What does it take to transform from a “starving artist” to a thriving, fulfilled creative? How do we “make it” in showbiz without burning out or giving up? And how can we bounce back from our toughest times, like performing while seriously ill? In this insider episode of “Thriving Artists: The Daily Joyride Podcast,” host Robyn Cohen speaks with somatic healer Siri Baruc Thornton about her remarkable journey from the entertainment industry to a life dedicated to spiritual ascension and emotional transformation. They delve into the profound intersection of artistry and spirituality, exploring how modalities like breathwork and Reiki can unlock infinite creativity and abounding joy. Robyn also shares her unique experiences filming in Budapest, Hungary offering a raw and real look at pushing through adversity and getting over “the wall.” Join this powerful conversation to discover how to rise from the ashes, expand your capacity to feel good, and create a life that you love. This interview is a must-listen for those determined to connect deeply within their creative communities and bring their dreams to life.
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Siri Baruc Thornton is a multifaceted creative, healer, and guide who has dedicated her life to expanding our capacity to feel good. As the host of The Authentic Creative podcast, Siri inspires thousands with her wisdom on healing, embodiment, and self-expression. With over 26 years of experience in Reiki, Akashic Record reading, and Mountain Breathwork infused with Reiki, she has built a thriving practice helping others access their innate power and live with greater joy and alignment.
Siri offers intimate group certifications in Reiki and Akashic Records, private healing sessions, and immersive retreats, all designed to help people reconnect with their authenticity and abundance.
Connect with Siri: www.sageandblushwellness.com
Email: siri@sageandblushwellness.com
Follow Siri on IG: @siribaructhornton
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Robyn Cohen (00:05):
Hello, hello, and welcome back to the Daily Joy
Ride podcast.
I am your host, Robyn Cohen.
Here to fuel your day withenergy, infuse it with joy, and
share powerful stories that willignite your courage.
Spark your spirit, awaken yourperceptions, and inspire and
encourage the once in a cosmosyou to create a life.
(00:27):
That you actually love living.
So if that's your jam, buckle upand let's ride.
Here we go.
Hi everyone, and welcome back toThriving Artists, The Daily
Joyride Podcast.
I'm Robyn Cohen, and today weare flipping the switch big
(00:47):
time.
My guest is the Radiant SiriBaruc Thornton, not only a dear,
dear friend, and a creativeforce of nature, but someone
that without whom this verypodcast might not even exist.
she really lit the spark forthis show.
Coming into being Siri is atransformational healer, a
breathwork and Akashic recordsguide, and the host of the
(01:09):
Authentic Creative Podcast.
she helps people reconnect tojoy, alignment, and what it
means to truly feel good Intheir bodies, in their purpose
and in their lives.
this conversation is electric,and if you are jonesing for more
creative juice for yourself.
if you are ready to feel alivein your own power and
(01:30):
self-expression again.
I have got you.
Come on along to audit yourfirst acting class with me
totally free.
You'll get to witness andobserve a wildly gifted, deeply
connected, Heart-centeredcommunity of artists who are
working, playing, risking,growing, and igniting their
passion every single week.
(01:51):
So whether you're burned out,you're feeling blocked or just.
A little dead inside.
I promise that this space willawaken something Totally new and
magical in you.
So DM me on Instagram@RobynCohenActingStudio, or
email Robyn Robyn is with a yRobyn@cohenactingstudio.com.
and I'll send you the link sothat you can zoom in with us
(02:14):
Tuesdays in class This work andthis podcast interview is a game
changer.
It is powerful, it isnourishing, and you deserve to
feel alive again in whateveryou're up to.
So without further ado, here'sthe extraordinary Siri Baruc
Thornton.
Let's dive in.
Well, hello, hello, and welcomeback to the daily joyride
(02:36):
podcast.
I'm shaking.
I'm kind of, I'm vibrating, I'mcavelling, I'm vibrating with
excitement right now.
Not only Because my guest, myall star guest, Siri Baruc and I
just had a magnificent danceparty.
But the fact that Siri is here,Okay, I'm gonna cry.
(02:57):
I just realized I'm gonna cry.
Um, is really moving on so manylevels.
Namely, we wouldn't be here.
This podcast wouldn't exist.
And, the Daily Joyride would,not have been created without my
knowing.
Siri Baruc and being, inspiredand motivated and guided by her.
(03:19):
So, um, and before we, I want toshare in a moment about who you
are and what you do in the worldand in the universe.
but just to wind that back alittle bit.
So, Siri and I sort of lovedeach other.
into each other's existence.
Before the beginning of time.
Yes.
and specifically what I mean bythat on this plane is that we
(03:40):
were introduced by a mutualfriend, a creative named Barbie,
Barbara Heller.
Barbara has a sister named CathyHeller, who is a mentor for both
me and for Siri and a wonderfulteacher.
and It was through her sister,Barbie, that we met.
That said, it goes deeper,because the only reason I know
(04:01):
Barbie is through a mutualpassion and love for the
creative arts, the performingarts, for arts and crafts in
general.
Barbie and I used to be inauditions together for years
and, attend social eventstogether.
We knew each other.
three years into knowing Barbie.
Like I met her when I firstmoved to Los Angeles and we had
(04:22):
just been in that circuit.
Then I didn't see her for awhile and COVID and yada, yada,
yada.
But she felt it was of primoimportance, and she was right,
to connect us via email.
And that gave rise and gavebirth to The friendship that I
have with Siri Baruc today,which is one of the most valued
(04:45):
and treasured relationships inmy life, so it's meaningful that
you're here, Siri, like I said,there's so many layers to it,
but The first time the idea of apodcast ever even entered my
world was subsequent to Barbieintroducing us via email.
And not too long thereafter,Siri, you invited me to be on
(05:06):
your podcast.
I honestly didn't know exactlywhat that meant, what it
entailed.
You had this gorgeous emailinvitation where you offered me
a breathwork session leadinginto the podcast.
And I was like, what is thismagical fairy?
What are we doing?
Like, I didn't, I really had noclue except that I was going to
get to sort of be in the spaceof Siri online, and then we were
(05:29):
going to have a kind of aconversation, a podcast, and we
were going to make an episode.
How I would even see thatepisode, hear that episode, I
had no idea where it would existin the world, hadn't crossed my
mind.
But I just wanted to spend timewith Siri Baruc, whose name
means shining, gorgeous, cosmicstar blessing.
(05:51):
So come on.
So then we meet, we're online.
We've barely had anycommunication except for the
couple of emails and theinvitation to do this.
And then.
We have this session, Sirifacilitates magnificently, as
she always does, a phenomenal,hour long, right?
(06:11):
About an hour long of breathwork, where, again, I don't know
what happened, okay, but we wentdeep, like, um, All the way.
And that was the first one onone of this kind I had a
breathwork teacher for years.
(06:33):
it was a very different vein interms of the breathwork world
that she facilitated.
So it did feel completely newthe way you guided our work
together.
And, it dropped me into a placethat I had never been before.
And then! The most amazing thinghappened.
Siri said, we're gonna start thepodcast.
(06:55):
And at that juncture, she hitrecord, and she asked me, I
think, one question, which,because of the space that you
had provided, the loving care,and the place that we had
dropped into together, you askedme one question I said something
(07:16):
like, this is a story aboutlove.
a love between myself and mylate brother, Adam Cohen.
And I don't even know if anotherquestion was asked.
I know it was interstitially,but this journey that I did not
see coming unfolded into love,into, sibling love, into love of
(07:40):
art and craft, unlike any I hadever had.
Siri, for those who are watchingon YouTube, you can see that
she's holding up a card thatsays, I am not dead, with a
gorgeous light streaming onto abird, and for those listening
in, it's like a, Yeah, oraclecard.
It's an oracle card.
(08:00):
Yeah.
talking to Heaven Deck.
Talking to Heaven Deck.
Okay, beautiful.
So yeah, that's what washappening.
that was that's exactly what washappening in the conversation
that transpired this podcastepisode, which was just a thinly
veiled moment of heaven on earththat we got to share together.
And subsequently you invited meback.
(08:21):
We did a couple more.
We had a couple more incredibleconversations together.
and, next thing I knew, therewere these podcasts out in the
world that you had facilitatedand that you had invited me into
Siri, and it literally blew openthe whole thing.
Like, I did not see this comingand you also, you teach
(08:45):
podcasting among other things, Imean, you're, you have so much
wisdom and expertise in thisarea and you know this to be
true because you've seen it withall your students and with
yourself, but becoming someonethat creates podcasts, which is,
you know, having authentic,connected, connected, connected,
Collaborative conversations overand over again and reaching out
(09:06):
to people all over the world toconnect with them transforms
your life.
And so since I have started thisjourney last year, which began
with you, s right smack dab inthe middle of your heart, um, my
life has, exploded intodirections that were not going
to happen anyway.
They just weren't.
They just weren't gonna happenanyway.
(09:29):
And, And yeah, there are certainaspects of my life that through
this journey are literallyunrecognizable to me.
And so I want to say thank you.
Words don't really cover it.
I want to encapsulate, you know,the gratitude and the
appreciation I feel for yoursoul, what it has unlocked in me
and in so many, many, many,many, is unimaginably gigantic,
(09:57):
powerful, beautiful, and lifesaving.
Thank you for being anauthentic, creative healer.
You're a surgeon of the humanheart, and you are saving lives
and lighting up lives.
In ways that are so beyondbeyond it's amazing that like
(10:17):
you're even in human form Andlisten It's no hyperbole, it's
no hyperbole, okay So with that,I'll read you a little official
business.
Part of this is what AI, this iswhat, a little bit of what AI
had to say, but mostly it's whatyou shared about what you're up
to, so I'm going to share mostlythat, but Alright, sports fans,
(10:37):
so, so, so, here's a little bitabout Siri Baruc.
Even AI said that we have anextraordinary guest on your
podcast today, whose path isdeeply rooted in creativity, in
transformation, and consciousliving.
Siri Baruc Thornton is acreative visionary.
(11:00):
A transformational coach, amultifaceted creative, healer,
and guide who has dedicated herlife to expanding our capacity
to feel good.
As the host of the AuthenticCreative Podcast, Siri inspires
thousands And more.
With her wisdom on healing,embodiment, and self expression.
With over 26 years of experiencein Reiki, Akashic Record
(11:25):
reading, and mountain breathworkinfused with Reiki, she has
built a thriving practicehelping others access their
innate power and live withgreater joy and alignment.
Siri's journey has taken herfrom the world of acting to the
world of healing, blending herdeep understanding of creativity
with transformational modalitiesthat support emotional and
(11:48):
energetic breakthroughs.
She offers intimate groupcertifications in Reiki and
Akashic Records, private healingsessions, and immersive
retreats, all designed to helppeople reconnect with their
authenticity and abundance.
Whether she's guiding abreathwork session, writing her
upcoming book, The authenticcreative, expanding our capacity
(12:12):
to feel good, or working withheart centered leaders, Siri
brings a unique blend of warmth,intuition, and inspiration to
everything she does.
Today, she joins us on the DailyJoyride to share her insights on
joy, creativity, and what ittruly means to live.
(12:33):
an expansive life.
Welcome to the show, Siri.
I am over the moon that you arehere.
Siri B (12:40):
Oh my god, Robyn look at you.
Oh my god.
I feel like I'm Simultaneouslyon a TED Talk, my, my, my
memorial at the end of my life,and on like the best show on TV
(13:03):
ever type of feeling like that,and also just cosmically,
galactically, spiritually, likeentering portals and whatnot.
So, leave it to you.
Leave it to you to give the bestintroduction in the world.
Well, thank you, guru.
Thank you,
Robyn Cohen (13:23):
sensei.
Thank you, maestra.
You showed me how.
You lit the path.
You lit the path forward.
There but for you.
Go I.
Isn't it fun?
Isn't it fun?
Siri B (13:38):
You guys, is this just I was like, we don't even need
words.
We'll just, we'll just vibe.
We'll just vibe.
Like, I don't even know if theinternet can handle it.
Robyn Cohen (13:48):
Like, can it even Handle it.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know.
I don't know.
We're gonna
Siri B (13:57):
find out.
Robyn Cohen (13:58):
We're gonna find out.
Siri B (13:59):
You're, you're brighter, you're brighter than the
brightest star in the sky, Robynyour name means star.
I mean, I just love you Sodeeply.
I love you to other galaxies andback.
I feel so lifted Not right.
(14:22):
Not just I mean forget thismoment like forget it since
since the beginning of time likeour souls knew each other so
Okay, whatever, it doesn'tmatter when we met, but you are
literally every single time weinteract, I'm getting head
tingles thinking about it, youjust, I have to share your voice
(14:45):
notes with my husband or my dador my kids, like, because it's
like a, an alignment infusionfor everyone, whenever whatever.
I hear your voice, because itjust, it's just a, it's a
dignifying, it's a lifting, it'slike, your voice notes, just
(15:08):
yeah, you're, you're the masterclass, I mean Robyn's a teacher,
you're a teacher, not just anacting teacher, you're, you're a
life teacher Robyn you teach ushow to, to be on the joyride.
Robyn Cohen (15:20):
Oh, thank you for that.
I'm gonna leave you a voice memofor
Siri B (15:24):
that.
Oh, P P S, by the way, it'sRobyn tell the, will you tell
that story?
Robyn Cohen (15:31):
Just in case.
Or not.
I do have a way sometimes ofleaving.
Up to a five, six minute voicememo, and I think because I was
raised in Maryland, where therewere certain social norms,
sometimes I'd get to the end ofa five minute voice memo with
Siri, who knows me very well atthis point, and I'll say, Oh,
(15:53):
this is Robyn because I feelthat was never said, and just in
case there was any, like, Is it?
and now I just do it all thetime.
So even though the first time itwas ingrained, like it was just
ingrained to do that, now it'sjust, now I do it all the time.
not because, it's necessary onany level, but, uh, we enjoy it.
Siri B (16:18):
Yeah, it's a, it's a running joke.
By the way, it's Robyn
Robyn Cohen (16:21):
it's just, we want to enjoy all of it.
And so, if it's fun, likechocolate, I'm, I'm going to
keep going back to it threetimes a day, all day, every day,
at every meal, and every voicememo.
So, Okay, I'm so tempted.
I'm like, all of a sudden I'mlike, I can do the interview.
I know.
Okay, you guys, just so youknow, there could be a takeover.
(16:43):
You have to stop me.
No, I want it.
I want it.
I want it.
I'm stopping.
It's it's a collaborative.
No, no, no.
Here's the thing.
Here's the thing, Siri.
Everybody at this point knowsthat you are my numero uno
guiding, like, north star forthis whole thing.
So, this is gonna be, like,unlike anything else that's come
(17:06):
before it, obviously.
Just as this It's co creating ofthis relationship in this
lifetime is like nothing that'scome before it.
So, it's, it is, I just haven'ttalked
Siri B (17:17):
to you.
I just haven't talked to yousince Budapest.
I've been in Budapest.
I haven't talked to you since.
Since you met Maté and you sawHamlet.
I have not talked to you sincethen.
So I just, I'm just supercurious.
That's all.
That's true.
Robyn Cohen (17:29):
But, but yeah.
So we'll, dip into that.
And then, one of us may or maynot ask a question.
So just so we can get caught up,I've recently gotten back from
17 days in Budapest, Hungary,where I was shooting a
television show for CBS calledFBI International.
And that's how you have to sayit.
(17:50):
FBI.
Which, it was just announced,this is their final season.
So We're the blowout.
We're the grand finale, which ispretty exciting.
they've been on for four years,It's a whole, there've been
several FBI internationals.
It's a franchise.
There's a regular FBI, then FBIinternational.
It's a Dick Wolf show.
(18:10):
And he, you know.
Oh yeah.
That's why I said da dun.
Right?
Da Da da.
He does law like the law andorder.
Law and order.
Yeah.
He does all the law and orders,all the Chicago, the MDs, the
fire, all, all those.
Thank you, Law
Siri B (18:21):
Order, for all of
Robyn Cohen (18:22):
my residual checks.
Thank you.
Yes, because, your time on LawOrder and some of your movie and
film credits and all thosethings.
And I wanted to ask you aboutthat, about your Law Order days,
cause they're sister shows,really, and certainly the same
creator, but so this was awhack.
I don't want to say wacko.
That's, that's Billy's word.
He has the best words.
Wacko is one of his.
Um, it was quite an adventure.
(18:44):
I had not, I've been to Europe.
I hadn't been to Budapest.
And before I got there, thankGod, Siri and I are always, were
in communication and leavingvoice memos.
And when she heard I was going,she said, Oh, I got a guy,
right?
Like I got a guy that knows aguy that you got to meet.
I got a guy.
Yeah, I got a guy.
Oh, you should
Siri B (19:04):
interview him, Robyn
Robyn Cohen (19:05):
yeah, yeah, we're going to do an interview.
Oh, it's already done.
I mean, cosmically, right?
Yeah, it is already done.
So, she said, I got a guy.
And he happens to be, one of thepremier actors in Budapest.
And at the time of my arrival,he was opening up Hamlet.
by William Shakespeare at theHungarian National Theater, a
(19:27):
beautiful theater that's beenaround forever.
Which is like your favoriteshow, right?
Yes, yes, and which his fatheralso worked in that theater, and
apparently grandfather.
Yeah, long line of actors there.
Long line, yes, incrediblelegacy.
And I didn't have much time offwhile I was there, but the
moment there was a Sundayafternoon that was free, Billy
(19:51):
and I, we went to the NationalTheater.
Maté had reserved some ticketsfor us, set them aside.
And here's my little secret.
I thought there were gonna besubtitles to this play.
English subtitles.
Siri B (20:05):
Oh.
Robyn Cohen (20:06):
No subtitles.
Not a word.
Not a word of English.
It was Hungarian?
Beginning to end, HungarianHamlet.
Oh, wow.
Come on now.
Unbelievable.
Listen.
I've never understood that dudebetter.
And I've never seen it playedmore clearly.
This is what we're alwaystalking about in, in acting
(20:28):
class.
If you can, it doesn't matter.
The reason you can watch, right,the reason you can watch foreign
films, and understand them andthe reason you can watch
Shakespeare in any language isbecause the play is the thing
and it's the Interactivitybetween the two artists and what
they're trying to accomplishwith the language Yeah, that is
the play and we relate to thathuman we relate to the human
(20:51):
experience So it doesn't matter.
I've been learning
Siri B (20:52):
Italian and And, and you just, you can, you feel, right?
It's the vibration.
You feel it.
Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Robyn Cohen (20:59):
yes.
100%.
So I knew exactly what was, andyes, I've studied the play and I
went to school for Shakespeareand all the things, but, but,
you know.
You're a doctor of Shakespeare.
I'm, I'm, someday, someday.
My brother was doctor, doctor,yes, of Shakespeare and letters,
but, you know, in thisparticular case, it was such an
affirming acting lesson to belike, oh, it's not the lines.
(21:22):
It's the life.
Underneath the lines.
It's not the lines, it's thelife, right?
Because if you're not trying toaccomplish something with
language, it's a snooze.
And I was so jet lagged, it's anine hour difference.
My Circadian rhythms were sobananas.
It was kind of like having apsychotic break.
(21:42):
I was on the edge of my seat theentire time.
And then it was so sweet.
Maté comes out and all theseladies, like these 60 gorgeous
60 year old women, they swarmhim.
And I'm like, I need a picture.
So I took some pictures of usand videos, and I will send
those to you.
but to answer your question, howwas it?
(22:02):
So When I arrived, it was a 14hour journey, right?
It's flights and things.
We, so I get there, I wasn'tfeeling well.
And, very shortly thereafter, Iwas, called to the costume
department to do the.
Fitting because we were supposedto shoot pretty quickly after I
landed.
(22:22):
So I had a little rest when Igot there.
And um, the next morning, whichwas a few hours later, I went to
the costume department.
Huge, gorgeous state of the art.
They have a new building for allof their arts and crafts things
for this show.
And I say to the women this go,this incredibly gifted costume
designer who's like so Europeanand yummy.
(22:43):
And I was like, just so youknow, I'm feeling a little, I
just got off the plane and I'mfeeling a little, and she's
like, no problem.
And uh, we start the costumefitting.
There's about 150 articles ofclothing to try on.
'cause I'm in seven or eightscenes and we need to find the
costumes and fit them.
Oh my god.
On my body.
Right.
Even though you send yourmeasurements ahead, you have to
(23:03):
actually.
tailor suits and things andthat, right, you have to fit
them.
So we start, 9am, we start thefitting, I put on the first
couple of costumes, we'rethrough, we're through about 10
articles of clothing, and uh, Irealize I'm going to, I'm going
to be ill.
And so I say, you know, I thinkI'm going to be ill.
And before they could get atrash can in the room, I threw
(23:27):
up all over this thousanddollar, I saw the picture,
thousand dollar.
Pair of pants.
Costume designer looks at me,looks at the pants, with vomit
all over them, and she says,Take off those pants.
They make you sick.
Not meant for you.
(23:50):
Those pants not meant for you.
Next outfit.
So, You know how after you getsick to your stomach, there's
like, um, there's like 10minutes where you feel better.
Yeah.
So I'm in this high and they'relike, I'm like, you know what?
(24:11):
I actually feel really good now.
Maybe that was it.
I was like, maybe that's it.
So they clean up the floor andthe pants with da, da, da.
And uh, they come back into theroom.
I do the toothbrush and I, theycome back and they're like,
let's go.
I get through about 10 morearticles of clothing and I say,
you know what?
(24:32):
I'm not feeling so great.
So at this point they're ready.
They run in with two more trashcans.
They leave the room.
I get sick for not, it's not,it's not going well.
It's not going well.
I get really ill.
Um, then right after that, yeah,this is my first day in Hungary.
It does get better.
So then after that, there wasagain, like that five minute
(24:54):
period where you feel finebecause you just sort of, and I
was like, okay, let's go.
And she looks at me and shesays, You're going home.
And I said, you're right.
And so at that juncture, theyshuttled me back to the hotel.
I went back with my head betweenmy knees.
(25:15):
They sent the medic from theset.
Every set, every production haslike a set medic.
They sent her to the hotel wherethey had me staying and um, I
got sick again and the mediccame.
And I kept getting sick and Igot sick again and again, and
this went on all afternoon.
She gave me some medication,which finally, quelled the
(25:35):
nausea.
So I, stopped being sick.
and then it's that night and Istopped, you know.
Growing up.
Sorry for those of you who arelike, I'm sorry.
Anyone, any listeners, losiento.
Okay.
If you're having breakfastwatching this, lo siento means
I'm sorry in Spanish.
You can put a little warning.
Oh yeah, I will.
I will.
Trigger warning.
(25:56):
Um, and so then I'm on the phonewith the PAs and the producers.
Are you going to be okay?
Cause I'm supposed to shootfirst thing in the morning and I
haven't fit any of my costumesyet.
Siri B (26:07):
Yeah.
Robyn Cohen (26:07):
Right.
Siri B (26:08):
Yeah.
Robyn Cohen (26:08):
So we're in touch.
And I said, you know, I wasencouraged that I had stopped
being sick.
Like, maybe this was a one daything.
And, and you know, he said,Well, let's just talk in the
morning.
But I know, like, you know, aday of production to have to
move something around is like,it can be hundreds of thousands
of dollars, right?
It's like a major disaster.
a It's a financial issue as muchas it is everything else.
(26:30):
They were very kind to me andvery human and were already
offering me options to maybeswitch around the shooting
schedule.
But I garnered the stuff, youknow.
I, we pulled it.
I pulled on cosmic love, andsupport.
And, although I could not eventhink of food.
I showered, I cleaned myself up,and they picked me up in the
(26:53):
morning and took me right to thecostume department.
So I get to the costumedepartment.
they.
Were working like, likeMavericks, like creative
machines.
What they had done in my absencewas get a person that had my
size, like a real human being.
Mm-hmm And they started tryingon double on costumes, A body
double.
Yeah.
(27:14):
And they started fitting andtailoring outfits that the
director liked for the scenes,such that when I arrived, I only
had about.
Seven or eight outfits to tryon, which was great.
They basically fit.
They did a couple tailoringthings.
The biggest thing was the shoes,because I have huge bunions from
dancing.
That's another podcast.
We finally got it together, andum, they shuttled me to set, and
(27:38):
we shot the heck out of thething.
And the director couldn't havebeen happier.
Wonderful, wonderful.
I still couldn't eat a thing.
By this time, we're going lateinto the night, but we got
through it.
They were thrilled.
I went home and went to bed and,I kept on shooting and I'll tell
you the first week was hardbecause I was nauseated.
I hate being nauseous.
It's like my least favoritething.
(27:59):
But the first week in Europe waspretty, sickly.
in general.
after that, it took on the glowand the, um, the gloriousness of
what we were doing there.
And it took on the sort of theshimmer of being in this
production with these incrediblepeople.
and I know that this is a wholeother podcast talking about this
(28:20):
journey with this show.
I'm looking at Siri's glowingface.
but to answer your question, it,uh, it ended up going, um,
beautifully.
It was magically delicious andyour friends couldn't have been
nicer.
We had the best Hungarian foodwhen we had our appetites back,
the next week with Mate and hiswife.
I love it.
Absolutely amazing.
(28:40):
I'm going to send you all thepictures.
So thank you for thatintroduction.
Siri B (28:44):
Oh my gosh, it makes me so happy that you guys
connected.
Yeah.
It's so wonderful.
Robyn Cohen (28:49):
Yeah.
And that you, that you gotthrough it.
Yes.
And kind of like Gangbusters,there's a part two to this with
what actually ended up happeningwith the shooting and the
creativity therein.
Before we toggle into that, Iwould love to tag team with you.
Siri.
It's one,
Siri B (29:08):
one,
Robyn Cohen (29:08):
one.
Oh, the wholeness.
We're going to tag team with,what are we tag teaming with?
It's this, and this was actuallya question from one of my
students to you, because theyall, my students know and love
Siri.
Siri has facilitated, several ofmy classes to some of my acting
students who have just fallen.
Which was like the greatest giftin the world.
(29:31):
They fall madly in love withSiri and the work and they're
revitalized and they're taken toheaven and so they knew that we
were going to be meeting and soone of them had this question
which relates to, um, this crosspollination of arts and crafts
and spirituality.
And so their question was, whatis your perspective on the
(29:53):
intersection of creativity?
And what motivated yourtransition from the
entertainment industry into theworld of energy healing and
transformation?
Siri B (30:10):
So come back to the part one of that question for me and
say it
Robyn Cohen (30:14):
again.
Okay, so part one is, what'syour perspective on the
intersection or the crossover ofcreativity and spirituality?
Siri B (30:24):
So, creativity and spirituality, this is awesome.
Creativity comes, oozes from us.
You see it in Robyn oozes fromher, oozes from her students the
most easily and brilliantly whenthey are dropped in, into their
(30:48):
bodies, when they are embodied.
Right?
So how do we get embodied?
There's many ways.
Before we started the podcast,Robyn and I were dancing to
Walking on Sunshine, like afreaking like snowstorm of
excitement.
It was unfettered, unfetteredjoy.
Yeah, and so there's, like,that's one way.
(31:09):
The other way, that my favorite,well, Dancey's one of the top, I
mean, Dancey's like top three.
My favorite way of getting tothe creative juices, the
creative flow, which justnaturally is what we are.
We're all creatives, we're allcreating all the time.
(31:30):
Universe created us, and thenwe, the universe through us, If
we're aligned, then we can bethe channel for that.
So as actors, if you'relistening and you're an actor,
you know this feeling of lettingthe inspiration, the embodiment,
the words, the lines.
(31:52):
The actions come through you andyou know that feeling when you
just lose all track of time,when you're in creative flow,
when you're creating something,whether it's a character that
you're showing up and beingpresent in the moment, whether
it's a piece of art.
Whether it's creating a podcastepisode, that when you are fully
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dropped in and aligned, andcracked open, right?
Like your crown is open, yourthroat chakra is open, your
sacral, your female creativematrix, if you're a woman, is
open.
Your root is connected to thecore of Mother Earth.
Your heart feels safe to open.
These things happen through Somany avenues, but my favorite is
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breathwork and Reiki.
So there's lots of things I cansay about Reiki and about
breathwork and aboutspirituality.
I could go on for literally likea year about that, but the
creativity, we get to be thestraw, the vessel for God
universe to flow the ideas, theinspiration, the stories that
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are longing to be told andshared.
If we are the straw, if we arethe open vessel, Then we get the
opportunity to be the expressionof that.
And to me, that is unconditionallove.
That feeling of being the vesselfor what God wants to bring
(33:21):
through is the ultimate, youknow, and I see that in you.
And I think that's one of thereasons Robyn and I are soul
sisters is because we.
I love the catharsis of beingthe vessel for God's creativity,
for universe's creativity.
So you want to be a brilliantartist, crack yourself open
(33:43):
however you can, whether that'sdance, whether that's
breathwork, whether that'sreiki, or whatever your modality
is.
I particularly am a massive fanof Breathwork, have been for
over 20 years when I was livingin New York City and I started
doing Breathwork and Reikitrades with a girlfriend of mine
who is connected to Robyn aswell.
(34:05):
So, it's all, it's allconnected, like, this moment was
always meant to be that you weregoing to ask me that question,
like, So, thank you for askingme that because I'm discovering
it as I'm answering it and, andit's, it's a love making session
between universe, our soul, ourteam, our guides, and the words
(34:28):
that we're expressing, the artwe're creating, the, you know,
the story we're telling, right,And we get to be in that dance,
what a gift.
So I think that anything we cando as creatives that want to
live a joyful, that want to beon the joyride to expand our
vessel, to soften our vessel, toopen our vessel, to expand and
(34:50):
lean into life, which Robyndoes.
So like every moment of herlife, like she leans in with her
heart, her whole heart, like nomatter what, like that is what
makes us the best human and alsothe best artist.
So that intersection iseverything.
Like we could talk about thatfor days.
Robyn Cohen (35:11):
That is.
That's like answering a questionthat, for the most part, most
people, most humans don't evenknow how to ask.
Thank you for that.
And on behalf of the students orartists or creatives or non
creatives, what about peoplethat are afraid to even start to
start?
To crack themselves open forwhat they should find there.
(35:35):
I, I work with a lot of people,as do you.
And just getting to the point ofwillingness, how would you
encourage people, right, like,you and I, you were born in an
ashram.
Siri B (35:48):
I'm just hearing the word, I'm hearing the word
dream, right, like we all have adream and it's actually painful
to not.
Do what you do Robyn to not gofor the dream like you're an
example of a hundred percentfully I see you as a hundred
percent fully going for thedream, but it's painful to not
(36:08):
go for the dream.
So I would say Everybody's got adream.
What's your dream, baby?
Like so if so, the dream is inyou It's already done as you say
like it's already happened.
It's that old saying of get outof your own way so It's like,
we're pushing ourselves like abeach ball.
(36:30):
I feel like you've told me this.
That we're pushing ourselveslike a beach ball, right?
Under the water.
You
Robyn Cohen (36:36):
talk, do you talk about that?
I, I have, I have in the past.
And we may or may not, or mayhave heard this together from
someone else.
Yes, yes, yes.
Like
Siri B (36:43):
we're pushing ourselves like a beach ball under the
water when, when we don't allow.
Ourselves to be the channel ofcreativity.
Robyn Cohen (36:51):
Yeah,
Siri B (36:52):
and so it's painful and and our the soul is like give me
air It like wants to bob up.
So I I think the answer is Whatis the avenue?
Is it, if it's dance, if it'sbreathwork, if it's reiki, if
it's an acting class, what isthe avenue, a voice class,
that's going, that's going to,start to, to chip away at or
(37:16):
soften or melt the thing that isin the way of your soul's
greatest expression.
Like, I don't, it's, it doesn'tneed to be created.
It's there.
right?
It's like the clay, thestructure under the clay.
It's like, we only excel at thespeed of safety.
Yeah.
And so with our nervous system.
(37:37):
And so it's like, how can wemake it safe?
That's the question.
Right.
How can we make it safe?
And this is not something Robynand I grew up learning.
Right.
We didn't learn this until morerecently, the words, how can we
make it safe?
No one was saying this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How can we make it safe?
(37:58):
And what does safe even mean inyour body?
That's a retraining of thenervous system.
That's a retraining and that's arewiring of our circuitry.
Robyn Cohen (38:08):
What do you tell people that don't even want to
step into that work?
Why do we talk to the majoritywho aren't going after their
dreams because we do all havedreams.
Siri B (38:17):
But so there's, there's so everyone's on the spectrum of
what their readiness is and howmuch they're willing to have,
how much they're willing tohave.
So my havingness could be atzero, which is, I can't have
anything.
Because it just does not feelsafe in my system.
(38:38):
I can't have anything for,because of conditioning, because
of the nurturing, because ofsociety, because of wounds,
blah, blah, blah.
And then on the other side ofthe spectrum of having this is
Like, for example, Oprah orAdele or someone who's like, all
the way, like, Robyn, you arelike, it's like that having this
(38:59):
is like a capacity thatsomeone's given themselves
permission.
And I think certain people havedifferent levels of capacity
based on their DNA and theirhistory and their ancestry and
their nurturing and all of this.
So it's not your fault.
If you don't feel like you havethe capacity to be fully
(39:20):
expressed, to have joy, to liveyour dream.
And I think starting there withthat first, I think first,
compassion awareness.
No, sorry.
Let me back up awareness.
We can't even understandanything until we're aware and
we can't force someone to beaware until they're ready to be
aware.
(39:41):
So awareness, I have a dream inmy heart, or I'm not fully
living my life, or I'm not fullyfeeling joy as much as I wanna
be, or I'm not going for it.
Awareness.
And then I say compassion afterthe awareness.
Mm-hmm Because you are where youare because of a myriad of a
thousand things.
Right?
And so it's like.
(40:02):
Oh, baby girl.
Robyn Cohen (40:04):
Yeah.
Siri B (40:04):
Or oh, sweet boy.
Like, of course, you know, andwhen I open people's Akashic
records or I teach them to opentheir Akashic records, that's
what we do.
We do, of course.
Yes, because I don't know if youbelieve in past lives, if you're
listening to this or not, butfor example, if you've had a
past life where you were killed,you know, it's like, well, of
course, you're scared to stickyour neck out.
(40:27):
Of course.
Robyn Cohen (40:28):
Can you share a little bit about the Akashic
Records process for people thatit's new for them?
So
Siri B (40:33):
Akashic Records are inroad.
There's so many inroads.
it's one inroad to our infinitewisdom and to the infinite
wisdom of our masters, teachers,loved ones.
There's a sacred prayer, and aswith anything, there's, it's
practice and guidance and sacredprayer that gets you to this
(40:55):
space where you can, and peopletap into the Akashic Records all
the time by accident, which ishow I started.
By accident.
I was doing Reiki with someoneon my Reiki table, and I just
started channeling informationabout their dead cat, and I
other times would channelinformation about someone's
unborn child, and I was like,okay, I'm tapping into some
(41:16):
infinite wisdom here.
Um, and the Akashic is differentfrom Psychic.
Okay.
They have, they have overlaps,but Psychic, readings can
oftentimes be oriented in a fearenergy.
Of the unknown and needing to beable to predict everything as
opposed to where Akashic is likespiritual therapy, spiritual
(41:38):
therapy when you receive it,right?
It's spiritual guidance.
And so it's more the conceptwe're talking about of there is
no time.
In the Akashic, in the Akashic.
There's literally no It feelsloving.
Feels like loving guidance.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It is the energy, again, ofunconditional love.
So coming back to the root ofthe question of the people that
(42:03):
are standing on the precipice isawareness, compassion, of
course, of course.
And then once you get thatawareness and you get that
compassion for yourself, whichis a practice as we know, it's
not like we just wake up withcompassion.
We have to cultivate thatpractice of compassion.
(42:24):
On the daily, on the daily, wehave to cultivate the compassion
and then it's like, can I start,for example, Amber Lillystrom
gave this gem to me, a dreamjournal.
Can I start a dream journalwhere on the first page of that
dream journal it says,everything in this journal comes
(42:44):
true.
Oh.
Potentially not feel comfortablewriting stuff down in that
journal because, oh my goodness,if this comes true and I say it
cause it's my word, you and Idid landmark because it's my
(43:07):
word and I say it and I createwith my word.
What does that mean?
So it's, it's a slow process togive yourself that permission to
dream.
And then the action.
As we know, it has to come fromalignment, and what is
alignment?
Alignment is what we juststarted with, is being in our
(43:29):
body.
Yeah,
Robyn Cohen (43:32):
it seems like the, that is in the making, the work
that you do one on one, withgroups, the seminars, the
retreats that you facilitate andguide, the upcoming book is
going to be packed for humanbeings everywhere.
That.
don't know where to start tobegin to expand their capacity.
(43:57):
It's not even on the table forthem yet.
And my heart is soaring for thembecause to have your wisdom and
to have this wisdom in the formof a book.
I'm so excited that everydaypeople who are running scared
and terrified.
And as you said, for goodreason, they had to get through
some.
Horrific Horrific stuff.
(44:18):
Yeah, or
Siri B (44:19):
they're living in the reality that's been created
through all of what theybelieved to be true, and they're
living it.
And also, I want to add, yes,what you're saying, and also,
everyone.
Everyone.
There's no one.
That isn't dealing with this.
(44:40):
We're all dealing
Robyn Cohen (44:40):
with this.
Siri B (44:40):
There's no one that doesn't need the reminders all
the time.
Robyn Cohen (44:45):
Yes.
Siri B (44:45):
I don't care, I don't care if you're like the most
successful guru in the world.
But Oprah Winfrey has coachesand therapists all day, six
Robyn Cohen (44:53):
ways to Sunday.
Right, right, right.
We
Siri B (44:55):
all need it.
But we all need the dailyreminder that we're
Robyn Cohen (45:01):
enough.
Yeah.
And it never gets old becauseevery moment is new.
Siri B (45:09):
Yeah.
And what I see is the spiral,and I'm sure you've heard this
concept, like going upward andaround.
So our soul's evolution is.
It's spiraling around and up.
So we get to revisit the sameexact lessons over and over, but
(45:30):
from a different vantage point.
Ooh, I love
Robyn Cohen (45:32):
that.
Yeah.
From a higher perch and thenhigher and then higher.
That's the ascension.
And we,
Siri B (45:37):
yeah.
And we're like, Ooh, my olderself.
Wouldn't have allowed this muchlove into my heart in this
moment.
My older self would have triedto control that.
Robyn Cohen (45:48):
Yeah.
Siri B (45:48):
Wow.
Robyn Cohen (45:49):
Huh.
I, I can't believe that yourlife's work, your purpose of
expanding people's capacity,like it couldn't be more what
the, doctor needs to beprescribing instead of all
these.
You know, pharmaceutical drugs.
Not that there's anything wrongwhen they make a difference,
but, that you are on thisglorious, God given mission to
(46:11):
expand people's hearts, to opentheir minds, to bring in
universal love to their souls.
It's, Siri.
No, not many people are doingthis okay?
People don't just wake up andare like, you know what my
purpose is in life?
And I'm gonna write a book aboutit and teach the world about it.
Most people aren't doing that.
So I just have to acknowledgeyou and I know I'm being like
(46:31):
kind of dramatic.
You might call this beingdramatic, but I I really feel
that it's revolutionary.
You are a kind of revolutionaryto me.
and, and to circle back to thesecond part of that question.
If you can take us back to thefact that, listeners, anyone
who's watching this, can youjust break your hearts over the
(46:52):
fact that Siri spent the firsttwo years of her life on an
ashram.
Like, little baby Siri, okay,before Siri was invented, before
it was a word that had to dowith technology.
It was representative of theshooting star of the meteor that
was born into the sky thatlanded here on Earth, named Siri
(47:12):
Baruc Thornton.
Siri Baruc at the time.
So, there was the question oflike, how did you go From there
to now.
Acting, being in TV and films tothen transitioning into this
whole other life that we've beentalking about, this whole other
Explosive experience.
So can you talk a little bitabout that journey and, how and
(47:34):
why some of those transitionswere made and got made?
Siri B (47:39):
Robyn, I feel like we need to do like our own series
where we can just do like awhole like 10 part series of
like Expanding our capacity tofeel good meets the Joyride
because because I'm interviewingsomeone in a few minutes And so
I need to give the nutshellversion of this.
Yes, but here's the thing my momtells me that she prayed and
(48:02):
chanted in the ashram for quoteshigh soul and You know, they
were wearing all white andturbans and they were American
Sikhs and they were in a yogibhajan ashram.
And as much as I've now sincefound out that that became, you
know, with all of these thingsthat are well intended, there is
(48:23):
a shadow.
And, but my mom and my dad'sexperience was very, very, very
positive in so many fundamentalways.
And I was born at home on afuton and.
you know, came into the world.
My soul chose I believe my soulchose to come into the world
through this very whitespiritual, when I say white, I
(48:45):
don't mean Caucasian.
I mean, white light spiritualenvironment with the incense and
the chanting and the yoga andthe devotion, the dedication.
And, and.
And ultimately, it was too rigidof a culture, too dogmatic, too
cultish.
(49:08):
My dad's like, mm, I'm like,okay, we'll call it cultish,
okay?
and it gave My parentsfoundations, that they, every
time they get together, becausethey're friends, you know, they,
they divorced when I was three,but every time they get
together, they're like, they'vealways been friends, but they'll
be like, oh my god, rememberthis person, that person, like,
(49:29):
they just, they're so romanticabout that time period.
They loved reminiscing aboutthat time period and all their
friends that were in the ashramwith them.
So it was very special.
but we left, and it's good weleft, and But it's, it's very
foundational for me, and then,you know, I, I'm proud of, of my
(49:52):
name, and that, that it feelsunique, and that it's a
spiritual name, and that theyogi gave it to me, and, you
know, so, my, my path was alwaysgoing to be this, it was always
going to be a spiritual path,and it was always going to be,
You know.
a creative path.
(50:12):
So we started this conversationwith the intersection of
creativity and spirituality.
And then I, you know, woven thespecifics of acting, but it's
like, that's what it is.
It's this, the spiritualfoundations then led me to the
natural expression of drama andstorytelling and.
(50:34):
And being my full creativedancing, singing, acting self,
you know, that was just mynature as it was for you and a
lot of, your friends.
And so, and then had avenuesthrough school and camps and
bless my parents for driving meand providing all those
opportunities and going tocommunity theater and finally,
(50:58):
you know, finding my belonging,my sense of belonging.
Because I was not fitting in,and I was a weirdo, and I just
didn't belong until I foundtheater in high school.
And that is, remains still.
Okay, so my high school actingteacher, my high school, theater
(51:21):
teacher, not during school,after school, we put on these
incredible, incredible musicalsand plays.
Her name is Trudy Cohen.
Robyn Cohen (51:31):
Oh! Ha ha ha ha! I love it! And actually, actually,
I need you to meet,
Siri B (51:36):
yeah, I need you to meet her because you guys are
fantastic, both of you.
you know, some of the bestmemories and proudest memories
of my whole life are from doingtheater in high school with
Trudy Cohen.
Robyn Cohen (51:50):
Where was this?
What state?
Um, in
Siri B (51:52):
South Burlington, Vermont.
Robyn Cohen (51:53):
okay.
Siri B (51:54):
Yeah, I'm doing Pippin and Godspell and it was awesome.
but the Miracle Worker playingAnnie Sullivan with my
girlfriend playing Helen Kelleris like, I learned, I taught
myself sign language, like it's,it was, phenomenal.
Like that theater, like I knowwe were just in high school, but
(52:14):
honestly, it was phenomenal.
It was, it was, it's one of theproudest, most blessed memories
of my life.
Robyn Cohen (52:21):
I have to say briefly, and I know you have to
go, and we will do a part twothrough ad infinitum, but
several years ago, I was cast inThe Miracle Worker
Siri B (52:32):
to play
Robyn Cohen (52:34):
Annie Sullivan.
Siri B (52:35):
Oh.
Robyn Cohen (52:37):
And two weeks after I was cast to play Annie
Sullivan, Helen Keller'scaretaker teacher, my brother
fell ill with a brain tumor.
Siri B (52:50):
I know, yes.
And I
Robyn Cohen (52:51):
dropped out of the play.
I've never dropped out of a playbefore.
I cannot imagine
Siri B (52:59):
you dropping out of a play, yeah.
Robyn Cohen (53:00):
And I dropped out of playing Annie Sullivan to
play Annie Sullivan.
Across the country inMassachusetts in Massachusetts
where Adam had just had hissurgery and so To be able to go
back and forth and be with himAnd so Annie Sullivan is a very
(53:21):
it's a cosmic quantum creativearena, which is blended, of
course You, your history andstory and mine and my brother.
Interesting.
All of it and all of it.
Interesting.
Wow.
(53:42):
So that blew it open for you onmany levels.
It sounds like.
The whole experience in a placethat was, operating in the, the
performing arts on that level,that makes a profound impact on
a young creative.
So it became obvious that youwould.
It was very, it was very
Siri B (54:01):
physical, that play.
Very, very, very, very physical.
Yeah.
Very physical.
Um, yeah, so, I then did allsorts of acting in college at
Clark University in Worcester,Massachusetts.
Just in love with it.
I mean A theater major, SiriYes, playing Nina in The
(54:21):
Seagull, like one of my Come on!I'm literally
Robyn Cohen (54:24):
coaching nine people on The Seagull right now
because they're doing it at theWill Geer Theatricum.
The Seagull, you were in Ah! Youplayed Nina?
You played That was life
Siri B (54:34):
changing.
Robyn Cohen (54:35):
Life changing.
Are you just breaking yourhearts over this?
Can't you just see?
I am a seagull.
No, I am an
Siri B (54:41):
actress.
Robyn Cohen (54:42):
Oh my gosh.
Siri B (54:44):
And I have a whole story to tell you about that.
But I gotta wrap up, Robyn,I've, we have so many shared
things to talk about.
Yes, it's just the
Robyn Cohen (54:53):
beginning, and it's forever, and there's no rush,
and we have time.
This was the most deliciousthing ever, and it's just gonna
continue to be.
Thank you for saying there's norush, yeah, that's beautiful.
We all, we've got, we've goteons and eons.
to connect and leave voice memosand do podcasts.
(55:13):
This is just like a drop in thebucket of fun.
It's so obvious a drop in thebucket of joy and connection.
So thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for taking out thistime, this moment, in your
incredible, in the veritablefeast of things that you're
doing.
I really I appreciate you to theends of the earth and beyond.
(55:34):
So more to come.
We've just gotten a taste.
Ladies and gentlemen, just ataste.
It's like a teaser, right?
It's like almost like acliffhanger, like more.
We gotta know what happenednext.
So this is What happens next?
In terms of storytelling, thisis great.
Stay tuned, listeners.
Fantastic.
(55:55):
Okay.
Well, I will see you so soon.
I love you so much.
I love you so much, so deeply.
Have a miraculous rest of yourday.
The day is already made for me.
It was the moment I opened myeyes and had Siri on my mind So
thank you.
Thank you for existing.
(56:17):
And I'll thank my mama liciousand my papa licious today when I
talk to them.
Thank you, Siri.
yeah, my phone has been goingbananas but I love that.
I love that the world lights uparound you and should and always
will and does so.
Big hug.
I'm hugging my computer, whichis, you know, my computer thinks
(56:39):
we're in a relationship, butit's really you.
I'm hugging.
I felt it.
I got it.
I got it.
And, to be continued Mwah.
Love you.
I love you too.
Love you listeners.
Oh, they love you too.
They're obsessed with you.
Okay?
Mwah! Ah, that was so delicious.
(57:02):
You know, and it's everythingthat Siri was talking about,
like, when art meets your heart,or that intersection of
creativity and spirituality.
What is that?
How do we come by that?
What is that intersection?
And I just feel like thisconversation was exactly that.
How meta to just be so Out oftime, in such a joyful and
(57:27):
powerful and soulfulconversation, it, it felt like
no time, I'm actually, I wasflabbergasted to discover that
this was like an, like an hourhad gone by, it really felt like
about 10 minutes.
If you asked me how long it feltlike 10, five, five minutes or
less, it felt like no time.
(57:48):
So that's such a beautifulreminder of, making sure we take
time and attention to be withthe things that light us up and
put us into that realm oftimelessness, of just being out
of time, of being in the zonewhere, You have a sense of being
in a realm that fosters soul andspirit and lightness of being
(58:12):
and magic.
I think it's available to us andI think it becomes our, our
chance, our opportunity toreally take a look at what we're
paying attention to, what we'repouring into our brains, what
we're dumping into our minds interms of what we're listening
to, the podcasts that we'retuning into, that we really
(58:32):
start to curate the inspirationand the input that we're
receiving so that it canmetabolize into us being in our
right minds so that we can makethe right choices about who to
connect with, what classes totake, what conversations to
have, and on and on and on.
(58:53):
So what a gift Siri has said it.
You all heard her say it.
She's coming back.
We're going to do, several moreparts to this.
We only got her ashram when shewas He's two years old and into
high school and college and,there's so much more to go.
So I wish you all joy as alwaysand ever.
I wish you lightness of being.
(59:14):
I wish you grace, compassion foryourselves as Siri was talking
about bringing lightness,bringing forgiveness.
Bringing our best selves and ourmost regulated selves to the
situation at hand, or to theconversation at hand, or to our
very hearts.
And join me in upcoming classes.
(59:35):
We're going to have a panoply ofopportunities to come and play
and get in the zone and playhard and fly high.
So here's to it.
Here's to you.
Until the next daily joy ride.
Much love.
Hello, hello, and welcome back to the Daily Joy
Ride podcast.
I am your host, Robyn Cohen.
Here to fuel your day withenergy, infuse it with joy, and
share powerful stories that willignite your courage.
Spark your spirit, awaken yourperceptions, and inspire and
encourage the once in a cosmosyou to create a life.
(00:27):
That you actually love living.
So if that's your jam, buckle upand let's ride.
Here we go.
Hi everyone, and welcome back toThriving Artists, The Daily
Joyride Podcast.
I'm Robyn Cohen, and today weare flipping the switch big
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time.
My guest is the Radiant SiriBaruc Thornton, not only a dear,
dear friend, and a creativeforce of nature, but someone
that without whom this verypodcast might not even exist.
she really lit the spark forthis show.
Coming into being Siri is atransformational healer, a
breathwork and Akashic recordsguide, and the host of the
(01:09):
Authentic Creative Podcast.
she helps people reconnect tojoy, alignment, and what it
means to truly feel good Intheir bodies, in their purpose
and in their lives.
this conversation is electric,and if you are jonesing for more
creative juice for yourself.
if you are ready to feel alivein your own power and
(01:30):
self-expression again.
I have got you.
Come on along to audit yourfirst acting class with me
totally free.
You'll get to witness andobserve a wildly gifted, deeply
connected, Heart-centeredcommunity of artists who are
working, playing, risking,growing, and igniting their
passion every single week.
(01:51):
So whether you're burned out,you're feeling blocked or just.
A little dead inside.
I promise that this space willawaken something Totally new and
magical in you.
So DM me on Instagram@RobynCohenActingStudio, or
email Robyn Robyn is with a yRobyn@cohenactingstudio.com.
and I'll send you the link sothat you can zoom in with us
(02:14):
Tuesdays in class This work andthis podcast interview is a game
changer.
It is powerful, it isnourishing, and you deserve to
feel alive again in whateveryou're up to.
So without further ado, here'sthe extraordinary Siri Baruc
Thornton.
Let's dive in.
Well, hello, hello, and welcomeback to the daily joyride
(02:36):
podcast.
I'm shaking.
I'm kind of, I'm vibrating, I'mcavelling, I'm vibrating with
excitement right now.
Not only Because my guest, myall star guest, Siri Baruc and I
just had a magnificent danceparty.
But the fact that Siri is here,Okay, I'm gonna cry.
(02:57):
I just realized I'm gonna cry.
Um, is really moving on so manylevels.
Namely, we wouldn't be here.
This podcast wouldn't exist.
And, the Daily Joyride would,not have been created without my
knowing.
Siri Baruc and being, inspiredand motivated and guided by her.
(03:19):
So, um, and before we, I want toshare in a moment about who you
are and what you do in the worldand in the universe.
but just to wind that back alittle bit.
So, Siri and I sort of lovedeach other.
into each other's existence.
Before the beginning of time.
Yes.
and specifically what I mean bythat on this plane is that we
(03:40):
were introduced by a mutualfriend, a creative named Barbie,
Barbara Heller.
Barbara has a sister named CathyHeller, who is a mentor for both
me and for Siri and a wonderfulteacher.
and It was through her sister,Barbie, that we met.
That said, it goes deeper,because the only reason I know
(04:01):
Barbie is through a mutualpassion and love for the
creative arts, the performingarts, for arts and crafts in
general.
Barbie and I used to be inauditions together for years
and, attend social eventstogether.
We knew each other.
three years into knowing Barbie.
Like I met her when I firstmoved to Los Angeles and we had
(04:22):
just been in that circuit.
Then I didn't see her for awhile and COVID and yada, yada,
yada.
But she felt it was of primoimportance, and she was right,
to connect us via email.
And that gave rise and gavebirth to The friendship that I
have with Siri Baruc today,which is one of the most valued
(04:45):
and treasured relationships inmy life, so it's meaningful that
you're here, Siri, like I said,there's so many layers to it,
but The first time the idea of apodcast ever even entered my
world was subsequent to Barbieintroducing us via email.
And not too long thereafter,Siri, you invited me to be on
(05:06):
your podcast.
I honestly didn't know exactlywhat that meant, what it
entailed.
You had this gorgeous emailinvitation where you offered me
a breathwork session leadinginto the podcast.
And I was like, what is thismagical fairy?
What are we doing?
Like, I didn't, I really had noclue except that I was going to
get to sort of be in the spaceof Siri online, and then we were
(05:29):
going to have a kind of aconversation, a podcast, and we
were going to make an episode.
How I would even see thatepisode, hear that episode, I
had no idea where it would existin the world, hadn't crossed my
mind.
But I just wanted to spend timewith Siri Baruc, whose name
means shining, gorgeous, cosmicstar blessing.
(05:51):
So come on.
So then we meet, we're online.
We've barely had anycommunication except for the
couple of emails and theinvitation to do this.
And then.
We have this session, Sirifacilitates magnificently, as
she always does, a phenomenal,hour long, right?
(06:11):
About an hour long of breathwork, where, again, I don't know
what happened, okay, but we wentdeep, like, um, All the way.
And that was the first one onone of this kind I had a
breathwork teacher for years.
(06:33):
it was a very different vein interms of the breathwork world
that she facilitated.
So it did feel completely newthe way you guided our work
together.
And, it dropped me into a placethat I had never been before.
And then! The most amazing thinghappened.
Siri said, we're gonna start thepodcast.
(06:55):
And at that juncture, she hitrecord, and she asked me, I
think, one question, which,because of the space that you
had provided, the loving care,and the place that we had
dropped into together, you askedme one question I said something
(07:16):
like, this is a story aboutlove.
a love between myself and mylate brother, Adam Cohen.
And I don't even know if anotherquestion was asked.
I know it was interstitially,but this journey that I did not
see coming unfolded into love,into, sibling love, into love of
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art and craft, unlike any I hadever had.
Siri, for those who are watchingon YouTube, you can see that
she's holding up a card thatsays, I am not dead, with a
gorgeous light streaming onto abird, and for those listening
in, it's like a, Yeah, oraclecard.
It's an oracle card.
(08:00):
Yeah.
talking to Heaven Deck.
Talking to Heaven Deck.
Okay, beautiful.
So yeah, that's what washappening.
that was that's exactly what washappening in the conversation
that transpired this podcastepisode, which was just a thinly
veiled moment of heaven on earththat we got to share together.
And subsequently you invited meback.
(08:21):
We did a couple more.
We had a couple more incredibleconversations together.
and, next thing I knew, therewere these podcasts out in the
world that you had facilitatedand that you had invited me into
Siri, and it literally blew openthe whole thing.
Like, I did not see this comingand you also, you teach
(08:45):
podcasting among other things, Imean, you're, you have so much
wisdom and expertise in thisarea and you know this to be
true because you've seen it withall your students and with
yourself, but becoming someonethat creates podcasts, which is,
you know, having authentic,connected, connected, connected,
Collaborative conversations overand over again and reaching out
(09:06):
to people all over the world toconnect with them transforms
your life.
And so since I have started thisjourney last year, which began
with you, s right smack dab inthe middle of your heart, um, my
life has, exploded intodirections that were not going
to happen anyway.
They just weren't.
They just weren't gonna happenanyway.
(09:29):
And, And yeah, there are certainaspects of my life that through
this journey are literallyunrecognizable to me.
And so I want to say thank you.
Words don't really cover it.
I want to encapsulate, you know,the gratitude and the
appreciation I feel for yoursoul, what it has unlocked in me
and in so many, many, many,many, is unimaginably gigantic,
(09:57):
powerful, beautiful, and lifesaving.
Thank you for being anauthentic, creative healer.
You're a surgeon of the humanheart, and you are saving lives
and lighting up lives.
In ways that are so beyondbeyond it's amazing that like
(10:17):
you're even in human form Andlisten It's no hyperbole, it's
no hyperbole, okay So with that,I'll read you a little official
business.
Part of this is what AI, this iswhat, a little bit of what AI
had to say, but mostly it's whatyou shared about what you're up
to, so I'm going to share mostlythat, but Alright, sports fans,
(10:37):
so, so, so, here's a little bitabout Siri Baruc.
Even AI said that we have anextraordinary guest on your
podcast today, whose path isdeeply rooted in creativity, in
transformation, and consciousliving.
Siri Baruc Thornton is acreative visionary.
(11:00):
A transformational coach, amultifaceted creative, healer,
and guide who has dedicated herlife to expanding our capacity
to feel good.
As the host of the AuthenticCreative Podcast, Siri inspires
thousands And more.
With her wisdom on healing,embodiment, and self expression.
With over 26 years of experiencein Reiki, Akashic Record
(11:25):
reading, and mountain breathworkinfused with Reiki, she has
built a thriving practicehelping others access their
innate power and live withgreater joy and alignment.
Siri's journey has taken herfrom the world of acting to the
world of healing, blending herdeep understanding of creativity
with transformational modalitiesthat support emotional and
(11:48):
energetic breakthroughs.
She offers intimate groupcertifications in Reiki and
Akashic Records, private healingsessions, and immersive
retreats, all designed to helppeople reconnect with their
authenticity and abundance.
Whether she's guiding abreathwork session, writing her
upcoming book, The authenticcreative, expanding our capacity
(12:12):
to feel good, or working withheart centered leaders, Siri
brings a unique blend of warmth,intuition, and inspiration to
everything she does.
Today, she joins us on the DailyJoyride to share her insights on
joy, creativity, and what ittruly means to live.
(12:33):
an expansive life.
Welcome to the show, Siri.
I am over the moon that you arehere.
Siri B (12:40):
Oh my god, Robyn look at you.
Oh my god.
I feel like I'm Simultaneouslyon a TED Talk, my, my, my
memorial at the end of my life,and on like the best show on TV
(13:03):
ever type of feeling like that,and also just cosmically,
galactically, spiritually, likeentering portals and whatnot.
So, leave it to you.
Leave it to you to give the bestintroduction in the world.
Well, thank you, guru.
Thank you,
Robyn Cohen (13:23):
sensei.
Thank you, maestra.
You showed me how.
You lit the path.
You lit the path forward.
There but for you.
Go I.
Isn't it fun?
Isn't it fun?
Siri B (13:38):
You guys, is this just I was like, we don't even need
words.
We'll just, we'll just vibe.
We'll just vibe.
Like, I don't even know if theinternet can handle it.
Robyn Cohen (13:48):
Like, can it even Handle it.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know.
I don't know.
We're gonna
Siri B (13:57):
find out.
Robyn Cohen (13:58):
We're gonna find out.
Siri B (13:59):
You're, you're brighter, you're brighter than the
brightest star in the sky, Robynyour name means star.
I mean, I just love you Sodeeply.
I love you to other galaxies andback.
I feel so lifted Not right.
(14:22):
Not just I mean forget thismoment like forget it since
since the beginning of time likeour souls knew each other so
Okay, whatever, it doesn'tmatter when we met, but you are
literally every single time weinteract, I'm getting head
tingles thinking about it, youjust, I have to share your voice
(14:45):
notes with my husband or my dador my kids, like, because it's
like a, an alignment infusionfor everyone, whenever whatever.
I hear your voice, because itjust, it's just a, it's a
dignifying, it's a lifting, it'slike, your voice notes, just
(15:08):
yeah, you're, you're the masterclass, I mean Robyn's a teacher,
you're a teacher, not just anacting teacher, you're, you're a
life teacher Robyn you teach ushow to, to be on the joyride.
Robyn Cohen (15:20):
Oh, thank you for that.
I'm gonna leave you a voice memofor
Siri B (15:24):
that.
Oh, P P S, by the way, it'sRobyn tell the, will you tell
that story?
Robyn Cohen (15:31):
Just in case.
Or not.
I do have a way sometimes ofleaving.
Up to a five, six minute voicememo, and I think because I was
raised in Maryland, where therewere certain social norms,
sometimes I'd get to the end ofa five minute voice memo with
Siri, who knows me very well atthis point, and I'll say, Oh,
(15:53):
this is Robyn because I feelthat was never said, and just in
case there was any, like, Is it?
and now I just do it all thetime.
So even though the first time itwas ingrained, like it was just
ingrained to do that, now it'sjust, now I do it all the time.
not because, it's necessary onany level, but, uh, we enjoy it.
Siri B (16:18):
Yeah, it's a, it's a running joke.
By the way, it's Robyn
Robyn Cohen (16:21):
it's just, we want to enjoy all of it.
And so, if it's fun, likechocolate, I'm, I'm going to
keep going back to it threetimes a day, all day, every day,
at every meal, and every voicememo.
So, Okay, I'm so tempted.
I'm like, all of a sudden I'mlike, I can do the interview.
I know.
Okay, you guys, just so youknow, there could be a takeover.
(16:43):
You have to stop me.
No, I want it.
I want it.
I want it.
I'm stopping.
It's it's a collaborative.
No, no, no.
Here's the thing.
Here's the thing, Siri.
Everybody at this point knowsthat you are my numero uno
guiding, like, north star forthis whole thing.
So, this is gonna be, like,unlike anything else that's come
(17:06):
before it, obviously.
Just as this It's co creating ofthis relationship in this
lifetime is like nothing that'scome before it.
So, it's, it is, I just haven'ttalked
Siri B (17:17):
to you.
I just haven't talked to yousince Budapest.
I've been in Budapest.
I haven't talked to you since.
Since you met Maté and you sawHamlet.
I have not talked to you sincethen.
So I just, I'm just supercurious.
That's all.
That's true.
Robyn Cohen (17:29):
But, but yeah.
So we'll, dip into that.
And then, one of us may or maynot ask a question.
So just so we can get caught up,I've recently gotten back from
17 days in Budapest, Hungary,where I was shooting a
television show for CBS calledFBI International.
And that's how you have to sayit.
(17:50):
FBI.
Which, it was just announced,this is their final season.
So We're the blowout.
We're the grand finale, which ispretty exciting.
they've been on for four years,It's a whole, there've been
several FBI internationals.
It's a franchise.
There's a regular FBI, then FBIinternational.
It's a Dick Wolf show.
(18:10):
And he, you know.
Oh yeah.
That's why I said da dun.
Right?
Da Da da.
He does law like the law andorder.
Law and order.
Yeah.
He does all the law and orders,all the Chicago, the MDs, the
fire, all, all those.
Thank you, Law
Siri B (18:21):
Order, for all of
Robyn Cohen (18:22):
my residual checks.
Thank you.
Yes, because, your time on LawOrder and some of your movie and
film credits and all thosethings.
And I wanted to ask you aboutthat, about your Law Order days,
cause they're sister shows,really, and certainly the same
creator, but so this was awhack.
I don't want to say wacko.
That's, that's Billy's word.
He has the best words.
Wacko is one of his.
Um, it was quite an adventure.
(18:44):
I had not, I've been to Europe.
I hadn't been to Budapest.
And before I got there, thankGod, Siri and I are always, were
in communication and leavingvoice memos.
And when she heard I was going,she said, Oh, I got a guy,
right?
Like I got a guy that knows aguy that you got to meet.
I got a guy.
Yeah, I got a guy.
Oh, you should
Siri B (19:04):
interview him, Robyn
Robyn Cohen (19:05):
yeah, yeah, we're going to do an interview.
Oh, it's already done.
I mean, cosmically, right?
Yeah, it is already done.
So, she said, I got a guy.
And he happens to be, one of thepremier actors in Budapest.
And at the time of my arrival,he was opening up Hamlet.
by William Shakespeare at theHungarian National Theater, a
(19:27):
beautiful theater that's beenaround forever.
Which is like your favoriteshow, right?
Yes, yes, and which his fatheralso worked in that theater, and
apparently grandfather.
Yeah, long line of actors there.
Long line, yes, incrediblelegacy.
And I didn't have much time offwhile I was there, but the
moment there was a Sundayafternoon that was free, Billy
(19:51):
and I, we went to the NationalTheater.
Maté had reserved some ticketsfor us, set them aside.
And here's my little secret.
I thought there were gonna besubtitles to this play.
English subtitles.
Siri B (20:05):
Oh.
Robyn Cohen (20:06):
No subtitles.
Not a word.
Not a word of English.
It was Hungarian?
Beginning to end, HungarianHamlet.
Oh, wow.
Come on now.
Unbelievable.
Listen.
I've never understood that dudebetter.
And I've never seen it playedmore clearly.
This is what we're alwaystalking about in, in acting
(20:28):
class.
If you can, it doesn't matter.
The reason you can watch, right,the reason you can watch foreign
films, and understand them andthe reason you can watch
Shakespeare in any language isbecause the play is the thing
and it's the Interactivitybetween the two artists and what
they're trying to accomplishwith the language Yeah, that is
the play and we relate to thathuman we relate to the human
(20:51):
experience So it doesn't matter.
I've been learning
Siri B (20:52):
Italian and And, and you just, you can, you feel, right?
It's the vibration.
You feel it.
Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Robyn Cohen (20:59):
yes.
100%.
So I knew exactly what was, andyes, I've studied the play and I
went to school for Shakespeareand all the things, but, but,
you know.
You're a doctor of Shakespeare.
I'm, I'm, someday, someday.
My brother was doctor, doctor,yes, of Shakespeare and letters,
but, you know, in thisparticular case, it was such an
affirming acting lesson to belike, oh, it's not the lines.
(21:22):
It's the life.
Underneath the lines.
It's not the lines, it's thelife, right?
Because if you're not trying toaccomplish something with
language, it's a snooze.
And I was so jet lagged, it's anine hour difference.
My Circadian rhythms were sobananas.
It was kind of like having apsychotic break.
(21:42):
I was on the edge of my seat theentire time.
And then it was so sweet.
Maté comes out and all theseladies, like these 60 gorgeous
60 year old women, they swarmhim.
And I'm like, I need a picture.
So I took some pictures of usand videos, and I will send
those to you.
but to answer your question, howwas it?
(22:02):
So When I arrived, it was a 14hour journey, right?
It's flights and things.
We, so I get there, I wasn'tfeeling well.
And, very shortly thereafter, Iwas, called to the costume
department to do the.
Fitting because we were supposedto shoot pretty quickly after I
landed.
(22:22):
So I had a little rest when Igot there.
And um, the next morning, whichwas a few hours later, I went to
the costume department.
Huge, gorgeous state of the art.
They have a new building for allof their arts and crafts things
for this show.
And I say to the women this go,this incredibly gifted costume
designer who's like so Europeanand yummy.
(22:43):
And I was like, just so youknow, I'm feeling a little, I
just got off the plane and I'mfeeling a little, and she's
like, no problem.
And uh, we start the costumefitting.
There's about 150 articles ofclothing to try on.
'cause I'm in seven or eightscenes and we need to find the
costumes and fit them.
Oh my god.
On my body.
Right.
Even though you send yourmeasurements ahead, you have to
(23:03):
actually.
tailor suits and things andthat, right, you have to fit
them.
So we start, 9am, we start thefitting, I put on the first
couple of costumes, we'rethrough, we're through about 10
articles of clothing, and uh, Irealize I'm going to, I'm going
to be ill.
And so I say, you know, I thinkI'm going to be ill.
And before they could get atrash can in the room, I threw
(23:27):
up all over this thousanddollar, I saw the picture,
thousand dollar.
Pair of pants.
Costume designer looks at me,looks at the pants, with vomit
all over them, and she says,Take off those pants.
They make you sick.
Not meant for you.
(23:50):
Those pants not meant for you.
Next outfit.
So, You know how after you getsick to your stomach, there's
like, um, there's like 10minutes where you feel better.
Yeah.
So I'm in this high and they'relike, I'm like, you know what?
(24:11):
I actually feel really good now.
Maybe that was it.
I was like, maybe that's it.
So they clean up the floor andthe pants with da, da, da.
And uh, they come back into theroom.
I do the toothbrush and I, theycome back and they're like,
let's go.
I get through about 10 morearticles of clothing and I say,
you know what?
(24:32):
I'm not feeling so great.
So at this point they're ready.
They run in with two more trashcans.
They leave the room.
I get sick for not, it's not,it's not going well.
It's not going well.
I get really ill.
Um, then right after that, yeah,this is my first day in Hungary.
It does get better.
So then after that, there wasagain, like that five minute
(24:54):
period where you feel finebecause you just sort of, and I
was like, okay, let's go.
And she looks at me and shesays, You're going home.
And I said, you're right.
And so at that juncture, theyshuttled me back to the hotel.
I went back with my head betweenmy knees.
(25:15):
They sent the medic from theset.
Every set, every production haslike a set medic.
They sent her to the hotel wherethey had me staying and um, I
got sick again and the mediccame.
And I kept getting sick and Igot sick again and again, and
this went on all afternoon.
She gave me some medication,which finally, quelled the
(25:35):
nausea.
So I, stopped being sick.
and then it's that night and Istopped, you know.
Growing up.
Sorry for those of you who arelike, I'm sorry.
Anyone, any listeners, losiento.
Okay.
If you're having breakfastwatching this, lo siento means
I'm sorry in Spanish.
You can put a little warning.
Oh yeah, I will.
I will.
Trigger warning.
(25:56):
Um, and so then I'm on the phonewith the PAs and the producers.
Are you going to be okay?
Cause I'm supposed to shootfirst thing in the morning and I
haven't fit any of my costumesyet.
Siri B (26:07):
Yeah.
Robyn Cohen (26:07):
Right.
Siri B (26:08):
Yeah.
Robyn Cohen (26:08):
So we're in touch.
And I said, you know, I wasencouraged that I had stopped
being sick.
Like, maybe this was a one daything.
And, and you know, he said,Well, let's just talk in the
morning.
But I know, like, you know, aday of production to have to
move something around is like,it can be hundreds of thousands
of dollars, right?
It's like a major disaster.
a It's a financial issue as muchas it is everything else.
(26:30):
They were very kind to me andvery human and were already
offering me options to maybeswitch around the shooting
schedule.
But I garnered the stuff, youknow.
I, we pulled it.
I pulled on cosmic love, andsupport.
And, although I could not eventhink of food.
I showered, I cleaned myself up,and they picked me up in the
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morning and took me right to thecostume department.
So I get to the costumedepartment.
they.
Were working like, likeMavericks, like creative
machines.
What they had done in my absencewas get a person that had my
size, like a real human being.
Mm-hmm And they started tryingon double on costumes, A body
double.
Yeah.
(27:14):
And they started fitting andtailoring outfits that the
director liked for the scenes,such that when I arrived, I only
had about.
Seven or eight outfits to tryon, which was great.
They basically fit.
They did a couple tailoringthings.
The biggest thing was the shoes,because I have huge bunions from
dancing.
That's another podcast.
We finally got it together, andum, they shuttled me to set, and
(27:38):
we shot the heck out of thething.
And the director couldn't havebeen happier.
Wonderful, wonderful.
I still couldn't eat a thing.
By this time, we're going lateinto the night, but we got
through it.
They were thrilled.
I went home and went to bed and,I kept on shooting and I'll tell
you the first week was hardbecause I was nauseated.
I hate being nauseous.
It's like my least favoritething.
(27:59):
But the first week in Europe waspretty, sickly.
in general.
after that, it took on the glowand the, um, the gloriousness of
what we were doing there.
And it took on the sort of theshimmer of being in this
production with these incrediblepeople.
and I know that this is a wholeother podcast talking about this
(28:20):
journey with this show.
I'm looking at Siri's glowingface.
but to answer your question, it,uh, it ended up going, um,
beautifully.
It was magically delicious andyour friends couldn't have been
nicer.
We had the best Hungarian foodwhen we had our appetites back,
the next week with Mate and hiswife.
I love it.
Absolutely amazing.
(28:40):
I'm going to send you all thepictures.
So thank you for thatintroduction.
Siri B (28:44):
Oh my gosh, it makes me so happy that you guys
connected.
Yeah.
It's so wonderful.
Robyn Cohen (28:49):
Yeah.
And that you, that you gotthrough it.
Yes.
And kind of like Gangbusters,there's a part two to this with
what actually ended up happeningwith the shooting and the
creativity therein.
Before we toggle into that, Iwould love to tag team with you.
Siri.
It's one,
Siri B (29:08):
one,
Robyn Cohen (29:08):
one.
Oh, the wholeness.
We're going to tag team with,what are we tag teaming with?
It's this, and this was actuallya question from one of my
students to you, because theyall, my students know and love
Siri.
Siri has facilitated, several ofmy classes to some of my acting
students who have just fallen.
Which was like the greatest giftin the world.
(29:31):
They fall madly in love withSiri and the work and they're
revitalized and they're taken toheaven and so they knew that we
were going to be meeting and soone of them had this question
which relates to, um, this crosspollination of arts and crafts
and spirituality.
And so their question was, whatis your perspective on the
(29:53):
intersection of creativity?
And what motivated yourtransition from the
entertainment industry into theworld of energy healing and
transformation?
Siri B (30:10):
So come back to the part one of that question for me and
say it
Robyn Cohen (30:14):
again.
Okay, so part one is, what'syour perspective on the
intersection or the crossover ofcreativity and spirituality?
Siri B (30:24):
So, creativity and spirituality, this is awesome.
Creativity comes, oozes from us.
You see it in Robyn oozes fromher, oozes from her students the
most easily and brilliantly whenthey are dropped in, into their
(30:48):
bodies, when they are embodied.
Right?
So how do we get embodied?
There's many ways.
Before we started the podcast,Robyn and I were dancing to
Walking on Sunshine, like afreaking like snowstorm of
excitement.
It was unfettered, unfetteredjoy.
Yeah, and so there's, like,that's one way.
(31:09):
The other way, that my favorite,well, Dancey's one of the top, I
mean, Dancey's like top three.
My favorite way of getting tothe creative juices, the
creative flow, which justnaturally is what we are.
We're all creatives, we're allcreating all the time.
(31:30):
Universe created us, and thenwe, the universe through us, If
we're aligned, then we can bethe channel for that.
So as actors, if you'relistening and you're an actor,
you know this feeling of lettingthe inspiration, the embodiment,
the words, the lines.
(31:52):
The actions come through you andyou know that feeling when you
just lose all track of time,when you're in creative flow,
when you're creating something,whether it's a character that
you're showing up and beingpresent in the moment, whether
it's a piece of art.
Whether it's creating a podcastepisode, that when you are fully
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dropped in and aligned, andcracked open, right?
Like your crown is open, yourthroat chakra is open, your
sacral, your female creativematrix, if you're a woman, is
open.
Your root is connected to thecore of Mother Earth.
Your heart feels safe to open.
These things happen through Somany avenues, but my favorite is
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breathwork and Reiki.
So there's lots of things I cansay about Reiki and about
breathwork and aboutspirituality.
I could go on for literally likea year about that, but the
creativity, we get to be thestraw, the vessel for God
universe to flow the ideas, theinspiration, the stories that
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are longing to be told andshared.
If we are the straw, if we arethe open vessel, Then we get the
opportunity to be the expressionof that.
And to me, that is unconditionallove.
That feeling of being the vesselfor what God wants to bring
(33:21):
through is the ultimate, youknow, and I see that in you.
And I think that's one of thereasons Robyn and I are soul
sisters is because we.
I love the catharsis of beingthe vessel for God's creativity,
for universe's creativity.
So you want to be a brilliantartist, crack yourself open
(33:43):
however you can, whether that'sdance, whether that's
breathwork, whether that'sreiki, or whatever your modality
is.
I particularly am a massive fanof Breathwork, have been for
over 20 years when I was livingin New York City and I started
doing Breathwork and Reikitrades with a girlfriend of mine
who is connected to Robyn aswell.
(34:05):
So, it's all, it's allconnected, like, this moment was
always meant to be that you weregoing to ask me that question,
like, So, thank you for askingme that because I'm discovering
it as I'm answering it and, andit's, it's a love making session
between universe, our soul, ourteam, our guides, and the words
(34:28):
that we're expressing, the artwe're creating, the, you know,
the story we're telling, right,And we get to be in that dance,
what a gift.
So I think that anything we cando as creatives that want to
live a joyful, that want to beon the joyride to expand our
vessel, to soften our vessel, toopen our vessel, to expand and
(34:50):
lean into life, which Robyndoes.
So like every moment of herlife, like she leans in with her
heart, her whole heart, like nomatter what, like that is what
makes us the best human and alsothe best artist.
So that intersection iseverything.
Like we could talk about thatfor days.
Robyn Cohen (35:11):
That is.
That's like answering a questionthat, for the most part, most
people, most humans don't evenknow how to ask.
Thank you for that.
And on behalf of the students orartists or creatives or non
creatives, what about peoplethat are afraid to even start to
start?
To crack themselves open forwhat they should find there.
(35:35):
I, I work with a lot of people,as do you.
And just getting to the point ofwillingness, how would you
encourage people, right, like,you and I, you were born in an
ashram.
Siri B (35:48):
I'm just hearing the word, I'm hearing the word
dream, right, like we all have adream and it's actually painful
to not.
Do what you do Robyn to not gofor the dream like you're an
example of a hundred percentfully I see you as a hundred
percent fully going for thedream, but it's painful to not
(36:08):
go for the dream.
So I would say Everybody's got adream.
What's your dream, baby?
Like so if so, the dream is inyou It's already done as you say
like it's already happened.
It's that old saying of get outof your own way so It's like,
we're pushing ourselves like abeach ball.
(36:30):
I feel like you've told me this.
That we're pushing ourselveslike a beach ball, right?
Under the water.
You
Robyn Cohen (36:36):
talk, do you talk about that?
I, I have, I have in the past.
And we may or may not, or mayhave heard this together from
someone else.
Yes, yes, yes.
Like
Siri B (36:43):
we're pushing ourselves like a beach ball under the
water when, when we don't allow.
Ourselves to be the channel ofcreativity.
Robyn Cohen (36:51):
Yeah,
Siri B (36:52):
and so it's painful and and our the soul is like give me
air It like wants to bob up.
So I I think the answer is Whatis the avenue?
Is it, if it's dance, if it'sbreathwork, if it's reiki, if
it's an acting class, what isthe avenue, a voice class,
that's going, that's going to,start to, to chip away at or
(37:16):
soften or melt the thing that isin the way of your soul's
greatest expression.
Like, I don't, it's, it doesn'tneed to be created.
It's there.
right?
It's like the clay, thestructure under the clay.
It's like, we only excel at thespeed of safety.
Yeah.
And so with our nervous system.
(37:37):
And so it's like, how can wemake it safe?
That's the question.
Right.
How can we make it safe?
And this is not something Robynand I grew up learning.
Right.
We didn't learn this until morerecently, the words, how can we
make it safe?
No one was saying this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How can we make it safe?
(37:58):
And what does safe even mean inyour body?
That's a retraining of thenervous system.
That's a retraining and that's arewiring of our circuitry.
Robyn Cohen (38:08):
What do you tell people that don't even want to
step into that work?
Why do we talk to the majoritywho aren't going after their
dreams because we do all havedreams.
Siri B (38:17):
But so there's, there's so everyone's on the spectrum of
what their readiness is and howmuch they're willing to have,
how much they're willing tohave.
So my havingness could be atzero, which is, I can't have
anything.
Because it just does not feelsafe in my system.
(38:38):
I can't have anything for,because of conditioning, because
of the nurturing, because ofsociety, because of wounds,
blah, blah, blah.
And then on the other side ofthe spectrum of having this is
Like, for example, Oprah orAdele or someone who's like, all
the way, like, Robyn, you arelike, it's like that having this
(38:59):
is like a capacity thatsomeone's given themselves
permission.
And I think certain people havedifferent levels of capacity
based on their DNA and theirhistory and their ancestry and
their nurturing and all of this.
So it's not your fault.
If you don't feel like you havethe capacity to be fully
(39:20):
expressed, to have joy, to liveyour dream.
And I think starting there withthat first, I think first,
compassion awareness.
No, sorry.
Let me back up awareness.
We can't even understandanything until we're aware and
we can't force someone to beaware until they're ready to be
aware.
(39:41):
So awareness, I have a dream inmy heart, or I'm not fully
living my life, or I'm not fullyfeeling joy as much as I wanna
be, or I'm not going for it.
Awareness.
And then I say compassion afterthe awareness.
Mm-hmm Because you are where youare because of a myriad of a
thousand things.
Right?
And so it's like.
(40:02):
Oh, baby girl.
Robyn Cohen (40:04):
Yeah.
Siri B (40:04):
Or oh, sweet boy.
Like, of course, you know, andwhen I open people's Akashic
records or I teach them to opentheir Akashic records, that's
what we do.
We do, of course.
Yes, because I don't know if youbelieve in past lives, if you're
listening to this or not, butfor example, if you've had a
past life where you were killed,you know, it's like, well, of
course, you're scared to stickyour neck out.
(40:27):
Of course.
Robyn Cohen (40:28):
Can you share a little bit about the Akashic
Records process for people thatit's new for them?
So
Siri B (40:33):
Akashic Records are inroad.
There's so many inroads.
it's one inroad to our infinitewisdom and to the infinite
wisdom of our masters, teachers,loved ones.
There's a sacred prayer, and aswith anything, there's, it's
practice and guidance and sacredprayer that gets you to this
(40:55):
space where you can, and peopletap into the Akashic Records all
the time by accident, which ishow I started.
By accident.
I was doing Reiki with someoneon my Reiki table, and I just
started channeling informationabout their dead cat, and I
other times would channelinformation about someone's
unborn child, and I was like,okay, I'm tapping into some
(41:16):
infinite wisdom here.
Um, and the Akashic is differentfrom Psychic.
Okay.
They have, they have overlaps,but Psychic, readings can
oftentimes be oriented in a fearenergy.
Of the unknown and needing to beable to predict everything as
opposed to where Akashic is likespiritual therapy, spiritual
(41:38):
therapy when you receive it,right?
It's spiritual guidance.
And so it's more the conceptwe're talking about of there is
no time.
In the Akashic, in the Akashic.
There's literally no It feelsloving.
Feels like loving guidance.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It is the energy, again, ofunconditional love.
So coming back to the root ofthe question of the people that
(42:03):
are standing on the precipice isawareness, compassion, of
course, of course.
And then once you get thatawareness and you get that
compassion for yourself, whichis a practice as we know, it's
not like we just wake up withcompassion.
We have to cultivate thatpractice of compassion.
(42:24):
On the daily, on the daily, wehave to cultivate the compassion
and then it's like, can I start,for example, Amber Lillystrom
gave this gem to me, a dreamjournal.
Can I start a dream journalwhere on the first page of that
dream journal it says,everything in this journal comes
(42:44):
true.
Oh.
Potentially not feel comfortablewriting stuff down in that
journal because, oh my goodness,if this comes true and I say it
cause it's my word, you and Idid landmark because it's my
(43:07):
word and I say it and I createwith my word.
What does that mean?
So it's, it's a slow process togive yourself that permission to
dream.
And then the action.
As we know, it has to come fromalignment, and what is
alignment?
Alignment is what we juststarted with, is being in our
(43:29):
body.
Yeah,
Robyn Cohen (43:32):
it seems like the, that is in the making, the work
that you do one on one, withgroups, the seminars, the
retreats that you facilitate andguide, the upcoming book is
going to be packed for humanbeings everywhere.
That.
don't know where to start tobegin to expand their capacity.
(43:57):
It's not even on the table forthem yet.
And my heart is soaring for thembecause to have your wisdom and
to have this wisdom in the formof a book.
I'm so excited that everydaypeople who are running scared
and terrified.
And as you said, for goodreason, they had to get through
some.
Horrific Horrific stuff.
(44:18):
Yeah, or
Siri B (44:19):
they're living in the reality that's been created
through all of what theybelieved to be true, and they're
living it.
And also, I want to add, yes,what you're saying, and also,
everyone.
Everyone.
There's no one.
That isn't dealing with this.
(44:40):
We're all dealing
Robyn Cohen (44:40):
with this.
Siri B (44:40):
There's no one that doesn't need the reminders all
the time.
Robyn Cohen (44:45):
Yes.
Siri B (44:45):
I don't care, I don't care if you're like the most
successful guru in the world.
But Oprah Winfrey has coachesand therapists all day, six
Robyn Cohen (44:53):
ways to Sunday.
Right, right, right.
We
Siri B (44:55):
all need it.
But we all need the dailyreminder that we're
Robyn Cohen (45:01):
enough.
Yeah.
And it never gets old becauseevery moment is new.
Siri B (45:09):
Yeah.
And what I see is the spiral,and I'm sure you've heard this
concept, like going upward andaround.
So our soul's evolution is.
It's spiraling around and up.
So we get to revisit the sameexact lessons over and over, but
(45:30):
from a different vantage point.
Ooh, I love
Robyn Cohen (45:32):
that.
Yeah.
From a higher perch and thenhigher and then higher.
That's the ascension.
And we,
Siri B (45:37):
yeah.
And we're like, Ooh, my olderself.
Wouldn't have allowed this muchlove into my heart in this
moment.
My older self would have triedto control that.
Robyn Cohen (45:48):
Yeah.
Siri B (45:48):
Wow.
Robyn Cohen (45:49):
Huh.
I, I can't believe that yourlife's work, your purpose of
expanding people's capacity,like it couldn't be more what
the, doctor needs to beprescribing instead of all
these.
You know, pharmaceutical drugs.
Not that there's anything wrongwhen they make a difference,
but, that you are on thisglorious, God given mission to
(46:11):
expand people's hearts, to opentheir minds, to bring in
universal love to their souls.
It's, Siri.
No, not many people are doingthis okay?
People don't just wake up andare like, you know what my
purpose is in life?
And I'm gonna write a book aboutit and teach the world about it.
Most people aren't doing that.
So I just have to acknowledgeyou and I know I'm being like
(46:31):
kind of dramatic.
You might call this beingdramatic, but I I really feel
that it's revolutionary.
You are a kind of revolutionaryto me.
and, and to circle back to thesecond part of that question.
If you can take us back to thefact that, listeners, anyone
who's watching this, can youjust break your hearts over the
(46:52):
fact that Siri spent the firsttwo years of her life on an
ashram.
Like, little baby Siri, okay,before Siri was invented, before
it was a word that had to dowith technology.
It was representative of theshooting star of the meteor that
was born into the sky thatlanded here on Earth, named Siri
(47:12):
Baruc Thornton.
Siri Baruc at the time.
So, there was the question oflike, how did you go From there
to now.
Acting, being in TV and films tothen transitioning into this
whole other life that we've beentalking about, this whole other
Explosive experience.
So can you talk a little bitabout that journey and, how and
(47:34):
why some of those transitionswere made and got made?
Siri B (47:39):
Robyn, I feel like we need to do like our own series
where we can just do like awhole like 10 part series of
like Expanding our capacity tofeel good meets the Joyride
because because I'm interviewingsomeone in a few minutes And so
I need to give the nutshellversion of this.
Yes, but here's the thing my momtells me that she prayed and
(48:02):
chanted in the ashram for quoteshigh soul and You know, they
were wearing all white andturbans and they were American
Sikhs and they were in a yogibhajan ashram.
And as much as I've now sincefound out that that became, you
know, with all of these thingsthat are well intended, there is
(48:23):
a shadow.
And, but my mom and my dad'sexperience was very, very, very
positive in so many fundamentalways.
And I was born at home on afuton and.
you know, came into the world.
My soul chose I believe my soulchose to come into the world
through this very whitespiritual, when I say white, I
(48:45):
don't mean Caucasian.
I mean, white light spiritualenvironment with the incense and
the chanting and the yoga andthe devotion, the dedication.
And, and.
And ultimately, it was too rigidof a culture, too dogmatic, too
cultish.
(49:08):
My dad's like, mm, I'm like,okay, we'll call it cultish,
okay?
and it gave My parentsfoundations, that they, every
time they get together, becausethey're friends, you know, they,
they divorced when I was three,but every time they get
together, they're like, they'vealways been friends, but they'll
be like, oh my god, rememberthis person, that person, like,
(49:29):
they just, they're so romanticabout that time period.
They loved reminiscing aboutthat time period and all their
friends that were in the ashramwith them.
So it was very special.
but we left, and it's good weleft, and But it's, it's very
foundational for me, and then,you know, I, I'm proud of, of my
(49:52):
name, and that, that it feelsunique, and that it's a
spiritual name, and that theyogi gave it to me, and, you
know, so, my, my path was alwaysgoing to be this, it was always
going to be a spiritual path,and it was always going to be,
You know.
a creative path.
(50:12):
So we started this conversationwith the intersection of
creativity and spirituality.
And then I, you know, woven thespecifics of acting, but it's
like, that's what it is.
It's this, the spiritualfoundations then led me to the
natural expression of drama andstorytelling and.
(50:34):
And being my full creativedancing, singing, acting self,
you know, that was just mynature as it was for you and a
lot of, your friends.
And so, and then had avenuesthrough school and camps and
bless my parents for driving meand providing all those
opportunities and going tocommunity theater and finally,
(50:58):
you know, finding my belonging,my sense of belonging.
Because I was not fitting in,and I was a weirdo, and I just
didn't belong until I foundtheater in high school.
And that is, remains still.
Okay, so my high school actingteacher, my high school, theater
(51:21):
teacher, not during school,after school, we put on these
incredible, incredible musicalsand plays.
Her name is Trudy Cohen.
Robyn Cohen (51:31):
Oh! Ha ha ha ha! I love it! And actually, actually,
I need you to meet,
Siri B (51:36):
yeah, I need you to meet her because you guys are
fantastic, both of you.
you know, some of the bestmemories and proudest memories
of my whole life are from doingtheater in high school with
Trudy Cohen.
Robyn Cohen (51:50):
Where was this?
What state?
Um, in
Siri B (51:52):
South Burlington, Vermont.
Robyn Cohen (51:53):
okay.
Siri B (51:54):
Yeah, I'm doing Pippin and Godspell and it was awesome.
but the Miracle Worker playingAnnie Sullivan with my
girlfriend playing Helen Kelleris like, I learned, I taught
myself sign language, like it's,it was, phenomenal.
Like that theater, like I knowwe were just in high school, but
(52:14):
honestly, it was phenomenal.
It was, it was, it's one of theproudest, most blessed memories
of my life.
Robyn Cohen (52:21):
I have to say briefly, and I know you have to
go, and we will do a part twothrough ad infinitum, but
several years ago, I was cast inThe Miracle Worker
Siri B (52:32):
to play
Robyn Cohen (52:34):
Annie Sullivan.
Siri B (52:35):
Oh.
Robyn Cohen (52:37):
And two weeks after I was cast to play Annie
Sullivan, Helen Keller'scaretaker teacher, my brother
fell ill with a brain tumor.
Siri B (52:50):
I know, yes.
And I
Robyn Cohen (52:51):
dropped out of the play.
I've never dropped out of a playbefore.
I cannot imagine
Siri B (52:59):
you dropping out of a play, yeah.
Robyn Cohen (53:00):
And I dropped out of playing Annie Sullivan to
play Annie Sullivan.
Across the country inMassachusetts in Massachusetts
where Adam had just had hissurgery and so To be able to go
back and forth and be with himAnd so Annie Sullivan is a very
(53:21):
it's a cosmic quantum creativearena, which is blended, of
course You, your history andstory and mine and my brother.
Interesting.
All of it and all of it.
Interesting.
Wow.
(53:42):
So that blew it open for you onmany levels.
It sounds like.
The whole experience in a placethat was, operating in the, the
performing arts on that level,that makes a profound impact on
a young creative.
So it became obvious that youwould.
It was very, it was very
Siri B (54:01):
physical, that play.
Very, very, very, very physical.
Yeah.
Very physical.
Um, yeah, so, I then did allsorts of acting in college at
Clark University in Worcester,Massachusetts.
Just in love with it.
I mean A theater major, SiriYes, playing Nina in The
(54:21):
Seagull, like one of my Come on!I'm literally
Robyn Cohen (54:24):
coaching nine people on The Seagull right now
because they're doing it at theWill Geer Theatricum.
The Seagull, you were in Ah! Youplayed Nina?
You played That was life
Siri B (54:34):
changing.
Robyn Cohen (54:35):
Life changing.
Are you just breaking yourhearts over this?
Can't you just see?
I am a seagull.
No, I am an
Siri B (54:41):
actress.
Robyn Cohen (54:42):
Oh my gosh.
Siri B (54:44):
And I have a whole story to tell you about that.
But I gotta wrap up, Robyn,I've, we have so many shared
things to talk about.
Yes, it's just the
Robyn Cohen (54:53):
beginning, and it's forever, and there's no rush,
and we have time.
This was the most deliciousthing ever, and it's just gonna
continue to be.
Thank you for saying there's norush, yeah, that's beautiful.
We all, we've got, we've goteons and eons.
to connect and leave voice memosand do podcasts.
(55:13):
This is just like a drop in thebucket of fun.
It's so obvious a drop in thebucket of joy and connection.
So thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for taking out thistime, this moment, in your
incredible, in the veritablefeast of things that you're
doing.
I really I appreciate you to theends of the earth and beyond.
(55:34):
So more to come.
We've just gotten a taste.
Ladies and gentlemen, just ataste.
It's like a teaser, right?
It's like almost like acliffhanger, like more.
We gotta know what happenednext.
So this is What happens next?
In terms of storytelling, thisis great.
Stay tuned, listeners.
Fantastic.
(55:55):
Okay.
Well, I will see you so soon.
I love you so much.
I love you so much, so deeply.
Have a miraculous rest of yourday.
The day is already made for me.
It was the moment I opened myeyes and had Siri on my mind So
thank you.
Thank you for existing.
(56:17):
And I'll thank my mama liciousand my papa licious today when I
talk to them.
Thank you, Siri.
yeah, my phone has been goingbananas but I love that.
I love that the world lights uparound you and should and always
will and does so.
Big hug.
I'm hugging my computer, whichis, you know, my computer thinks
(56:39):
we're in a relationship, butit's really you.
I'm hugging.
I felt it.
I got it.
I got it.
And, to be continued Mwah.
Love you.
I love you too.
Love you listeners.
Oh, they love you too.
They're obsessed with you.
Okay?
Mwah! Ah, that was so delicious.
(57:02):
You know, and it's everythingthat Siri was talking about,
like, when art meets your heart,or that intersection of
creativity and spirituality.
What is that?
How do we come by that?
What is that intersection?
And I just feel like thisconversation was exactly that.
How meta to just be so Out oftime, in such a joyful and
(57:27):
powerful and soulfulconversation, it, it felt like
no time, I'm actually, I wasflabbergasted to discover that
this was like an, like an hourhad gone by, it really felt like
about 10 minutes.
If you asked me how long it feltlike 10, five, five minutes or
less, it felt like no time.
(57:48):
So that's such a beautifulreminder of, making sure we take
time and attention to be withthe things that light us up and
put us into that realm oftimelessness, of just being out
of time, of being in the zonewhere, You have a sense of being
in a realm that fosters soul andspirit and lightness of being
(58:12):
and magic.
I think it's available to us andI think it becomes our, our
chance, our opportunity toreally take a look at what we're
paying attention to, what we'repouring into our brains, what
we're dumping into our minds interms of what we're listening
to, the podcasts that we'retuning into, that we really
(58:32):
start to curate the inspirationand the input that we're
receiving so that it canmetabolize into us being in our
right minds so that we can makethe right choices about who to
connect with, what classes totake, what conversations to
have, and on and on and on.
(58:53):
So what a gift Siri has said it.
You all heard her say it.
She's coming back.
We're going to do, several moreparts to this.
We only got her ashram when shewas He's two years old and into
high school and college and,there's so much more to go.
So I wish you all joy as alwaysand ever.
I wish you lightness of being.
(59:14):
I wish you grace, compassion foryourselves as Siri was talking
about bringing lightness,bringing forgiveness.
Bringing our best selves and ourmost regulated selves to the
situation at hand, or to theconversation at hand, or to our
very hearts.
And join me in upcoming classes.
(59:35):
We're going to have a panoply ofopportunities to come and play
and get in the zone and playhard and fly high.
So here's to it.
Here's to you.
Until the next daily joy ride.
Much love.
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