Nope. I can tap into someone's ki through clothing or armor, as long as it's not... like... a foot-thick layer.
[A skill most monks figure out through doing Stunning Strikes - it'd be pretty hard to successfully disrupt the ki of an active combatant if access to bare flesh was a requirement. Empathic healing may have a very different effect, but the underlying principle remains the same: it's all about reaching into the lifepool of others to achieve a certain change in their system, right?]
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[A skill most monks figure out through doing Stunning Strikes - it'd be pretty hard to successfully disrupt the ki of an active combatant if access to bare flesh was a requirement. Empathic healing may have a very different effect, but the underlying principle remains the same: it's all about reaching into the lifepool of others to achieve a certain change in their system, right?]