When working with Kelly, people consistently share feeling held by her compassionate care, inspired by her insight, and safe enough to let go in her grounded presence.  

 

She teaches people how to release stress and trauma by listening to their bodies and developing a deep and lasting relationship with its wisdom. Her work is all about teaching and supporting the body to self correct through various sophisticated techniques and well researched methods rather than a “fix it” (or let’s fix you) approach. You will learn how to attune to your body and nervous system, learn to relate to it through various practices, and have the space to release both tissue restrictions and somato-emotional content. She comes to this work from a deeply personal experience with suffering and learning how to overcome it. Specializing in sexual trauma, she has helped countless people come to terms with difficult experiences, and move toward joy and safety. 

 

As a licensed massage therapist she has over 10 years of experience integrating cutting edge bodywork modalities with somatic trauma work spanning across a variety of fields. She is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), a three year program focusing on the nervous system and trauma healing. She has apprenticed in myofascial release and currently studies CranioSacral Therapy through the Upledger Institute and is in mentorship with one of Dr. John Upledger's long time students.

 

In her private practice she offers Somatic Experiencing and TRE sessions, Integrative massage, Myofascial release, CranioSacral Therapy, and SomatoEmotional Release bodywork. She also regularly facilitates workshops and helps teach at retreats. Learn to trust your bodies wisdom again through her integrative approach to healing.

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HOURS:

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

MONDAY 9-5PM

TUESDAY 2:30-7:30PM

WEDNESDAY 9-5PM

THURSDAY 2:30-7:30PM

 

Paisley Pahlmann has been a licensed holistic esthetician and certified intuitive reiki energy worker and instructor at the master level practicing holistic skincare and energy work with a focus on inner and outer beauty for over 25 years.

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Before moving to the beautiful mountains of WNC and founding the holistic haven Be Well Black Mountain - Wellness Collective and Boutique, she lived in NYC & worked as Lead Esthetician for famous holistic celebrity spas. At Be Well she has curated a gorgeous clean beauty wellness boutique.

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She has always prided herself on working with the absolute purest organic ingredients which is why she exclusively uses the Dr. Alkaitis Organics high-vibration skincare line in her facial rituals at her studio. As an empathic energy worker, she utilizes a relaxing and soothing touch, along with cutting-edge curated holistic tools to bring balance to her client’s nervous system and skin. She is well regarded for her unique sound vibration lifting facial treatments that include tuning fork sound therapy, chakra balancing energy work, facial reflexology, and soul-nourishing sculpting/lifting massage; providing healthy glowing skin to her clients. She believes that facial treatments should bring nourishment to the skin and spirit.

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In 2021 Paisley became the Brand Educator and Lead Esthetician of Dr. Alkaitis Organics where she draws on her decades of experience to compassionately train accounts and share her love of the beautiful skincare line that she has utilized in her sessions for over half of her career.

 

In addition to being a Licensed Esthetician and certified Reiki Master, Paisley has a degree from The New School University of NYC where she studied psychology and art therapy. She loves to roller skate & enjoys listening to her vinyl collection with her two kittens, son, and husband. 

 

HOURS:

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

WEDNESDAY 10-3PM

THURSDAY 12-6PM

FRIDAY 10-5PM

 

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.

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HOURS:

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

TUESDAY 9-2:30PM

THURSDAY 9-2:30PM

FRIDAY 9-2:30PM

 

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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HOURS:

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Monday 9:30-6PM

Tuesday 9:30-6PM

Wednesday 3-8PM

 

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. 

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HOURS:

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, & THURSDAY

 

Transforming our struggles into our strengths is where we all have the opportunity to find both power and peace. Like many other healers, my deepest traumas and wounds led me to discovering my gifts and calling as a healer. We are living in a time where the call to move through old patterns and reconnect to ourselves, to each other and the planet is getting stronger, louder and more intense. Now more than ever, we need trusted guides, sacred spaces and community to support our transformation as individuals and as a collective. 

 

“As within, so without, as above, so below, as the universe, so the soul.”

 - Hermes

 

Our internal world is connected to what is created in the world around us. By regulating our nervous system, expanding our consciousness and finding personal meaning and peace within, we can change our frequency. That frequency has a ripple effect that extends in all directions and is healing not just for ourselves but also for our ancestors, our descendants and the planet as a whole. 

 

It may feel selfish to do deep inner work when it seems like the world is on fire—but it’s actually the medicine. It’s easy to feel stuck, sad, angry, overwhelmed, constricted and even afraid. For many of us, we’re finding we are no longer willing or able to stay stuck in that place. Old ways aren’t working anymore. 

 

In my own journey as well as in my work with clients, I've found that integrating multiple modalities like intuitive energy healing, breathwork, guided meditation, movement, parts work and other mind body practices provide the safety and space to regulate our nervous systems and cultivate extraordinary growth, healing and spiritual connection. 

 

Together, we’ll assess what blend of services will work best for you according to your needs and level of comfort including intuitive reiki and energy healing, somatic tools, breathwork, mantra, goal setting, coaching, movement and parts work. It will  look different for each person and even different in each session. All of my services can be offered in individual, single sessions in person or distance by phone or zoom. My favorite is to integrate them in what I call Soul Alchemy sessions over multiple weeks or months where we can go deeper over time and allow integration between sessions. 

 

If you’re not sure where to start or have questions, I also offer a free 20 minute discovery call. I’m excited to be working in Black Mountain again in this beautiful space with so many gifted healers and look forward to connecting. When I’m not working, you’ll likely find me kayaking on a local river, walking trails within view of the water, snuggling with my crazy dogs, spending time with friends and family, staring at the moon and clouds or planning my next adventure.

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HOURS: 

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

MONDAY & FRIDAY 9am - 6pm

OTHER DAYS BY REQUEST OR REMOTE

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Combining an East-West background, with a passion for childhood wellbeing and the sacred pivotal changes in a woman’s life {onset of puberty, preconception-pregnancy-postpartum, and perimenopause/menopause}, Erica offers well-resourced and confident care to patients of all ages. 

 

In addition to being a National Board Certified and State Licensed Acupuncturist, Erica draws upon extensive personal and formal studies in herbalism, flower essences, aromatherapy, anthroposophy, intuitive development, Reiki, and the Akashic records, to name a few. Erica completed her childhood development and pre-medical studies at Boston University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and post-graduate Nutrition studies at WCU. 

 

 Personalized sessions with Erica leave patients with a deeper sense of inner clarity, beauty, grounded empowerment and overall well-being.  

 

*All treatments may be modified to the use of acupressure, tuning forks, lasers, dietetics and/or aroma-therapeutics for children and those who are needle-sensitive. 

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HOURS:

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

SATURDAY