Sea~Zen Restorative Wellness and Reiki © 

My practitioner of the healing arts journey began a few years prior to my 2007 meeting with esteemed grandmaster teachers Atsushi Ikemoto and Art Gonzales in their humble Northern California dojo. I was still an educator in the public sphere and moonlighting as a yoga teacher and middle eastern dancer. Fortuitously I was literally given this training via a colleague and longtime friend of Mr. Ikemoto.  Reluctantly I pursued this experience out of pure curiosity as is my temperament. First impressions as they are; I was welcomed into an unfamiliar space of  collaborative discussion and masterful feedback of the profoundly powerful healing aspects of the martial arts. The technique I learned later that was adapted by the masterful, sacred and honored work of Dr. Henry Okazaki. It was considered originally developed to only be exclusively shared among a handful of martial artists within the Danzan Ryu Jujitsu Dojo in Hawaii circa 1929. My study, practice and certification is by far they most precious of my healing modalities due to this most valuable training. I am humbled and honored to be an alumni student of Atsushi Ikemoto and Art Gonzales, both of which were my generous and skilled grandmasters as well as high ranking martial artists who participated in clinics and retreats worldwide.

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​*https://www.ajjf.org/danzan-ryu-jujitsu/what-is-seifukujitsu/

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