On Monday June 22nd, I got into an accident and hurt my leg and my wrist in Bali. It is such a great reminder on pain and healing, that in the first 3 hours of the incident, I had no pain at all, but my knee started to swell. Over the next three days, the pain would start to appear, and from knee being the strongest pain, to my wrist which I didn't realize I also hurt, to my shoulder and hip, the pains began to show themselves and talk. Luckily, my airbnb was very close to a massage studio in Bali, and the practitioner was excellent, and I got daily 90 minute massages, for $12 USD, and after 6 days got into a Taxi and found an acupuncturist and the acupuncture and warm needle technique of the moxa felt really great. The interesting part is that I feel my palate doesn't feel quite right, and a sense of needing decompression of the maxilla, spreading of the intermaxillary suture. All of this has been a good reminder of the way acute injury and pain speaks, and while I have had some very good treatments, it does not solve the issue in one, but supports the healing, and for us as practitioners who often want to give the people who seek our care as much relief as possible in one treatment, it's a good reminder that what is possible is still in relation to . . . time.

Let’s just say I may, or may not, have treated . . . Batman.

When covid happened and patients started to have lessened or sometimes entirely loose their whole incomes, I changed the structure of my practice to allow either a regular rate, or a donation based rate, meaning a patient can tell me what is doable for them to access care, and for however long the work needed, care is given. Over the weekend I began creating an online community for my patients, and geared to the public, in sharing practices that help my health, in hopes it may help their health, to move from patient to participant in their own care. There will be nourish with Matt, meditate with Matt, read with Matt, Travel with Matt, Muse on Life with Matt, - and I've called it, with Matt, and placed it on the buy me a coffee platform as a completely donation based offering. As I sat with it, I began to feel, this space should be the same, 100% donation based. If you look in the membership offerings, no longer will there be the freemium, and then an upgrade to the webinars and then an upgrade to . . . etc . . . the classroom space will be free. Instead it will be either: free, choose $10 support, choose $50 support. There will be no change in the information offered from one tier to the next. I will give what I can. You absorb what is needed. If it resonates with you, please choose a support option. Please share with others and grow the community. What I cannot make free is our in person classes, but perhaps you may be inspired to join the core curriculum of the Milne Institute, or the adjunct curriculum I have developed in Chinese Medicine Concepts in Craniosacal and Visceral Contacts, somewhere around the world. I also still need to charge for online one on one or small group mentorship. And this community has grown quite a bit in short time, to 150 members over 17 countries and counting, I feel deeply honored to hold this space together. As in the videos, it is about let's learn together. This year we will continue to focus in on the embyrology, movement, articulations, nerve and vascular innervations, meridian energetics, biological mysticism or poetry, of each major cranial bone and sacrum.

I would like to offer a leave a question, receive an answer by inviting you to ask something in the comments below, and after a series of questions have been asked, I'll make a video and to the best of my ability answer them. While I wish I had the winning lotto numbers for you . . . like 2, 18, 26, 52, 4 and special number 6 . . . i don't . . .so what is relative to this work: anatomy, energetics, perception.

The info is right (mostly) but let’s call the anatomy and video, . . . Imagined and artistic. On Wednesday Webinar we will go over listening to the sphenoid in this way . . . 1. Introsseous 2. Suture articulations 3. Cranial nerve passage above, through, and to ptyergoid processes to vagus to organs 4. To vascular to external carotid to middle meningeal to dura to reciprocal tension membrane 5. To vascular to internal carotid artery 6. To vascular to heart 7. To meridian and acupressure points