Nāḍī
Academicnāḍī · channel, conduit. Nāḍī-Śuddhi: purification of the channels, required before serious energetic practice
Neo-Tantricrarely used. Where it appears it usually means the practice, not the prerequisite
Somaticno direct equivalent. Nearest is capacity, and the vocabulary of what a system can carry
ScientificThe anatomical claim has no modern correlate and should not be given one. The structural claim, that the conductor is prepared before the current is raised, is the sequencing every trauma-informed approach arrived at independently a thousand years later. Mixed
In the corpus: nobody arrives asking for this. Almost everybody turns out to need it first.