  We present the idea of using the holonomy along a line of a constrained
instanton solution (an approximate solution of the Euclidean equations of
motion subject to a constraint) of an $\rm SU(2)$ Yang-Mills-Higgs theory to
approximate the Skyrmion solution in a chiral model with massive pions. The
fact that the gauge field acquires a nonzero mass due to the Higgs mechanism
implies that a constrained instanton decays exponentially far from its center,
and so does the Skyrmion configuration that it generates via the Atiyah-Manton
construction. This is precisely the desired behavior at large distances for the
true Skyrmion solutions when the pion mass is included.
