Planting
Seed for the New Year
Known
as the Practical Shaman, Renee Baribeau is
an expert ceremonialist, healer, teacher,
and writer. Over the past fifteen years, she
has trained with a long list of traditional
shamans and modern-day mystics. She has received
rites of passage from Q’ero elders in
Peru and a Mapuche shaman in Chile, and apprenticed
with a Lakota elder in Southern California.
A graduate of the Healing the Light Body two-year
program with the Four Winds Society, she studied
directly with Jose Luis Herrera. She has also
received the healer’s blessing from
Swami Kaleshwar.
Renee is Director of Desert Holistic Network,
a growing health and wellness chamber of commerce
and web portal based in Southern California.
Former resident shaman for the We Care Holistic
Spa, she now runs a private practice that
serves individuals, including numerous high-profile
and executive clients in Beverly Hills and
New York City. Possessing an entrepreneurial
spirit, Renee has owned two successful restaurants
and catering companies, and spent ten years
as a corporate executive. Walking comfortably
in two worlds, she is both a successful business
leader and a humble servant of her community
and the earth.
In 2010, Renee’s healing memoir, The
Shaman Chef, placed her among the top 25 finalists
in The Next Top Spiritual Author competition,
emerging from a field of over 2,500 candidates
from around the world. This book is scheduled
for publication in autumn 2011. She resides
near Palm Springs, CA.
