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Après’ MELT (not fondue!)

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  Après’ MELT ( not fondue! ) Jump in to Re hydrate , Restore, and Recover Classes Saturday and Sunday Afternoon  The MELT Method is a game changer for reducing tension, improving joint movement, and aiding recovery by calming the nervous system and boosting fluid flow, making it excellent for relieving pain, enhancing athletic performance, and decreasing downtime from injuries. It's a gentle, science-backed approach that helps undo accumulated stress and stiffness from daily activities or exercise, allowing muscles to recover faster and function better. It is equally effective to recover and reset the nervous system from the crazy hectic pace of our modern lives. How MELT Aids Recovery Fascial Rehydration: Traditional rollers often target muscles, but MELT focuses on fascia, the connective tissue that surrounds muscles, by restoring fluid (hydration) within it, improving its supportive and flexible qualities. Reduces Compression & Stiffness: Ge...

Stress Release and Nervous System Care

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  Mid-January can feel heavy. The holidays are behind us, daylight is scarce, and routines settle into long stretches of sameness. Some have even called today Blue Monday —a low point for mood and motivation. The causes are complex, but the body plays a role, and fascia is part of the story .   Stress doesn’t just live in thoughts. It can embed into connective tissue , tightening breath, weighing down posture, and feeding the nervous system signals of fatigue. Over time, fascia can amplify mid-winter blues: sluggish energy , low mood , restless sleep .   MELT supports both fascia and the nervous system. Compression restores hydration, shear eases tension, and lengthening reawakens circulation. These simple practices don’t erase stress, but they change how the body carries it. Shoulders soften...

What the Heck is MELT?

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  The MELT Method is a science-backed self-care technique that anyone can use to stay active, enhance performance, and get out (and stay out) of pain. Developed by manual therapist and exercise physiologist Sue Hitzmann , it uses specially designed hand and foot treatment balls and custom made soft rollers (along with your own body and breath) to calm the mind, tap into the autonomic regulators of the nervous system to boost control, and restore the supportive qualities of the connective tissue system to bring stability and balance back to the body. The restoration happens through rehydration—improving fluid flow throughout the connective tissue system called fascia. With gentle techniques, we help restore fascia’s supportive, supple qualities and release unwanted compression and tension that leads to imbalance and misalignment. The effect helps improve autonomic regulation and efficiency (making you feel in control of your life) which can lead to a cascade...