisters but this book made me have a deepest gratitude to them for holding our Ancestor’s wisdom."
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Concrete and useful information
Carlos in Mexico on 8 March 2019
"I’m really interested in learning about shamanism, so I bought this book hoping to find useful information, and so I did. I hate books that go around the bushes a lot and the information is poor. This is not the case, I really enjoy it because it is a mix of the author’s personal experience and tips to work in your shamanic practice. Congratulations and thanks to the author."
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How to heal
By pia lebsund on September 26, 2018
"I liked his client studies and description of the process. Very interesting."
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Good for a Newbie, as well as Seasoned Practitioners
By L. Zucker - July 3, 2018
"This book is wonderful for someone who is curious about shamanic healing or is a seasoned practitioner. I read this on my way back from Ecuador and was very happy to have some explanations for some of the healing techniques I experienced with the powerful, indigenous shamans there. This book has enough information that I will be able to incorporate some of the teachings into my own practice. Itzhak's style is conversational and effective - I look forward to reading more of his work."
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I loved reading this book!
By D. Beckon June 10, 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!"
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Excellent! an incredible wealth of knowledge related to shamanic ...
By Adam Gell on June 21, 2017
"Excellent! an incredible wealth of knowledge related to shamanic healing and a wealth of personal examples of the positive results clients experience. A must read for any healer and for anyone searching for methods of healing that as is stated in the book" puts the fire out not the smoke"
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Very few books share the practices, tools and methods that Itzhak shares in his book.
By Kindle Customer on July 10, 2017
"Very insightful, and useful. Thank you Itzhak, for sharing in such depth. It's wonderful to learn different methods to use when helping other heal."
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The body is more than one symptom
By Luna Soliel on July 4, 2017
"We received this book from the publisher for review in our e-newsletter. As I began reading Shamanic Healing, I was stunned by the statistics. “the third leading cause of death in America is hospitals … mistakes and infections in hospital care [contribute] to the deaths of…between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year … if you live to be eighty-five years old you will have a 50 percent chance of having diagnosable Alzheimer’s … one in forty children is diagnosed with autism … Fifty-nine percent of all Americans…are taking prescription drugs daily…15 percent of all Americans take five drugs or more each day … 10 percent of Americans are depressed and 18 percent suffer from anxiety.”
To the contrary, when Dr. Alberto Villoldo, a medical anthropologist, searched the rain forest of central Peru to find “the next big cure for cancer or dementia” for a Swiss pharmaceutical giant, he found no incidence of cancer, heart disease, or dementia.
Western medicine is a “sick-based model, profit-minded assembly line, speed-dating-like, impersonal” system that uses medicine “by trial-and-error methods.” Some treatments simply mask symptoms, and some medications cause toxic side effects that require more medication. As one doctor said, Western medicine “is treating the smoke, and not the fire.”
Western doctors won’t ask “Where you are from, your emotional state, your lifestyle, your social and cultural beliefs, or what you eat…” They weren’t taught that the body is more than one symptom.
Shamanic medicine “sees the sick person as a whole complex environment and makes an effort to reinstate the person’s overall health.”
We need to balance Western medicine with Shamanic methods. As Brazilian shaman Ipupiara explained: “Calming and balancing the physical and emotional bodies creates less opposition for the medicine, which allows it to work better.” This is called integrative medicine.
One thing Shamans do is tell stories, and Beery tells his story very well. I was so engrossed that I didn’t realize how much time had passed as I read.
Shamanic Healing is broken into four sections: 1) Beery’s journey and those who guided him; 2) What Is Shamanic Healing; 3) Healing Teachings, Ceremonies, and Techniques; 4) Healing Stories.
Beery’s journey is interesting, and meeting his teachers seemed somehow preordained.
An Ecuadorian shaman told Beery that “…the three most important principles of shamanic healing [are]: (1) be in balance with yourself, (2) be in balance with your family and community, (3) be in balance with Mother Earth … It is all about being in balance.” Simple, yet complex. I encourage you to pay close attention to this section of the book, as it explains where blocks to balance may come from and diagnosing and removing them so your energy once again flows freely. In Part 3, Beery explains what a healing might entail, though each one is individual and geared to the client. He then goes over tips for self-healing.
Part 4 contains healing stories that are riveting. Although shamanic healing does not assign labels, the stories are organized in Western categories. It’s interesting how clients become their disease, as in “I am schizophrenic” rather than, “I am in an imbalanced state and want to change.”
Shamanic Healing – Traditional Medicine for the Modern World is an easy to read, easy to understand book. I have recommended it to a few people who have imbalance in their lives and are finding no solutions in Western medicine. I have also begun using some of the self-healing techniques.
Thanks to Destiny Books for sending this book for review, and thanks to Psychic-Magic for selecting me to review it."
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Having read pretty much all the great "western shamans"
By Sharon Donahue on July 26, 2017
"I have been waiting for this book! Having read pretty much all the great "western shamans", I am somewhat well versed in what is out there and while I loved and learned from all the other material I have read, this book has answered more questions for me, than it raised. It was exactly what I was waiting for! Thank you for writing this book!"
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By EILEEN LOWE HART on July 26, 2017
"Very interesting and well written. A very fascinating subject!"
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Very few books share the practices, tools and methods that Itzhak shares in his book.
By Kindle Customer on July 10, 2017
"Very insightful, and useful. Thank you Itzhak, for sharing in such depth. It's wonderful to learn different methods to use when helping other heal."
...having read, really actually just drank up deeply, both of your books. Thank you so deeply and sincerely for everything you have sooo kindly shared from your own journey and working with others and how we can empower our own shaman inside of us to arise. -S.R. Colorado