The Inner Arts
A growing set of practices in energetics, QiGong, Yoga Nidra, and the Taoist and Buddhist traditions. Taught by someone who has lived inside this work since he was young.
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.
There's a classroom experiment most people remember. You lay a sheet of paper over a magnet. You scatter iron filings across it. And the invisible lines of force appear all at once, plain to see. The field was always there. The filings only showed it.
The body has a field of its own. Lines of force that have been mapped and worked with for thousands of years, in more than one tradition. Most people have never been shown how to feel them. Not because the ability is rare, but because no one offered the introduction.
What you can't feel, you can't work with. Everything here is built on that one thing.
The Inner Arts stands apart from the self-directed therapies and the practitioner sessions, though it deepens both. It's for people who want to build their own awareness and their own way of working with the energy body.
What's inside the practice.
These come from a few traditions that point at the same thing in different words. Each one stands on its own. Together they give more ways in, and more depth, than any single lineage alone.
Energetics
The entry point. Learning to feel the field, in yourself and around you, and to work with it at a basic level. Awareness first, then care. What you can feel, you can begin to work with.
Energetic Hygiene
The daily upkeep. Clearing, protecting, and keeping the energy body well in the rooms and relationships of an ordinary week. Simple, like washing your hands, and rarely taught.
Dragon & Tiger QiGong
A complete moving form that works the meridians. Gentle enough for any level of fitness, and known for steady effects on energy and vitality. One of the most elegant practices in the Chinese tradition.
Yoga Nidra
Conscious rest. A guided journey down through the layers of body and mind into deep stillness. No experience needed, and a favorite for anyone carrying stress or sleeping poorly.
Taoist Practice
Cultivating Qi through standing meditation, breath, and movement. At heart it's alignment: with the body, with nature, with the way things are. The same lineage behind the medicine work here.
Buddhist Mysticism
The same ground reached through different imagery. Working with awareness, the nature of mind, and the energy body, through practices carried unbroken across centuries.
A progression that builds on itself.
This isn't a fixed curriculum. It's a living practice that grows with the community. Here's where things stand and where they're heading. Each level rests on the one before.
Introduction to Energetics
The foundation class. Feeling the field, working with it simply, and the principles under everything else in the practice. If you haven't started here, this is where it begins.
Energetic Hygiene
The care practices. Clearing, protection, and the daily habits that keep the energy body well. A guest teacher is joining for the next round.
Dragon & Tiger QiGong
The full moving form. Meridian work and the application of one of the most refined practices in the Chinese medical tradition.
Advanced Work
For students who've finished the foundation and want to go deeper. Forming now, in step with what the community is ready for. For those who've been asking, it's coming.
Yoga Nidra and the Taoist and Buddhist practices run through every level, not as separate courses but as living practices that deepen alongside the rest.
There's no required starting point but curiosity.
The Inner Arts was built to meet people wherever they are, and from whatever direction. These are some of the folks who find their way here.
Curious, and a little skeptical
You like to know how something works before you trust it. Good. The iron filings show the field before anything is asked on faith. The Introduction is the place to start.
Already practicing
You have a foundation already, in yoga, meditation, martial arts, or something all your own. What you're after is depth. The advanced work is forming for exactly this.
Came for the therapies, then felt something shift
You found the center through the sauna, the PEMF, or a session with Mike or Lidia. Something opened. This is where the practice underneath that work lives.
A veteran or first responder
The body holds what the mind can't always put into words. These practices have met the nervous system this way for a long time, without asking you to talk through what you carry.
Upcoming at the center.
A look at the week ahead. The full, live schedule lives on the Classes and Events pages.
Nothing on the calendar right now. New classes and events are added often, so check back soon.
The hands behind the teaching.
Mike Hall has been in this practice most of his life. He carries Taoist and Buddhist lineages, along with years of Tai Chi and Qi cultivation, and he teaches in a way that makes the invisible feel close: the abstract made tangible, the old made useful to whoever walks in.
The fuller story, including how it began at seventeen with something he had no words for, lives on his page.
Read Mike's storyWhat people ask first.
Do I need any experience to start?
No. The Introduction to Energetics is made for people who've never worked with energy before, or who were curious but never had a way in. All it asks is that you show up and notice what happens.
I already have a practice. Is this for me?
Often more so. The foundation work here tends to deepen what you already do rather than compete with it, whether that's yoga, meditation, or martial arts. The advanced work is meant for established practitioners ready for more.
How does this relate to the sessions with Mike?
The Chinese Energetic Medicine sessions are work Mike does with you on something specific. The Inner Arts are about learning to work with your own energy. They feed each other: people with their own practice often respond more deeply in session, and the session work often deepens the practice.
Do I need a particular belief?
No. The practices work whether or not you believe in them, the same way the filings reveal the field regardless. What helps is open attention. People from every tradition are welcome here, and so is the person who claims none.
I trained with Mike before. How do I hear about advanced classes?
The advanced work is forming now. The best way to stay close is the newsletter below and the Events page. You're also welcome to reach out through the contact page, just mention you're a returning student and where you left off.
It begins with feeling what's already there.
This path is open to anyone willing to show up and pay attention. The introductory class is where it starts, and where it always has. Come and see what you notice.