Discover the MELT Method: Your Path to Pain Relief and Wellness

What Is MELT?

The MELT Method® (MELT®) is a revolutionary self-care system designed to help you improve performance, and eliminate the mental and physical stress that accumulates from daily living, before it causes persistent pain and dysfunctions.

Using soft rollers and balls, MELT blends mindful meditation and breathwork techniques to help boost the body's natural healing mechanisms with self-myofascial restorative techniques that simulate hands-on therapeutic practices to:

• calm the mind and ease pain symptoms

• improve heart rate variability

• target fascia's supportive qualities

• restore joint centralization and stability

• improve sensorimotor control

This preventative, proactive approach known as Hands-Off Bodywork® is a simple, daily self-care practice anyone, at any age or activity level, can use to effectively improve their sense of wellbeing and live a more active, healthy, pain-free life.

What Is MELT Restore?

MELT Restore rejuvenates the supportive qualities of your connective tissue system, also known as fascia, by eliminating accumulated tension and stress that alters the resilience of this tissue, causing compensation, imbalances, and a decline in your overall performance and function.

Reconnect, Rebalance, Rehydrate, and Release is the step-by step protocol for MELT Restore. The techniques in the "4Rs" give you the ability to reconnect to your body's center of gravity, re balance the regulators of your nervous system, rehydrate your fascia, and release unnecessary compression in your neck and low back. In just minutes a day, you can feel your body restore balance.

What Is MELT Performance?

A competitive advantage for anyone who trains hard to perform at optimal levels and an insurance policy for anyone who wants to sustain a pain-free, active lifestyle. The advanced NeuroStrength® techniques of MELT Performance take MELTRestore protocols up a notch by adding the next 2Rs of the method: Reintegrate and Repattern. These sensorimotor techniques address musculoskeletal imbalances and reduce compensatory patterns that alter joint stability and mobility. Adding MELT Performance to your fitness routine will improve your muscle timing, stability, agility, and control, and reduce your risk of repetitive stress injuries. Think of MELT Performance as prehab so you don't have to rehab!

What Is Fascia?

Have you ever gotten up after sitting for a long period of time and felt so stiff and achy like you had just aged 20 years?

That's your fascia talking. It's a pre-pain signal, alerting you that your fascia needs some attention. Left unattended, this issue in your connective tissue accumulates and can cause a host of unwanted symptoms linked to low-grade inflammation.

Fascia is the three-dimensional biological fabric that surrounds, connects, and interpenetrates all organs, muscles, bones, and nerve fibers and gives every system in your body structural support. From joint alignment to immune and neurological health, fascia plays a crucial role in your body's longevity, function, and form and keeps you feeling youthful, vibrant, and mobile. Think of fascia like a sponge. When it's hydrated, it's pliable and absorbs fluids easily but when it's dry, it's stiff and inflexible. When fascia loses its supple qualities, "stuck stress" accumulates.

When stuck stress and inflammation accumulates, all other systems' efficiency is disrupted. MELT will help you break this cycle by actively restoring the supportive qualities of your fascia as you age, giving you more resilience and vitality.

Why Should I MELT?

If you currently have pain, the 4Rs of MELT can help ease pain symptoms and restore whole-body balance. If you are active, adding the 2Rs of NeuroStrength gives you a strategy for enhancing performance.

MELT reduces:

• aches & pains

• wrinkles

• cellulite

• tension and stress

• headaches

• risk of injury

MELT improves:

• flexibility

• alignment and posture

• results of exercise

• joint mobility

• sleep & digestion

• overall well-being

My MELT Story

My name is Mishra Keller. I am a MELT Method Instructor, Certified Holistic Health Coach and POUND Pro. Women who are seeking solutions to their chronic pain hire me to teach them restorative wellness practices, so that they can enhance their well-being. I help them by teaching them how to listen to their bodies and get their needs met, using powerful self-care tools, without taking up a lot of time.

I have always been an active person. I was an athlete growing up. I was a competitive gymnast, tennis player, a collegiate cheerleader. I even danced professionally after college. Being active has always been part of my identity.

A few years ago, I started teaching POUND Fitness because I fell in love with how I felt when I was taking class. It combined the feeling of all of the sports and dancing I had been doing my whole life. I wanted other women to feel as good as I did when working out so I became a POUND Instructor.

One day my knee starting hurting out of the blue. I tried my usual therapies like chiropractic, massage and physical therapy on it, but no matter what I did, the pain wouldn’t go away. I was starting to feel like I was going to have to stop teaching and being active. That felt devastating because being a strong, active, able-bodied person has always been a big part of who I am.

Then I discovered Sue Hitzmann’s book The MELT Method and it completely changed the trajectory of my life! I started practicing the techniques and within a month my knee pain went away and never returned and that was 6 years ago.

I am now a MELT Instructor and I feel so lucky to be able to help other women get out of and stay out of chronic pain and more with the simple, self-care MELT techniques.

When And How Often Should I MELT?

If you suffer with chronic pain, it's best to MELT for 10 minutes a day up to one hour before bedtime to achieve a better night's sleep, a key factor helping your body repair itself. If you're active, MELT before strength training to improve your stability and prepare your body for activity. MELT after a strenuous cardiovascular workout or sports performance (or a marathon crochet session!) to erase joint compression and stiffness, assist in recovery, and restore muscle synergy.

Is MELT Like Yoga, Pilates®, Reflexology, or Physical Therapy?

It complements and enhances all types of exercise, including yoga and Pilates but it's not an exercise program. MELT also enhances the results of hands-on therapeutic interventions, including reflexology, massage, bodywork, physical therapy, and mental therapies as it simulates these types of intervention. Use MELT between therapy sessions and you'll prolong and support your treatments. Your therapist will thank you for helping them help you.

Can I MELT if I Have a Chronic Pain Problem, Disorder or Disease?

MELT has helped thousands of people with a wide array of disorders and diseases - including Ehlers-Danlos and other connective tissue disorders, chronic fatigue, arthritis, fibromyalgia, lupus, and other inflammatory, systemic, and neurological disorders. MELT also prepares surgery candidates, and restores fascia afterward to reduce unnecessary adhesions, scarring, or strain. Over time, MELT heightens the body's ability to repair and heal itself, which can create remarkable, lasting changes.

Who Created MELT?

Sue Hitzmann, MS, CST, NMT, is a manual therapist, exercise physiologist, and founding member of the Fascia Research Society. She is an accredited industry leader and internationally recognized educator in the fitness and therapeutic industries. In her New York Times bestselling book The MELT Method: A Breakthrough Self-Treatment System to Eliminate Chronic Pain, Erase the Signs of Aging, and Feel Fantastic in Just 10 Minutes a Day!, currently published in eight languages, Hitzmann has brought this easy self-treatment to more than a quarter of a million people around the world. Her second book, MELT Performance: A Step-by-Step Program toAccelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life, focuses on re integrating joint stability and repatterning muscular timing to improve coordination, boost sports performance, and reduce the risk of repetitive stress injuries. What started as homework for her private clients has become an international brand and educational training program. Sue has spent decades assimilating groundbreaking science and research into a one-of-a-kind self-treatment method to empower people to become their own Hands-O Bodyworker®. With products, books, streaming videos, and the MELT Method app, as well as nearly a thousand MELT instructors in more than two dozen countries, this revolutionary method of self-care is right at your fingertips.

How Do I Get Started?

If you’re a crocheter or maker struggling with chronic pain and ready to find a gentle, effective way to heal, I invite you to subscribe to my email list. You’ll receive exclusive tips on how to get your MELT tools and step-by-step guidance to start living pain-free—so you can keep creating with comfort and joy. Plus, you’ll learn about The Healing Hook Hub, our supportive community where makers like you come together to share creativity, wellness, and practical self-care. Join us and discover how healing and crafting can beautifully coexist.

This past month or so, I’ve also added MELT classes with Mishra also. These unique and dynamic stretches are gentle and effective. They are helping me to release years of stuck stress. As a teacher, Mishra is engaging and dedicated. She is always happy to share her wealth of knowledge and experience with people. Her patient and calm demeanor has helped me to keep at it and not give up. Now, I am active, I feel great, and I’m steadily working on improving my life in many areas, thanks to the guidance and help of Mishra. I highly recommend her classes (Pound and MELT). - Becky C., Teacher

MELT helped me prepare for the Winter Olympics and win gold for the USA. It's the best recovery program I can use anywhere. - Jamie Anderson, 2017 Olympic Snowboarding Gold Medalist

Know that you are making a difference in people's lives by bringing them knowledge and hope! The more I learn about rehydrating my connective tissue, the better equipped I'll be to recover faster from my workouts and experience less pain and inflammation. That's a game changer for me and will improve my quality of life. If I felt that good from 1 session, just imagine the results from a daily practice!! Woo hoo! - Karen H., Horticultural Educator

I posted a few weeks ago about struggling with restless legs during pregnancy. My friend and health coach Mishra Keller came and gave me a MELT method lesson and the results were nothing short of fabulous...Mishra also reminded me about the importance hydration and so I’ve been drinking an electrolyte drink shortly before bed, using Melt techniques, and the magnesium gel on my legs and things have VASTLY improved. - Helen K., Stay At Home Mom