Shaolin Wahnam Institute
Shaolin Wahnam Institute was founded by Sifu Wong Kiew Kit to promote the practice of genuine Shaolin Chi Kung, Shaolin Kungfu and Shaolin philosophy, and to spread correct awareness about genuine Chinese martial and esoteric arts. Nowadays, the regrettable standard with chi kung and kungfu is that a genuine, high-level art is very hard to find. The Shaolin Wahnam Institute is committed to pass on genuine arts to deserving students and on to future generations. Today the Institute is active in numerous countries all over the world.
The design of our logo is red in colour and the background yellow. These are the colours of our school. Red represents courage and righteousness, and yellow represents compassion and wisdom, manifesting the ideals of a scholar-warrior as well as the ideals of a warrior-monk. The inner and the outer circles represent both the internal and external approaches of our cultivation, and also signify that we pay importance to both our mind as well as our body. The inner circle reminds us of the importance of internal unity, and the outer circle our universality, i.e. we spread our arts to deserving people irrespective of their race, culture and religion.
The design of the trident and three-sectional soft-whip makes the letter W and N, indicating Wah Nam, named after Grandmaster Lai Chin Wah and Grandmaster Ho Fatt Nam, the two sources from which our school developed. The trident and soft-whip also represent kong (gang in Mandarine) and yow (rou), indicating both the hard and soft dimensions of our training. Furthermore, they remind us of the three treasures of Shaolin, namely chi kung, kungfu and Zen, and that our training involves all the three dimensions of form, energy and mind.
