DZRSI Standards Committee
DZRSI Administration
The DZRSI healing arts program Standards Committee:
- Administrative body responsible for the instruction, content and recordkeeping of the national program referred to as Danzan Ryu Restorative Therapy (DZRRT)
- Ensures that all instructors are qualified and that all goals and standards are being followed and implemented
- Participates in program final exams
DZRSI Records Administrator
Current Records Administrator: Ed Shatzen
Email: healingarts@ajjf.org
Operates under the direction of the Standards Committee.
Responsible for:
- Records
- Finances
- Administrative matters for all DZRSI authorized bodywork programs
- Reporting financial records to the AJJF National Manager of Finance
DZRSI Committee Members
Yodan
- 1983 Attended first DZRRT Course offered by AJJF
- 1986 Began Assistant Teaching in DZRRT
- Makoto Kai Dojo & Healing Arts, Founder, 1990
- 1996-2019, Hosted DZRSI Programs in Woodland, CA
- DZRSI Standards Committee Member since 1997
- DZRSI Standards Committee Chair, 2017 – Present
Kudan
Vice-President of the AJJF
AJJF
- 1970 Started Danzan Ryu Jujitsu
- 1971 Began the lifelong journey of learning Seifukujitsu
- Studied with the following students of the founder, Professor Okazaki
- Professor Bud Estes over a period of 5 years
- Professor Sig Kufferath over a period of 13 years
- Completed Classes with:
- Professor Jack Wheat
- ProfessorBing Fai Lau
- Uncle David Neuava
- LaRoy Wilson
- Hachiro Okazaki
- Keith Okazaki
- Professor Lamar Fisher
- 2nd to Senior Professor Tom Ball in the development of the Okuden Program including the healing side to the Seifukujitsu system Professor Okazaki taught at the higher or esoteric level
- Responsible for the transmission of the Asian Medicine side of Seifukujtsu in the DZRRT Programs as well as the upper lists of the Danzan Ryu Jujitsu system
DZRSI
- One of two original founders of the Danzan Ryu Seifukujitsu Institute (DZRSI)
- Helped create and continue to update all aspects of the DZRSI Programs
- OORM, Basic Level, under Sensei Keith Okazaki
Professional
- 1986, Graduated – San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
- 1990 – present, Specialized practice in Qigong related to Martial and Asian Medical Arts
- 1991 – present, Practicing Acupuncturist and Herbalist
- 2011 – present, Faculty member ASAOM School of Acupuncture in Tucson, AZ
- 2012 – present, Clinical Supervisor
- 2015 – present, Herbal Room Manager
Hachidan
Massage Education
- 1985, Graduate – DZRSI Program in Okazaki Restorative Massage
- 2011, Graduate – Sensei Keith Okazaki’s Original Okazaki Restorative Massage
- 2016, Studying with Dr. Anthony Zimkowski, PHD – Fascial Release
AJJF and DZRSI
- 1986 – 1994, DZRSI Programs – Assistant Instructor
- 1995 – present, Founder – Palmetto Jujitsu Academy & Healing Arts Center, Inc., Danzan Ryu Jujitsu and Danzan Ryu Restorative Therapy (DZRRT)
- 1997 – 2014 and 2020 – present, DZRSI Standards Committee Member
- 1998 – present, Presided over 220 Danzan Ryu Restorative Therapy graduates
Bodywork History
- 1992 – present, Full Instructor and Practitioner – American Organization of Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA)
- 1998 – present, DZRSI Full Instructor and Practitioner – DZRRT Module 1 & Module 2
- 1996 – present, Licensed Massage Therapist in South Carolina
Rokudan
- Studied DZRRT since 1990 under Sensei Cynthia Frueh
- Certified Massage Therapist, California
- Licensed Physical Therapist, California since 1997
- OORM, Basic Level, under Sensei Keith Okazaki
- Wasenshi Kan Martial & Healing Arts, Founder and School Head
Rokudan
- Records Administrator since 1997
Godan
- 1975 – Present, studied Danzan Ryu Jujitsu and Seifukujitsu
- Studied under Professor Patrick Browne
- Taught DZRSI courses for over 25 years
- 1995 – Present, DZRSI Standards Committee member
- Former DZRSI Standards Committee Chair
- Have and continue to study other healing art modalities to strengthen and deepen my understanding of Professor Okazaki’s Danzan Ryu Healing Arts
Sandan
- First began learning DZRRT in the dojo in 1996 under Sensei Jay Kalisek, D.C.
- Module 1-2, 2008-2009 under Professor Robert Hudson
- Continued with Professor Hudson’s Advanced Training, 2009-Present
- Assistant Instructor to Full Instructor 2010-2012
- DZRSI Committee Member since 2014
- Licensed Massage Therapist, Colorado Since 2010