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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.
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Craniosacral Therapy
Integrated Visceral Techniques
Myofascial Release
Upcoming: Special Topics
October 16, 2025 | Online
7:00-8:00pm
The vagus nerve, the polyvagal theory, vagal stimulators, clients coming in self diagnosing themselves with the vagus nerve as their main problem and wanting you to fix it... How do you navigate the swirl of information about the vagal system?
Michael will curate lectures and dissections from Gil Hedley and provide participants context to increase our collective understanding.
Let's ground ourselves in the body and look at where and how the vagus goes. Who does it connect to? What if we include the organs and other tissues that fall within the umbrella of the vagal system? I think that helps us navigate complex cases and help orient the folks we treat towards meaningful understanding about how the vagal system may be impacting their health.
Note: This event will not be recorded due to ownership rights of Gil Hedley's materials.
October 19, 2025 | In-Person & Online
Morning Session: 10:00am-1:00pm*
Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Spend a day with Michael exploring two complementary layers of clinical practice: the morning’s free Vagal System in Practice maps the vagus in real-world contexts, reviews key anatomy, and includes an integrated live treatment (CST, MFR, visceral work, stretching, Chinese medicine, and acupuncture) with debrief. In the afternoon’s Fascial Feather & the Marigold Layer, we shift to the superficial fascia with a guided palpation lab and myofascial release techniques for the “fascial feather” where the lats, obliques, serratus anterior, and transversus abdominis interweave. You’ll leave with a nuanced understanding that the vagus isn’t a cure-all, plus clear, hands-on strategies to support healthy vagal tone and sharpen fascial palpation. Open to the MMI-curious and seasoned practitioners alike.
*NOTE: Only the Morning Session will be live-streamed. The presentation will be shown but demos and treatments will be only for in-person registrations.
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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.
