Is "chi" force of Taoism and "kundalini" power in Hinduism one and the same?

Is "chi" force of Taoism and "kundalini" power in Hinduism one and the same?

It has been a good while since I studied it, but if memory serves, Chi (or Qi) is a more universal or impersonal force while Kundalini is something located within each of us and waiting to be "unlocked," although that spiritual power is unlimited. Someone may well correct me, but I would say while they are similar in at least some aspects, they are not one and the same.

I will mark this as interesting and see if any of my contacts can answer better.

I will say they are the same, if Chi is seen as "the mysterious female", Kundalini is also known as Kundalini Shakti and is the power of the female, the life giver, both are the life force that creates and moves life. Here is a short verse probably from the Tao.

The Mysterious Female

The Valley Spirit never dies
It is named the Mysterious Female.
And the doorway of the Mysterious Female
Is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang.
It is there within us all the while;
Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry.

"Tantrics believe that it takes a lot of energy to ?remember? the original Oneness. Instead of involving seclusion and a solitary path of abstinence to generate this energy, Tantrism teaches that this energy is available within us all as our sexual power ? variously called kindling (Sanskrit) or Ming Men, ?Life Gate Fire? (Chinese). This energy can be awakened and directed toward the spiritual goal of realizing the clear vision of divine unity. In Tantrism, energy and consciousness are one and the same like the two sides of a coin. In the Hindu Tantra, this polarity is personified as Shiva (consciousness) and Shakti (life energy). The practitioner of sexual Tantra intends to reach ecstatic union with her or his partner through surrender of the ego to this released energy. Love and sexual attraction stir the energy awake and allow it to rise. Consciousness expands between love partners to the point where there is the possibility of directly experiencing the true nature of each other as a profound identification with the primal god and goddess. It is at this point that the sense of separateness vanishes and a true ecstatic merging or union is possible."

Ive had a kindling awakening and Ive also spent a number of years training in wing Chin Jung FY.
In my experience of kindling it appears to be something of a mysterious force not truly visible in this world, it is a corporeal energy belonging to any individual physical unit.It appears to have its own identity and its own awareness. Chi on the other hand is more apparent, almost external but access able to a physical unit and able to manipulate and use in force and defense i think Tao chi is a better art in perfecting this. Im uncertain if they are in cahoots, and i feel they are both very important to us as beings physically and meta physically.