Your clinical work should be both effective and sustainable
NONE OF US ARE GOOD CLINICIANS IF WE’RE PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, OR EMOTIONALLY BURNED OUT.
Our courses are designed with you and your client or patient’s needs at the center. Whether new to practice or have hit a wall after 15 years, our courses are all at once encouraging, nourishing, and inspiring; they will train you to see the body in fresh and exciting ways.
MOVING MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE OFFERS THE HIGHEST CALIBER CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES IN CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY, MYOFASCIAL RELEASE, and INTEGRATIVE VISCERAL TECHNIQUES.
Our approach is based on the intertwined understanding of both osteopathic and Chinese medicine principles and includes the innate wisdom and healing potential of the body. The Institute exists as an academy of clinical study and collaboration for healthcare practitioners that share a desire to root their understanding and treatment in the felt sense of the body. It is our experience that practitioners find this approach fulfilling, sustaining, and clinically beneficial.
Our teaching style and the techniques we present offer our students a distinctive learning experience that is immediately useful in the clinic. Our approach is unique in the field of hands-on therapies education. It is our belief that our teaching methods should be consistent with the excellence of the techniques themselves.
We listen.
We learn how to listen to the body. We listen with our hands, listening hands. We can’t treat what we don’t notice. Tactile curiosity is emphasized at every turn.
The body has a story to tell.
This is what we are listening to and attempting to collaborate with our people and interpret what we are sensing and experiencing. We will learn how to trust the wisdom of the body.
Indirect and direct technique and touch.
These form the foundation of our hand skills as we apply our listening hands. Indirect Techniques follow the tissues further into their tension pattern, creating a passive shortening that allows the tissue to soften and relax. Direct Techniques engage the tension pattern directly by creating a gentle, yet sustained stretch along specific vector/s of tension. The work is a dance between indirect and direct techniques over time, the result of which is change for the body.
Anatomy matters.
But not how you think. We emphasize relational or connective anatomy. How are different tissues in relationship with each other; who’s connected to who and how? This is a more fun and meaningful approach to being with the body. Experience has shown us that bodies respond to this type of informed touch. The body knows you know.
Context matters.
From the individual to the collective, symptoms are usually a reflection of a multi-factorial weave of factors. We care about all of that and include it in our instruction and content.
Flipped Classroom:
How Our Courses Are Different
We know you know there's a problem with conventional bodywork education.
Our solution? We have redesigned our courses from the inside out to deliver curated content in a “flipped” model. This allows you to practice and implement while continually circle back to the material for review.
A flipped classroom puts lecture content in your lap so you can watch it when you want and how you want. And you can circle back to review after we learn the techniques in the workshop. Our detailed workshop manuals also mean you don’t need to focus on note taking and can be fully present in your body and practice the work.
Courses & Workshops
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2024-25 CALENDAR BEING RELEASED IN APRIL!
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MMI curricula courses are intended for licensed professionals or students currently on a licensing path in a healthcare field (LAc, LMT, ND, etc.). All community members are welcome to attend Anatomy Talks. MMI program certification doesn't supersede state professional licensing requirements for the practice of touch.
Craniosacral Therapy Training Series
2023-24 COURSES
Craniosacral Advanced Integration Training (Spring 2024)
Begins April 11, 2024
EARLY BIRD PRICING UNTIL MARCH 11!
Myofascial Release Series and Workshops
2023-24 COURSES
Take the Individual Workshops - or SAVE 20% and take the full series!
MFR TLF is a pre-requisite for all other MFR courses.
Myofascial Release for the Shoulder
March 16, 2024Myofascial Release of the Hips and Glutes
April 20, 2024