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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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Explore the different curricula offered by Moving Mountain Institute
Craniosacral Therapy
Integrated Visceral Techniques
Myofascial Release
Special Topics & Events
Vagal System Reframed for Hands-On Practitioners
NOVEMBER 19, 2025
The vagus nerve has been commodified, but as body-oriented care providers we have a lot to contribute. Explore the vagal system and the many places it touches, and how we can meaningfully engage this conversation as bodyworkers and acupuncturists.
The Embodied Vagal System: Diaphragm to Guts
DECEMBER 3, 2025
We’ll continue “tracking the wild vagus,” following its path from the thoracic basket through the diaphragm and into the guts. Gain more insight into the living, embodied vagal system with Michael and learn how it is so much more dynamic than the theorized or commodified version we so often hear about.
Neuro Presentation of HSD/EDS
JANUARY 14, 2026
Sounds geeky, I know—but these conditions are showing up in our clinics more and more. Join Michael to explore clinical presentations of Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD) and Elhers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), and how understanding their dynamics can make our CST and other bodywork more effective.
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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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On the Air
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.
