Ritchie Mintz

Ritchie Mintz has designed curricula in many endeavors from music to the martial arts. Ritchie has an innate ability to prioritize information from simple to complex and he knows that all good teachers start their story from the beginning where they can meet beginning students as beginners.

He says: My first question is always: How do I learn this?

My second question is always: How do I teach this?

Ritchie was trained at the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® (DIRI) in 1978, and did his Advanced Training in 1981. He has served twice on the DIRI board of directors. Ritchie lived in Boulder from 1971 to 1981 and studied with Dr. Rolf’s original teachers that provided a rich setting for 6-day workshops with all the top structural integration practitioners and session trades with colleagues. The result was an eclectic education from many varied sources that would be difficult to duplicate today.

Ritchie has spent four decades practicing structural integration and thousands of hours contemplating Dr. Rolf’s magnificent 10-series of sessions, affectionately called Grandma’s Recipe. The gift of all this experience is a profound insight into how our recipe is designed and how it works. Ritchie brings that gift to his teaching of structural integration.

Ritchie is a natural teacher. He specializes in mentoring beginning practitioners because he remembers the struggles of his own rookie years. His greatest joy is watching “the bulb” light up for the many practitioners who say, “Oh, so THAT’S what that means!”

Ritchie Mintz is the author of two books on structural integration. If you want to get a feel for his teaching style, you are invited to read these books and visit his website.

Foundations of Structural Integration (2012; 123 pages)
From Adam & Eve to Ida Rolf: What is the Random Body? (2018; 90 pages)
Working with Radiation Fibrosis and Droop Neck Syndromes