Field NOtes Blog
Posts from Michael McMahon
Field Notes is the place where our clinical interests meet genuine curiosity about how bodies work, heal, and change.
The 12 Core Principles That Guide Our Approach to Bodywork
Get to know Moving Mountain Institute's 12 Core Principles that guide our approach to bodywork, craniosacral therapy, and clinical education. Here’s what we ground ourselves in as we learn and practice.
On Applying Indirect Techniques in Myofascial Release Therapy
We have found more and more that our best myofascial work occurs when we are willing to dance with the tissue in an indirect and direct way – listening for both and not focusing only on the direct, stretching aspect of the work.
On Fascia & Embryology
Check out this passage on the embryological origin of the meridian system! If you've been in classes with me you may have heard me talk about the possibility that the meridians were laid down in the fascial matrix along the embryological path of migration taken by their respective organ.