about
stop stretching. start releasing.
If you’re chronically tight, stretching often does more harm than good because it destabilizes - even more so for hypermobile or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome folks. Your muscles feel tight because they're overworking to protect your body.
We're different. We don’t stretch; we recalibrate.
RESET: Shift your nervous system from high-alert stress to deep recovery in minutes.
RELEASE: Use cringe-free body-weight compression to melt fascia, erase pain, and promote recovery.
REPLENISH: Invite heart-brain coherence by pairing a rhythmic breath with focused guidance.
Unwind Body Works is your sanctuary for body-weight massage and nervous system regulation. No complex equipment and zero decision fatigue. All you have to do is show up. We’ll handle the rest.
meet the founder
Melanie Love
Melanie Love has been doing body weight fascia release since 2017 as a solution to release tension and tight tissues in her hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos body.
Stretching and yoga are destabilizing for her loose joints while deep tissue massage and lacrosse balls can leave her bruised for days. Love also lives with Bertolotti Syndrome, an unfused S1 vertebrae that causes low back pain. This work is an essential component of her own self care routine.
She is a Certified Block Therapy Instructor (fascia release using wood blocks). Love trained in a neuromuscular reset technique developed by Marissa Macias, MMT where she uses muscle testing with nervous system resets to release locked muscles.
Since trauma and fascia are related, Love became an avid student of somatic techniques, parts (aka Internal Family Systems) work, and functional nutrition.
She's taught at retreats, fitness centers, and wellness centres; in boardrooms, ballrooms, and people‘s homes.
unwind body works
(un)Block(TM) is the what- the evolution of the massage ball, we created tools for nervous system-friendly, cringe-free release
unwind is how we use it - guided body weight massage use four (un)Blocks at a time for effective, efficient release
unlock is 1:1 services - Melanie Love offers 1:1 sessions for the muscles locked on (or off) not responding to strengthening exercises
de-stress, delivered
unwind classes
Come for your aches, stay for the aahhhh...
unwind is a guided body weight massage class.
You'll learn how to release your muscular and mental tension with results you can repeat at home.
We use our (un)Blocks(TM) - the evolution of a massage ball - to release tight tissues. Each setup is led with nervous system-friendly guidance. No thinking or decision fatigue, just sinking into support.
unwind offers deep release without the cringe, working with your nervous system to reset and replenish your fascia.