Mike Hall

Some people find their path through study. Mike Hall found his at seventeen, when he placed a hand on someone in pain and the pain disappeared. There was no framework for what had happened, only the knowledge that something real had occurred. That knowledge stayed with him for years, repeating itself in ways he could not yet explain.

Long before the Navy, and long before the martial arts, the shape of who Mike is was already forming. He earned the rank of Eagle Scout as a young man, and the discipline and service it asks of a person were already part of his character. That character carried into his Navy years, which took him across the European theater and into work on technologies that have since evolved into modern drone systems. That service earned a Navy Achievement Medal, presented in 1995 by Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations.

Returning to civilian life, he settled in San Antonio and encountered Tai Chi for the first time. He did not know what he was looking at, but recognized it at once as something to pursue. That recognition led 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 masters. During that same period, Mike had the chance 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. Back in Florida, he 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. He kept deepening his practice through that chapter, studying Taoist yoga and Dragon and Tiger Medical QiGong with Bruce Kumar Frantzis, and anti-cancer and eye QiGong with Grandmaster Weizhao Wu, among others. The discipline and structure of that chapter never left him. Neither did the pull toward the path he had begun.

The decision to return to it fully led him to Jerry Alan Johnson, 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 the internal dimensions of Tai Chi and NeiGong. His study with Dr. Robert Joyce, D.M.Q., began in that same period and continues today. It reflects how serious practice in these traditions actually 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 came recognition with the title of Lama. The Taoist and Buddhist lineages he carries are two distinct transmissions, a responsibility he holds with reverence.

Today Mike works with clients locally and internationally, helping people work through physical, energetic, and spiritual challenges, while also guiding those who feel called to develop their own awareness through the inner arts. He co-founded the Center for Infinite Transformation on a simple idea: three ways in, one center. Modern Science offers modalities you can measure, each with a mechanism behind it. Ancient Wisdom holds the older traditions that work with the energy beneath the symptom. The Practices are the inner arts, for those who come to keep growing, or simply to remember themselves.

Whatever brings you in, there's a hand here to help you find the way.