Restorative skills.
Learn how to keep your body pain-free through movement. Our Restorative Skills program teaches you techniques and practices to maintain the pain relief you've gained from your Somavida treatment sessions.
Yoga restorative skills for lasting relief.
Movement, breath, and self-massage you can take home. Our Yoga Restorative Skills sessions help you build body awareness and strength, ease pain, and relieve stress between your Somavida treatments.
Book a Yoga Restorative Skills sessionMeet Amy
Amy Unsworth is a certified yoga therapist and American Yoga Council Level 3 yoga teacher with a passion for helping people increase body awareness, build strength, ease pain, and relieve stress. Her teaching style is grounded, accessible, and mindful.
She spent eight years on the Trinity Health Michigan Heart team in Ann Arbor, teaching yoga for patients recovering from cardiac events and leading monthly stress-reduction workshops. Her areas of expertise include stress management, cardiac health, pain, anxiety, and depression. Read Amy's full bio.
What she teaches
- Mindful vinyasa
- Yin yoga
- Restorative yoga
- Body by Breath® Immersion
- The Roll Model® Method
- Yoga Tune Up®
Book a Yoga Restorative Skills session
These skills are taught in private 1:1 sessions or small-group classes so the practice fits your body and your goals. Book a Yoga Restorative Skills session or ask us if you're not sure where to start.
Try the self-care methods we draw from
The Roll Model® Method and Yoga Tune Up® use therapy balls and breath to release tense tissue at home. These introductory practices, published by their creator Jill Miller (Tune Up Fitness®), are a good place to start, bring your questions to a Yoga Restorative Skills session.
The Roll Model® Method, self-massage for pain relief
An introduction to therapy-ball self-massage: how rolling out tight, overworked tissue can calm pain and restore ease. A great primer before exploring Roll Model work in a session.
Yoga Tune Up®, lower back self-massage
A short Yoga Tune Up® therapy-ball sequence for the lower back, a common tension spot. Gentle, effective, and easy to repeat at home between sessions.
Scalp massage with a scalp massager.
In 2024 we introduced you to self-scalp massage with your scalp massager.
Why it helps
- Scalp massage can reduce stress and help relieve headaches.
- It may help hair grow thicker and promote relaxation.
- It involves virtually no health risk, but shouldn't replace medical treatment for headaches, hair loss, or stress.
How to do it
There isn't one specific way to perform a scalp massage, limit yourself to light to moderate pressure. Start with this technique and adapt it (such as adding kneading) to your preference:
- Put the tips of the scalp massager on the top of your scalp.
- Pin the skin to mobilize the tissue, applying light–moderate pressure rather than just dragging across the scalp. Move the tool in a circular motion. You should feel tissue move, but no pain.
- Work all parts of the scalp for maximum relief.
Scalp massage vs. head massage
Scalp massage is focused on scalp tissue, hair-bearing skin from the hairline to the nape. Head massage is broader, including the scalp and adjacent structures: forehead, temples, occiput, neck, ears, even the face (lightly!) and shoulders.
Watch a dermatologist on hair growth and scalp massage
Read scalp massage pros and cons on Verywell Health
MELT Method self-treatment.
Do the MELT Method with the soft blue balls you received. If you haven't received one, please let us know - we have a few left in the clinic. We've found this simple self-treatment helps reduce chronic pain and makes the relief from your Somavida sessions last longer.
These gentle techniques, paired with the soft ball we gave clients in 2025, increase fluid flow through the hands and feet to the whole body's connective tissue (fascia), creating a chain reaction that reduces pain, stiffness, stress, and tension. MELT techniques are easy yet effective, based on the idea that you don't have to cause pain to get out of pain.
Before you MELT
If you have a diagnosed injury, condition, or disease, talk to your doctor before you MELT. If you find the ball painful, please stop. Questions? Contact our MELT Certified Instructor, Lori Smith, at anaturalfoot@gmail.com or visit anaturalfoot.com.
MELT Method Foot Treatment
Foot treatments help with all kinds of pain, especially if your feet talk to you the moment you get out of bed. Try this 15-minute foot treatment and see how your feet respond.
Note: If you've recently had broken toes or bones, surgeries, or major injuries, wait until you're fully healed and talk to your doctor before you MELT.
MELT Method Hand Treatment
The hand treatment is a great start for hand, arm, elbow, or even neck and shoulder pain. Try this 10-minute treatment to see if it helps your pain.
Note: If you've recently had broken bones in your hand, wrist, or arm, surgeries, or major injuries, wait until you're fully healed and talk to your doctor before you MELT.
MELT Method Mini Face Treatment
Calling all TMJD clients with mild or moderate symptoms! Try this simple 10-minute treatment to see if it helps. It can also help with sinus issues and migraines.
Note: If you've had any recent surgeries or are in extreme pain, talk to your doctor before you MELT.
Questions about MELT?
All these videos were published by MELT Method founder Sue Hitzmann. Our Restorative Skills specialist, Lori Smith, is a MELT Certified Instructor and is happy to answer your questions. There's so much more to explore, browse the MELT Method YouTube channel or their website.