Lidia Aliosa's path into healing began the way many genuine callings do — through her own suffering. Her experience with autoimmune illness became an invitation to look beyond symptom management and toward something more fundamental: the body's innate capacity to heal itself when given the right conditions, the right support, and the right presence.
What started as a personal search became a calling. She has spent years developing one of the most genuinely rare practices in integrative wellness — a form of Integral Sound Healing that draws from both indigenous teachings and rigorous contemporary training, and that honors the full spectrum of what it means to be human.
She has studied with teachers in the Shipibo and Q'ero traditions of Peru — traditions that carry an understanding of sound, energy, and the body's relationship to the living world that no academic program replicates. Alongside that study, she holds Level 1 and Level 2 certification through the internationally accredited Sound Healing Academy, studied Biosonic Repatterning with Dr. John Beaulieu, and trained with Natalie Brown. She weaves somatic practices, craniosacral principles, and acupressure into her approach — because the body that receives sound is not only an acoustic instrument. It is a nervous system, a history, and a whole person.
Her focus is the nervous system — specifically, the transition from the survival states of stress, overwhelm, and chronic activation into the rest, regulation, and presence that genuine healing requires. She does not see her role as making healing happen. She sees it as creating the conditions under which healing can unfold. The distinction matters: one requires force, the other requires trust.
At the center of her practice is an intention she holds in every session — that the space she offers is grounded, compassionate, and genuinely safe. That people feel free to slow down, listen inward, and remember the rhythm they have been too busy to hear.
She co-founded the Center for Infinite Transformation because she believes that healing is not an individual achievement. It is something that happens in the right environment, with the right support, in the company of people who understand that the body is wiser than the conditions it has been forced to live in.
Some people find their path through study. Mike Hall found his at seventeen, when he placed his hand on someone in pain and the pain disappeared. He had no framework for what had happened. He only knew that something real had occurred — and that knowledge stayed with him for years, repeating itself in ways he could not yet explain.
Long before the Navy, long before the martial arts, the shape of who Mike is was already forming. The qualities that would define his service were not new when he entered the Navy — he had earned the rank of Eagle Scout, and the discipline, perseverance, and sense of service that distinction demands had been part of his character long before he ever wore a uniform. That same character carried into his Navy years, which took him across the entire European theater, contributing to technologies that have since evolved into modern drone systems. His service was recognized with a Navy Achievement Medal presented personally by Admiral Jeremy \"Mike\" Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations, in 1995.
When he returned to civilian life and settled in San Antonio, he encountered Tai Chi for the first time. He did not know what he was looking at, but he recognized it immediately as something he needed to pursue. That recognition led him to Horacio Lopez — one of San Antonio's foundational figures in the internal arts, who trained for years in traditional Yang Family Tai Chi under Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo and other internal arts masters. During that same period Mike had the opportunity to learn directly from Master Dong Zhenchen of the Dong Family Tai Chi lineage. Through those years of practice, what had been intuitive became structural. The movement of Qi — the vital energy that Chinese medicine has mapped for thousands of years — became something he could feel, refine, and direct.
His path then moved through other arenas, each of which would later serve the work. He returned to Florida and built a nationally recognized information technology company, worked with organizations including Intel and Microsoft, and served as Vice President of IT at a global engineering firm. During that chapter he continued deepening his practice — studying with Bruce Kumar Frantzis in Taoist yoga and Dragon and Tiger Medical QiGong, and with Grandmaster Weizhao Wu in anti-cancer and eye QiGong, among others. The discipline, structure, and systems thinking of that chapter never left him. Neither did the pull toward the work he had begun.
The decision to return fully to that work led him to Jerry Alan Johnson — one of the most respected figures in Chinese Energetic Medicine and the lineage holder of both the Taoist and Buddhist traditions Mike carries. Alongside that training, Mike studied with Harinder Singh Sabharwal, D.C.E.M., deepening his understanding of the internal dimensions of Tai Chi and NeiGong. His study with Dr. Robert Joyce, D.M.Q., began during that same period and continues to this day — an ongoing relationship that reflects the way serious practice in these traditions works: not as a credential completed, but as a living discipline that deepens over time. Mike earned his Doctorate in Chinese Energetic Medicine in 2024, which conferred his ordination as a Taoist Priest. As that program drew toward completion, he made his way back to San Antonio — the city where the internal work had first taken root.
Alongside the Taoist transmission, Mike entered focused study of Buddhist mysticism — a process that unfolded over the full course of Johnson's three-year program in that tradition. From that depth he was recognized with the title of Lama. The Taoist and Buddhist lineages he carries are two distinct transmissions — a responsibility he holds with genuine reverence.
Today he works with clients locally and internationally, helping individuals navigate physical, energetic, and spiritual challenges, and guiding those who feel called to develop their own awareness through QiGong and Tai Chi. He co-founded the Center for Infinite Transformation because he wanted to build a place where anyone could thrive — the person who needs to see the research before they trust anything, and the person who has always known there is something more than what the research has caught up to yet. Some find their way here through science. Others find their way here through something ancient. What he hoped was that each of them might, in time, discover the other door was open too. This is a center built by professionals with serious training and a genuine calling — and it was built for everyone.