Leave This Retreat Nourished and Refreshed

• Experience an exhilarating energy shift and change of attitude.
• Add magical wind work® tools to your tool kit.
• Meet New friends and Reconnect with the Wind Clan.
• Experience the freedom of moving forward with grace and ease.
• Align to your Magnetic North with a Clear Path toward your 2022  Goals and Dreams.

Let’s Face it, we need to sit together in community with like minded friends, and fall in Ohio is heavenly!

It is time to retreat, rejuvenate, go on an adventure, connect with like-minded people, and actually experience SOMETHING other than the same four walls. 

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

_{From A Poem for Every Night of the Year}

RENEE’S JOURNEY

Your Guide, Renee Baribeau, The Practical Shaman, is the award winning Hay House author of Winds of Spirit.
 
My life had been filled with as much success as failure, from running my own restaurant (oh, yes, I’m a chef too) to going broke, to owning several homes including my dream cabin on the Saratoga Passage.
 
I was striving to be recognized and it seemed that for every step forward there were at least two steps back. In fact, I felt like I was literally running uphill, and against the wind. I kept wondering: is life supposed to be this hard? Then one day, four years ago, it seemed I finally had a big breakthrough, when I entered an essay contest for a book called Pearls of Wisdom, featuring personal growth luminaries such as Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, and Janet Bray-Attwood.
 
And I won! My story, ‘Creativity, the Recipe for Awakening’ was selected. Suddenly, my wisdom and story, was being published by a mainstream publisher, replete with promotional events and online publicity. I was on top of the world!
 
I fully expected this to be the spring board to my brand as the Shaman Chef. I could see it all coming: the cookbook, the cooking show, a guest appearance on Oprah. My time had come at last! Once again my dreams were squelched when I failed to make the top-ten finalist for the Next Food Network Star, and did not land a book publishing contract in the Next Top Author Contest. Then my family disowned me for “airing out the family’s dirty laundry.” I felt wind slapped, just like the day after the grand opening of my restaurant, when my father and business partner suffered a massive stroke.
 

And like you, I deserved to win. After all, I’d renovated a house in the slums with my own hands at the age of 20. At that time I lived in a Transient Hotel in NYC in order to begin my cooking career. I believed if I worked hard enough, the self-hatred would dissolve. I was a good person, dedicated, and hardworking but still, REAL SUCCESS eluded me. WHY?

Every idea I ever launched, gained momentum at the onset, then the wind died. Doldrums set in, and I began thinking that maybe I was defective, floating aimlessly in the sea of life.

Then one day, while walking along Ebey’s Landing, in Washington, listening to the wind howling through the Douglas firs, I realized that being able to bend with the wind is not enough. We should also be able to move gracefully through our lives like sailboats. Yet, as we do so, different energies impact us. Some of these forces are external and some come from within.
Every moment is an opportunity for us to reset our inner compass, not only in space and time, but also physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Navigation is a creative act. By responding appropriately to the various winds that blow through our lives, we can become adept sailors, capable of navigating to any destination of our choosing. I began again, this time writing a book that would inspire others, who like me, had felt shipwrecked.

From that day forward, I promised myself I would figure out why real success and happiness kept eluding me. I would understand what the hell I was doing wrong. And that is how Wind Work® was discovered.

Sure, you can read a book, or tens of books for that matter, on personal transformation, practice its principles, and even experience an awakened moment or two. But few to none of these books provide a clear, concise, step by step pathway to transformation that is reliable, immutable and at the same time, changes at the direction of the wind.

Further, and perhaps most of all, my students seek me out again and again because of my uncanny ability to be direct, and get to the heart of a problem. I apply my years of experience and learning to teach you how to navigate the trials and tribulations of life with joy, grace and confidence.