The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2.5% globally ranked podcast for women who are ready to expand their capacity to feel good, embody their truth, and create from wholeness.
Here, we explore what it really means to live and lead from authenticity. What if feeling good in your body, your work, and your life isn’t indulgent, but the key to everything?
Each week, you’ll hear intimate conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, healers, and visionaries who are redefining success through creativity and embodiment. Alongside these stories, host Siri Baruc Thornton: Reiki Master Teacher, Transformational Breathwork guide, retreat creator, and podcaster — shares grounded spiritual tools, somatic practices, and lived wisdom from her work leading retreats for women around the world.
You’ll also be invited into monthly women’s circles and leadership panels, where diverse voices gather around a new theme each time, exploring embodiment, abundance, creativity, leadership, or the art of truly feeling good.
With listeners in over 65 countries, this podcast is both sanctuary and spark: a reminder that you don’t need to push to create, or perform to belong. You get to feel good. You get to embody your truth. And from that place, your most authentic life and art flow effortlessly.
Subscribe now and begin your return to radiance.
Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Earth Day After Glow: The Power of Remembering Together
What happens after the formal panel ends, and the circle keeps glowing? This special bonus after party episode captures the warmth, wisdom, and raw beauty of what unfolded when the Earth Day panelists stayed on to share from the heart: unscripted, unfiltered, and unshakably real.
Together, we explored what it means to return to safety, live with courage, and honor our sacred needs as alignment with nature herself. From nervous system resets to the Empress card, sound as medicine, and sacred micro-moments in the bathroom or backyard, this conversation is a tapestry of reminders to shake, breathe, soften, and return.
You’ll hear reflections on:
- How courageous it is to live authentically and lead spiritually
- Why remembering who we are is an act of leadership and love
- Micro-regulation tools like humming, breathwork, tea rituals, and tree-gazing
- What the cacao plant teaches us about honoring our own needs
- Sisterhood, spiritual stewardship, and the deep medicine of women gathering
This was a soul bath. A safety drumbeat. A collective exhale.
Meet the after party circle:
✨ Sierra Sophia Mercier — Artist, world traveler, author, and co-host of Love Set Run, exploring creative expression as a sacred act of reverence. https://a.co/d/ef30rNH
🌬️ Rebecca Schlosser — Breathwork facilitator and host of Bloom with a Boom, guiding us from survival into presence through the breath. @rebeccahappybreaths
🔊 Janine Wolf — Conscious breath and sound healing practitioner syncing our nervous system with Earth’s rhythm. @breathewithjanine
🌸 Shannon Kim — Herbalist, tea alchemist, and intuitive hypnotherapist teaching ritual as a way to align with nature’s cycles. @selflovebyshannonkim
🌬️ Johanna Watts — Actress, director, and nature-loving creative, grounding artistry in presence and wild devotion. @johannawatts
🍄 Heidi Stevens — Spiritual psychologist and homesteader blending microdosing and land-based healing as a path to embodiment. @heidistevens
📸 Tina Aquila — Photographer and divine feminine activator helping women reclaim their elemental radiance. @tinashootsboudoir
🍫 LUANA — Founder of KAKAO ceremonial chocolate, bridging lineages and cultures through sacred reciprocity. https://www.flykakao.com/?ref=siri
💗 Keep expanding your capacity to feel good, one breath at a time.
🎙 Subscribe, share, and leave a 5-star review to help us grow this soul-centered community. The Authentic Creative is now heard in 65 countries and ranks in the top 3% of podcasts globally. Thank you for being here!
Deepen your journey with Siri:
🌿 Reiki — Learn to channel healing energy or 1:1s
💨 Transformational Breathwork — Regulate, expand, heal 1:1 or groups
🔮 Akashic Records — Learn to read the Records for yourself & others or 1:1s
Upcoming Retreats: Step into soul renewal and sacred connection. Email Siri for details and dates.
Stay connected: 📲 Instagram: @siribaructhornton
🌎 Website: www.sageandblushwellness.com
Born in a Sikh yoga ashram in Boston and raised by healers in Vermont, Siri is a breathwork teacher, Reiki Master, and Akashic guide who spent 25 years as a professional actor before stepping fully into her soul work. She lives near Portland, Oregon, with her husband, two boys, and beloved dogs and finds joy in music, nature, and helping others expand their capac