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7 // michael mcmahon's bedside manner

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just between us girls? i have a capital-S SHOW for you this week! and the star of said show is Michael McMahon, a multidisciplinary clinician, educator, and founder of Moving Mountain Institute. he was kind enough to pop into the Bedside Manner Universe to have a little chat about my favorite things: the human body, touch, connection, art, and the imagination. 

this is a little extra-long,  extra special eppy to tide you over before i go on my self-induced mini hiatus to find love once and for all. oops, i mean study for my 2nd year comps exams. see you in a few weeks honey! xoxo

  • mike’s osteopathic roots and his long windy road of being on “the helper path”
  • polyvagal theory!! (this comes in at the end)
  • touch and listening hands, baby
  • the clinical and practical power of the imagination
  • mixing modalities in practice
  • feeling like a poser at school when it seems like everyone else has way more experience than you do
  • going to massage school and fighting cancer…at the same time honey!!
  • touch communicating awareness
  • thinking artistically even if you’re not an artist
  • relational neurobiology
  • setting up our classrooms to support what's going on in clinic
  • ‘holy insecurity” and letting things make meaning for you
  • Mike’s intake and what a typical sesh is like (and how he’s adjusted in COVID times when you can’t see people’s faces)
  • if where it is, it isn’t, how do we find out where it is, then?
  • working with resistance and when spicy stuff come up for patients in a session
  • being responsive to the tissue vs directive to the tissue
  • safety IS the treatment, sweetie
  • the student expérience, and the spectre of evaluation
  • the opportunity to go deep and shift our teaching/practicing in a COVID world


    • ~ SHOW NOTES ~

    Michael will soon be launching  courses in their new blended format, which you can attend from afar for lecture content and then get your cute little butt to PDX to do the technique portions of the courses en vivo.

    On Michael's Nightstand:

    • Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory (instead of the regular text. Porges himself says that the main text was never intended for a large audience and it is not very readable unless one is a neurophysiologist) 
    • Being a Brainwise Therapist by Bonnie Badencoch
    • The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology by Dan Siegel 
    • The podcast Therapist Uncensored
    • Rilke & Emily Dickinson (aka Michael's "oracle." his words, not mine!)
    • Hunger Mountain by David Hinton 
    • Existence, a Story also by David Hinton 


      • ~ CONTACT INFO ~

      Michael:  IG // @movingmountaininstitute  WEB // movingmountaininstitute.com   EMAIL //  [email protected]

      Moi:  IG // @bedside.manner  TW // @bedsidemannerxo  WEB // bedsidemanneruniverse.com

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      and, as always, let me know if you need anything x

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