The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good

This episode is a meditative, empowering journey into your intuitive gifts: the inner senses that awaken as you begin to align more deeply with Reiki and your own energetic frequency.

Whether you're preparing to receive a Reiki attunement, have already been attuned, or are simply curious about your intuitive blueprint, this minisode offers a guided self-discovery experience through the six Clairs:

🌟 Clairvoyance – Clear Seeing<...

Today’s episode is a special one designed to reconnect you to the quiet power within you.

I’m sharing five ways that Reiki transforms the way we live, create, love, and care for others. These teachings are drawn from decades of experience with clients, students, and my own personal healing journey. Whether you're brand new to Reiki or already attuned, I hope this episode deepens your connection to what’s possible.

We explore:

In today’s heartfelt episode, I open up my Reiki binder, the one I’ve carried and added to for over two decades. Inside are teachings passed down from my mother, from my beloved teachers like Libby Barnett and Karen Krieger, and from the lived lineage that continues to unfold through every session and student.

This is a deep dive into the foundational teachings of First and Second Degree Reiki: what it is, how it works, and why it’s...

In this sacred, 20 minute guided meditation, Siri Baruc Thornton invites you into a gentle and powerful remembering: a journey through the seven chakras designed to realign your energy, awaken your inner healer, and ground you in love.

Each chakra center is explored in depth, with insight into its location, energetic influence, emotional and spiritual properties, and healing potential. You'll be guided through breath, visualiza...

In this sacred storytelling minisode, Siri Baruc Thornton guides you through a meditative journey into the origins and lineage of Reiki. More than a history lesson, this is an energetic transmission—best received lying down or in stillness, like a sound bath for the soul.

You’ll be taken back to the mountains of Japan, where Dr. Mikao Usui received the sacred symbols through vision and devotion. You’ll walk the path through Dr. Chuj...

In this solo minisode, Siri shares how Reiki first came into her life through her mother’s healing journey, and how it became a lifelong practice that continues to shape her personal and professional path.

This episode covers:

• What Reiki is and how it works
• A short history of the Usui Reiki lineage
• Siri’s training with Libby Barnett and her Master of Masters certification
• Real stories from clients and students
• How Reiki can support y...

In this expansive and heart-centered conversation, I dialogue with Akary Busto: emotional biohacker, HeartMath practitioner, nervous system whisperer, and human design guide, about how we can move from survival to sovereignty. Akary shares her powerful story of growing up between cultures and carrying the weight of her family as a translator, oldest daughter, and bridge between worlds.

We explore what it means to regulate the nervou...

Today I’m joined by two adventurous, whip-smart creatives whose friendship and flair for reinvention turned a dusty roadside motel into a pink-hued phenomenon.

April Brown and Sarah Sklash are the co-founders of The June Motel and stars of Netflix’s hit series Motel Makeover. Once a public relations pro and a government operations specialist, they walked away from stable careers in 2016 to chase something wildly different:...

In this episode of The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with Shannon Kim: founder of Self Love Tea, Intuitive Hypnotherapist, Certified Herbalist, and Energy Guide.

Shannon shares intimately and vulnerably about her journey of self-love, including the deep healing of her relationship with her adopted father. Through subconscious healing, herbal wisdom, and energy work, she supports others in re-patterning their inner world a...

This is a behind-the-scenes, heart-wide-open continuation of The Light Within panel. After the official recording wrapped, our panelists stayed to reflect, celebrate, and share from the soul. What unfolded was a raw, nourishing, deeply human exchange of laughter, insight, motherhood moments, spiritual realizations, and sisterhood.

✨ In this episode, you’ll hear:

Reflections on being present and taking your hands o...

This special episode features a radiant panel of heart-centered leaders sharing what it means to lead with compassion, presence, and integrity. These are women creating ripple effects through their work, families, art, and communities and their insights just might ignite something powerful in you too.

Before recording, several panelists joined me for a Transformational Breathwork session infused with Reiki: clearing, aligning, and e...

In this intimate, impromptu episode of The Authentic Creative, we share a post-breathwork reflection with Rebecca Schlosser, a trauma-informed breathwork guide and podcast host, who graciously allowed us to record her experience immediately after "one of the most connected sessions she’s ever had."

Together, we explore:

• Generational healing through the breath
• Pain as both a portal and a teacher
• The nuanced dance between t...

Walk, breathe, remember, and return to your radiant self.

Created for the women of the Goddess of Light Retreat on the Oregon Coast, this meditation is yours too—wherever you are. Whether you're walking the beach, flying home, driving through winding roads, or simply laying down in stillness, this immersive journey will bring you back to the wisdom of your own luminous being.

This is a soul-soaked invitation to walk beside your ...

In this radiant episode of The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with the magical Amy Tangerine: artist, author, YouTube creator, and heart-forward creative guide, whose joyful mission is to help us reconnect to our inner child and remember that we are all artists.

Together, we explore:

• The intersection of Amy’s creative work and the healing journey
• How art supplies, stickers, and color can become sacred tools for transformation
• The r...

In this episode, I have a truly magical dialogue with Robyn Cohen: actress, director, educator, and luminous creative spirit.

Our conversation is an exploration of what it feels like to be fully in alignment with your craft, your body, and your life and what it takes to notice when you’re not. Robyn shares her perspective on how we can attune ourselves to the moments of synchronicity that are always trying to find us, if we’re willi...

What happens after the formal panel ends, and the circle keeps glowing? This special bonus after party episode captures the warmth, wisdom, and raw beauty of what unfolded when the Earth Day panelists stayed on to share from the heart: unscripted, unfiltered, and unshakably real.

Together, we explored what it means to return to safety, live with courage, and honor our sacred needs as alignment with nature herself. From nervous syste...

In this sacred and soulful Earth Day episode of The Authentic Creative, we gather in powerful sisterhood to honor the living intelligence of Earth and the Divine Feminine within us all. This is a ceremony, a remembering, and a radical act of love.

Hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton, founder of sage + blush wellness, this special panel features spiritual leaders, healers, artists, and creatives from around the world. Together, we reflect ...

In this high-vibe, joy-filled, and deeply magical episode, I dialogue with the radiant Paden Hughes, transformational coach, energy healer, bestselling author, and host of the 100% Woo Podcast. Together, we geek out on all things woo: intuition, energy, ancestral wisdom, and the sacred intersection of entrepreneurship and embodiment.

Paden shares her powerful story of building a 7-figure business by the age of 30, only to ...

Some conversations feel like a breath of fresh air. This one with Rachel Blumberg was exactly that.

Founder and CEO of PLATEFIT, Rachel has built a powerful fitness movement centered on vibration training, but our conversation reached far beyond the physical. We explored how grief, ritual, and authenticity shape us—and what it means to live from the inside out.

Rachel shares from a place of grounded truth, speaking to the courage it ...