Meet The Team

Meet the skilled practitioners committed to their specialties and delivering a thoughtfully crafted experience for you. Each expert offers distinctive knowledge and a deep passion for providing exceptional care. These are some of the best practitioners that Crested Butte and the Gunnison Valley has to offer!

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Ashley King , Owner

  • LMT, E-RYT-500, WFR

    Ashley King is the owner and founder of Elk Mountain Wellness Concierge.  Her vision to provide a service to clients that reflects the holistic approach necessary for overall health, happiness, and longevity.  Ashley holds a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated from Mountain Heart School of Bodywork in Crested Butte in 2020,she is a licensed massage therapist (LMT) in Colorado.  Her massage style is adaptable and therapeutic, integrating Transformational Neuromuscular Therapy and Thai styles. She is also a registered yoga teacher at the 500 level and has taught over 2000 hours across the globe and is certified to teach teachers (ERYT-500) hours since her first certification 7 years ago. Ashley integrates her expertise and love of mindfulness, movement, nutrition, and nature-based lifestyle into her natural intuition and inclination as a healer.  Her mission is to help clients lower stress, restore energy, and re-discover well-being through a holistic approach to health.  

  • Massage: cupping swedish, couples, prenatal, deep tissue, thai yoga massage,

    Yoga & Restorative: sound bath, restorative yoga, guided meditation, vinyasa yoga, yoga sculpt

    Fitness Classes

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Emma Pfaff

  • Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT)

    Emma teaches a variety of styles of yoga but always come back to the heart of the practice; union and connection. Whether we’re flowing with higher intensity in a vinyasa-inspired class, slowing down with deep stretches, or centering through meditation and breathwork, my focus is on tuning in and honoring what your body needs in the moment. I love weaving together mindfulness, movement, and meditation. I look forward to sharing space with you on the mat! 

  • Yoga: Vinyasa yoga, sculpt/fitness

    Restoration: Restorative yoga, Yoga Nidra, Meditation

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Hope Bradford

  • Hope is an esthetician and a long time Crested Butte local. After graduating from Western Colorado University in 2011 she attended the School of Medical & Botanical Aesthetics in Denver. She focuses on holistic facials & uses natural products from small, female owned businesses. The goal of every facial is to relax, revive, and regulate the nervous system. 

  • Facials

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Keela Gendron

  • Keela is drawn to creating impactful, embodied experiences—whether through visual storytelling in her creative design studio, Keelalaa Creative, or through the somatic arts. Her work is rooted in a deep curiosity about how the body holds experience, and how practices that support nervous system regulation can cultivate resilience, presence, and self-awareness.

    Through modalities such as breathwork, yoga, dance, sound, and time immersed in nature, Keela creates spaces that invite reconnection, release, and integration. She is a 200-hour certified integrated vinyasa yoga teacher, offering classes across all levels, including power vinyasa, slow flow, and restorative.

    As a breathwork facilitator, she guides both group and 1:1 sessions that support the release of stored energy and emotions. As a community herbalist, Keela weaves plant wisdom and earth-based practices into all of her offerings.

    Keela is also studying to become a Trauma-Informed Somatic Therapist and sound healer.

  • Yoga: Vinyasa, Power Vinyasa, Slow Flow, Slow Burn, Restorative

    Breathwork: Transformational Breathwork, Restorative Breathwork

    Guided Meditation

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Emily Phipps Harwell

  • Emily has lived and learned in many parts of the country; most significantly Colorado, California and Texas. She has enjoyed working on and with farmers and ranchers for 30 years, engaging with the beauty, abundance, and deliciousness of the bounty we are given. Simplicity, flavo,r and seasonality are the foundations of her cooking style, letting the flavors of the produce speak. She is well-versed in custom, creative menu planning focused on the goals and interests of the clients. She has been a personal chef, event coordinator, and on-site leader with hundreds of meals served with care and attention.

  • Wellness Chef

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Taylor Randoll

  • Taylor Randoll is a lifelong student of dance + intuitive movement with certifications as a personal trainer, group fitness instructor, 200hr RYT and Buti Yoga instructor. After graduating college and feeling unwell and unlike herself, she turned to fitness for her own well being and to share knowledge and experience with clients who are ready to feel their best! Using yoga as the base of her teaching, paired with the anatomy and physiology knowledge of a trainer,  Taylor’s classes and offerings connect clients to their bodies through breath, deep core activation and meditative movement styles. This holistic approach to all modalities helps clients feel results and change quickly, while empowering them to maintain this change throughout their daily lives. 

    Taylor is also a nationally insured fire dancer with 5 years of experience and a broad network of local performers. Get your wellness appointment in the morning and book Taylor to light up your home party at night! 

  • Yoga: Vinyasa, slow flow, sculpt, Buti

    Fitness: Strength training, bodyweight training, HIIT, mobility + stretching

    Dance Classes: Buti Yoga, dance conditioning, Flow Arts: Fire + LED Fans, fire palm torches, fire parasol, silk fans, hula hoop

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Mary Nolan

  • LMT, RYT

    My journey into the world of bodywork began when I studied anatomy & physiology at the University of Montana. After graduating with a Health Sciences degree in 2010, I enrolled in the Costa Rica School of Massage Therapy in 2011 & the Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai in 2012. My passion for bodywork was ignited, and I have devoted myself to holistic healing and the study of the human body ever since. My treatments combine Swedish, Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, Massage Cupping, Thai stretching and Craniosacral techniques in order to target your specific needs. I believe the best deep, therapeutic work can only occur while in a state of relaxation when the parasympathetic nervous system is activated. The PSNS breeds recovery. I look forward to working with you!

  • Massage: Cupping, swedish, couples, deep tissue, thai yoga stretching, prenatal massage

    Yoga: Vinyasa, Pre/post natal

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Dr. Misti Whitehead

  • LMT, NM. DOM, LAc. Co., FMCP, Diplomate NCCAOM

    Misti D. Whitehead, Doctor of Oriental Medicine (DOM), and holds a Master’s degree in Science of Oriental Medicine (MSOM). Misti has been practicing Eastern medicine for over 20 years. She began her studies at AOMA Graduate School of Integrated Medicine in Austin, Texas. Misti was privileged to learn acupuncture directly from Dr. Susan Yang. She then completed two medical internships at Chengdu University of Traditional Medicine Teaching Hospital in China in 2005 and 2007. There Dr. Whitehead had the privilege of working with top Chinese doctors in treatment of diabetes, infertility, gynecology, and classical herbology.

    Misti is also a Certified Functional Medicine practitioner and combines this knowledge with Eastern Medicine.
    She is committed to providing patients with the highest expertise and professionalism. Incorporating ancient medicine and modern testing, she provides comprehensive and root focused healing to the physical, mental, and emotional body. 

  • Acupunture: Traditional Acupuncture, Cosmetic Acupuncture

    Massage: Cupping Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Pediatric Massage, Prenatal Massage

    Restoration: Sound Therapy

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