Established the first place of its kind in Molėtai: customers also come from the capital

We meet Loreta in her exercise studio, in the center of Molėtai. As you enter, you can see balls, mats, weights lined up along the wall.

Loreta immediately hands them all a large sports ball and offers to sit on them for a chat.

“You came to my mini-studio where I exercise regularly,” the story begins.

According to her, here, in comparison, from the youngest to the most mature elders meet in this small place. Here they exercise, develop their body, strengthen muscles, correct faulty postures or solve long-standing problems.

“It’s like physiotherapy, but there is no treatment room here because we are not a treatment center. We call it therapeutic exercise, ”he explains.

While he laughs, his exercise studio doesn’t look like a gym at all, where you can find a lot of exercise equipment.

“We can do everything here with the strength of our body, it does not necessarily require an inventory. Let’s say that a coach of a sports club with all this equipment that you see here does not know what to do ”, he compares.

Loreta herself says that she is a local, who grew up in the city of Alanta, district of Molėtai. Later in Kaunas he studied occupational therapy and then returned to his homeland.

“Frankly, I didn’t want to come back here, but my husband brought me here too,” she laughs.

Loreta’s studio is still fresh. She has also been working at Molėtai Hospital since 2013, and her patients there have encouraged the woman to open such a place.

“It often happens that we meet the same people both in the hospital and here. Only there are my patients, here are the clients, ”says Loreta, adding that the study was not born because she needed the money.

“There was a great desire to get people to exercise so they could start living healthier, more active lives,” he says, explaining that May 20 was exactly the year Loreta rushed to see her clients here. in the study after working in the hospital.

“Now I work in these new facilities for a few weeks, everything is very fresh,” he says.

The woman says that we are here, one of the first guests, although there really is no shortage of customers.

“Even the space is small,” he laughs. – We don’t all fit in anymore. Too much fun”.

The maximum group to exercise, according to them, is two people, but then you need to combine physical activity and capacity, so that you are more focused on individual exercises.

“To date, we have a total of 28 clients,” he says boldly, counting that 7 clients are still waiting for us long after the afternoon visit.

“My day is busy. Until 4 pm I work in a hospital and then I come here. Yes, I come home at night at 9 pm and 10 pm, and in summer and later,” he says.

Loreta is very active and although she says that relatives often tell her to relax and tell her that she is going to burn herself, the woman assures that this has not happened yet.

“I think that’s what happens when you work for a job that you love. Here I will rest, I don’t feel any tension ”, he smiles.

Visitors include not only locals, but also customers from Vilnius, Utena or Anykščiai.

“I think that people come here according to the recommendations and the price is very important. Here a person pays about three times less for an occupation than in the capital,” the woman calculates.

When asked if with plans to expand further, exercise to marry and children with developmental disabilities, the study won’t be too small, Loreta says it really can happen.

“I think it will be too small, but so far there is no better option, because there is not much to rent in Molėtai. It was our best option,” he says.

Now in the hands of a woman, and a completely new diploma as a physical therapist. She explains that she did not get enough occupational therapy alone.

Loreta’s husband works in Norway today, and when asked if she doesn’t plan to leave together, she says that everyone they know knows that working here means everything to her and that she would never leave it.

“There was no such corner in Molėtai, and it is now,” Loreta smiles.