The MELT Method on National TV!

Tune in this Friday morning to see Sue Hitzmann, creator of The MELT Method on the Regis & Kelly Show on ABC! 

On this weeks "Fitness Friday", Sue will be showing America how to live longer, better!

Consistent Fitness: MELTing the Pain Away...

Consistent Fitness: MELTing the Pain Away...

MELTing the Pain Away...

It is amazing to think that the very things we put shoes and gloves on are the very things that can cause such great strain in our bodies.  Just through the hands and feet one can end up with back pain, neck pain, headaches, carpal tunnel, bone spurs, arthritis... And yet, through those very same hands and feet, we can alleviate all of those problems and MORE! 

Last Saturday's class brought new MELTer's... people who came in feeling less than great and leaving feeling BETTER! 

Seeing the changes was amazing and hearing the positive feedback encouraging. 

This class was a 90-minute Intro to MELT workshop that not only taught participants the Hand & Foot Treatment, but also some of the MELT Core and Length techniques that are done on a foam roller.

We assess the body, MELT it and re-assess it, noting the changes that happen... and there are always changes.  It is unavoidable.  And the first time you feel it, it is quite mind blowing... and freeing.  How comforting to kow that you can truly learn how to ease discomfort in your own body and do it on your own!

So hopefully, if you have not yet experienced MELT, you will find a class near you and see what all of my crazy posts are about.  I will always post my classes here and on the MELT website, so please come take a class in Connecticut!

However, if you feel sad and frustrated that there are no MELT classes near you, have no fear...The MELT Hand and Foot Treatment is such a simple and easily accesible solution, not to mention affordable.  If you want to try it for yourself, you can get your own MELT Hand & Foot Kit just by clicking on the photo of the hands holding these specialized balls on the top right sidebar where it says "GET OUT OF PAIN!". 

The kit comes with the specialized MELT Hand & Foot Balls, a bunion reducer, instructional booklet and an instructional DVD featuring MELT creator, Sue Hitzmann, guiding you through every step... You get the experience and reward of MELT right in your own home.  

The next MELT class taught by me will be at the end of February, so keep your eyes out for the details.  In the meantime, feel free to contact me with any questions on anything... and of course on MELT.

Here's to living better for a lifetime!

90-Minute Intro to MELT Workshop

The date has changed!

The upcoming 90-minute Intro to MELT Workshop will be on Saturday, January 23rd from 9:00am - 10:30am at The Sportsplex@Fairfield, located at 85 Mill Plain Road in Fairfield, CT (right off exit 21 on I95).

The class is $20.00 ... a tiny price to pay for learning how to rid your body of stress and pain. Sign up soon by clicking on the below link because space is limited!

http://store.meltmethod.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=44

"Discovery Though Dissection"

Massage & Bodywork magazine has recently published an amazingly bold, honest and scientifically fascinating article by Tom Myers titled "Discovery Through Dissection". This article shows the intimately congruous relationship of every muscle, bone, tendon, ligament, nerve, vein and artery through the fascial net as depicted through cadaver dissections. The images, to me, are beautiful, but to others may be quite disturbing, so I set out this disclaimer to proceed with caution.

The work that has been done by Tom, Todd Garcia, Gil Hedley and other esteemed anatomists and 'somanauts' of our current time is quite profound. Their research and discoveries are changing the way we look at the human form and treat it as body workers. As living beings, it is also altering the way we choose to dwell in this incredibly complex mass of systems that we easily take for granted.

I have posted the link to the electronic version of the magazine below. The article begins on Page 34.

Enjoy...

http://massagebodywork.idigitaledition.com/issues/10/Cover/

Save the Date: UPCOMING MELT CLASS!!!

Hey folks!

Mark your calendar's for Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 9:00am for a 90-Minute Intro To MELT Master Class. If you have neck, back, foot or hand pain, stress (and who doesn't), or just an overall feeling of malaise, this is the class for you. And if you feel great, it is still the class for you!

The MELT Method is an easy to learn self treatment technique that is an adaptation of a manual therapy, designed to bring our out of whack bodies back to a more ideal state.

The cost is $20.00 and will be held in a beautiful brand new dance studio at the new Sportsplex on Mill Plain Road, Fairfield, CT.

Registration information will follow.

Happy Holiday's!

Thoughts on Fibromyalgia

There is definitely a growing number of people, mostly women, with Fibro (or, perhaps, they were always there, but misdignosed or not diagnosed at all). My thought is that it is a growing issue because of the way the modern world is and how we as humans handle the modern world. Everyone channels their stress differently, albeit not by choice... some get migranes, others get ulcers or, like me, get muscle spasms in their back when under great amounts of pressure. Is it fair to say that Fibro is just a reflexion of how one carries their stress? Cortisol has a free pass to every cell in the body. Is it reasonable to suggest that Fibro is actually cortisol 'metastasized' through the neuro fascial web?

This is just my thought based on the short amount of time I have been studying connective tissue, but it seems it would help to ease the battle between the mental and medical health professionals. Is it a mental health issue? Sure... thoughts are powerful and as we know the mind-body connection very real. Is it a medical condition? Of course...the pain is very real, and why wouldn't it with stress hormones surrounding every joint, muscle and organ in your body. The very system designed to support, protect and stabilize the body has been 'poisoned' with cortisol run rampant.

As hands-on and hands-off bodyworkers, this is a tricky animal. I asked anatomist and structural integrator Tom Myers (http://www.anatomytrains.com/) his thoughts on the subject and his response is that when approached with Fibro, many times he will step away from the table and tell the client to get their nutrition and mental/emotional state dealt with first before manipulating their tissue. Tom's work is quite invasive as a structural integration practicioner, so such aggressive manipulation is not wise for someone with stress in every inch of the very connective tissue that would be manipulated. The adaptive manual therapy techniques used in MELT do not go as deep as Tom's hands do, and Sue Hitzmann, MELT creator, continually emphasizes the need to quiet the nervous system and focus on the neuro core to bring balance and communication back in the body. Making stress 'angry' and further imbalancing the body's auto pilot system is a road to disaster. Without caution, any body treatment could make someone with Fibro (or an auto-immune disease) much sicker.

I am sure this is all written about in an article somewhere that I never read and thus my thoughts are not so original, but I am so tired of hearing the phrase 'dcotors are not certain what causes this condition' and 'there is no known cure'. I believe with all my heart that the body can heal from just about anything (but not everything, I add...the body can reach the point of no return). I believe someone can get the cortisol out of their tissues and be 'in remission' from Fibro... it is a major job involving life changes and decisions and continual maintenance, but definitely do-able.

Moral of the story: Get out of pain. Get MELT'ed!