The Shamans Cave

Drought, floods, and changing weather conditions are killing some of our favorite trees, plants, birds, animals, and beings that live on the Earth, the Air, and the Water. When we see such mass illness or death hit these precious beings what are some tools we can use to help them heal. Or if they die what are honoring ceremonies to bring a sense of closure and bring honor, respect, love, and light...

In shamanic cultures, singing was a way to bring the community together while working, playing, grieving, and performing ceremonial work. And for Shamans songs have special powers to invoke the helping spirits for healing. Join Renee and Sandra as they talk about the joy and bliss that comes from circle songs that are taught all over the world in shamanic workshops. And then Sandra shares about th...

Depending on how old you are and your attitude about life we are making choices for ourselves after being in isolation for so long. It is so hard when we chose to stay isolated to feel the confidence and energy to break out of feeling like a shut in. Some people have moved back to lives as usual. And some people are being more cautious. How do we make those first big steps out into the world. Join...

One of the topics that we are all dealing with is how much change is happening in the world. We don’t always rely on our intuition, but trust what others are telling us to do and we watch how others are reacting to our current situation. The universe is giving us new situations to draw us inside and make our own choices as we are being moved forward to a new evolution of consciousness. Join Renee...

Shamanism is a practice of direct revelation that involves a tremendous amount of discipline. It is not appropriate to journey while doing certain activities. It is a practice that works with intention, preparation, calling in the helping spirits, journeying into the unseen realms, and fully returning grounded. Shamanism does not involve out-of-body experiences as shamans take their bodies with th...

Shamanism is a path of direct revelation. This means there are no intermediaries who stand in the way of all of us having the opportunity to communicate with helping spirits and divine beings to get guidance on our life, new perceptions and understandings of what is happening in our lives, and what is happening in the world. During these challenging times Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman talk ab...

Recently Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman did a show about how we are judged by authority figures and society in order to fit into the norm. But most of us do not fit into the norm. And when we are judged from being who we are and the gifts we carried into this world we often time feel shame. For society and authority figures try to shame us in order to stay in control. Isn’t it time to remember...

This is a topic that Renee and Sandra talk a lot about on the Shamans Cave podcasts. We keep circling back to this topic as people drawn to spiritual practices have a very hard time setting boundaries between their own lives and what is happening in the world around them. This is such a common theme written about on social media and in classes where people people get a chance to share. We just sim...

Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman have done many shows on how we are Nature and how to connect more strongly with nature where you live. Recently Sandra had a vision of seeing the land she lives on as a beautiful braided rope weaving. And she saw herself woven into the land rather being separate from it. This brought her to seeing herself, her home, and the land she lives on as one being. Renee h...

We all have to face the challenges of living in today’s world. But the population that is especially challenged is with our youth. Children once danced and sang with the fairies while growing up. Today’s children are being flooded with bad news, a lot of abuse especially during lockdowns, judgements on what they should or should not be doing, etc. Teens are facing living on a planet that is so tox...

We are honoring the change in seasons moving into summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere. The changes in seasons has always been an important time of ceremony in small shamanic cultures. For as we are nature and not just connected to nature, we go through the same changes as the earth where we live. And these are potent times of energetic changes for all of life so...

One of our listeners asked a question about the helping spirits being present, engaged, and sharing a wealth of information and then it feels like the door just shuts and there is simply quiet from the spirit world. Join Renee and Sandra as they answer this important question to how the spirits become so present in our lives and then leave us to do some of our inner work to catch up to all the inf...

Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman really appreciate when listeners write in a topic to talk about to help people go deeper with their shamanic practices. Shamans do work with a variety of helping spirits. And due to the fact that people in shamanic cultures relied on the help of the helping spiritis there were many they worked with. They worked with the spirit of the land, ancestors, plants, anim...

When we face health issues divorce, catastrophic events, and the list goes on we tend to look for who is to blame especially blaming ourselves. It Is something we learn as children that we will be punished for our wrong doings. But in our culture we take this too far, and we tend to actually act as if everything that goes wrong in our life is our fault. Join Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman as t...

Due to so many challenges life we are facing in life we find our plans are not working out as smoothly as expected. We often feel we are walking on our path and all of a sudden we feel like we are facing an avalanche of obstacles. Are these obstacles pointing us to choose another path in life? Or are these obstacles we have to find graceful ways to journey through to put us back on our life path? ...

Some of the challenges in practicing shamanism in our communities is watching inexperienced students and clients find teachers and practitioners who are lost in their ego and forget that shamanic practitioners are merely vessels for the helping spirits/ the divine beings.  The divine beings from the unseen realms have unlimited healing energies that can flow through us creating powerful healings....

In this powerful show Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman talk about how part of being a human is dealing with the judgement of others. Sandra shares how she had a long epic dream one night showing her how people judging her throughout her life created so much tension from holding in the rage of not feeling accepted for who she was versus others’ expectations. In our culture we are often judged so...

There are so many responses to big times of change like we are in right now. We have a choice to be flexible and learn how to change and go with the flow or we make choices to dig our heels into the ground and try and control our world. Change like we are experiencing can be scary. And there are times when we have to just surrender and be flexible and go with what life brings us. And there are tim...

Many people are really struggling to survive with all the challenges we are facing. Some are struggling  with economic challenges, some with extreme emotional swings, and some just so stressed out by all life is bringing to us right now. We all react differently to stress. And people are feeling so hurt in a world that no longer shows kindness. How do we change our state of consciousness while bei...

Renee and Sandra did a very popular show on how to take care of yourself if you are a very sensitive person living in the collective we have created. And this show led to a wealth of amazing comments. Now Renee and Sandra were asked to expand on this topic of self care for caregivers. For so many of you are in healing fields whether medical, mental, or spiritual where people are pulling on your en...

Through time there has been a part of the population who are highly sensitive. These people tended to be the shamans, mystics, healers, visionaries for the community. In today’s world people are becoming more psychically sensitive as well as being more sensitive to environmental changes. Just like our precious nature beings are struggling to learn to live in the world we created humans are being e...

Part of the power of having a shamanic practice and living a shamanic way of life is understanding the power and meaning of creating sacred space. This is important and a way to step aside from your ego and mind chatter to do your spiritual work in an ethical and courteous way. Even though the spirits don’t have egos it is simply courtesy to welcome them to your home for guidance and protection an...

Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman receive topic suggestions and correspondence from many of our listeners. And one of the topics that they are both constantly asked to talk about is how to trust visions, intuitive hits, and spontaneous insights, and spiritual downloads.  We were all born with the gift of being visionaries and receiving spiritual information throughout the day and throughout our l...

Honoring the shift in seasons is such important work to do as we are as affected by the seasonal changes as the Earth and all of life is. By performing ceremonies to welcome in changing seasons we can prepare mentally, emotionally, and physically for new periods of growth in our life. And it is important to enter each season with awareness that the shift is creating big changes in you too.  Join R...

Join Renee and Sandra as they discuss a topic on so many people’s minds today. We are hearing from so many listeners about their struggles about personal freedom and expressing one’s truth versus taking care of oneself in these troubling times. Is it just selfish to block out the craziness in the world right now and find peace within? What a difficult choice this is for so many of us. What do we h...