Gaan
Som Quam
Gaan
Som Quam is the ancient practice of energy movement from which T'ai
Chi and other Qi Gongs have derived their forms. The
original art was not used for fighting, but for healing, and in particular,
the movement was used to facilitate meditation, or going inward to
explore the boundless dynamic of Mind and Spirit.
The
master teachers of Gaan Som Quam taught that just as our bodies become
dirty from day-to-day and we must bathe; our 'inner
bodies' or beings become equally filthy, though seen in different (more
or less obvious) ways. The teaching of Quam
itself is the 'soap' we use to cleanse our minds and spirits, Gaan
Som Quam is the water that leaves us refreshed
and ready to begin again. The negative internal build-up
is what the West understands to be stress. But much more
this: it causes disease and unrest of every kind including depression
to sociopathic behavior and from ulcers to cancer.
This
is why Gaan Som Quam is considered a healing art as the ancients
did not identify the modern psychological or physical
ailments as such, but treated all imbalances similarly and effectively by
using healing energy coupled with their great spiritual understanding.
They taught that all had access to this power, not just a chosen few,
and taught individuals how to create it for themselves; to effect
change within themselves according to how they wished.
There
are many delightful stories of students who began because they wanted
to become more beautiful, or gain more riches,
which they did, and those students laugh often because they came for
these worldly things and then gained so much more: True beauty and
true riches. For what can be better than faith in one's self, one's
abilities, peace of mind and joyous life? This is the promise of Gaan
Som Quam. A promise it delivers.
To
find out more about GSQ please visit lyceumstudios.
"You
do not have to drink from the polluted waters of false religion,
nor do you
have to swim in the uncertain waters of philosophy...There is a better
source: YOU can go to the source. All truth and wisdom reside
within you."
