The Engaging Vitality approach to Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine gives us the hands on skills and tools to engage with practical manifestations of qi. 
After many decades of work in the fields of osteopathy and East Asian Medicine, the main developers of EV have synthesized a way of working that allows us to: 

• Feel the state of the qi (shape of qi) directly
• Feel the location of core restrictions
• Use variations in temperature to gain general and specific information
• Directly feel which points are most available for treatment and their precise locations
• Directly assess the flow in each channel
• Assess the state of the Yin and fluids, and work with that information

• Feel whether the treatments have produced a clinically meaningful change
• Use the principle of effortless action (wu wei) in the practice

Techniques such as these allow us to respond more fluidly to the requirements of our patients’ qi in a true dialogue. 
These techniques are primarily diagnostic in nature and are readily integrated with nearly any style of acupuncture. 

They provide a means for the fundamental concepts of East Asian medicine to come to life in our hands