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July 14, 2025 Update
Shungo!
"From My Heart to Yours. From Your Heart to Mine. We are All One and the Same."
(Kichwa)
Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Family, Enjoy Your Summer.
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A big thank you from the heart—healing as a partnership
This past week, I had the privilege of placing my life in the skilled hands of the surgical team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. I’m deeply grateful to the doctors, nurses, and staff who cared for me with such dedication, compassion, and the best that Western medicine can offer. As a shamanic healer, I’m often asked: Should we trust ancient wisdom or modern medicine? My answer—shaped by both personal and client experience—is: we need them both.
Years ago, when three large tumors were discovered on my thyroid, I was shocked and confused. I turned to my shamanic teachers, who gently but firmly guided me toward surgery. Healing, they reminded me, isn’t about ideology—it’s about what works and life is sacred. Sometimes that’s a scalpel. At other times, it’s a prayer, La Limpia, or the guidance of the spirit.
Before this most recent multi-tumors surgery, I again turned to ceremony, to calm my heart, clear my energy, and call in the healing forces of nature, mountains, ancestors, and spirit helpers. I’ve done the same for many clients before surgeries or at the end of life. When science and ceremony come together, we walk the healing path with both courage and deep faith.
I’ve written about this sacred marriage of Allopathic Medicine and Shamanic Medicine in my third book, Shamanic Healing. Healing is not a choice between two opposing worlds—it’s a sacred alliance which I dream will be offered in every hospital and all insurance policies.
To the team at Sloan Kettering—much gratitude. And to all my teachers, allies, and dear friends around the world who held me in your prayers—my heart is full.
Shungo,
Itzhak
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I will be taking time off from mid-July to Sept. 4th when I go to teach
in Boulder, Colorado. See info below
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I am excited to announce that my literary agent is looking for a suitable publisher
for the two books I have been working on over the last few years:
"It's Not Your Mama's Fault: Take a Look at Your Palm",
and "Notes From A Reluctant Shaman."
Do you like the titles? Stay tuned.
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Please feel free to share this newsletter with your friends and community.
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I invite you to watch this short 4-minute trailer, filmed during the very first journey I guided
to the Andes and Amazon of Ecuador in 2015.
Recently rediscovered after seven years, this footage was beautifully shot and directed by my dear friend, filmmaker David Kedem, and later edited by Yafit Markov as part of a student project.
The trailer includes glimpses of both my late and current teachers, and offers a heartfelt preview of a documentary we hope to complete in full very soon-let me know if you would like to help.
Enjoy the journey.
I will be leading another trip in January, 2026. Apply. (click on the image)
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The weekend of September 5-9, 2025
IN-PERSON -Boulder, Colorado
Reserve Your Place Now
(All personal healing spots were sold out-Waiting list).
Join us for a adventurous weekend full of sacred teaching, movements, chanting, traditional healing ceremonies and joy.
Early Bird Pricing in effect now on full weekend tickets!
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3 sessions on Tuesdays, starting September 30
Online Webinar
Learn the basic knowledge required to find your life purpose,
gifts and challenges and to understand your and others key
characteristics–Archetype.
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READ MY NEW ARTICLE
"Take a deep breath. Not the kind you take rushing through your day, or the one you barely notice between phone calls and errands. But the kind of breath that reaches your bones and connects you to your soul. The kind that slows your heart and opens a doorway. We live in a world where breath has been reduced to a function. Most of us are taught to hold our breath when we’re afraid, busy, or trying to appear strong. But in truth, to hold the breath is to hold back from the flow of life itself. (Read More)
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READ MORE ARTICLES
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SAVE THE DATE
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APPLY NOW! RESERVE YOUR PLACE
LEARN ALL THE DETAILS AND APPLY
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WATCH AND EXPLORE MANY INTERVIEWS WITH ME.
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 | Oct. 12 - New York Annual Shamanic Gathering in Central Park - with Linda Star Wolf, Don Manuel Calazacon- Tsachila, and many others. More planned in Israel, and Joshua Tree. Stay Tuned.
I am open to serious invitations for teachings and public speaking.
I'm looking for a professional video editor to edit my webinars. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please let me know.
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Don Basilio Payaguaje, his family and community, myself, and close friends who have journeyed to their territory on the Aguarico River in the Ecuadorian Amazon for many years are now working together to raise the funds to build a new traditional Sieko’pai Yajé house. This sacred space will be used for.....
Read more and donate.
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 | Arley is the winner of the Explorer's Club 50 Class Award for 2025!
It is a tremendous honor to be selected from hundreds of world-changer applicants worldwide who tirelessly work to make the world a better place for all its inhabitants. Support- https://yakum.org/
Arley Payaguaje is only 24. So far, he has researched, seeded, planted, cultivated, and distributed over 10,000 Amazonian fruit-bearing trees to his Siekopai community around the Aguarico River territory. All grown on the fertile land surrounding his family's modest stilts wooden house.
(Read my article).
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 | My first book: The Gift of Shamanism - In Hebrew
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"I want to personally thank you for writing your books and influencing me in a deep way towards spiritual growth." –S.L
"I love how the universe speaks and moves in the beautiful, magical way it does 🙏 I’m reading your book at the moment and then we are aligned!! Hello and how are you? Your beautiful story, guidance and inspiration and teachings are a gift in each page, thank you 🙏" –S.F
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 | "It was a pleasure meeting and working with Itzhak. He was kind, thoughtful, responsive, and most importantly, insightful. Besides being fun, after one session, I feel like a subtle change has taken place, welcoming back a long forgotten aspect of my self. Highest recommendation! 5-Stars!" R.F. New York
1. Personal Shamanic Healing - 90 min. session -In-person or Zoom
2. Shamanic Counseling - 90 min. or 40 min. sessions -On line- Zoom
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| Online ongoing webinars and shamanic events
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Shaman Portal Wisdom Webinars.
I have founded this webinar program as an offering to the growing worldwide shamanic community. Christian Thurow, the director, and I offer regular webinars featuring respected teachers delivering thought-provoking and experiential lessons. We are dedicated to expanding shamanic knowledge and practices as we strive for global harmony and sustainable wisdom.
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| A shout out to my dear friend and literary agent's new book!
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A Witch, a Wizard, and a Princess: Adventures in Fairyland.
by Joe Kulin (Author), Laura Keane (Illustrator)
A bored princess enters worlds full of mystery, danger, and excitement. Gifted with a magic necklace by a wise witch she encounters, Princess Serena lives through perilous, life-changing adventures. A Witch, a Wizard, and a Princess: Adventures in Fairyland. It is a charming tale, suitable for ages 8-12 …. and anyone older who loves fairytales containing magical incantations and transformations. The stories are filled with classic archetypal characters, sprinkled with humor and moral implications. Paperback
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