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By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN JULY 23, 2010 Weekdays, Creating Ads. Sunday, Invoking Spirits. Sometime around 9:30 a.m. on weekdays, Itzhak Beery enters a second-floor office in Greenwich Village to preside over his piece of the material world. It is an advertising agency, the latest he has owned in a 30-year career. Five computers await him, each thrumming with software for graphic design. Shelves hold the awards he has won........Read More |
שיעור מהקיבוצניק שהפך למרפא שמאני: איך תתגוננו מפני אנרגיות מזיקותאיך הפך יצחק בארי, בן קיבוץ ואיש פרסום לשעבר, למרפא שמאני המוכר ברחבי העולם ושגריר שלום של האו"ם, ומה הוא מציע לעשות כדי להתגונן מפני האנרגיות המזיקות שמקיפות אותנו? בלי עין הרע
רויטל פדרבוש
פורסם: 07.08.22
רויטל פדרבוש
פורסם: 07.08.22
Breathe Magazine, December, 2004
Itzhak Beery: ad man, shaman an advertising exec who’s equally at home among the sacred and profane

El Comercio is the premier daily Ecuadorian newspaper in Quito. - June 21, 2019
(Translation from Spanish)
The smoke of tobacco draws figures in the air. María Clemencia Sánchez sucks deeply from a cigarette she holds with the tip of her lips. Then she blows the smoke strongly against a pair of chicken eggs that she holds in her hands. The woman wearing a feather crown is a well-known Yachak from Imbabura.
Last Wednesday she shared her knowledge with healers and sages from 12 countries that attended a meeting called The Andes Summit. The conference takes place until Sunday in Ibarra. With expert and strong movements, Sanchez made circular movements with the eggs on the body of a foreign volunteer. Following the guidance of her ancestors, to remove the bad energies, she sang a chanted in the Kichwa language and whistled. A sound similar to the wind accompanied the ritual.
The smell of tobacco, a sacred plant for the healers of the ancestral peoples, flooded the mystical environment. This kind of gathering, which takes place for the second consecutive year in Ecuador, is promoted by Itzhak Beery, a citizen of the United States. The objective of The Andes Summit is to gather the yachaks and form a community. "The other mission of the gathering is for Ecuadorians to respect the ancestral traditions that have preserved their culture for thousands of years," he said. Itzhak fell in love with the philosophy and medicine of the ancient peoples. He read books and took courses in New York with two shamans, who shared this knowledge. Beery visited Ecuador for the first time 22 years ago. His first contact was with Taita José Joaquín Pineda, Yachak de Ilumán (Otavalo), who practiced La Limpia, the energy clearing ceremonies.
On that trip, he also participated in an Ayahuasca healing ceremony with the Shuar tribe in the Oriente (The Amazon). That ceremony changed his life. Upon returning to his country, he co-founded the New York Shamanic Circle to teach the people of the great metropolis the wisdom of shamans from different parts of the world. "Our philosophy is to honor all traditions." Today it has 3,000 members.
At the last five days, they shared the knowledge of the men and women of medicine in Ecuador. Some of those yachaks have traveled to the United States to offer workshops. Manuel Calazacón, of the Tsáchila ethnic group, spoke about the preparation of natural herbs for physical ailments, such as bones and joints. The participants from different towns in America and Europe listened attentively. Mireille Bruin, from Holland, is one of the participants of The Andes Summit. Ms. Bruin is also a healer who awakens people. She specializes in healing her client's traumas. She is astonished by the energy and humility of the Ecuadorian yachaks.
Este contenido ha sido publicado originalmente por Diario EL COMERCIO en la siguiente dirección: https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/cumbre-andes-reunion-chamanes-ibarra.html. Si está pensando en hacer uso del mismo, por favor, cite la fuente y haga un enlace hacia la nota original de donde usted ha tomado este contenido. ElComercio.com
The smoke of tobacco draws figures in the air. María Clemencia Sánchez sucks deeply from a cigarette she holds with the tip of her lips. Then she blows the smoke strongly against a pair of chicken eggs that she holds in her hands. The woman wearing a feather crown is a well-known Yachak from Imbabura.
Last Wednesday she shared her knowledge with healers and sages from 12 countries that attended a meeting called The Andes Summit. The conference takes place until Sunday in Ibarra. With expert and strong movements, Sanchez made circular movements with the eggs on the body of a foreign volunteer. Following the guidance of her ancestors, to remove the bad energies, she sang a chanted in the Kichwa language and whistled. A sound similar to the wind accompanied the ritual.
The smell of tobacco, a sacred plant for the healers of the ancestral peoples, flooded the mystical environment. This kind of gathering, which takes place for the second consecutive year in Ecuador, is promoted by Itzhak Beery, a citizen of the United States. The objective of The Andes Summit is to gather the yachaks and form a community. "The other mission of the gathering is for Ecuadorians to respect the ancestral traditions that have preserved their culture for thousands of years," he said. Itzhak fell in love with the philosophy and medicine of the ancient peoples. He read books and took courses in New York with two shamans, who shared this knowledge. Beery visited Ecuador for the first time 22 years ago. His first contact was with Taita José Joaquín Pineda, Yachak de Ilumán (Otavalo), who practiced La Limpia, the energy clearing ceremonies.
On that trip, he also participated in an Ayahuasca healing ceremony with the Shuar tribe in the Oriente (The Amazon). That ceremony changed his life. Upon returning to his country, he co-founded the New York Shamanic Circle to teach the people of the great metropolis the wisdom of shamans from different parts of the world. "Our philosophy is to honor all traditions." Today it has 3,000 members.
At the last five days, they shared the knowledge of the men and women of medicine in Ecuador. Some of those yachaks have traveled to the United States to offer workshops. Manuel Calazacón, of the Tsáchila ethnic group, spoke about the preparation of natural herbs for physical ailments, such as bones and joints. The participants from different towns in America and Europe listened attentively. Mireille Bruin, from Holland, is one of the participants of The Andes Summit. Ms. Bruin is also a healer who awakens people. She specializes in healing her client's traumas. She is astonished by the energy and humility of the Ecuadorian yachaks.
Este contenido ha sido publicado originalmente por Diario EL COMERCIO en la siguiente dirección: https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/cumbre-andes-reunion-chamanes-ibarra.html. Si está pensando en hacer uso del mismo, por favor, cite la fuente y haga un enlace hacia la nota original de donde usted ha tomado este contenido. ElComercio.com
Drugless Ecstasy

by DARA COLWELL - MAY 4, 2004
.......A crucial element of shamanic journeying is connecting to inner wisdom in order to discover one’s “soul purpose.” Alongside communal practices like trance dance, there are a number of contemporary urban shamanic healers who offer group and individual ceremonies. Sessions range from drumming circles and group meditations to rituals resembling diagnostic therapy—or what shaman Itzhak Beery, another Israeli, jokingly refers to as “shamanic surgery.” An advertising executive who moonlights as a shaman, Beery—who says the jobs are not dissimilar—trained with Ecuadoran Quechua shamans. He sees his work as a practical tool, more than merely spiritual. Read more
.......A crucial element of shamanic journeying is connecting to inner wisdom in order to discover one’s “soul purpose.” Alongside communal practices like trance dance, there are a number of contemporary urban shamanic healers who offer group and individual ceremonies. Sessions range from drumming circles and group meditations to rituals resembling diagnostic therapy—or what shaman Itzhak Beery, another Israeli, jokingly refers to as “shamanic surgery.” An advertising executive who moonlights as a shaman, Beery—who says the jobs are not dissimilar—trained with Ecuadoran Quechua shamans. He sees his work as a practical tool, more than merely spiritual. Read more

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