 Daoyin (lit., “guiding and pulling”; Despeux 1989; Kohn 2008) can be defined, in Western terms, as a sort of gymnastics, in the sense that it grants physical agility and coordination. In a different reference frame, its formal features and its place in Daoism bear analogies to what hatha yoga is in Hinduism. The purpose of daoyin postures and movements is to allow the unhindered flow of qi within the body. The practice is known to have existed at least by the 3rd or 2nd century BCE (trans. of a Mawangdui manuscript, Harper 1998: 310–27). Only one text on daoyin is found in the Daoist Canon (trans. Kohn 2012, in a chapter oddly entitled “Internal Alchemy”).