The Authentic Creative Sanctuary
A living archive of women’s wisdom.
Women often arrive expecting to share what they’ve built. They leave remembering who they are.
The Authentic Creative Sanctuary is an intimate monthly gathering for entrepreneurial, creative, spiritually minded women who value authenticity, meaningful connection, and conversations that reach beneath the surface.
Each gathering begins with Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki, followed by reflection, integration, and a professionally facilitated conversation recorded for The Authentic Creative podcast.
The recording becomes part of a much larger experience.
Women gather from different places, industries, and stages of life. They settle into their bodies, listen with presence, speak from lived experience, and discover what becomes possible when no one is asking them to perform.
The Sanctuary is the experience.
The podcast is the ripple.
September 2026 through July 2027
Second Friday Monthly on Zoom
9:30 AM–12:00 PM Pacific Time
Why These Conversations Feel Different
Authentic conversations are shaped long before the first question is asked.
Most interviews begin with introductions, credentials, and a microphone.
The Authentic Creative Sanctuary begins with the body.
Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki helps each woman arrive more fully, settle her nervous system, and reconnect with herself before the recorded conversation begins.
By the time we start speaking, something meaningful has already happened.
The room feels warmer.
People listen differently.
Polished answers give way to something more alive.
Women respond from the truth of their experience, follow the natural direction of the conversation, and share what is real for them in that moment.
The podcast captures conversations that could only emerge from this particular sequence, this carefully cultivated room, and these women gathered together.
The experience creates the recording.
The Rhythm of Each Gathering
9:30 AM — Arrival and Connection
We begin by entering the space together, settling in, and opening the theme for the day.
Transformational Breathwork Infused with Reiki
A guided breathwork journey supports emotional release, nervous system regulation, deeper embodiment, and the spaciousness to receive what is ready to emerge.
Reflection and Integration
There is time to breathe normally, return gently, gather your thoughts, and share anything you would like the group to know.
10:30 AM — Recorded Sanctuary Conversation
The recording begins once everyone has had the opportunity to arrive fully.
The conversation unfolds around a thoughtfully chosen theme, with room for honesty, nuance, laughter, emotion, curiosity, and the unexpected wisdom that appears when women feel safe enough to speak freely.
12:00 PM — Closing
We complete the gathering together, carrying the conversation into our lives, relationships, creative work, and the communities we serve.
Healing Begins with Safety
Healing begins the moment we feel safe enough to tell the truth.
Advice has its place. Insight can be valuable. Yet some of the most powerful shifts happen when another person listens with their whole presence and allows us to hear ourselves clearly.
That is part of what the Sanctuary makes possible.
Women are given time to finish a thought.
Silence is welcome.
Emotion belongs.
Humor belongs.
Complexity belongs.
You are free to share what is alive for you without turning it into a lesson, a performance, or a polished piece of expertise.
Something changes when a woman realizes she can be deeply respected and fully human in the same room.
A Different Kind of Professional Gathering
Networking often begins with, “What do you do?”
The Authentic Creative Sanctuary is more interested in who you are underneath everything you have built.
Strategy, visibility, and professional connection naturally emerge here. They grow through trust, genuine interest, shared experience, and the recognition that meaningful collaboration begins with relationship.
You may meet a future client, collaborator, teacher, friend, referral partner, podcast guest, retreat participant, or creative ally.
You may also meet a part of yourself that has been waiting for enough spaciousness to return.
Why the Sanctuary Is Curated
Every woman shapes the room.
Her presence, emotional maturity, generosity, curiosity, and willingness to listen influence what becomes possible for everyone else.
Invitations are extended with care to women who value depth, integrity, growth, creativity, and authentic connection.
This may include entrepreneurs, founders, artists, writers, actors, authors, healers, coaches, physicians, teachers, facilitators, and leaders from many different fields.
Accomplishments offer one part of the story.
The qualities that matter most inside the Sanctuary are harder to place on a résumé:
Presence.
Warmth.
Self-awareness.
A genuine interest in other women.
The capacity to listen.
A willingness to tell the truth.
Curation protects the tenderness, intelligence, and quality of the experience. It allows the room to become part of the medicine.
Who Feels at Home Here
The Authentic Creative Sanctuary is for women who are committed to their own evolution and drawn to conversations that feel generous, intelligent, emotionally honest, and alive.
You may feel at home here if you value authenticity over performance, enjoy meeting remarkable women across different fields, and want professional relationships rooted in humanity rather than transaction.
This space welcomes women who care as much about listening as speaking, who remain curious when a conversation moves in an unexpected direction, and who understand that their wisdom includes far more than what they have accomplished.
Preparation is simple.
Bring yourself.
Arrive on time.
Participate in the full experience.
Allow the conversation to unfold.
What Women Experience Inside the Sanctuary
Women often arrive believing they are joining a podcast panel.
They leave with something much more personal.
The experience may include feeling deeply seen, reconnecting with intuition, receiving support from women who understand the complexity of leadership and creative life, and discovering new language for something that has been living quietly inside.
The room offers space for laughter, reflection, emotion, professional connection, creative inspiration, and honest conversation without comparison.
Friendships begin.
Collaborations emerge.
Ideas become clearer.
Hope returns.
A woman remembers that she can be accomplished, tender, uncertain, powerful, joyful, grieving, creative, wise, and fully herself.
The episode matters.
The visibility is meaningful.
The relationships and inner shifts continue long after the recording ends.
A Living Archive of Women’s Wisdom
Month after month, extraordinary women gather.
They breathe, settle, listen, and tell the truth.
Each conversation becomes part of The Authentic Creative podcast, a top 2% globally ranked show with more than 316 episodes and listeners in over 65 countries.
The Sanctuary remains intentionally intimate.
The podcast carries the wisdom outward.
Participants receive the experience of being in the room. Listeners around the world receive the reflections, stories, and insight that emerged because that room existed.
The recording becomes an artifact of something living.
A conversation held with care can continue supporting people for years.
What Your Participation Includes
Each gathering includes:
A carefully curated group of women
Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki
An opening poem or piece of writing chosen for the theme
A specifically curated playlist from the breathwork based on the theme of the month
Time for reflection and integration
A professionally facilitated recorded conversation
Thoughtful editing and production
Publication on The Authentic Creative podcast
Promotion of the completed episode
Connection with remarkable women across industries and locations
The possibility of genuine friendship, collaboration, referrals, and creative cross-pollination
A lasting recording of the conversation
Continued relationship with the wider Authentic Creative community
Placement on this webpage with your bio and links for women joining 6 or more Sanctuaries.
Announcement of you and what you do and your instagram on socials for women joining 6 or more Sanctuaries.
Once invited into the founding year, an open invitation to all available 11 Sanctuaries without waiting to be invited each month.
Optional professionally edited video clips may also be available for an additional fee through the podcast editor.
The 2026–2027 Sanctuary Year
The first full Sanctuary year will unfold from September 2026 through July 2027, with August reserved for rest and renewal.
One gathering takes place the second Friday of each month on Zoom from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific Time.
Eleven gatherings create a steady rhythm while allowing women to choose the level of participation that fits their lives.
Some women will join one conversation.
Others will return for several themes throughout the year.
A smaller group may choose to participate in the entire season, allowing familiarity, trust, and relationships to deepen month by month.
Once you’ve been invited into the Sanctuary, you may reserve however many months you’d like to be in it, keeping in mind we have only up to between 7-11 spaces in any given month open. You’ll want to reserve as much in advance as possible if you want to guarantee your spot.
Dates and themes are curated in advance so each woman can select the gatherings that feel most aligned.
The Investment
Sanctuary gatherings are $55 each, $300 for 6, or $555 for all 11.
This contribution honors the breathwork, Reiki, facilitation, curation, editing, production, promotion, and community held within each experience while keeping participation accessible.
The investment is for the Sanctuary as a whole.
The podcast episode is one beautiful part of what you receive.
Participation can be selected one gathering at a time or planned across several months, depending on the rhythm that feels right for you.
The Spirit of Participation
The Sanctuary works because each woman contributes to the quality of the room.
Participants agree to attend the full gathering, including Transformational Breathwork, integration, and the recorded conversation.
There is no homework and nothing to prepare.
Themes are offered as doorways rather than assignments. You are invited to speak from your own life, stay present with the women around you, and allow the conversation to become something none of us could have created alone.
After publication, participants are asked to support the collective ripple by sharing the episode with their community, tagging @siribaructhornton, and leaving an Apple Podcasts review if they have not already done so.
This shared promotion helps every woman’s voice travel farther.
About the Recorded Conversation
The sharing begins around 10:30 AM Pacific Time after breathwork as integration.
The conversation is professionally edited with care, usually requiring more than ten hours of post-production.
Episodes are generally released within several days of the gathering.
Personal shares offered during the recorded portion may remain in the episode when they support the conversation. Boundaries can be discussed before recording, and specific requests may be shared with Siri during the editing process.
The goal is to preserve the truth and beauty of the exchange while honoring the women who trusted the room.
About Siri
Siri Baruc Thornton is a Reiki Master of Masters, Transformational Breathwork facilitator, actor, retreat leader, and host of The Authentic Creative podcast.
For more than thirty years, she has studied healing, human behavior, psychology, spirituality, creativity, performance, voice, embodiment, and the conditions that allow people to feel safe enough to become more fully themselves.
Her background as a professional actor taught her to listen beneath words, notice what remains unspoken, ask questions that open rather than direct, and recognize the moment someone moves from performing into genuine presence.
Decades of Reiki practice, Buddhist study, breathwork, intuitive development, facilitation, and thousands of conversations have deepened that capacity.
Siri’s work is guided by one central intention:
To create extraordinary spaces where people feel deeply seen, safe to tell the truth, and remember who they truly are.
The Authentic Creative Sanctuary is one of the clearest expressions of that lifelong work.
The Heart of the Sanctuary
Women carry extraordinary wisdom.
Much of it lives beneath the language they use professionally, the roles they hold, and the stories they have learned to tell about themselves.
The Sanctuary creates enough safety, time, and presence for that wisdom to surface.
A woman may arrive ready to talk about her business, her book, her creative work, her leadership, or the life she has built.
Somewhere inside the conversation, she often finds herself speaking about what shaped her, what she longs for, what she has survived, what she now understands, and what she is becoming ready to receive.
Her humanity becomes the source of the wisdom.
The room listens.
The podcast preserves it.
The ripple continues.
Women often arrive expecting to share what they’ve built. They leave remembering who they are.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be an established public figure?
The Sanctuary welcomes women with meaningful lived experience, a commitment to their own growth, and a voice that can contribute to the room. Public visibility may support the podcast ripple, though presence, integrity, generosity, and emotional maturity carry equal weight in the curation process.
Do I need podcast experience?
Podcast experience is welcome and completely optional. Siri guides the conversation with warmth and precision, allowing you to relax and participate naturally.
Do I need to prepare anything?
Your lived experience is enough. A theme and any helpful context will be shared in advance, though there are no rehearsed answers, presentations, or lessons to prepare.
Is Breathwork required?
Yes. Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki is an essential part of the Sanctuary architecture and shapes the quality of the conversation that follows.
How many women attend?
Each gathering is intentionally intimate, with up to twelve women including Siri.
Can I join only one gathering?
Yes. You may choose one theme, several gatherings throughout the year, or the full September-through-July rhythm.
When does the podcast recording begin?
The gathering begins at 9:30 AM Pacific Time. Breathwork and integration fill the first hour, with the recorded conversation beginning around 10:30 AM and ending by noon.
When will the episode be released?
Episodes are thoughtfully edited and generally published within several days of the gathering.
Will I receive promotional materials?
The published episode will be promoted through The Authentic Creative platforms. Optional professionally edited clips may be available for an additional fee.
What is expected after the episode is released?
Participants are asked to share the episode with their community, tag @siribaructhornton, and support the podcast with an Apple review if they have not already left one.
How do I know whether this is right for me?
Read the page slowly and notice what happens in your body.
The women who feel most at home here usually recognize the experience before they fully understand it.
They value depth.
They want meaningful relationships.
They are ready to be seen beyond what they produce.
They care about the kind of room they enter and the kind of room they help create.
When that recognition is present, the next step is a conversation.
Living with the Themes & Questions
The Authentic Creative Sanctuary unfolds over the course of a year, following the natural rhythm of the seasons and the quiet evolution that so many women experience as the months unfold.
Each gathering is centered around a thoughtfully chosen theme, inspired by the season, the full moon, and the questions many of us are already living.
You may find yourself returning to these themes in the weeks before we gather. Notice what arises during a walk, a conversation with a friend, a challenging moment, a joyful one, or simply in the ordinary rhythm of everyday life.
You might also use these themes to decide which gatherings feel most aligned with where you are right now.
There is no right way to engage with them.
Simply let them accompany you.
September 2026
Coming Home to Yourself
Season
Early Autumn | A season of returning to rhythm
Full Moon
Harvest (Corn) Moon
As summer gives way to autumn, children return to school, calendars begin to fill, and familiar routines re-emerge. Many women spend this season helping everyone else settle into a new rhythm while quietly wondering where they belong within it.
The Harvest Moon reminds us to pause before moving forward—to notice what has grown, what has nourished us, and what is ready to be gathered.
We begin our Sanctuary year by coming home to ourselves.
A question to live with
What would change if I cared for myself with the same devotion I offer everyone else?
October 2026
Receiving
Season
Mid-Autumn | A season of letting go
Full Moon
Hunter’s Moon
The trees release their leaves without resistance. Nature reminds us that letting go creates space to receive.
Many accomplished women have become remarkably skilled at giving—to their families, their communities, their work, and the people they love. Receiving often asks for a different kind of courage.
Together we’ll explore support, abundance, rest, beauty, joy, and allowing ourselves to be cared for.
A question to live with
What am I ready to receive?
November 2026
Belonging
Season
Late Autumn | Gathering before winter
Full Moon
Beaver Moon
As the holidays approach, relationships often come into sharper focus. Many women are supporting children while also caring for aging parents, holding multiple generations with remarkable love.
The Beaver Moon symbolizes preparing for the season ahead by strengthening what matters most.
Together we’ll explore friendship, family, community, loneliness, connection, and what it truly means to feel at home.
A question to live with
Where do I feel most deeply at home?
December 2026
Enough
Season
Winter Solstice | Reflection and rest
Full Moon
Cold Moon
As another year comes to a close, we naturally begin reflecting on where we’ve been before imagining where we’re going.
The quieter days invite us to soften the constant pressure to become more and instead appreciate what already is.
Together we’ll explore worthiness, gratitude, expectations, and the freedom that comes from remembering we have never needed to earn our value.
A question to live with
What if I have been enough all along?
January 2027
New Possibilities
Season
Deep Winter | Quiet beginnings
Full Moon
Wolf Moon
A new calendar often arrives with pressure to improve, optimize, or reinvent ourselves.
Nature offers another perspective.
Winter appears still on the surface, yet beneath the soil life is already preparing for spring.
We’ll explore possibility born from alignment rather than urgency and create space to listen for what genuinely wants to emerge.
A question to live with
What wants to grow naturally this year?
February 2027
Love That Includes You
Season
Late Winter | Turning inward
Full Moon
Snow Moon
This season often invites reflection on love, relationships, and connection.
We’ll widen that conversation beyond romance to include friendship, family, boundaries, compassion, forgiveness, and perhaps most importantly, the relationship we cultivate with ourselves.
A question to live with
How would my life change if I offered myself the same compassion I so freely extend to others?
March 2027
Becoming
Season
Early Spring | The first signs of new life
Full Moon
Worm Moon
Spring rarely arrives all at once.
The earliest signs are subtle.
Many women recognize that feeling within themselves.
Something new is stirring before it is fully visible.
Together we’ll explore change, courage, identity, reinvention, and trusting ourselves while the next chapter is still unfolding.
A question to live with
Who am I becoming?
April 2027
Creativity as a Way of Living
Season
Spring in Bloom
Full Moon
Pink Moon
Spring reminds us that creativity belongs to nature itself.
Creativity isn’t limited to artists.
It shapes how we solve problems, build businesses, parent our children, care for loved ones, navigate challenges, and imagine entirely new possibilities.
Together we’ll celebrate creativity as a way of living.
A question to live with
Where is life inviting me to create rather than repeat?
May 2027
Trust
Season
Late Spring | Flourishing
Full Moon
Flower Moon
Gardens bloom because countless unseen processes have been unfolding beneath the surface for months.
Our own growth often follows the same pattern.
We’ll explore intuition, resilience, surrender, timing, and learning to trust the quiet wisdom that has been guiding us all along.
A question to live with
What already knows the way forward?
June 2027
Let It Be Easier
Season
Early Summer | Spaciousness
Full Moon
Strawberry Moon
The school year comes to a close, summer begins, routines shift once again, and many women notice just how much they’ve been carrying.
This month’s conversation gently asks another question.
What if ease isn’t something we earn after everything is finished?
What if it becomes the way we move through our lives?
Together we’ll explore nervous system regulation, support, surrender, joy, and allowing ourselves to be held by life instead of constantly holding everything else.
A question to live with
Where is life inviting me to soften?
July 2027
Endless Possibilities
Season
Midsummer | Expansion
Full Moon
Buck Moon
The Buck Moon symbolizes renewal and new growth, with antlers returning stronger each year.
It feels like a beautiful way to complete our Sanctuary year.
After eleven months of gathering together, we’ll reflect on what has changed, what we’ve discovered, and what now feels possible.
Possibility isn’t about becoming someone else.
It’s about expanding our capacity to receive more joy, beauty, creativity, connection, wonder, freedom, and love than we once believed possible.
A question to live with
What feels possible now that didn’t when we first gathered?
The Authentic Creative Sanctuary
September 2026–July 2027
Second Friday Monthly on Zoom
9:30 AM–12:00 PM Pacific Time
Sanctuary gatherings: $55 each, $300 for 6, $555 for all 11.
A living archive of women’s wisdom.
