Denis Dermadi Bebek, PhD

Circle of Shamanic Practitioners Certification: Certificate in Applied Shamanic Practice

Location of Practice: Albany, Berkeley, and San Francisco, CA, and worldwide via phone / internet.

Website: calendly.com/denis-dermadi

I have moved through war trauma, the rejection that comes with being queer, and a physical collapse that Western medicine could not explain. Each taught me the same thing: real healing only happens when the physical body, the emotional body, and the mind align in spirit. That journey brought me here. Being allowed to accompany others on their own is a privilege I hold with deep humility.

Are you ready to embark on the journey into your inner worlds and restore what was never truly lost, but forgotten? I steward the sacred space for you to connect with your inner wisdom and transform your traumas into your internal powers. Your inner wisdom is the source. The applied shamanic tools are the catalyst: restoring personal power, rebalancing relationships with others, and unwinding patterns carried across generations. Together they guide the physical, emotional, and mental bodies back into alignment. Alignment is the work. Healing is its byproduct.

Science and applied shamanism pointed me toward the same truth from opposite directions. A PhD in Life Sciences, with active research at UC Berkeley and a focus on complex biological systems, sits alongside a certificate in Applied Shamanic Practice. I do not theorize this bridge. I live it. After all, shamans were the first scientists, with child-like minds open to the non-ordinary and keen eyes for natural patterns. Spirit and science are not opposites. They speak different languages describing the same universe.

If you carry a quiet but persistent sense that something essential in you has not yet been fully lived, this work is for you. The entry point matters less than the willingness to go deep. Trauma, identity wounds, chronic stress, life transitions, creative blocks, or struggles that have resisted every other approach. Each layer released brings us closer to the same recognition: that we are whole to begin with. The work does not create that wholeness. It clears the fog of misunderstanding that made it invisible.