MELT Method
What Is MELT?
The MELT Method® is a science-backed self-care technique designed to help you stay active, reduce pain, and feel better in your body. Developed by Sue Hitzmann, it uses specially designed hand and foot treatment balls and a soft roller—along with your own body and breath—to calm the nervous system, improve control, and restore balance.
At its core, MELT works by rehydrating your connective tissue—known as fascia. With gentle, targeted techniques, it helps restore fascia’s supportive, supple qualities while reducing tension and compression that can lead to discomfort and misalignment.
The result? A body that moves with more ease and efficiency. Many people notice improvements in how they feel almost immediately—less stiffness, better mobility, deeper relaxation, improved sleep, and more sustained energy.
Learning to MELT is like learning a new language. Once you understand the basics, your body begins to respond quickly—allowing you to move through a simple self-care practice that delivers both immediate relief and long-term results.
Classes & Events
Location: Thomas G. Crowder Woodland Center - 5611 Jaguar Park Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606
September Series
3 Tuesdays
Sept 1,8,15
6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Sunday August 2
Single Session
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
What MELT Clients Are Saying……
“After chemotherapy, I struggled with tingling in my hands and feet. Since working with Jenny and MELT, that tingling is gone. I leave each session feeling relaxed, flexible, and beautifully balanced — like I’ve had a full-body massage.”
-Mary Ann W.
“I truly enjoyed Jenny’s Level 1 MELT series and found it incredibly beneficial — especially for relieving my lower back pain. Her teaching style is clear, caring, and inclusive. I felt supported and empowered throughout the experience.”
-Barbara S.
“Jenny is a master teacher with an understanding of our older bodies. Her 5-week MELT series allowed me to learn many of the MELT techniques. Jenny made MELT easy to learn and it provides me with immediate results.
~ Irene W.
MORE Ways To Experience MELT
Private Instruction
One-on-one sessions tailored to your body and your goals.
Weekly Zoom
Join a weekly Zoom class from the comfort of your own home
Group Experience
Customized events for groups and organizations.
Need Your MELT Gear?
The link below will take you to the MELT Method website where you can order MELT tools. Need help? Contact me and I’ll be happy to help you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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MELT is a revolutionary approach to pain-free longevity that helps you stay healthy, youthful and active for a lifetime. This patent-pending, pro-active self-treatment technique is backed by science and acclaimed by thousands of devoted MELTers.
New research has revealed the missing link to pain-free living: a balanced nervous system and healthy connective tissue. These two components work together to provide whole-body support, protection, and mind-body communication. Exercise physiologist and connective tissue specialist Sue Hitzman has transformed groundbreaking neurofascial science and hands-on therapies into a one-of-a-kind treatment method called MELT.
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Day-to-day living creates tension within our bodies. Physical stressors range from sitting at a desk to running a marathon. Carrying children and heavy bags creates trapped tension, as does even the gentlest form of exercise. Emotional, mental, and environmental stressors such as processed foods, medications, environmental toxins, and daily worries all build tension in the body.
New Science reveals that this “stuck stress” is literally trapped in our connective tissue, which surrounds every joint, muscle, nerve, bone and organ. Unaddressed trapped stress causes connective tissue dehydration and cellular damage. This creates a domino effect which begins with aches and stiffness and leads to common health issues such as neck and low back pain, headaches, insomnia, digestive problems, and injury. Accelerated aging and chronic health problems can follow…leaving us with limited options such as medicine, surgery, and sedentary lifestyle.
However, when the connective tissue is hydrated and free of roadblocks, our bodies function at a more optimal level. MELT is a breakthrough technique that keeps our connective tissue and nervous system in top condition and slows down the aging process. MELT rejuvenates tissue hydration and relieves the tension of day-to-day life that gets trapped in our bodies. No other proactive approach directly treats the connective tissue including nutrition, exercise, yoga, meditation, or vitamins.
MELT is easy to learn, backed by cutting-edge research, and offers immediate results that you will see and feel the first time you MELT. Changes in posture, flexibility, energy, mood, and performance occur within only a few sessions. Best of all, your body feels great long after you MELT!
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MELT creates a strong, flexible body that maintains its upright posture for life. And you will see and feel results after just one session!
The MELT Method Improves:
Flexibility and Mobility
Posture
The results of exercise
Sleep and Digestion
Overall well-being
The MELT Method Reduces:
Aches and Pains
Wrinkles and Cellulite
Tension and Stress
Headaches
Risk of injury
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MELT is for anyone who wants to slow down the aging process and live better, longer. For those in their 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and older who want to stay active, mobile and independent MELT is a must. MELT is for active younger adult and athletes who want to maintain a fit, toned body and achieve optimal performance without debilitating wear and tear.
MELT is truly for everyone! Even if you a pregnant, injured, post-surgery, overweight, sedentary, out of shape, have limited mobility, chronic pain, knee/hip replacements, or bone disorders- you can still MELT. It’s the best starting point for any exercise program.
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MELT a minimum of 15 minutes, three times a week to experience immediate and long-lasting benefits. And if you want to MELT every day, that’s okay too!
MELT before strength training to improve muscle performance or after a cardio workout to erase joint compression and stiffness.
People who MELT regularly find that they want to exercise more often. It’s just more fun to move when your body feels good, has more energy and is free of pain.
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No. MELT is unlike any other technique because it addresses and entirely different system of the body. MELT is to the neurofascial system (nervous and connective tissue system) what all other forms of exercise are to the musculoskeletal system. The science of the neurofascial system is being introduced to the health and fitness arena for the first time by Sue Hitzmann and MELT.
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Yes, MELT has been reviewed by internationally respected doctors, neuroscientists, and connective-tissue researchers, including Ben Domb, M.D: Tom Myers; Bill Hedley, Ph.D. ; Robert Schleip, Ph.D.; and Jean Pierre Barral, D.O. Each expert has recognized that MELT is ground in scientific principles and offers extraordinary benefits.
