MELT with Mary

Learn how to ease your foot, back, or hip pain, and hike without pain at MELT with Mary on Sundays, Jan. 11, Feb. 15, March 22 (11:30-1 p.m.) or April 12* (12:30-2 p.m.) in the Mansion Library. (Each session will cover the same material).

Instructor Mary French will lead this introductory workshop to the , a self-treatment system that uses soft rollers and balls to improve the body’s connective tissue, nervous and lymphatic systems.

Students will use MELT soft balls and soft rollers as they learn simple techniques that can be done at home to remain active and healthy, and help provide relief from low back pain, arthritis, bunions and plantar fasciitis.

$30/person. Registration will close three days before each class or when capacity is reached. All sales are final.

*This is the second day of the . Run the race then treat your feet at this session of MELT With Mary!

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About the instructor

As a walker and runner with plantar fasciitis, Mary French received relief from the MELT Method and became a MELT instructor in 2014. She now shares her passion for the self-care method at various health events, including at Allerton.

“If hikers MELT their feet before hitting the trails, they will reduce their risk of injury and aches. Then MELTing afterwards will reduce the soreness from hiking.”

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