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Bodywork Training & Clinical Care in Portland, OR

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Care for your body or grow your professional practice

Whether you're looking for advanced bodywork training as a practitioner or integrative care for your own health, Moving Mountain Institute offers both clinical services and continuing education in Portland, Oregon.

Please reach out using the appropriate form below, and we’ll get back to you within 48 hours.

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Clinic

For Prospective or Existing Patients
& Outside Practitioners

1215 SE 8th Avenue, Suite B1
Portland, OR 97214
p: (503) 985-9625
f: (503) 296-2765
clinic@movingmountaininstitute.com

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Education & Courses

For Prospective or Existing Students

415 N. Killingsworth Street
Portland, OR 97217

p: ‭(503) 351-8853‬
info@movingmountaininstitute.com

About Moving Mountain Institute

Behind our approach to bodywork training + clinical care

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We're a healthcare practice and bodywork training center living in the questions that conventional medicine rarely asks:

What might unfold if we trusted what the body has to share as much as what clinical expertise can tell us? What becomes possible when skillful technique meets the humility to follow where the body leads?

In our clinic, we offer integrative bodywork through a listening-based approach oriented to the whole person.

We particularly support patients whose bodies are speaking languages that protocols can't quite interpret—complex presentations that ask for something more nuanced than the well→injury→treatment→healed narrative. We believe bodies are prismatic, refracting possibilities in endlessly unique patterns, and our job is to notice, attend to, and respond at the body's own pace.

Our educational programs emerged from this clinical curiosity, and we offer continuing education and bodywork training to touch-based practitioners in craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, and integrated visceral techniques. Our curriculum isn't about following protocols but developing flexible processes and guiding principles that can adapt to each unique body's needs. We hold clinical expertise in one hand and skillful curiosity in the other, creating containers where genuine shifts can happen when we slow down enough to listen.

Whether you're seeking care or education, we're here to co-create pathways for support, growth, and change.

Together, we’ll honor both what we know and the profound mystery of what we're still learning about how bodies organize, heal, and change.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Our clinic (1215 SE 8th Avenue, Suite B1) and classroom (415 N Killingsworth Street) are both located in Portland, Oregon. 

  • If you’re a new patient, welcome! Please visit the Clinic page for everything you need to know about getting started. Existing patients can schedule follow-up visits in your Patient Portal.

    If you have not received an email to set up your account, please contact Alicia: alicia@movingmountaininstitute.com.

  • We offer comprehensive bodywork training programs in craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, and Integrated Visceral Techniques (IVT). Our courses are designed as multi-weekend series that build systematically, combining online learning with hands-on practice.

    Please check out the Education page for all of the details on our curriculum and to register for a course!

  • Michael McMahon (LAc, LMT) founded Moving Mountain Institute in 2014. As founder, practicing clinician, and lead teacher, he treats all of MMI’s clinic patients and teaches our core programs. We also collaborate with guest teachers, and have a small team that supports our operations.

  • Yes! Please reach out to info@movingmountaininstitute.com with details about your group and what you have in mind, and we’ll be happy to follow up.

  • With over 25 years of clinical experience, Michael is both a licensed massage therapist (LMT) and licensed acupuncturist (LAc).

    Wherever possible, we try to collaborate with credentialing organizations to ensure that our courses meet professional development requirements for various healthcare practitioners. 

    We offer continuing education credits through partnerships with the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) and the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB). The Oregon Board of Massage Therapists doesn’t “certify” courses, but our courses fully meet their criteria for continuing education. Naturopaths may check with their board regarding CE options for MMI’s courses.