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Moving Mountain Institute exists in circularity
What we do in the clinic is informed by our dedication to learning and teaching in the classroom, and those insights circle back into our clinical work. What we offer in the classroom is informed by what we have seen effective in clinical settings with patients/clients. Our courses would not have value if they were not backed up by ongoing clinical insight. The circle extends to our course participants who then create the same circle with their clients and patients.
$100 Off All Courses
We know times are tough, so we're offering a $100 price reduction on all courses in our 2025–2026 calendar. This discount is in addition to any Earlybird pricing.
Offer valid through: September 2, 2025 (Tuesday after Labor Day)
Code at checkout: MMI-100
Parallel with this, Moving Mountain Institute will donate 3% of all course sales during this period to organizations addressing the forced starvation crisis in Gaza.
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Craniosacral Therapy
Integrated Visceral Techniques
Myofascial Release
Upcoming: Special Topics
Join Michael for an Anatomy Talk on one of the more interesting cross system relationships in the body; the myodural bridge. This is where the rectus capitis posterior minor has attachments with the dural tube. It's a relationship that I think is under discussed in massage school, craniosacral approaches and even acupuncture (Bladder 10 is there and is part of a category of points called Celestial Windows). Michael will curate and present a selection of videos from Gil Hedley's vast library of inner-space to highlight the myofascial relationships of the posterior neck with a specific focus on this myofascial to dural relationship.
Michael will be giving a free Community Lecture on the correspondences between myofascial pathways and the sinew channels of East Asian Medicine. No knowledge of East Asian Medicine nor myofascial anatomy is required. Michael spent 9 years exploring just this topic with East Asian medical students in his year long palpation anatomy course. We will discuss some of the properties of fascia that are relevant to any hands-on medicine and see how they might relate to the idea of meridians and even qi in East Asian Medicine. We are not looking for one to one correspondences between the two spheres of knowledge, rather how viewing them alongside one another can help us understand this riddlesome body a bit more.
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Dispatches from Michael McMahon
We are not arrows shot in a straight line through time. The solar calendar demarcated a numerical year a while ago. It’s an arbitrary thing. Nature goes in cycles and the time of renewal is at the lunar new year, the dawn of spring if you will. We are still in our “wintering” time. Slow, underground, steeping.
But in deference to numbered years I want to share the books that I spent meaningful time with in 2024. I love checking out other folks’ curated book lists and wanted to share my own with y’all.
My reading life is peripatetic. Books are often part of longstanding conversations I am having with ideas that matter to me in my own ellipses through life. I don’t read books to finish them or count how many books I have read in a year. That’s not what reading is about for me, it’s much more part of an ongoing contemplative process. Some books that have impacted me most profoundly I have yet to finish. But, I reread chapters regularly. Some books I have finished and go back to still, years later. I often read in themes that emerge throughout a year - there is no possible way I could plan a reading year.
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CREATIVITY, PRESENCE AND ATTENTION:
AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MCMAHON
Listen to this conversation between Michael and Michael Max, the host of the well-regarded Qiological podcast. You can also visit the episode here.
