Cynthia Blancaflor is an award-winning queer Filipina American female artist and activist, originally from the DC area, and a long-term resident of the Oakland Bay area in Northern California.

She began singing at 3 years old, a talent inherited from her late father. Her mother and father were leaders in many Filipino American organizations in Southern Maryland, DC where she was raised, that promoted cultural history, community events and beauty pageants. 

Thanks to them, she was “Little Miss Philippine of DC” at 5 years old. This was one of many events, where she would sing for a few hundred people at times and compete in pageants until 18 years old. Being in the spotlight was a powerful experience that she enjoyed which later inspired her love for speaking and performing as a singer and poet.

As a performance poet, she was featured at numerous events, most notably, the 20th anniversary of "This Bridge Called My Back," a groundbreaking feminist literary anthology. She received an SF Bay Guardian GOLDIE Award for music as the lead singer for Blaktroniks. As a member of Kreatibo, a queer Pinay arts collective, she was awarded a Curve Magazine Theater Award for writing and performing in "Dalagas and Tomboys: A Family Affair" which explores themes of immigration, religion, same-sex marriage and more.

She received her BFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University and is a certified video editor with Bay Area Video Coalition. After college, she created Rising Star Productions, a digital media production company, serving the Bay Area for over 10 years.

She is a holistic wellness coach & student of Master Wang, a traditional Chinese/Tibetan medicine healer and is well-versed in vinyasa yoga and a long-time practitioner & leader in the Nichiren Buddhist organization SGI–USA, based on the highest teaching of the Buddha. 

After watching many family members die of food-related illnesses in the medical industry and never healing, modeling holistic health and wellness through lifestyle medicine has become her mission. Before her awakening, she also suffered from acute sciatica at the age of 30. 

Instead of taking drugs, her path led her to Master Wang. Under his guidance, she began practicing an alkaline diet and hydration, completely healing herself of sciatica in less than two weeks. 

This opened her eyes to the power of plants to heal the body. Today, she practices a holistic self-care blueprint that has kept her well for over 16 years now. She is passionate about coaching others to cultivate a customized self-care blueprint to achieve freedom from drugs & pain to live a vibrant, long life. To date, she has helped to transform 100% of all her clients' health.

In 2023, she released her first book “21st Century Handbook: A Guide to Creating Health, Happiness and Peace in a Stressful Modern-Day World” which shares insights of how transforming ourselves is the starting point to changing the world. It’s 10 chapters, each one returning to tools, rooted in ancient wisdom and leading-edge science to resolve modern-day problems.

Themes include meditation as medication, food as medicine, healing trauma with psychedelics, self-love, gender & sexuality, financial literacy, sustainability and more. Themes she believes that all people must understand if we are to survive the next century and thrive in our corner of the Earth. 

Now she is on a mission to leave a legacy of healing and wellness by inspiring others through her artistic creations and guiding those to wellness through her books, wellness programs, podcast and speaking events.