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Edward Orem has 45 years experience in integral mind-body training systems, including several yogas and martial arts of India, China, Tibet, Japan. He was introduced to Asian martial arts in 1962, when he started training in Bando (Burmese kick-boxing). However, he was already training full-time in collegiate track, carrying a full-time university study load, and working two part-time jobs, so he had to put his martial arts on hold for awhile. But he was hooked and went back to Bando in 1964, after fulfilling his university athletic responsibilities and achieving his B.A. in English. Kick-boxing remained his chief martial focus until 1970, with the beginning of instruction in Shaolin Chuan and T'ai-chi Chuan. Studies in Chi-Kung, Kenpo, Xing-I Ch'uan and Pa-Kua Chang followed. Sifu Orem holds the following ranks: -Black Sash/Instructor, from Gung-Fu Wu-Shu Institute, 1976; -6th Degree Black Sash in Chinese Boxing, from the World Chinese Boxing Federation, 1992; -8th Degree Black Belt in Zen Kenpo-jitsu, from the World Nibuikai Budo Federation, 1996; -10th Toan, Shaolin Chuan Fa, from the International Chinese Boxing Association, 2006. He was also voted into the World Martial Arts Masters Society (head-quartered in Germany), as the ranking member of the Society. Sifu Orem is the author of several manuals focused on the practicum and methodology of effective training, including ESOTERIC MARTIAL ARTS OF ZEN: TRAINING METHODS FROM THE PATRIARCH, as well as an historical fiction novel in the wu hsia genre, ROOT AND BRANCH, set in 1850's California (lots of kung fu fighting!).He has also created and produced 35 training videos. Sifu Orem has taught through a community college, as consultant with a Native American health clinic and as instructor at a rural hospital. He has also been a high school teacher, university teacher, language school director (Africa and Wash., DC), and research linguist. He was honored in 1976 to be chosen to work for President Carter's Bay Area Committee for Alternative health Practices. In 1990 Sifu Orem founded Kenpo International, to promote the health--physical, mental, spiritual--of its members. Instruction offered in Longevity Arts of China and Tibet, Chi-Kung, Chinese Yoga, chuan fa, Shaolin Chuan and T'ai-chi Ch'uan. For information regarding classes/personal instruction in Costa Rica: http: //chuan-fa.tripod.com

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