Syd Yang
Template:TOCnestleft Stephanie Syd Yang is Senior Donor Advisor - West Coast to the Movement Voter Project. Founder/Owner at Blue Jaguar Healing Arts.
Syd Yang is a mixed race/Taiwanese American queer healer, writer and social justice warrior who weaves together magic, possibility and intention as an energy healer + intuitive counselor in the world. Syd has been working with individuals and small groups for close to 20 years to support liberation and healing in life-affirming ways, rooting deep into their cultural, ancestral and indigenous practices. Syd works with individuals as well as regularly leads workshops, community healing circles and has been a group facilitator for over two decades, with a specific focus on grief, healing ancestral trauma (specifically around race and class), sexuality + spirituality, body liberation and eating disorder recovery.
The core of their work focuses on the lived and inherited experiences of women of color and queer + trans people. Over the years, Syd has worked extensively with young women, queer folks + emerging artists as a counselor and coach, as well as a philanthropic advisor and giving coach to families + young inheritors working to align their resources and power with social justice values. They are the author of several books and curriculum on philanthropy and healing justice, such as: The World Belongs to Us: Young Women, Leadership + Philanthropy (2003), Legacy + Innovation (values based giving in families) (2007), and Release: A Bulimia Story (2018). In the early 2000s, Syd served as a Senior Program Officer at the Women’s Foundation of California then later joined Changemakers as their Program Director. Syd also was on the board of Resource Generation for several years and was an early contributor to the racial justice and donor of color organizing work with RG.
In all areas of their work, Syd supports individuals and communities in balancing the energies of their bodies that are rooted in trauma, limiting beliefs and negative emotions that may be creating internal resistance to a sense of wholeness, spiritual well-being and liberation. . [1]