“The Secret of the Golden Flower”

I’d like to try to describe what I see in the lines of the illustration from “The Secret of the Golden Flower” (a Chinese meditation manual now dated somewhere between 1668 and 1692):

"Secret of the Golden Flower", energy channels in the body

The lines up the leg parallel the ilio-tibial tract, a fascial band which stretches from the lower leg to the pelvis, and to which the tensor ...  read more