In Taoist Yoga, Sifu Lu gives the Western world traditional Taoist Adepts' secrets condensed in a singular diamond of concentrated clarity and potency.

Arcane and repetitive to some, this is a manual that needs to be practiced to be understood. Few other books on Taoist alchemy and the psycho-physical realization of immortality are comparable. Modern day reworkings of the subject, such as Mantak Chia's popular books, don't come close to the richness and esoteric depth contained in these essential chapters.

The woodblock illustrations are intuitively spot-on, accurately reflecting the internal movement, concentration, and feeling-awareness of vitality, energy, spirit, essence and life.

This is the source book that anyone seriously interested in Taoist alchemy needs to keep by his or her bedside. Although the treatise is very male-centric, the yoga equally applies to women. However, instead of seed retention, women gain from subtley cycling the qi or energy of males' retained seed.

It is important to note that while emphasizing seed retention, it is during the regeneration of that seed that male practice most rapidly develops. The manual does not make this fact clear, focusing as it does on those generally older men who have most likely 'wasted' much of their vitality in the years prior to taking up cultivation of the Tao.

L. Kohn's Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques serves as a nice extension to this work. T. Cleary's Vitality, Energy, and Spirit is recommended as an introduction to the subject and practice.