Today we’d like to introduce you to Charmaine Clamor.
Charmaine, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I am an immigrant to the U.S. from the Philippines. My parents and I migrated to Los Angeles as a teenager. Like a true Filipina, I fell in love with music and healthcare, particularly, physical therapy. I graduated physical therapy at California State University, Northridge in 2000, and have been practicing as a PT since then. While in PT school, I also pursued my love for music as a vocalist. While I traveled the world as a performing artist, I developed an illness which then was mysterious to my physicians. With functional medicine, lifestyle changes, I slowly healed and my healing journey along with being a performing artist shaped the care I offer at my practice, Be Well. It is a one-on-one wellness practice that offers holistic physical therapy, pelvic health therapy for women along with health coaching and energy healing.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Finding the balance between the performing arts and wellness has its own challenges. I was not able to handle the stress successfully in the beginning, which was mostly the root cause of my illness. I needed to build a strong inner world with meditation, gratitude practice and staying in the present most of the time. I also needed to be able to manage my schedule as efficiently as possible ensuring enough time for family, community, rest, play and joy.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I have two careers – a vocalist and owner of Be Well, a physical therapist that offers pelvic floor PT, holistic PT, health coaching and energy healing.
As a singer, I am known to have created a unique musical genre called jazzipino. It combines jazz with Filipino music and languages. I also specialize in traditional Filipino music such as harana, the Philippine courtship music, and kundiman, Filipino ballads.
As a wellness practitioner I offer one-on-one care at my own practice, Be Well – pelvic floor PT to women, holistic physical therapy, health coaching and energy healing.
Alright, so to wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to share with us?
I love being involved in community. I was awarded by the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health a grant to offer the very first pelvic health education to schools, centers, from pre-school to adult in 2023.
I am the co-founder of The Better Angeles, a sacred community of healers and healthcare practitioners that offer free services to the underserved (2015 to present).
I am a part-time faculty at Cal State Northridge where I supervised the pro bono clinic to people experiencing homelessness at Hollywood Salvation Army along with UCLA Mobile Clinic (2018 to present).
Under the Federal Cares Act grant, The Better Angels and I served prioritized communities during the height of Covid.
* All of the above work are in Los Angeles
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.bewelltherapy.co
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charmaineclamor/
- Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/bewelltherapy.la
- Other: https://www.facebook.com/CharmaineClamormusic/
