RITSUDO THERAPY: A 3-DAY INTRODUCTORY RETREAT
Fri, Oct 02
|Korinji Rinzai Zen Buddhist Monastery
Join us for a rare opportunity: the first presentation of Ritsudo Therapy outside Japan. This three-day retreat will introduce the theory, assessment approach, hands-on demonstration, and self-care exercises of this Japanese body-awareness method.
Time & Location
Oct 02, 2026, 6:00 PM – Oct 04, 2026, 11:00 AM
Korinji Rinzai Zen Buddhist Monastery, S470 Hirst Rd, Reedsburg, WI 53959, USA
About the event
Ritsudo Therapy, or Ritsudoho, was developed by Mogi Akira Sensei (born 1945) after a serious lower-back injury sustained in his youth while practicing traditional martial arts. Dissatisfied with the results of conventional approaches, he entered acupuncture and moxibustion school, while also studying chiropractic, and gradually developed a unique method centered on the body’s rhythmic movement.
Ritsudoho is based on the observation that the human body is always expressing such subtle movements. The skeleton, internal organs, brain, skin, muscles, ligaments, nervous system, and other tissues all fluctuate rhythmically, like breathing. Through refined observation and assessment, the practitioner learns to perceive these rhythms and recognize patterns of balance, tension, and self-regulation within the body.
A central focus of Ritsudo Therapy is the fifth lumbar vertebra, located at the base of the spine. Through this point, the body’s rhythms are assessed and gently influenced through extremely light, precise, non-forceful contact. Ritsudoho also uses…