OUR WELLNESS TEAM
Dedicated. Experienced. Compassionate.
To book a session please connect with each individual practitioner.
By appointment only.

Kelly Rose Zarcone
Licensed Massage Therapist,
CranioSacral Therapy,
Somatic Trauma Therapist
Kelly Zarcone is a Licensed Massage and Bodywork therapist in the state of NC. She became an SEP at the end of 2021.
She has over 8 years of experience integrating cutting edge bodywork modalities with somatic psychotherapy. She has a professional focus on working with sexual trauma and embodiment. Kelly helps guide people back into their bodies, learn to feel the sensations inside, relate to it, and release. People come to learn to trust their bodies wisdom again through her integrative approach to healing.
In her private practice she offers Somatic Experiencing and TRE sessions as well as Integrative massage, Myofascial release, and Craniosacral bodywork sessions.
HOURS:
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
MONDAY 9-5PM
TUESDAY 2:30-7:30PM
WEDNESDAY 9-5PM
THURSDAY 2:30-7:30PM

Paisley Pahlmann
Licensed Holistic Skin Therapist,
Vibrational Sound Energy Worker,
Reiki Certified Master Level
Paisley has been practicing holistic skincare and energy work for over 25 years. Before she moved to these gorgeous mountains she worked at the famous holistic haven Great Jones Spa in NYC. She prides herself on exclusively using Dr. Alkaitis Organics which offers the absolute purest organic raw ingredients. It is truly food for your skin and the absolute cleanest skincare line you can find on the market.
She customizes each treatment with a holistic approach to nourish and brighten her clients' skin. As an empathic energy worker, she utilizes Reiki, chakra balancing, crystals, and tuning fork & crystal singing bowl sound therapy. She is well regarded for her unique chakra balancing/sound vibration, facial reflexology, and gua sha and kansa wand massage lifting skincare treatments.
HOURS:
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
WEDNESDAY 10-5PM
THURSDAY 12-6PM
FRIDAY 10-5PM

Amanda Brinkman
Licensed Massage Therapist
Amanda has been a licensed massage therapist since 2006. She worked for many years in Columbus, Ohio in a variety of massage settings including, day spas, fitness and rehab facilities as well as running her own practice before moving to Black Mountain in 2018.
She has taken advanced trainings in myofascial release, cupping, pre/post natal, hot stone, and lymphatic work to name a few. Over the years she has blended all the different teachings into her own multi-faceted massage style. She is passionate about helping people move without pain and taking time from our busy lives to decompress and reconnect with our bodies through massage therapy.
Her sessions are deeply relaxing and can be tailored to a variety of different needs.
HOURS:
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
TUESDAY 9-2:30PM
THURSDAY 9-2:30PM
FRIDAY 9-2:30PM

Anisha Desai Fraser,
M.Ac, L.Ac, E-RYT 200
Licensed Acupuncturist, Specializes in Medical Qi Gong Healing, Co-founder of Pangu Yoga Qi Gong & Tai Chi Instructor Women’s Retreats, Yoga Classes & Workshops
Known for her soulful warmth and brightness, Anisha's nurturing heart allows others to be seen, and heal deeply. Her deep desire is to cultivate and serve a community that brings brilliant vitality and sincere happiness to its people.
This passion flows through her loving guidance to others toward a renewed quality of life through education, awareness, humor and spiritual integration.
Anisha Desai Fraser has been a thriving Acupuncturist, Qi Gong energy healer and Yoga teacher for over 18 years. She is passionate about offering healing, empowerment and transformation to others through many avenues.
In 2004 she met world renowned Qi Gong Master Ou Wen Wei. Through her dedication and bond with Master Ou, she completed Pangu Mystical Qi Gong Moving Form and Nonmoving teacher training and traveled with Master Ou throughout the United States, learning and teaching in China, Hong Kong, Peru, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, Czech Republic and Macau.
In 2011, with deep love and experience of both Yoga and Qi Gong, Anisha approached Master Ou with an inspiration to combine the benefits of Yoga and its original Divine intent with Pangu Mystical Qi Gong, into a comprehensive fusion of the two. Together she and Master Ou created what is now known as Pangu Yoga. She has since authored a portion of a web-based alternative textbook for Yoga I and II classes for NC State University and has produced her own Pangu Yoga instructional Online Stream video.
Anisha continues to offer acupuncture, yoga classes, workshops, and retreats in Black Mountain, NC, around the US and abroad.
She uses her own life experience and spiritual practices to encourage, hold space and deepen the practice of her students. She offers this vibrant mountain town her contribution and commitment to quality, beauty, and substance.
HOURS:
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Monday 9:30-6PM
Tuesday 9:30-6PM

Cea Rubin,
MSW, LCSWA, LCASA, LMBT, RYT-500, YACEP
Yoga for Trauma & Therapeutic Movement Therapist, Integrative Massage, CranioSacral Therapy
The feedback Cea most often receives is, “Your presence is so calming,” and, “I immediately feel safe with you.”
In addition to her centered and grounded presence, you can expect authenticity, humor, and compassionate curiosity.
Cea's quality of presence has grown not only from her nature, but also from her experiences and studies. She has been offering therapeutic services for a decade, serving as a therapist, massage therapist and bodyworker, social worker, and yoga teacher specializing in trauma and therapeutics. Cea has gotten the opportunity to connect with many individuals and groups through working in inpatient, intensive outpatient, and outpatient settings. Some of her therapeutic work history includes – the VA Hospital, psychiatric care, recovery from substance use addiction, a rape crisis center, and in private practice as a massage therapist and somatic therapist. Her passion for service, truth, and connection has guided her to study and learn what humans need to truly heal and thrive in their lives. Thus, sessions with Cea honor your whole being - mind, body, heart, soul, spirit.
Cea offers 90-minute sessions that allow you to incorporate the therapeutic modalities that fit best for you. If you are interested in therapy, massage and bodywork, and/or private yoga, you can reach out to Cea to schedule and design one session or ongoing sessions that best fit your needs.
Cea has a Master's in Social Work from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work, a bachelor's degree from Davidson College where she majored in Theatre and minored in Spanish, and licensures for mental health and body therapies. She has apprenticed in Trigger Point Therapy and currently studies CranioSacral Therapy through the Upledger Institute and is in mentorship with one of Dr. John Upledger's students.
HOURS:
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
SUNDAY 9:15-4:15PM
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Alison Lively, NBC-HWC
Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach
Alison started studying alternative therapies as a way to help herself, and from that experience was inspired to help others via health coaching and as an educator speaking to groups in our community about health and nutrition.
Alison Lively is a Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and Natural Health Educator dedicated to bringing the most accurate, up-to-date, and helpful information to each individual and group that she works with. She has extensive knowledge in Iridology, Kinesiology, Herbology and Nutrition, and she also holds a doctorate in Naturopathy.
Alison’s own health issues with chronic, severe allergies prompted her journey to natural ways of healing. She exhausted her medical treatment options, maxing out on prescription nasal sprays and inhalers, decongestants, and antihistamines, so she turned to alternative therapies.
The moment she began to focus on a healthy diet and natural supplements, she found relief for the first time and continued her education to study the science of Naturopathy: using means other than medicine to assist the body to heal itself.
Alison is still astounded by her own healing journey, and after helping thousands of people on their own health journey, not a day goes by that she does not feel grateful to have the knowledge and skills to help others learn ways to optimize their well-being.
Alison has over 18 years of experience working with every age group. She currently offers one-on-one health coaching through both in-person and virtual options. She has authored and taught wellness courses and speaks throughout the community to educate and inspire people to take control of their health.
HOURS:
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
MONDAY & FRIDAY

Clare Duplace
Creative Grief Facilitator, Contemplative Care Support, MA Mindfulness Studies
TO LEARN MORE & FOR BOOKING:
Email cluvyd@gmail.com
Clare Duplace has lived in and around Black Mountain for 20 years. She currently lives in Swannanoa, with her husband, two boys, a sweet pup named Rosie and a flock of chickens. Clare received her undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Warren Wilson College. While living in Vermont after college, she worked as a Waldorf preschool teacher and a children’s librarian at a small library, that still stamped books.
Clare has received her level 1 & 2 Reiki training, a level 1 course in acupressure, graduated from a local herb school and is a flower essence practitioner. Clare makes flower essence for grief and bereavement support and for the cycles of the moon. Clare is also trained as a children’s yoga teacher through Black Mountain Yoga, trained in girls rites of passage and was a teacher for 11 years at The Learning Community School.
Clare has been on her own grief journey since the death of her mama in the Fall of 2017. Since that time, she has been studying, diving deep into, networking, practicing and training in all things grief and death related. She is a part of the positive grief and death movement and is a trained full-spectrum doula- birth, postpartum, loss, abortion, and end of life. Clare is a Grief Consultant through The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death, a “Culture Guide” and an End-of-Life Doula through The Center for Conscious Living and Dying. She has been certified in numerous grief and Thanatology (the study of death) related training. Writing has always been the greatest healing tool for Clare. She has taken both the “Poetry as a Tool for Wellness” course and a course on using poetry to support those with dementia and Alzheimer’s, through the Institute for Poetic Medicine.
She recently created and facilitated a “Writing Your Grief” circle, incorporating cherished poems and excerpts from authors on grief and prompts for writing and reflection. She recently received an MA in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University. As well as, training as a grief movement guide and creative grief facilitator, which she uses in addition to mindfulness practices in her monthly circle - Thresholds: a Creative Grief Circle at BE WELL Black Mountain. Clare wishes to continue this work of weaving stories, creative practices, healing, bereavement, and end-of-life support with the use of mindful modalities, in a trauma-informed way and through a social justice lens. She will be offering this work as a Creative Grief Facilitator at BE WELL Black Mountain.
HOURS:
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, & THURSDAY