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Hello, I’d like to introduce myself and get some advice. I am 27 years old, healthy American woman, fairly new to Qigong and Taoism though not to meditation which I have been practicing for about 12 years from the Thai Theravada Buddhist school of thought. For the past few months I have been doing Qigong exercises daily using Lee Holden’s DVD’s. Having experienced some benefits (more energy, physical health and well-being) I would like to improve and deepen my practice. I am interested in increasing my chi for vitality as well as develop my inner powers and grow spiritually. I am not interested in exoteric fighting martial arts forms. I am mostly interested in moving Qigong/Neigong spiritual practices as am already doing Theravada Buddhist sitting meditation practices (anapanasatti & vipassana). I would like to explore a more traditional Qigong/Neigong lineage and would like some advice as to where to begin. I live in the Austin, Texas area. Thanks. p.s. I would also appreciate a good basic reading list on Taoism, Qigong and Neigong for a beginner that is easy to understand. -Julia

Hello all, I hope this is the right section for posting this Few weeks ago I attended a weekend workshop about how to have Out-Of-Body experiences as a way of self-realization, for spiritual growth. The teacher showed us some techniques for charging the Tan Tien centre. If we have this centre fully charged -he claims- it will be easier for us to have OBEs. He explained us some stuff about Qi Gong's and Carlos Castaneda's way of working with the energy within to get this goal. I got quite interested so, when I got home, I surfed the net to find out more about this soft qi gong practise and I've read different comments by people talking on how the practice of qigong has made them experience OBEs (regardless they wanted them to happen or not), spiritual experiences, etc, so I'd like to know more about this way of working with one's energy system in order to grow spiritually. Since it seems that there are hundreds of qigong styles out there, according to the experts and senior qigong practitioners from this forum, what's the best qi gong style for this? Newman.