For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.”- Yoda
Beyond relatively well-known terms such as 'Prana', chi and 'spirit' our life-force 'bio-energy' has been known by a multitude of names around the world - for instance:
• ki – the Japanese (and Korean-?) equivalent of chi• rLung - Tibetan - inner 'winds' of life force•
Ruach Ha Kodesh - 'Hebrew for Breath of God'
• Nafs and Ruh - the Islamic terms for a kind of 'Soul breath'•
Spiritus Sanctus - the (Catholic) Latin term meaning 'Holy Spirit'
• Pneuma - (Greek) 'vital breath'
• Élan vital – the term for 'vital life-force' in classical European Vitalism
• vis medicatrix naturae or natura medica – the inner healing power of Nature – from the early Greek Hippocratic tradition
• Aether, (ether) and quintessence – European alchemical terms for life force in its more refined form.
• Od or Odic force - terms used in von Reichenbach's theory
• Orgone – revolutionary psycho-biologist Wilhelm Reich's term for vital life force
• nilch'i - the Navajo term for 'sacred life-giving wind or life-force'
• ni – the Lakota Sioux term for life-force
•mana (a Oceanic-Polynesian term – and more recently also adopted as the term for life-force by several fantasy role-playing games
• ha – a more-specifically Hawaiian (Huna) term for 'breath' or sacred life force
•ka – the Ancient Egyptian idea of a vital essence or life energy
•the modern (Star Wars) classic term for bio-energy 'the Force'.
Kundalini is the term for "a spiritual energy or life force located at the base of the spine", conceptualized as a coiled-up serpent.