Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao

Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao renders Daoist internal alchemy and qigong into step-by-step Western instruction. Its central premise is that a subtle life-force, chi, pervades the body and can be sensed, gathered, and circulated by trained attention and breath.

The book centers on the Microcosmic Orbit, the practice of moving energy through the body's principal channels, alongside related techniques for refining and storing chi. Drawing on neidan and qigong lineages, it treats consciousness and breath as the instruments by which a felt energy is concentrated and directed.

For the eastern energy systems tradition the work is a key conduit of the qi paradigm into modern spirituality, an experiential bridge between Eastern internal alchemy and the contemporary language of raising one's energy and working with vibration.