Renee Baribeau – WindWork®

Enter the Compass & Learn to Read the Wind

When life feels uncertain, the first step forward is to orient yourself.

As your journey begins, you’ll learn how to read the four cardinal winds and recognize the intercardinal winds as gates of transition, discovering how life moves in cycles rather than straight lines, and why small directional shifts create powerful change.

Through Weather Vane mapping, Wind Intensity assessment, and a guided Threshold Journey, Renee will help you identify where you stand, and which gate is opening — allowing you to feel grounded within change rather than pushed by it.

In this opening module, you’ll:

• Complete your Wind Intensity baseline using Renee’s field guide
• Discover which gate is opening and which is closing through directional exploration
• Create your Wind Altar and anchor your Wind Flag
• Connect your outdoor and indoor altars for ongoing practice

Clear Your Mental Air & Stop Overanalyzing When You Connect With the East Winds

Mental headwinds often disguise themselves as urgency or certainty. You’ll learn how to recognize belief patterns that distort direction, discovering how the Vedic traditions understand that past, present, and future memories are stored in the mind.

As Renee expertly guides you through the potent practices of Taba Cutting the Wind, belief mapping, and an East Wind journey, you’ll clear mental clutter without overanalyzing, leaving your perception cleaner and your discernment sharper.

In this module, you’ll:

• Release head and jaw tension using the Wind Scan with a wind whistle or your hands
• Map one limiting belief currently influencing your path
• Journey to the place where new beginnings reside
• Create your East Wind Flag as a symbol of mental clarity

Cultivate a New Relationship to Your Emotions With the Power of the Living South Winds

Emotional turbulence often signals unmet needs rather than instability.

Encouraged by Renee’s compassionate teaching, you’ll explore how to recalibrate your relationship to emotion, recognizing it as directional guidance and using the wind map to see where things are lodged in your body.

Through an Emotional Wind Bath, Needs Worksheet integration, and the Clearing Wind ritual, you’ll release emotional residue while staying grounded, learning to respond rather than react as you follow directional guidance from your emotional landscape.

In this module, you’ll:

• Identify your core needs through structured worksheet exploration
• Discover how to protect yourself from absorbing others’ emotions
• Practice Wind Zip for energetic containment
• Create your South Wind flag representing emotional alignment

Explore the Sacred West Winds to Compost the Past Into Power

Unfinished endings quietly drain energy and create hidden resistance.

Renee will explain how to identify what is complete, what still nourishes you, and what must be consciously released, winnowing your unfinished energy through an energy harvest of your regrets.

Through harvest inventory, Regret Harvest ritual, and Wind Knot ceremony, you’ll compost the past instead of carrying it, reclaiming trapped energy and feeling lighter and more renewed as you transform what once weighed you down into power.

In this module, you’ll:

• Assess your current physicality and past emotional regrets through a structured inventory energy harvest
• Discover what drains you and deserves to be released
• Create three ceremonial Wind Knots — one for release, one for retention, one for trust
• Journey into completion and closure with the West Wind

Identify the Seen & Unseen Forces That Support & Anchor You When You Explore the Steady North Winds

Isolation amplifies instability.

You’ll strengthen your ability to move in shared wind rather than through isolated effort, examining your compass of community to see where you’re connected and where you’re not.

Through Compass of Community mapping, a Council of Winds journey, and a North Wind Shift practice, you’ll identify visible and unseen support — discovering who’s holding course for you in the other realms — feeling steadier, connected, and less alone in your decisions.

In this module, you’ll:

• Map your relationships across physical and spiritual dimensions
• Meet the beings and energies already supporting your path
• Shift from over-functioning into collaborative movement
• Strengthen your Wind Altar as a physical anchor for spiritual steadiness

Calibrate Your Internal Compass to Withstand Any of Life’s Storms

When multiple winds move at once, it’s easy to lose your footing.

You’ll develop a steady internal axis through Gyroscope Calibration and full-compass review, understanding that you can’t just anchor yourself in your center but must find stability in other places too.

By identifying multiple stabilizing anchors — discovering what’s holding you in nature and clipping anchoring from the past you no longer need — you’ll strengthen resilience without rigidity, remaining upright even during rapid change.

In this module, you’ll:

• Build steadiness through rotational balance exercises
• Release outdated anchors no longer serving your direction
• Scan your entire energetic system for coherence
• Create an Integration Flag, weaving together all four directions

Become a Wind Walker & Live Toward Your Intended Harbor Each Day

Transformation becomes real when you live it daily.

As this journey comes to a close, Renee will guide you to integrate the full WindWork system into a sustainable rhythm — reviewing the tools you’ve learned and discovering how to ask the wind for a direct question.

Through reassessing your Wind Intensity rankings, refining your intended harbor, and completing a full Wind Bath and Send the Winds Home ceremony, you’ll feel guided and steady navigating toward your next horizon with a wind for each month — if you’d like to go deeper.

In this final module, you’ll:

• Measure your growth by comparing the current Wind Intensity to your original baseline
• Clarify your destination for this season of life
• Establish your personal daily WindWork practice
• Complete the Oracle integration and closing Send the Winds Home ceremony

Wind Walker’s Wisdom Oracle Circle
Access to Renee Baribeau’s Online Experiential Group

Rituals & Sacred Connectors
PDF Excerpt From the Book, “The Practical Shaman,” by Renee Baribeau

Catching the Winds of Connection: Harnessing Nature’s Power to Enhance Your Relationships
Online Video Course With Renee Baribeau