Kathleen McGinley--Machu Picchu 2011
Renee Baribeau--Paz Y Luz 2011
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About Your Trip Leaders
In addition to trip leaders, local shamans will join us for Despacho ceremony, cocoa leave readings, medicine work and mountain guides for the sacred plant trip.
Known as The Practical Shaman, Renee Baribeau is a mentor, 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/Holistic Helping Hands, a growing health and wellness chamber of commerce and virtual marketing 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; How cooking saved my life scheduled for publication in autumn 2012, 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. Her Recipe for a Creative Awakening was chosen to be a chapter in an anthology entitled Pearls of Wisdom, Thirty Life Changing Ideas featuring Jack Canfield and due to be released in Spring of 2012.
Kathleen McGinley
Kathleen McGinley recently retired from the Allentown School District in Pennsylvania after serving as a Health and Physical Education teacher. Her ability to make a difference in her students’ lives was demonstrated by her nomination and selection as a recipient of Who’s Who Amongst American Teachers for two consecutive years from 2005-2007. Although she loved educating high school students, she decided to leave teaching after 34 years and follow her passion to utilize her expertise without the limitations created in public education. In 1992, Kathleen experienced a “miracle” during her own trials and tribulations with her divorce. The experience started her on a conscious journey of self discovery in which she created a strong spiritual connection with nature and the Universe. Her personal story has helped many others recognize how to move from a role of victim to co-creator of one’s life.
Kathleen’s love of self discovery, adventure, and “play” led her to become trained as a team building facilitator through Project Adventure in 1995. Ten years later she attained certification through the Spencer Institute as a Wellness Life Strategies Coach and a Holistic Life Coach. Due to her interest in energy and healing work, she also became a certified practitioner in Reiki and took classes in Watsu and Ho’oponopono. In 2005, Kathleen founded Phoenix Adventures in Wellness, www.phoenixadventure.com and later, its sister organization, Les Be Well, www.lesbewell.com. She incorporates her signature method , Phoenix Fusion, on her retreats which engages individuals experientially in holistic activities, empowering them to rise beyond their expectations as they deepen their relationship with themselves, others and the Universe. She lives in Allentown, PA with her partner and dogs.
In addition to trip leaders, local shamans will join us for Despacho ceremony, cocoa leave readings, medicine work and mountain guides for the sacred plant trip.
Known as The Practical Shaman, Renee Baribeau is a mentor, 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/Holistic Helping Hands, a growing health and wellness chamber of commerce and virtual marketing 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; How cooking saved my life scheduled for publication in autumn 2012, 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. Her Recipe for a Creative Awakening was chosen to be a chapter in an anthology entitled Pearls of Wisdom, Thirty Life Changing Ideas featuring Jack Canfield and due to be released in Spring of 2012.
Kathleen McGinley
Kathleen McGinley recently retired from the Allentown School District in Pennsylvania after serving as a Health and Physical Education teacher. Her ability to make a difference in her students’ lives was demonstrated by her nomination and selection as a recipient of Who’s Who Amongst American Teachers for two consecutive years from 2005-2007. Although she loved educating high school students, she decided to leave teaching after 34 years and follow her passion to utilize her expertise without the limitations created in public education. In 1992, Kathleen experienced a “miracle” during her own trials and tribulations with her divorce. The experience started her on a conscious journey of self discovery in which she created a strong spiritual connection with nature and the Universe. Her personal story has helped many others recognize how to move from a role of victim to co-creator of one’s life.
Kathleen’s love of self discovery, adventure, and “play” led her to become trained as a team building facilitator through Project Adventure in 1995. Ten years later she attained certification through the Spencer Institute as a Wellness Life Strategies Coach and a Holistic Life Coach. Due to her interest in energy and healing work, she also became a certified practitioner in Reiki and took classes in Watsu and Ho’oponopono. In 2005, Kathleen founded Phoenix Adventures in Wellness, www.phoenixadventure.com and later, its sister organization, Les Be Well, www.lesbewell.com. She incorporates her signature method , Phoenix Fusion, on her retreats which engages individuals experientially in holistic activities, empowering them to rise beyond their expectations as they deepen their relationship with themselves, others and the Universe. She lives in Allentown, PA with her partner and dogs.
