Dear Universal Healing Tao Team, I wish to attend the four weeks of Instructor Training in January 2015. I have been cultivating a deep interest in energy work and energy medicine over the last four years in particular, and currently practise Qi Gong (and Pranayam) on a daily basis. I have had little formal training; I have studied a little Tai Chi through a school, but most of my education has come through learning from friends, books & DVDs. I have studied Healing Love Through the Tao (and practise many of the exercises from this book, including using a jade egg).I have also read Cultivating Male Sexual Energy. I am currently reading Iron Shirt Chi Kung I. Regarding other authors, I have read some of Dr Stephen T. Chang's works, including The Complete System of Self-Healing, and Livia Kohn's books, including Daoist Body Cultivation. For acceptance into the Instructor Training course, are there any specific studies that I should avail myself of prior to the course itself? I am happy to write a more formal application with a bit more background information and my reasons for being drawn to Mantak Chia's teachings, but thought I should put my feelers out first to see what is required. Thank you for reading this, and I look forward to hearing from you. Warm regards, Sarah