With The Practical Shaman
Renee Baribeau
15-Module Self-Paced Video Training

Activate the energies of the protective Wind Goddess, Cardea, and others — to navigate any situation and connect with your true essence.

Create a new map for your life... guided by the wind’s transformative energies.

Discover ‘timebending’ and experience the ease and wonder of nature’s healing rhythms.

For Thousands of Years, the Wind Has Been a Guide for Safe Passage During Challenging Times

Do you find it’s easy to get swept up in the day-to-day chaos and uncertainty in our world… causing you to lose your mooring?

You may even forget that you have a destiny… a life plan, which was set in motion long ago.

Perhaps to reground yourself, you’ve learned to invoke the wisdom of animals, trees, and other helping spirits to guide you through shamanic journeying.

There’s another equally powerful source of guidance you can turn to: the Wind.

The wind can provide you with an inner compass for navigating life — in tune with your innate wisdom and soul’s calling.

Like helping spirits accessed by shamans, and the archetypal energies in nighttime dream images, the wind is an alchemical force and ally you can align with whenever you need guidance.

The wind will connect you with the cyclical ways of nature, inviting you to “bend time” by stepping out of your linear, calendared life and into the rhythms of the seasons and natural world...

It inspires us to let go of the “shoulds” and open to a life that flows more easily around obstacles and into new possibilities.

To harness the wind’s profound healing power and wisdom for your life, though, you must be in full alignment with it.

When you become aligned with the wind, you’ll naturally stand strong through any storm that comes your way, clearing the path for your true purpose and creativity...

The energies and wisdom of the wind have been revered for thousands of years — passed down in creation myths about Wind Gods and Goddesses and magical Wind Spirits — and honored as a source of fertility and rejuvenation, a guide for safe passage during challenging times, and more.

And the four cardinal winds hold specific wisdom and transformative energies: the East tells of new beginnings; the West relates to your physical body; the South reveals your emotional needs and desires; and the North tells the tale of your spiritual Self.

In Become a Wind Alchemist, Nautilus Gold Award-winning author, soul coach, and wind whistler Renee Baribeau shows you how to become present with the winds blowing through YOUR life.

As you journey through this program, you’ll learn how to use the transformative energies of the wind to create a new map for your life — while also drawing from its power and wisdom to restore balance, guide your creativity, and help you heal your body and mind...

Activating the Energies of the Wind Gods & Goddesses

The ancient Wind Gods and Goddesses hold wisdom, archetypal strength, and magical powers we can draw from to live more authentic and fulfilling lives. They remind us of our deep connection to nature — to our humanity.

They show us how to live through nature’s fluctuating climates as well as through the everyday struggles of being human.

They also reveal the secrets of energetic harmony — the balance of our physical, spiritual, and energetic selves — necessary to help us bring a “better” us into the world.

The Wind Gods and Goddesses you’ll “meet” on this 7-module journey hold the primordial energies inherent in us all…

… energies awaiting your recognition so they can constellate the power and wisdom within to help you shift your perception, personal timing, and soul rhythm to live a more creative, authentic, and happy life.

Receive Guidance and Mentorship From a Renowned Wind Whistler & Soul Coach

Renee is a celebrated teacher, known for bringing ancient shamanic lineages to life and guiding her students to work with the wind in a way that illuminates their paths and creates deep healing...

Renee shows you through direct experience how to summon what she calls the Wind of Your Specific Intention to make it your ally and harness its transformative energies.

In this Shift Network program, she reveals the secrets to cooperating with your own “wind” — with the help of a wind whistle — and how to align with the archetypal potency of the Wind Gods and Goddesses.

As you begin to hear your wind’s calling, you start to clear negative thoughts, heal old beliefs, and tap into your true nature — your Magnetic North — the place where you can weather whatever comes your way and stay the course as you manifest your purpose in the world.

During this experiential course, you’ll:

  • Which Wind Spirits to call on for regeneration, renewal, and creativity
  • Shamanic qualities of the wind that will guide you to your spiritual Magnetic North
  • How to shift from doing to being
  • How to move with the moon, shifting your understanding of time
  • How the cardinal winds of the sky help you bend time and create a map for your life that is true to your essence
  • The 5 dynamic winds of creativity — chaos, gestation, oppositional forces, partnership with nature, and process order
  • How to deconstruct your own word journey — and reveal the stories you’ve been telling yourself, perhaps without even realizing it
  • How to bend linear time to evoke your own natural rhythms and the healing energies of cyclical time
  • How to create a powerful wind altar — strong enough to bend, yet never break
  • Why moving between time requires both self-knowledge AND diligent inventory
  • How to create your own Life Map
  • A mythical harvest journey — in which you’ll call upon the moon to create a sacred space
  • The many myths of the Wind Gods and Goddesses — and the truths you need to know
  • How to recognize the physical, spiritual, and energetic adjustments you’ll need to make to manifest your goal for the next year
  • How to access strength and strategy to conquer every enemy that stands in the way of your goals and visions for your life

In Become a Wind Alchemist, you’ll learn to connect with the wind’s powerful energies in many ways. One way is through the use of a beautiful, handcrafted Wind Whistle, which can provide a rich experience of the sound-healing qualities of wind alchemy. (A Wind Whistler Tool Kit — complete with Wind Whistle and 34 Wind Spirit cards — is available for purchase to those who register for this course, but is NOT required for your enjoyment of the program.)

According to Renee, who’s known as The Practical Shaman, you’ll notice swift changes in your life just by sending your intentions to and working in harmony with the wind.

What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules

In this 7-module transformational intensive, Renee guides you through the fundamental spiritual skills you’ll need to create a new map for your life that’s true to your essence — using the cardinal winds as your guide.

The Beauty of On-Demand

This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Renee. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to find your Magnetic North with timebending practices and Wind Spirits. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.

Module 1

Module 1 Creating a Life Map With the Help of Wind Spirits to Bend Time

 

You’ll begin this first class on the full cold moon of December, with Renee’s Life Map as your starting point...

This powerful tool will help you establish your bearings, with a central goal in mind: time bending.

This foundational class session is about preparation for the sacred journey inward, and moving between parallel timelines.

While you cannot control the wind, Renee teaches, you can learn simple tools to navigate any storm.

Renee will walk you through a thorough inventory of several areas of your life to see where — on the space-time continuum — your major life events have taken place.

As every sailor and shaman knows, it’s essential to first know where you are in THIS timescape so you don’t lose your way — and so Renee can show you how to move between parallel timelines.

In this module, you’ll:

  • Use your Life Map to prepare for the sacred journey inward and align to your inner awakening compass
  • Align to your inner awakening compass and discover how to whistle up a wind of spirit
  • Use these powerful tools to prepare your sacred wind space, including the light of December’s full moon
  • Draw down the Four Winds Guardian and create sacred space
  • Take part in a mythical harvest journey... calling upon the moon to create a sacred space as you draw down the Cold North Wind for the Full Moon
  • Receive guidance to complete your Life Map over the next week as you gather the tools for your wind altar
 

Module 1 Integration

 

In addition to seven live classes with Renee, you have the option of participating in LIVE integration sessions with her skilled assistant — to deepen with the material between class sessions and ensure that your questions are answered.

 
Module 2

Module 2 The Wild Winds - Preparing to Enter the Dream Cave of Divine Possibilities

 

This week you’ll discover the art of dreaming divine possibilities — and you’ll relearn what you thought you knew about the time-space continuum.

With Renee’s guidance, you’ll discover how to ask the challenging, open-ended questions that a full shift demands — unlocking valuable information about your emotional intelligence along the way.

As you’ll discover, for spiritual alchemy to occur, you must look at the questions you’re asking of yourself and the wind — and decide whether you’re stuck on the same question in your life.

You’ll also embark on a layered cave journey through your mind — discovering the emotional, spiritual, and physical shifts needed to drop your anchor where you need to be...

In this module, you’ll discover:

  • How to create a powerful wind altar — strong enough to bend, yet never break
  • Why moving between time requires both self-knowledge AND diligent inventory
  • Renee’s signature Mirror-Mirror practice, in which she takes you through the reflective pool ... to journey into the timeless chamber of creation, experiencing the altar in time, and in bended time
  • The importance of cultivating a sense of Awe and Wonder — and an open-heartedness to the wind
  • The non-ordinary altar place — and leave a marker there so you can return between class sessions, whenever you need to
  • How to hold an altar in two worlds — the middle world and the underworld
  • Renee’s guidance for working with altars over the holiday break (the work you’ll be doing with your alter involves everything from seeing family to letting go)
 

Module 2 Integration

 

In addition to seven live classes with Renee, you have the option of participating in LIVE integration sessions with her skilled assistant — to deepen with the material between class sessions and ensure that your questions are answered.

 
Module 3

Module 3 Time Bending Epiphany - Shifting Perception From Linear to Cyclical Time

 

This week you’ll reunite with Renee and your new global community of seekers after the holiday break, continuing the shift in your perception of timelines — and strengthening the Sacred Circle.

You’ll replot the Life Map you created in Week One, transferring the information from the vertical timeline to the seasonal compass map...

Renee will guide you to move your Life Map milestones onto a new round compass, using powerful new principles that impact your personal timing and soul rhythm...

In this module, you’ll:

  • Name the gift of each season (for example, spring is the time of new beginning)
  • Reconnect with your fellow participants and share about your altar over the break and how it supported you through your holiday experience
  • Move into the full moon of cancer, shifting your understanding of time
  • Work with more powerful tools... including compass and color code dots to represent life events and placement in your cave and layers
  • Participate in experiential practices to close out 2019 — including a technique featuring Cardea, the Roman goddess of door hinges and handles who prevented evil spirits from crossing thresholds
  • Embark on a journey with wind whistle, rattle, or drum
  • Discover the wind’s qualities of beingness
  • Prepare for your homework assignment — moving from the linear map and working with the Awakening Compass to organize your experience and spot your spiritual patterns
  • Make a Vision Compass with the information you uncovered in the first class
 

Module 3 Integration

 

In addition to seven live classes with Renee, you have the option of participating in LIVE integration sessions with her skilled assistant — to deepen with the material between class sessions and ensure that your questions are answered.

 
Module 4

Module 4 Learning to Navigate Life With the 5 Dynamic Winds of Creativity

 

How you create anything is how you create everything, according to Renee.

And in this week’s class, you’ll use your recent experience of moving your linear map to the cyclical compass to evaluate how YOU create.

Just as the day resets itself and starts again, so can you life. As you envision your life’s next steps, you’ll discover how to draw upon what you’ve already created for inspiration...

In this module, you’ll discover:

  • The 5-dynamic winds of creativity — chaos, gestation, oppositional forces, partnership with nature, and process order
  • The cycle of Creativity — and the Creative Void
  • How to use these five dynamic winds as a lens for viewing your new map — a powerful process to help you create more successfully
  • Renee’s Light Returns journey
  • How to make a vision compass for 2020, recreating and considering how you want the next cycle of life to unfold
  • How to shift from doing to being
  • A powerful homework assignment in which you’ll examine the vision compass to learn about your primary pattern of creating form in your life
 

Module 4 Integration

 

In addition to seven live classes with Renee, you have the option of participating in LIVE integration sessions with her skilled assistant — to deepen with the material between class sessions and ensure that your questions are answered.

 

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Module 5

Module 5 Exploring the Alchemy of Wind Power & Creativity to Build Spiritual Resilience

 

Especially when you’re jumping timelines, you’ll need something concrete you can assess at the end of your journey...

And in this pivotal week of class, you’ll boldly choose one goal you want to achieve in 2020 — and create your plan for spiritual resiliency.

Once you’ve chosen your goal, Renee will guide you to utilize your own compass in navigating your experience...

In this module, you’ll:

  • Use your compass to navigate the seasons ahead, determining which internal beliefs to empower
  • Inventory which beliefs, emotions, needs, and desires need your attention so you can achieve your goal for 2020
  • How will you know if you are aligned spiritually. Community Buy in
  • Discover how to make, store, and jump timelines
  • Determine whether you’re spiritually aligned
  • Explore the power of wind knots
  • Participate in an experiential practice to unwind in a counterclockwise position... observing the places where your emotions are dictating the agenda and, perhaps, holding you back
  • Determine the physical, spiritual, and energetic adjustments you’ll need to make so your 2020 goal becomes reality
 

Module 5 Integration

 

In addition to seven live classes with Renee, you have the option of participating in LIVE integration sessions with her skilled assistant — to deepen with the material between class sessions and ensure that your questions are answered.

 
Module 6

Module 6 Turning Energy Into Form & Navigating From Where You're Planted

 

At this point in your journey, you’ve created an altar, set your intention and goal for 2020, and examined how you’ve engaged with your creative dreams in the past...

This week, you’ll picture your goals as reality as you take part in a grain-oriented festival, celebrating the sowing of the fields in preparation for springtime’s planting...

In this week’s module, you’ll:

  • Create your own wind
  • Make prayer flags to protect your seedlings — your goals
  • Locate your center point, so you can always navigate from wherever you’re planted
  • Use wind power to put symbols into words
  • Explore how the words you use either empower you or hold you back
  • Take part in an experiential practice to deconstruct your own word journey — and reveal what stories you’ve been telling yourself, perhaps without even realizing it
  • Discover the meaning of Wobble and Stable — and how these practices help you Navigate your life
 

Module 6 Integration

 

In addition to seven live classes with Renee, you have the option of participating in LIVE integration sessions with her skilled assistant — to deepen with the material between class sessions and ensure that your questions are answered.

 
Module 7

Module 7 Winnowing Your Seeds for 2020

 

This week, you’ll winnow your seeds for the new year and further refine exactly what you’re planting.

Renee will guide you and your fellow participants in a winnowing exercise to explore how the winds come by and take everything that’s not essential... leaving behind only the strongest seeds.

You’ll discover how, although we’re all suffering from mass disconnection...

... your work in this course has equipped you to feel more connected, experience awe and wonder in your life — and have a powerful working compass for the year ahead.

You’ll be able to navigate any storm.

In this closing module, you’ll:

  • Emerge from the cave bearing strong seeds — Renee will show you how
  • A group journey and incantation to plant the seeds of presence in the wind
  • Discover the many myths of the Wind Gods and Goddesses — and the truths you need to know
  • Explore why, as humans, we suffer from ongoing destruction
  • Use strength and strategy to conquer every enemy that stands in the way of your goals and visions for your life
  • Finalize your action steps you’ll take toward your goal — and the tools you’ll use to foster your dynamics of creativity
 

Module 7 Integration

 

In addition to seven live classes with Renee, you have the option of participating in LIVE integration sessions with her skilled assistant — to deepen with the material between class sessions and ensure that your questions are answered.

 

SPECIAL BONUS OFFER

In addition to Renee’s transformative 15-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.

Bonus

Start Here: Summon a Wind Spirit Practice

Bonus

Shamanic Journey With Wind & Raven

Evelyn C. Rysdyk is an internationally recognized shamanic practitioner and bestselling author whose titles include The Norse Shaman... Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power... A Spirit Walker’s Guide to Shamanic Tools... and her latest collaborative work, The Nepalese Shamanic Path: Practices for Negotiating the Spirit World with Indigenous Nepali jhankri Bhola N. Banstola. She also contributed to Spirited Medicine: Shamanism in Contemporary Healthcare, exploring the role of shamanism in integrative care. Along with her writings, Evelyn is an impassioned teacher and a featured presenter for global online programs.
Bonus

IAM Winter Solstice Symposium

Bonus

Staying Centered in Times of Change:Holding & Sharing Your Light With the World

Bonus

Wind Whistler Tool Kit

How To Order your Wind Whistler Tool Kit

The Wind Whistler Tool Kit contains a beautiful, hand-crafted Wind Whistle, 34 Wind Spirit cards, instructions, plus a hand-made Fair Trade pouch from Ghana at a discounted price.

Please note that the purchase of the Wind Whistler Tool Kit is optional. For those who would like to purchase the Wind Whistler Toolkit for $59 (plus shipping), please follow the steps in the attached "Wind Whistler Tool Kit Details" PDF.

Bonus

Drumming & Rattling for Shamanic Journeying

Feel free to use Renee's drumming & rattling tracks to practice journeying.

What People Are Saying About Renee Baribeau…

“... will transform you into a lover of the wind.”
Winds of Spirit is a fabulous book that will transform you into a lover of the wind. Renee Baribeau is an exquisite wordsmith. Her writing emerges from the depth of her heart and soul as she writes about her life experiences and how she healed herself. She shares awe-inspiring legends and practices of how to work with the wind to navigate life, heal from your past, and invoke blessings. This is truly one of the best books I have read. It is inspiring and unique.
Sandra Ingerman, MA
Shamanic teacher and award-winning author
“... a fascinating guide to working with the wind.”
Winds of Spirit is a fascinating guide to working with the wind. This is a must-read for anyone wanting to enhance their knowledge of its ancient wisdom.
Joan Borysenko, PhD
New York Times bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
“... reset your inner compass and navigate the uncharted seas of your life.”
A unique and fascinating book to help you reset your inner compass and navigate the uncharted seas of your life. Winds of Spirit invites you to meet the wind gods of ancient times who will help you find grace and wisdom in any situation if you invoke them. A truly magical book for the modern seeker.
Colette Baron-Reid
Author of Messages from Spirit
“... reveals Renee Baribeau as a modern Western medicine woman...”
Winds of Spirit is a beautiful and thought-provoking book that presents the winds as transpersonal forces of Nature that live around and within us throughout our lives. This absorbing book held my interest to the last and reveals Renee Baribeau as a modern Western medicine woman who suggests how we may interact with the many different winds should we choose to do so... and that we are all Children of the Winds.
Hank Wesselman, PhD
Anthropologist, shamanic teacher, and author of Spirit Walker
“... masterly reconnects us to the wind gods/goddesses...”
Praises to Renee Baribeau for blowing a gust of fresh wind into the rich shamanic body of wisdom. This book masterly reconnects us to the wind gods/goddesses and steers us to think and develop an intimate relationship with that life-giving and destructive force, one we may take for granted. Read this remarkable book.
Itzhak Beery
Author of The Gift of Shamanism
“Renee has masterfully enlaced cultural knowledge and practices...”
Renee has masterfully enlaced cultural knowledge and practices, bringing us a new global vision of the Wind Spirits to help us navigate our tumultuous times toward a more beautiful tomorrow.
Elizabeth B. Jenkins
Author of The Return of the Inka

Here’s What You’ll Receive

Seven Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Modules

Experience a rare opportunity to learn with Hay House author, wind whistler, and soul coach Renee Baribeau — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to create a new map for your life... guided by the wind’s transformative energies.

Seven Transcripts of Sessions

In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive session transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.

Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson

Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.

An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Become a Wind Alchemist

We feel honored that Renee Baribeau has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a Hay House author, wind whistler, and soul coach whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.

If you’re serious about creating a new map for your life by accessing the transformative powers of the wind, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.

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If you don’t absolutely LOVE Become a Wind Alchemist — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form 14 days from your date of purchase and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.

More Praise for Renee Baribeau

“... the catalyst I needed to start making positive changes in my life.”
My life completely changed once I started my sessions with Renee. Her no-nonsense, straightforward approach was the catalyst I needed to start making positive changes in my life. Renee offers spiritual and practical tools that you can immediately put into practice to witness impactful personal growth. My confidence increased, I’m now able to maintain a loving committed relationship, and she helped me create healthy boundaries in both my personal and professional life. Renee is a unique grounding force who has a special gift for insight.
Kristen
Television executive
“... my self-worth and confidence blossomed.”
YES! The magic IS real! My life has changed more since I have connected with the Wind Clan than it has with all of my other “efforts”! Even before I understood any of it (and I have a loooong way to go), my self-worth and confidence blossomed. As has my business, which has taken the most positive direction in 10 years.
Cheryl
“I’ve found nothing like these teachings anywhere else!”
If you’re looking for a path of direct revelations, I highly recommend this course — and for that matter any course that Renee is creating in her amazing partnership with the winds. I’ve found nothing like these teachings anywhere else!
Lis N.
“... will reveal new wisdom to you and take you to your core for deep healing.”
This is a powerful introductory course that will take your relationship with the wind to the next level. Whether you are new to shamanic principles or are an expert, this course will reveal new wisdom to you and take you to your core for deep healing.
Heather
“I felt connected to our winds...”
Renee helped everyone feel part of the group. She was one of us and gave each one an individual awakening compass to follow. It was so perfect for me, and I am still enjoying following her ideas. The teachings were light and open and the journeys were so deep. We all had freedom to share and be who we truly are. I felt connected to our winds, the group, all of the altars, walks and so much more. It was a great way to end the year and allow transformation for the New Year. I am excited!
Lynn
Austria
Renee will Show You How to Work With the Winds of Change as Allies at the Level of the Gods
Linda Fitch
Energy medicine practitioner and student of shamanism

About Renee Baribeau

Renee Baribeau, known as The Practical Shaman, is an author, spiritual teacher, and creator of WindWork®, a grounded, nature-based practice for navigating change.

Her book Winds of Spirit: Ancient Wisdom Tools for Navigating Relationships, Health, and the Divine brought the wisdom of the winds into a practical, modern framework. Her more recent book, A Pilgrim’s Guide to Walking Wisdom, continues this work, offering clear guidance for times of transition.

Renee is known for her direct, grounded teaching style and her ability to help people orient themselves when life feels uncertain. Through her work with the winds as living forces of nature, she guides individuals from confusion to clarity, without forcing outcomes.

She is the creator of the Wind Walker’s Wisdom Oracle and co-host of The Shaman’s Cave podcast. For over a decade, she has taught internationally, supporting individuals, leaders, creatives, and change-makers in finding steady direction through change.

Renee’s work bridges ancient wisdom with real life, helping people take practical steps forward while staying connected to the deeper currents moving through their lives.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are there scholarships available for this training?

Unfortunately, all scholarship awards for this course have been fully allocated, and we are no longer accepting scholarship applications.

What is your refund policy?

The refund deadline for this course was two weeks. Refund requests are not accepted after the deadline or for courses purchased with scholarship awards. We’d also love the opportunity to address and resolve your concerns directly. If we can assist with anything, please contact us at support@theshiftnetwork.com, we’re here to help!

How can I reach Customer Support?

Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to your problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.

This course was pre-recorded. Is the content still relevant?

While this is a pre-recorded course, the teachings remain as relevant and impactful today as when they were first offered. We’ve selected these programs because their wisdom, tools, and practices continue to resonate deeply with our global community.

How long will I have access to my Course Homepage and materials?

Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content — online via your Homepage — unless refunded or otherwise specified. We currently don’t have an expiration date for our online materials. This will allow you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
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