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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)
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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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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.

Fresh from his week spent with Gil Hedley, Michael will share insights he gleaned and new curiosities that have emerged about the body.

Note: This event will not be recorded for later viewing due to ownership rights of Gil Hedley's materials.

I imagine most of you do some work in this space already. I hope diving into this anatomy inspires you to spend more time there, work more slowly and deliberately, and give the body some time to unfurl itself in response to your presence. Even if you

Michael here, time to say hi to the new arrivals to this page! If you’re here, you’re likely into understanding the body in some way. Same. And, I’m an unlikely interlocutor on things body related. My career started 30 years ago wit

A profound pair of muscles that are constantly separated in traditional anatomy texts! However, the serrato-rhomboid complex is the myofascial link between the serratus anterior and the rhomboids and the interconnectedness cannot be overlooked.

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Fall enrollment is in full swing! Bonus right now is $100 off for the next couple of weeks (in addition to earlybird discounts). Stay tuned for inspiring blogs, snippets of presentations for class and insights beyond the clinic as we prepare this cur

We’ve added some snack sized events this month! Tune in from wherever you are for these 60min dives on connected anatomy + a lecture on the the relationships of myofascial pathways and East Asian sinew channels (this one is free!).

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I think a lot about what it means to create a learning space. I am guided by the idea that each classroom is like a little world that we build and inhibit together. It should be a place we want to be, a place where something special happens. I love t

Mind Chimes | Books We’re Reading

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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