Sifu Restita DeJesus is the Founder and Chief Instructor of Seattle Wushu Center. She has studied martial arts since 1978, and holds black belt certifications in Butokukan Karate, Wun Hop Kuen Do-Chuan Fa Kajukenbo (Faircloth Method), Kyudo, FMAA Eskrima/Kali/Silat (Petrilli Method), Cacoy Canete's Doce Pares Eskrima, Pangamot , Eskrido, Chinese contemporary Wushu, Chen Taijiquan and Yang Taijiquan. She also offers private lessons in these subjects, as well as private and public group workshops in Women's & Teen Girl's Self Protection and Self Defens.e
In her tournament competition career, she won many local, regional, National and International championship titles in forms performance in Tai Chi Wushu and Kajukenbo. She was a 5 time regional National Black Belt League Champion in Kajukenbo forms, a 3 time USA Wushu Kung Fu National Champion and 3 time International Champion in Tai Chi and Wushu forms.
Sifu Restita is an ordained Interfaith Minister and Reiki Master Practitioner. In her spare time outside of teaching martial arts, her hobbies include meditation, reading, paracord crafts, knife throwing, bullwhip trick cracking, archery, target blowgun shooting and target slingshot shooting.
She is a certified instructor in the USCCA (US Concealed Carry Association), and blends her decades of martial arts and self defense training with her USSCA certification. She founded her affiliate organization, "Encompass Defense Collective", which specializes in teaching workshops and seminars to women and girls in the mental and physical aspects of empty hand and weapons aspects of self protection and home defense, as well as Co-Ed or Women-only workshops in Firearm Safety classes (WA state HB 1143 & I-1639 Compliant) and basic handgun fundamentals
Restita is Lifetime member of the Association of Women's Martial Arts Instructors (AWMAI) and an served on the board of directors for the Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists (PAWMA). Over the year she has been inducted into several martial arts hall of fame:
*Masters Hall of Fame (2011)
*Cacoy Doce Pares World Federation Hall of Fame (2012)
* AWMAI (Association of Women Martial Arts Instructors) Hall of fame (2013)
*Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Honors (2014)
*USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame (2015, 2016, 2017)
Her personal philosophy: "Always keep an open enough mind to learn from anything and anyone. Any person can be your teacher."
In her tournament competition career, she won many local, regional, National and International championship titles in forms performance in Tai Chi Wushu and Kajukenbo. She was a 5 time regional National Black Belt League Champion in Kajukenbo forms, a 3 time USA Wushu Kung Fu National Champion and 3 time International Champion in Tai Chi and Wushu forms.
Sifu Restita is an ordained Interfaith Minister and Reiki Master Practitioner. In her spare time outside of teaching martial arts, her hobbies include meditation, reading, paracord crafts, knife throwing, bullwhip trick cracking, archery, target blowgun shooting and target slingshot shooting.
She is a certified instructor in the USCCA (US Concealed Carry Association), and blends her decades of martial arts and self defense training with her USSCA certification. She founded her affiliate organization, "Encompass Defense Collective", which specializes in teaching workshops and seminars to women and girls in the mental and physical aspects of empty hand and weapons aspects of self protection and home defense, as well as Co-Ed or Women-only workshops in Firearm Safety classes (WA state HB 1143 & I-1639 Compliant) and basic handgun fundamentals
Restita is Lifetime member of the Association of Women's Martial Arts Instructors (AWMAI) and an served on the board of directors for the Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists (PAWMA). Over the year she has been inducted into several martial arts hall of fame:
*Masters Hall of Fame (2011)
*Cacoy Doce Pares World Federation Hall of Fame (2012)
* AWMAI (Association of Women Martial Arts Instructors) Hall of fame (2013)
*Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Honors (2014)
*USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame (2015, 2016, 2017)
Her personal philosophy: "Always keep an open enough mind to learn from anything and anyone. Any person can be your teacher."
