90 Minute Introductory 1-1 MELT Method Session with EmmaGrace Skove-Epes


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Win a 90 Minute Introductory 1-1 MELT Method Session with EmmaGrace!


During our session, we will go over your intake form and discuss any particular goals  and/or questions you may have. You do not need to have a particular goal in mind. We will begin with techniques that can help locate parts of your body that may benefit from some attention/focus and rehydration during our session. I will teach you some ways to increase fluid flow to those specific areas, though all of the MELT techniques create subtle changes throughout the whole body, so we do not have to have a particular local focus. The hope is that you will walk away with techniques that you can repeat on your own time when you need them most, so after guiding you through techniques, we will spend some time reviewing and answering any questions you have. It can be helpful to have a notebook and writing utensil to record any insights that come up as we move through the techniques together. With your permission, I will also take some notes during our session which I will share with you after. 


*While MELT is a hands-off form of bodywork, there are moments when in working one on one, giving cues through touch can help some people access a new movement pattern. I will always ask for your consent before giving a hands on cue. There is no greater benefit to having hands on than hands off, they are just different approaches. Please trust your own instincts in the moment as to whether or not you want a hands on assist/touch cue- you will always be the one who knows best. 


1-1 MELT Method Session expires June 2024.


The MELT Method is a collaborative form of hands-off bodywork that uses props to simulate hands-on techniques through gentle compression and lengthening techniques. Through systematically working with the fluid flow in fascia, it helps rehydrate dehydrated fascia throughout the whole body and can increase autonomic nervous system function. It can be especially helpful in disrupting chronic/cyclical pain patterns, healing from injury, navigating stress, and in increasing dimensional embodied presence and embodied self-knowledge. My practice is trauma-informed, body positive, and queer and gender affirming.


I am a Level 1 instructor of the MELT Method, certified in 2021, and I have taught dance, movement, and somatics for the past six+ years. My work as a MELT instructor is informed by my experience as a hyper-mobile dancer and choreographer and my experience navigating and healing from repetitive spinal injuries and subsequent periods of severely limited mobility and chronic/cyclical pain. In addition to my study of MELT, my teaching practice is informed by a multiplicity of movement lineages including: functional anatomy, Bartenieff Fundamentals, trauma-informed somatics, movement pedagogy, improvisational dance forms, Modern and postmodern dance forms, Afro-Caribbean Diasporic dance forms, and Flamenco. My ongoing study of hyper-mobility with Hyp-Access (Audre Wirtanen and L. Tuthall), a duo of hyper-mobile educators who offer education and care-consulting to hyper-mobile people, informs my work with hyper-mobile clients and dancers. I am deeply grateful to organizing spaces I’ve been a part of including Artists Co-Creating Real Equity, European Dissent (both affiliated with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond), Resource Generation, and Creating New Futures for their ongoing collective practices that affirm the interconnectedness of physical, personal, collective, systemic, and land-based healing. I am a new member of Bodies for Bodies, a collective of queer and trans bodyworkers who organize collective sliding scale and free offerings for queer and trans clients based in Brooklyn, NY.


While I am excited to work with whomever feels like they could benefit from this practice, my particular areas of interest and inquiry are:


· Hyper-mobility


· Chronic/cyclical pain


· Healing from and preventing dance-related injuries


· Offering restorative, proprioceptive, and embodiment tools for performers, organizers, and caregivers.


· Using the MELT Method as one way in to begin to unfurl and work with potential physical manifestations of personal/collective/ancestral trauma.