Rising Stars: Meet Pamela Maloney of Santa Monica

Today we’d like to introduce you to Pamela Maloney.

Hi Pamela, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I was getting a Master of Arts degree in Movement Therapy @ UCLA, broke a bone in my foot redirecting me to Kinesiology for Dance seeking the best way to heal the injury without surgery which was offered. I received a scholarship to a work/study program on campus being an Acupuncture Assistant in the first ever CA Acupuncture clinic in the basement of the Psychology building. Simultaneously the Chairperson of my Master of Art thesis was Valerie Hunt who both had discovered the Qi flowed thru the Connective Tissue/Fascia and was doing a grant study of Rolfing with Ida Rolf herself doing the work creating Structural Integration in the fascia of the models. My destiny was set. I became Ida Rolf’s personal Assistant whenever she was in Los Angeles and began to teach cadaver dissection @ Pepperdine U so I could see the human fascia and see the map of it.
Now fascia is trending again, and after teaching Kinesiology for years and taking students on cadaver field trips, I became a licensed Acupuncturist in hopes of teaching those students of Fascia. My own work developed to be using the Acupuncture needles with the Operating System of the Fascia to effectively change the tissue. Scar erasure, needle microsurgery, rehabilitative cosmetics, body sculpture, and facial rejuvenation became my niche and is today as I work with my publisher to finish the definitive book of these innovated techniques.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Ha Ha, not smooth, but productive. The struggles are always with the administration of the schools which vary and are simply their attempts at avoiding lawsuits from students.
Personal struggles are financial as the pay is very low to have the privilege to teach. The upside was getting 16 cases in a 4-hr. period to assess and make a difference in a person’s life. The other consistent struggle was illness and accidents making it difficult for survival as there was loss of work. In a 2-year period I got a new upper bridge that caused shingles on the right side of my face, lasting 3 months. Just as that was beginning to heal a large truck ran a red light at approximately 50 mph hitting the passenger side of my car. I was forcefully flung toward that vehicle and passed out when the seat belt locked and broke the sternum and a few ribs, abdominal hernia, rotator cuff tear, sprained wrist and knees (the knees were stuck under the steering wheel). Broken and torn head to toe I called it. Still recovering from that. Then a Basal Cell Carcinoma on my left upper lip requiring 3 surgeries while awake with a lidocaine injection and removal of 2 1/2″ of my lip. Then super cramps took over @ 76 years old leading to endometrial uterine cancer diagnosis followed by radical hysterectomy performed head down by a robot in a 10-hour surgery with 23 negative biopsies. No evidence of cancer since.

I innovated several Acupuncture or Dry Needle techniques to heal myself both from the shingles and the Mohs surgeries on my face. The whole-body injuries also need addressing in different ways. Needles as healing therapy are wonderful and I placed them under the heading Fascia Cosmetic Acupuncture® and Needle Microsurgery®.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am known for Fascia Cosmetic Acupuncture®, teaching and a private practice of scar erasure, rehabilitative cosmetics post-surgery and/or trauma, body sculpture both surface and shape, and facial rejuvenation.
I am most proud of discovering the Operating System of Fascia in relation to the Acupuncture needles. “Fascia Cosmetic Acupuncture®” is the book under publishing contract with Singing Dragon UK. Thousands of Acupuncture students educated, Hundreds of Private Practice patients supported with mind blowing results. Very proud.
I have innovated new techniques that require extremely sophisticated kinesthetic sense to perform, that is the inspiration for calling it microsurgery as the technique must be grown over time, those that are excellent at it must train to do it right and with skill.

Before we go, is there anything else you can share with us?
Whatever it is you are blessed with is what you have choice to develop and refine. What you are inspired with is a blessing to be devoted to. The challenges in your personal life are by design to develop your character and will be useful as you navigate offering your talents and Being to the public if that is the case.
The journey is worthy and honorable. I am very proud of being called “Master of the Scar Arts” on the cover of Acupuncture Today and being known for my profound results. I enjoy the process and the development to refinement of my Kinesthetic sense. It is valuable and useful. The contact with the Qi at the tip of the needle is spectacular and a delight. I am grateful to be able to feel it, know it, and shape it’s use. It has a somewhat magical quality in its invisibility and frequency contact. It feels a privilege to contact Qi, set up a dialogue and deliver results.

I am grateful to be the bearer of the frontier of fascia tissue weaving and removal of scar material in this generation. It is exciting to witness the immense possibilities opening there through my relationship on the Fascia Nomenclature Committee of the International Fascia Research Society.

Pricing:

• $200 an hour private practice

Contact Info:

• Website: pamelamaloney.com

 

Image Credits
Pamela Maloney
patient w/ image release