Jamen Zacharias
All Things Institute
Path of Rest
Founding Instructor
Jeet Kune Do
-Certified Senior Full Instructor under Thomas Cruse
-Certified Full Instructor under Michael Gruener
Edged & Impact Weapons-Craft
-Certified Senior Full Instructor under Thomas Cruse
-Certified Full Instructor under Shishir Inocalla
-Certified Full Instructor under Michael Gruener
-Certified Edged Weapons Instructor under Paul Vunak
-Advanced Certificate of Training in Edged & Impact Weapons under Jerson Tortal
Student of Mark Mikita, Combative Arts International, Art of the Blade
Swordsmanship
-Certified 2nd Degree Black Belt under Mr Jong
-Certified 1st Degree Black Belt under Mr Min
Background:
Jamen is one of very few worldwide, certified as a Senior Full Instructor in Jeet Kune Do & Filipino Martial Arts. He has over 22 years of study and training in martial arts and has professionally taught, Military, Law Enforcement Officials, Security Officials, Protective Service Officials, Emergency Response Team Officials, Martial Arts Instructors, Professional Film Actors, Woman’s Safe House Groups, Youth Groups & Community Associations, Special Needs Children, Children, Youth, Business Operators, Parents, Child Care Workers, Social Workers, School Teachers, Therapists and many others.
Jamen has instructed professionally in Canada, USA, Philippines and South Korea, within martial arts schools, and various other agencies and organizations, such as the UNESCO Peace Forum in South Korea. Jamen has written and continues to write published articles on martial arts and there philosophies, often expounding upon how they may be understood in regards to peace, justice and personal cultivation.
Jamen is the founding instructor of the All Things Institute of Path of Rest and the chief certifying teacher of the All Things Institute Association of Instructors.
Jamen’s study is comprehensive, including not only decades of physical training, but additional and continual consideration of the philosophical, emotional, mental, spiritual dimensions and repercussions of the arts. He has searched out many of the very best teachers in the world, well known and unknown, to train with them extensively and personally.
Jamen’s three main focusses include: Woman’s Self Defense/Life Preservation, Protective Service Professionals & Path of Rest, Sage Martial Craft (Holistic Instructors/Practitioners) Jamen’s martial foundation is attributed to his more then 18 year study and practice of the philosophical and highly efficient art of Jeet Kune Do.
A survivor of the devastating disease of Crohns, enduring numerous surgeries ending in a permanent Ileo-Ostomy, Jamen is honored to serve many communities with the arts and strives to inspire young and old to over come there personal hardships and difficulties.
As a Baha’i, www.bahai.org Jamen enjoys contemplating and reflecting upon the history, present and distant future significances of training the martial sciences, in light of the Baha’i Sacred Scriptures, he considers how the arts may be converted into suitable service instruments for the betterment of humanity, both for today and for the future, which is the underlying reasoning for the on going refinement of the Path of Rest.
