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Hi Tao Bums Community ~ I’m new here so I thought I would stop in and say hello, and also see if anyone can recommend a qigong/neigong system or teacher with a deep understanding and instruction regarding the extraordinary meridians, preferably something different than is found in the typical TCM system. I've been an acupuncturist for 10 years, and been into qigong and yoga for quite a long time. I’ve recently become interested in internal alchemy. I’m not looking for any particular “powers” other than to have control of my own energy circuits, and also anything that contributes to vibrant health and longevity (for myself and my patients). Mostly I just really resonate with Taoist cosmology and Chinese medicine, and I really enjoy learning about and working in the energetic realms. The last few years, I’ve been a student of one of Jerry Alan Johnson’s senior teachers and enjoy that system greatly. I planned to continue with it, but I recently find myself without a teacher and wondering which direction I should go with my qigong practice. I find JAJ’s system to be particularly powerful (for me, anyway) in terms of clearing stagnant energies and healing in general, and I appreciate how open he is with his knowledge. I plan to continue my daily practice with that system, but now that my teacher is gone, I’m wondering what else is out there. In the past year, I’ve been doing a lot of postural daoyin training (JAJ’s wuji posture and the 1-10 meditation) and experiencing the Qi that comes up from the earth, in particular discovering how proper posture activates the flow of the extraordinary meridians, including branches off the main pathways that I don’t find in the textbooks. What I’ve been experiencing doesn’t seem to be part of JAJ’s system, although perhaps it’s in there and I didn’t get to that point yet. However I’m not finding references to what I’m experiencing in his books and my teacher didn’t remark on my experiences when I told him about them. I recently read the Chase/Shima translation of Li Shi Zhen’s book on the extraordinary meridians, and found a lot of correspondences between what I’m experiencing and what he says about the 8 extras, particularly regarding pathways and focal points. Li Shi Zhen doesn’t appear to use the standard (TCM) confluent points of the 8 extras, but he references the knowledge of Zhang Bo Duan, and implies that a doctor should cultivate the 8 extras through internal alchemy to really understand how to use them. So I’m looking for a teacher or system that discusses this. Does anyone know a system or teacher out there, pointing to the same things Li Shi Zhen was pointing to, regarding the 8 extras? I’ve poked through the forums and I’ve seen references to this book, but not to systems that really discuss this. The information must be out there somewhere though, and I’m hoping someone here might know. Thanks so much, everyone, and I look forward to getting to know people here! And as soon as I can figure out how to flesh out my profile, I'll do that too.