How To Thrive In Show Business (Even When You're Scared Sick) with Somatic Healer Siri Baruc Thornton

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: 0:05

Hello, hello, and welcome back to the Daily Joy Ride podcast. I am your host, Robyn Cohen. Here to fuel your day with energy, infuse it with joy, and share powerful stories that will ignite your courage. Spark your spirit, awaken your perceptions, and inspire and encourage the once in a cosmos you to create a life. That you actually love living. So if that's your jam, buckle up and let's ride. Here we go. Hi everyone, and welcome back to Thriving Artists, The Daily Joyride Podcast. I'm Robyn Cohen, and today we are flipping the switch big time. My guest is the Radiant Siri Baruc Thornton, not only a dear, dear friend, and a creative force of nature, but someone that without whom this very podcast might not even exist. she really lit the spark for this show. Coming into being Siri is a transformational healer, a breathwork and Akashic records guide, and the host of the Authentic Creative Podcast. she helps people reconnect to joy, alignment, and what it means to truly feel good In their 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 alive in your own power and self-expression again. I have got you. Come on along to audit your first acting class with me totally free. You'll get to witness and observe a wildly gifted, deeply connected, Heart-centered community of artists who are working, playing, risking, growing, and igniting their passion every single week. So whether you're burned out, you're feeling blocked or just. A little dead inside. I promise that this space will awaken something Totally new and magical in you. So DM me on Instagram@RobynCohenActingStudio, or email Robyn Robyn is with a y Robyn@cohenactingstudio.com. and I'll send you the link so that you can zoom in with us Tuesdays in class This work and this podcast interview is a game changer. It is powerful, it is nourishing, and you deserve to feel alive again in whatever you're up to. So without further ado, here's the extraordinary Siri Baruc Thornton. Let's dive in. Well, hello, hello, and welcome back to the daily joyride podcast. I'm shaking. I'm kind of, I'm vibrating, I'm cavelling, I'm vibrating with excitement right now. Not only Because my guest, my all star guest, Siri Baruc and I just had a magnificent dance party. But the fact that Siri is here, Okay, I'm gonna cry. I just realized I'm gonna cry. Um, is really moving on so many levels. 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, inspired and motivated and guided by her. So, um, and before we, I want to share in a moment about who you are and what you do in the world and in the universe. but just to wind that back a little bit. So, Siri and I sort of loved each other. into each other's existence. Before the beginning of time. Yes. and specifically what I mean by that on this plane is that we were introduced by a mutual friend, a creative named Barbie, Barbara Heller. Barbara has a sister named Cathy Heller, who is a mentor for both me and for Siri and a wonderful teacher. and It was through her sister, Barbie, that we met. That said, it goes deeper, because the only reason I know Barbie is through a mutual passion and love for the creative arts, the performing arts, for arts and crafts in general. Barbie and I used to be in auditions together for years and, attend social events together. We knew each other. three years into knowing Barbie. Like I met her when I first moved to Los Angeles and we had just been in that circuit. Then I didn't see her for a while and COVID and yada, yada, yada. But she felt it was of primo importance, and she was right, to connect us via email. And that gave rise and gave birth to The friendship that I have with Siri Baruc today, which is one of the most valued and treasured relationships in my 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 a podcast ever even entered my world was subsequent to Barbie introducing us via email. And not too long thereafter, Siri, you invited me to be on your podcast. I honestly didn't know exactly what that meant, what it entailed. You had this gorgeous email invitation where you offered me a breathwork session leading into the podcast. And I was like, what is this magical fairy? What are we doing? Like, I didn't, I really had no clue except that I was going to get to sort of be in the space of Siri online, and then we were going to have a kind of a conversation, a podcast, and we were going to make an episode. How I would even see that episode, hear that episode, I had no idea where it would exist in the world, hadn't crossed my mind. But I just wanted to spend time with Siri Baruc, whose name means shining, gorgeous, cosmic star blessing. So come on. So then we meet, we're online. We've barely had any communication except for the couple of emails and the invitation to do this. And then. We have this session, Siri facilitates magnificently, as she always does, a phenomenal, hour long, right? About an hour long of breath work, where, again, I don't know what happened, okay, but we went deep, like, um, All the way. And that was the first one on one of this kind I had a breathwork teacher for years. it was a very different vein in terms of the breathwork world that she facilitated. So it did feel completely new the way you guided our work together. And, it dropped me into a place that I had never been before. And then! The most amazing thing happened. Siri said, we're gonna start the podcast. And at that juncture, she hit record, 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 asked me one question I said something like, this is a story about love. a love between myself and my late brother, Adam Cohen. And I don't even know if another question 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 art and craft, unlike any I had ever had. Siri, for those who are watching on YouTube, you can see that she's holding up a card that says, I am not dead, with a gorgeous light streaming onto a bird, and for those listening in, it's like a, Yeah, oracle card. It's an oracle card. Yeah. talking to Heaven Deck. Talking to Heaven Deck. Okay, beautiful. So yeah, that's what was happening. that was that's exactly what was happening in the conversation that transpired this podcast episode, which was just a thinly veiled moment of heaven on earth that we got to share together. And subsequently you invited me back. We did a couple more. We had a couple more incredible conversations together. and, next thing I knew, there were these podcasts out in the world that you had facilitated and that you had invited me into Siri, and it literally blew open the whole thing. Like, I did not see this coming and you also, you teach podcasting among other things, I mean, you're, you have so much wisdom and expertise in this area and you know this to be true because you've seen it with all your students and with yourself, but becoming someone that creates podcasts, which is, you know, having authentic, connected, connected, connected, Collaborative conversations over and over again and reaching out to people all over the world to connect with them transforms your life. And so since I have started this journey last year, which began with you, s right smack dab in the middle of your heart, um, my life has, exploded into directions that were not going to happen anyway. They just weren't. They just weren't gonna happen anyway. And, And yeah, there are certain aspects of my life that through this journey are literally unrecognizable 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 your soul, what it has unlocked in me and in so many, many, many, many, is unimaginably gigantic, powerful, beautiful, and life saving. Thank you for being an authentic, creative healer. You're a surgeon of the human heart, and you are saving lives and lighting up lives. In ways that are so beyond beyond it's amazing that like you're even in human form And listen 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 is what, a little bit of what AI had to say, but mostly it's what you shared about what you're up to, so I'm going to share mostly that, but Alright, sports fans, so, so, so, here's a little bit about Siri Baruc. Even AI said that we have an extraordinary guest on your podcast today, whose path is deeply rooted in creativity, in transformation, and conscious living. Siri Baruc Thornton is a creative visionary. A transformational coach, 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 And more. 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's journey has taken her from the world of acting to the world of healing, blending her deep understanding of creativity with transformational modalities that support emotional and energetic breakthroughs. She 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. Whether she's guiding a breathwork session, writing her upcoming book, The authentic creative, expanding our capacity to feel good, or working with heart centered leaders, Siri brings a unique blend of warmth, intuition, and inspiration to everything she does. Today, she joins us on the Daily Joyride to share her insights on joy, creativity, and what it truly means to live. an expansive life. Welcome to the show, Siri. I am over the moon that you are here.

Siri B: 12:40

Oh my god, Robyn look at you. Oh my god. I feel like I'm Simultaneously on a TED Talk, my, my, my memorial at the end of my life, and on like the best show on TV ever type of feeling like that, and also just cosmically, galactically, spiritually, like entering portals and whatnot. So, leave it to you. Leave it to you to give the best introduction 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 the internet 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, Robyn your name means star. I mean, I just love you So deeply. I love you to other galaxies and back. I feel so lifted Not right. Not just I mean forget this moment like forget it since since the beginning of time like our souls knew each other so Okay, whatever, it doesn't matter when we met, but you are literally every single time we interact, I'm getting head tingles thinking about it, you just, I have to share your voice notes with my husband or my dad or my kids, like, because it's like a, an alignment infusion for everyone, whenever whatever. I hear your voice, because it just, it's just a, it's a dignifying, it's a lifting, it's like, your voice notes, just yeah, you're, you're the master class, I mean Robyn's a teacher, you're a teacher, not just an acting teacher, you're, you're a life teacher Robyn you teach us how to, to be on the joyride.

Robyn Cohen: 15:20

Oh, thank you for that. I'm gonna leave you a voice memo for

Siri B: 15:24

that. Oh, P P S, by the way, it's Robyn tell the, will you tell that story?

Robyn Cohen: 15:31

Just in case. Or not. I do have a way sometimes of leaving. Up to a five, six minute voice memo, and I think because I was raised in Maryland, where there were certain social norms, sometimes I'd get to the end of a five minute voice memo with Siri, who knows me very well at this point, and I'll say, Oh, this is Robyn because I feel that was never said, and just in case there was any, like, Is it? and now I just do it all the time. So even though the first time it was ingrained, like it was just ingrained to do that, now it's just, now I do it all the time. not because, it's necessary on any 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, like chocolate, I'm, I'm going to keep going back to it three times a day, all day, every day, at every meal, and every voice memo. So, Okay, I'm so tempted. I'm like, all of a sudden I'm like, I can do the interview. I know. Okay, you guys, just so you know, there could be a takeover. 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 knows that you are my numero uno guiding, like, north star for this whole thing. So, this is gonna be, like, unlike anything else that's come before it, obviously. Just as this It's co creating of this relationship in this lifetime is like nothing that's come before it. So, it's, it is, I just haven't talked

Siri B: 17:17

to you. I just haven't talked to you since Budapest. I've been in Budapest. I haven't talked to you since. Since you met Maté and you saw Hamlet. I have not talked to you since then. So I just, I'm just super curious. 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 may not 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 called FBI International. And that's how you have to say it. FBI. Which, it was just announced, this is their final season. So We're the blowout. We're the grand finale, which is pretty 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 FBI international. It's a Dick Wolf show. And he, you know. Oh yeah. That's why I said da dun. Right? Da Da da. He does law like the law and order. 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 Law Order and some of your movie and film credits and all those things. And I wanted to ask you about that, about your Law Order days, cause they're sister shows, really, and certainly the same creator, but so this was a whack. 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. I had not, I've been to Europe. I hadn't been to Budapest. And before I got there, thank God, Siri and I are always, were in communication and leaving voice memos. And when she heard I was going, she said, Oh, I got a guy, right? Like I got a guy that knows a guy 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 the premier actors in Budapest. And at the time of my arrival, he was opening up Hamlet. by William Shakespeare at the Hungarian National Theater, a beautiful theater that's been around forever. Which is like your favorite show, right? Yes, yes, and which his father also worked in that theater, and apparently grandfather. Yeah, long line of actors there. Long line, yes, incredible legacy. And I didn't have much time off while I was there, but the moment there was a Sunday afternoon that was free, Billy and I, we went to the National Theater. Maté had reserved some tickets for us, set them aside. And here's my little secret. I thought there were gonna be subtitles 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, Hungarian Hamlet. Oh, wow. Come on now. Unbelievable. Listen. I've never understood that dude better. And I've never seen it played more clearly. This is what we're always talking about in, in acting class. If you can, it doesn't matter. The reason you can watch, right, the reason you can watch foreign films, and understand them and the reason you can watch Shakespeare in any language is because the play is the thing and it's the Interactivity between the two artists and what they're trying to accomplish with the language Yeah, that is the play and we relate to that human we relate to the human 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, and yes, I've studied the play and I went to school for Shakespeare and 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 this particular case, it was such an affirming acting lesson to be like, oh, it's not the lines. It's the life. Underneath the lines. It's not the lines, it's the life, right? Because if you're not trying to accomplish something with language, it's a snooze. And I was so jet lagged, it's a nine hour difference. My Circadian rhythms were so bananas. It was kind of like having a psychotic break. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. And then it was so sweet. Maté comes out and all these ladies, like these 60 gorgeous 60 year old women, they swarm him. And I'm like, I need a picture. So I took some pictures of us and videos, and I will send those to you. but to answer your question, how was it? So When I arrived, it was a 14 hour journey, right? It's flights and things. We, so I get there, I wasn't feeling well. And, very shortly thereafter, I was, called to the costume department to do the. Fitting because we were supposed to shoot pretty quickly after I landed. So I had a little rest when I got there. And um, the next morning, which was a few hours later, I went to the costume department. Huge, gorgeous state of the art. They have a new building for all of 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 European and yummy. And I was like, just so you know, I'm feeling a little, I just got off the plane and I'm feeling a little, and she's like, no problem. And uh, we start the costume fitting. There's about 150 articles of clothing to try on.'cause I'm in seven or eight scenes and we need to find the costumes and fit them. Oh my god. On my body. Right. Even though you send your measurements ahead, you have to actually. tailor suits and things and that, right, you have to fit them. So we start, 9am, we start the fitting, I put on the first couple of costumes, we're through, we're through about 10 articles of clothing, and uh, I realize I'm going to, I'm going to be ill. And so I say, you know, I think I'm going to be ill. And before they could get a trash can in the room, I threw up all over this thousand dollar, 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. Those pants not meant for you. Next outfit. So, You know how after you get sick to your stomach, there's like, um, there's like 10 minutes where you feel better. Yeah. So I'm in this high and they're like, I'm like, you know what? I actually feel really good now. Maybe that was it. I was like, maybe that's it. So they clean up the floor and the pants with da, da, da. And uh, they come back into the room. I do the toothbrush and I, they come back and they're like, let's go. I get through about 10 more articles of clothing and I say, you know what? I'm not feeling so great. So at this point they're ready. They run in with two more trash cans. 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 was again, like that five minute period where you feel fine because you just sort of, and I was like, okay, let's go. And she looks at me and she says, You're going home. And I said, you're right. And so at that juncture, they shuttled me back to the hotel. I went back with my head between my knees. They sent the medic from the set. Every set, every production has like a set medic. They sent her to the hotel where they had me staying and um, I got sick again and the medic came. And I kept getting sick and I got sick again and again, and this went on all afternoon. She gave me some medication, which finally, quelled the nausea. So I, stopped being sick. and then it's that night and I stopped, you know. Growing up. Sorry for those of you who are like, I'm sorry. Anyone, any listeners, lo siento. Okay. If you're having breakfast watching this, lo siento means I'm sorry in Spanish. You can put a little warning. Oh yeah, I will. I will. Trigger warning. Um, and so then I'm on the phone with the PAs and the producers. Are you going to be okay? Cause I'm supposed to shoot first thing in the morning and I haven't fit any of my costumes yet.

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 was encouraged that I had stopped being sick. Like, maybe this was a one day thing. And, and you know, he said, Well, let's just talk in the morning. But I know, like, you know, a day 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 much as it is everything else. They were very kind to me and very human and were already offering me options to maybe switch around the shooting schedule. But I garnered the stuff, you know. I, we pulled it. I pulled on cosmic love, and support. And, although I could not even think of food. I showered, I cleaned myself up, and they picked me up in the morning and took me right to the costume department. So I get to the costume department. they. Were working like, like Mavericks, like creative machines. What they had done in my absence was get a person that had my size, like a real human being. Mm-hmm And they started trying on double on costumes, A body double. Yeah. And they started fitting and tailoring outfits that the director liked for the scenes, such that when I arrived, I only had about. Seven or eight outfits to try on, which was great. They basically fit. They did a couple tailoring things. The biggest thing was the shoes, because I have huge bunions from dancing. That's another podcast. We finally got it together, and um, they shuttled me to set, and we shot the heck out of the thing. And the director couldn't have been happier. Wonderful, wonderful. I still couldn't eat a thing. By this time, we're going late into 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 hard because I was nauseated. I hate being nauseous. It's like my least favorite thing. But the first week in Europe was pretty, sickly. in general. after that, it took on the glow and the, um, the gloriousness of what we were doing there. And it took on the sort of the shimmer of being in this production with these incredible people. and I know that this is a whole other podcast talking about this journey with this show. I'm looking at Siri's glowing face. but to answer your question, it, uh, it ended up going, um, beautifully. It was magically delicious and your friends couldn't have been nicer. We had the best Hungarian food when we had our appetites back, the next week with Mate and his wife. I love it. Absolutely amazing. I'm going to send you all the pictures. So thank you for that introduction.

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 got through it. Yes. And kind of like Gangbusters, there's a part two to this with what actually ended up happening with the shooting and the creativity therein. Before we toggle into that, I would 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 actually a question from one of my students to you, because they all, my students know and love Siri. Siri has facilitated, several of my classes to some of my acting students who have just fallen. Which was like the greatest gift in the world. They fall madly in love with Siri and the work and they're revitalized and they're taken to heaven and so they knew that we were going to be meeting and so one of them had this question which relates to, um, this cross pollination of arts and crafts and spirituality. And so their question was, what is your perspective on the intersection of creativity? And what motivated your transition from the entertainment industry into the world 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's your perspective on the intersection or the crossover of creativity and spirituality?

Siri B: 30:24

So, creativity and spirituality, this is awesome. Creativity comes, oozes from us. You see it in Robyn oozes from her, oozes from her students the most easily and brilliantly when they are dropped in, into their 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 a freaking like snowstorm of excitement. It was unfettered, unfettered joy. Yeah, and so there's, like, that's one way. 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 to the creative juices, the creative flow, which just naturally is what we are. We're all creatives, we're all creating all the time. Universe created us, and then we, the universe through us, If we're aligned, then we can be the channel for that. So as actors, if you're listening and you're an actor, you know this feeling of letting the inspiration, the embodiment, the words, the lines. The actions come through you and you 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 being present in the moment, whether it's a piece of art. Whether it's creating a podcast episode, that when you are fully dropped in and aligned, and cracked open, right? Like your crown is open, your throat chakra is open, your sacral, your female creative matrix, if you're a woman, is open. Your root is connected to the core of Mother Earth. Your heart feels safe to open. These things happen through So many avenues, but my favorite is breathwork and Reiki. So there's lots of things I can say about Reiki and about breathwork and about spirituality. I could go on for literally like a year about that, but the creativity, we get to be the straw, the vessel for God universe to flow the ideas, the inspiration, the stories that are longing to be told and shared. If we are the straw, if we are the open vessel, Then we get the opportunity to be the expression of that. And to me, that is unconditional love. That feeling of being the vessel for what God wants to bring through is the ultimate, you know, and I see that in you. And I think that's one of the reasons Robyn and I are soul sisters is because we. I love the catharsis of being the vessel for God's creativity, for universe's creativity. So you want to be a brilliant artist, crack yourself open however you can, whether that's dance, whether that's breathwork, whether that's reiki, or whatever your modality is. I particularly am a massive fan of Breathwork, have been for over 20 years when I was living in New York City and I started doing Breathwork and Reiki trades with a girlfriend of mine who is connected to Robyn as well. So, it's all, it's all connected, like, this moment was always meant to be that you were going to ask me that question, like, So, thank you for asking me that because I'm discovering it as I'm answering it and, and it's, it's a love making session between universe, our soul, our team, our guides, and the words that we're expressing, the art we'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 can do as creatives that want to live a joyful, that want to be on the joyride to expand our vessel, to soften our vessel, to open our vessel, to expand and lean into life, which Robyn does. So like every moment of her life, like she leans in with her heart, her whole heart, like no matter what, like that is what makes us the best human and also the best artist. So that intersection is everything. Like we could talk about that for days.

Robyn Cohen: 35:11

That is. That's like answering a question that, for the most part, most people, most humans don't even know how to ask. Thank you for that. And on behalf of the students or artists or creatives or non creatives, what about people that are afraid to even start to start? To crack themselves open for what they should find there. I, I work with a lot of people, as do you. And just getting to the point of willingness, 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 a dream and it's actually painful to not. Do what you do Robyn to not go for the dream like you're an example of a hundred percent fully I see you as a hundred percent fully going for the dream, but it's painful to not go for the dream. So I would say Everybody's got a dream. What's your dream, baby? Like so if so, the dream is in you It's already done as you say like it's already happened. It's that old saying of get out of your own way so It's like, we're pushing ourselves like a beach ball. I feel like you've told me this. That we're pushing ourselves like 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 may have 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 of creativity.

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 What is the avenue? Is it, if it's dance, if it's breathwork, if it's reiki, if it's an acting class, what is the avenue, a voice class, that's going, that's going to, start to, to chip away at or soften or melt the thing that is in the way of your soul's greatest expression. Like, I don't, it's, it doesn't need to be created. It's there. right? It's like the clay, the structure under the clay. It's like, we only excel at the speed of safety. Yeah. And so with our nervous system. And so it's like, how can we make it safe? That's the question. Right. How can we make it safe? And this is not something Robyn and I grew up learning. Right. We didn't learn this until more recently, the words, how can we make it safe? No one was saying this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How can we make it safe? And what does safe even mean in your body? That's a retraining of the nervous system. That's a retraining and that's a rewiring 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 majority who aren't going after their dreams because we do all have dreams.

Siri B: 38:17

But so there's, there's so everyone's on the spectrum of what their readiness is and how much they're willing to have, how much they're willing to have. So my havingness could be at zero, which is, I can't have anything. Because it just does not feel safe in my system. I can't have anything for, because of conditioning, because of the nurturing, because of society, because of wounds, blah, blah, blah. And then on the other side of the spectrum of having this is Like, for example, Oprah or Adele or someone who's like, all the way, like, Robyn, you are like, it's like that having this is like a capacity that someone's given themselves permission. And I think certain people have different levels of capacity based on their DNA and their history and their ancestry and their nurturing and all of this. So it's not your fault. If you don't feel like you have the capacity to be fully expressed, to have joy, to live your dream. And I think starting there with that first, I think first, compassion awareness. No, sorry. Let me back up awareness. We can't even understand anything until we're aware and we can't force someone to be aware until they're ready to be aware. So awareness, I have a dream in my heart, or I'm not fully living my life, or I'm not fully feeling joy as much as I wanna be, or I'm not going for it. Awareness. And then I say compassion after the awareness. Mm-hmm Because you are where you are because of a myriad of a thousand things. Right? And so it's like. Oh, baby girl.

Robyn Cohen: 40:04

Yeah.

Siri B: 40:04

Or oh, sweet boy. Like, of course, you know, and when I open people's Akashic records or I teach them to open their Akashic records, that's what we do. We do, of course. Yes, because I don't know if you believe in past lives, if you're listening to this or not, but for example, if you've had a past life where you were killed, you know, it's like, well, of course, you're scared to stick your neck out. Of course.

Robyn Cohen: 40:28

Can you share a little bit about the Akashic Records process for people that it's new for them? So

Siri B: 40:33

Akashic Records are inroad. There's so many inroads. it's one inroad to our infinite wisdom and to the infinite wisdom of our masters, teachers, loved ones. There's a sacred prayer, and as with anything, there's, it's practice and guidance and sacred prayer that gets you to this space where you can, and people tap into the Akashic Records all the time by accident, which is how I started. By accident. I was doing Reiki with someone on my Reiki table, and I just started channeling information about their dead cat, and I other times would channel information about someone's unborn child, and I was like, okay, I'm tapping into some infinite wisdom here. Um, and the Akashic is different from Psychic. Okay. They have, they have overlaps, but Psychic, readings can oftentimes be oriented in a fear energy. Of the unknown and needing to be able to predict everything as opposed to where Akashic is like spiritual therapy, spiritual therapy when you receive it, right? It's spiritual guidance. And so it's more the concept we're talking about of there is no time. In the Akashic, in the Akashic. There's literally no It feels loving. Feels like loving guidance. Exactly. Exactly. It is the energy, again, of unconditional love. So coming back to the root of the question of the people that are standing on the precipice is awareness, compassion, of course, of course. And then once you get that awareness and you get that compassion for yourself, which is a practice as we know, it's not like we just wake up with compassion. We have to cultivate that practice of compassion. On the daily, on the daily, we have to cultivate the compassion and then it's like, can I start, for example, Amber Lillystrom gave this gem to me, a dream journal. Can I start a dream journal where on the first page of that dream journal it says, everything in this journal comes true. Oh. Potentially not feel comfortable writing stuff down in that journal because, oh my goodness, if this comes true and I say it cause it's my word, you and I did landmark because it's my word and I say it and I create with my word. What does that mean? So it's, it's a slow process to give yourself that permission to dream. And then the action. As we know, it has to come from alignment, and what is alignment? Alignment is what we just started with, is being in our body. Yeah,

Robyn Cohen: 43:32

it seems like the, that is in the making, the work that you do one on one, with groups, the seminars, the retreats that you facilitate and guide, the upcoming book is going to be packed for human beings everywhere. That. don't know where to start to begin to expand their capacity. It's not even on the table for them yet. And my heart is soaring for them because to have your wisdom and to have this wisdom in the form of a book. I'm so excited that everyday people who are running scared and terrified. And as you said, for good reason, they had to get through some. Horrific Horrific stuff. Yeah, or

Siri B: 44:19

they're living in the reality that's been created through all of what they believed 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. 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 coaches and 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 daily reminder that we're

Robyn Cohen: 45:01

enough. Yeah. And it never gets old because every 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 and around. So our soul's evolution is. It's spiraling around and up. So we get to revisit the same exact lessons over and over, but from a different vantage point. Ooh, I love

Robyn Cohen: 45:32

that. Yeah. From a higher perch and then higher and then higher. That's the ascension. And we,

Siri B: 45:37

yeah. And we're like, Ooh, my older self. Wouldn't have allowed this much love into my heart in this moment. My older self would have tried to control that.

Robyn Cohen: 45:48

Yeah.

Siri B: 45:48

Wow.

Robyn Cohen: 45:49

Huh. I, I can't believe that your life's work, your purpose of expanding people's capacity, like it couldn't be more what the, doctor needs to be prescribing instead of all these. You know, pharmaceutical drugs. Not that there's anything wrong when they make a difference, but, that you are on this glorious, God given mission to expand people's hearts, to open their minds, to bring in universal love to their souls. It's, Siri. No, not many people are doing this okay? People don't just wake up and are like, you know what my purpose is in life? And I'm gonna write a book about it and teach the world about it. Most people aren't doing that. So I just have to acknowledge you and I know I'm being like kind of dramatic. You might call this being dramatic, but I I really feel that it's revolutionary. You are a kind of revolutionary to me. and, and to circle back to the second part of that question. If you can take us back to the fact that, listeners, anyone who's watching this, can you just break your hearts over the fact that Siri spent the first two years of her life on an ashram. Like, little baby Siri, okay, before Siri was invented, before it was a word that had to do with technology. It was representative of the shooting star of the meteor that was born into the sky that landed here on Earth, named Siri Baruc Thornton. Siri Baruc at the time. So, there was the question of like, how did you go From there to now. Acting, being in TV and films to then transitioning into this whole other life that we've been talking about, this whole other Explosive experience. So can you talk a little bit about that journey and, how and why some of those transitions were 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 a whole like 10 part series of like Expanding our capacity to feel good meets the Joyride because because I'm interviewing someone in a few minutes And so I need to give the nutshell version of this. Yes, but here's the thing my mom tells me that she prayed and chanted in the ashram for quotes high soul and You know, they were wearing all white and turbans and they were American Sikhs and they were in a yogi bhajan ashram. And as much as I've now since found out that that became, you know, with all of these things that are well intended, there is a shadow. And, but my mom and my dad's experience was very, very, very positive in so many fundamental ways. And I was born at home on a futon and. you know, came into the world. My soul chose I believe my soul chose to come into the world through this very white spiritual, when I say white, I don't mean Caucasian. I mean, white light spiritual environment with the incense and the chanting and the yoga and the devotion, the dedication. And, and. And ultimately, it was too rigid of a culture, too dogmatic, too cultish. My dad's like, mm, I'm like, okay, we'll call it cultish, okay? and it gave My parents foundations, that they, every time they get together, because they're friends, you know, they, they divorced when I was three, but every time they get together, they're like, they've always been friends, but they'll be like, oh my god, remember this person, that person, like, they just, they're so romantic about that time period. They loved reminiscing about that time period and all their friends that were in the ashram with them. So it was very special. but we left, and it's good we left, and But it's, it's very foundational for me, and then, you know, I, I'm proud of, of my name, and that, that it feels unique, and that it's a spiritual name, and that the yogi gave it to me, and, you know, so, my, my path was always going to be this, it was always going to be a spiritual path, and it was always going to be, You know. a creative path. So we started this conversation with the intersection of creativity and spirituality. And then I, you know, woven the specifics of acting, but it's like, that's what it is. It's this, the spiritual foundations then led me to the natural expression of drama and storytelling and. And being my full creative dancing, singing, acting self, you know, that was just my nature as it was for you and a lot of, your friends. And so, and then had avenues through school and camps and bless my parents for driving me and providing all those opportunities and going to community theater and finally, 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 found theater in high school. And that is, remains still. Okay, so my high school acting teacher, my high school, theater teacher, not during school, after school, we put on these incredible, incredible musicals and 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 best memories and proudest memories of my whole life are from doing theater 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 playing Annie Sullivan with my girlfriend playing Helen Keller is like, I learned, I taught myself sign language, like it's, it was, phenomenal. Like that theater, like I know we were just in high school, but honestly, it was phenomenal. It was, it was, it's one of the proudest, 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 two through ad infinitum, but several years ago, I was cast in The 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's caretaker 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 play before. 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 in Massachusetts in Massachusetts where Adam had just had his surgery and so To be able to go back and forth and be with him And so Annie Sullivan is a very it's a cosmic quantum creative arena, which is blended, of course You, your history and story and mine and my brother. Interesting. All of it and all of it. Interesting. Wow. So that blew it open for you on many levels. It sounds like. The whole experience in a place that was, operating in the, the performing arts on that level, that makes a profound impact on a young creative. So it became obvious that you would. 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 all sorts of acting in college at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Just in love with it. I mean A theater major, Siri Yes, playing Nina in The 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 the Will Geer Theatricum. The Seagull, you were in Ah! You played Nina? You played That was life

Siri B: 54:34

changing.

Robyn Cohen: 54:35

Life changing. Are you just breaking your hearts 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 delicious thing ever, and it's just gonna continue to be. Thank you for saying there's no rush, yeah, that's beautiful. We all, we've got, we've got eons and eons. to connect and leave voice memos and do podcasts. This is just like a drop in the bucket of fun. It's so obvious a drop in the bucket of joy and connection. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for taking out this time, this moment, in your incredible, in the veritable feast of things that you're doing. I really I appreciate you to the ends of the earth and beyond. So more to come. We've just gotten a taste. Ladies and gentlemen, just a taste. It's like a teaser, right? It's like almost like a cliffhanger, like more. We gotta know what happened next. So this is What happens next? In terms of storytelling, this is great. Stay tuned, listeners. Fantastic. 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 your day. The day is already made for me. It was the moment I opened my eyes and had Siri on my mind So thank you. Thank you for existing. And I'll thank my mama licious and my papa licious today when I talk to them. Thank you, Siri. yeah, my phone has been going bananas but I love that. I love that the world lights up around you and should and always will and does so. Big hug. I'm hugging my computer, which is, you know, my computer thinks we're in a relationship, but it'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. You know, and it's everything that 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 this conversation was exactly that. How meta to just be so Out of time, in such a joyful and powerful and soulful conversation, it, it felt like no time, I'm actually, I was flabbergasted to discover that this was like an, like an hour had gone by, it really felt like about 10 minutes. If you asked me how long it felt like 10, five, five minutes or less, it felt like no time. So that's such a beautiful reminder of, making sure we take time and attention to be with the things that light us up and put us into that realm of timelessness, of just being out of time, of being in the zone where, You have a sense of being in a realm that fosters soul and spirit and lightness of being and magic. I think it's available to us and I think it becomes our, our chance, our opportunity to really take a look at what we're paying attention to, what we're pouring into our brains, what we're dumping into our minds in terms of what we're listening to, the podcasts that we're tuning into, that we really start to curate the inspiration and the input that we're receiving so that it can metabolize into us being in our right minds so that we can make the right choices about who to connect with, what classes to take, what conversations to have, and on and on and on. So what a gift Siri has said it. You all heard her say it. She's coming back. We're going to do, several more parts to this. We only got her ashram when she was 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 always and ever. I wish you lightness of being. I wish you grace, compassion for yourselves as Siri was talking about bringing lightness, bringing forgiveness. Bringing our best selves and our most regulated selves to the situation at hand, or to the conversation at hand, or to our very hearts. And join me in upcoming classes. We're going to have a panoply of opportunities to come and play and get in the zone and play hard and fly high. So here's to it. Here's to you. Until the next daily joy ride. Much love.