| Bill Ryan | |
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Bill Ryan founded Moving Tiger in the summer of 2006. He is our Director and lead teacher. For twenty-eight years Bill has been a student of Bruce Frantzis. Frantzis is one of America's foremost experts in Chinese energy arts for health, healing, meditation, and martial arts. |
| With Frantzis, Bill has studied the energy arts of tai chi, chi gung (qigong), ba gua, hsing-I, chi gung tui na, and Taoist meditation. He is one of nine people in America and Europe who Frantzis has named as a Senior Instructor.
He is one of four people certified by Frantzis as a Level 3 Instructor in Dragon & Tiger Chi Gung, the exercise set taught in the Moving Tiger Method. In 1992 Bill founded Brookline Tai Chi in Brookline, Massachusetts just outside of Boston. He served as its director and lead teacher until 2005. Under his guidance Brookline Tai Chi grew to be one of the country's largest tai chi schools, with over 450 students at one point. In 2005 Bill gave Brookline Tai Chi to Water Way Arts for Health and Energy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that he helped found. He currently serves on the Water Way Arts Board of Directors. From 1991 through the present, Bill has been a Trustee of the Green Century Funds, a family of mutual funds that focus primarily on environmentally responsible investing. From 1983 through 1991, Bill worked as an technical and legal expert for consumer and environmental protection organizations affiliated with the national Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), including Massachusetts PIRG (MassPIRG), the Fund for Public Interest Research (FFPIR), and the National Environmental Law Center (NELC), the latter of which he helped found. Bill co-authored and was a key player in the passage of the 1989 Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Law, which is the foundation of the state's Toxics Use Reduction Program. The Program was named as one of the nation's top ten innovative government programs in 1999 in a competition sponsored by Harvard University and the Ford Foundation. From 1980 to 1983 Bill attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Masters Degree in Technology and Policy. His masters thesis was the basis for articles published in Science and the Harvard Environmental Law Review which he co-authored with his thesis advisors. In 1978 Bill received a B.S. in Systems Engineering with high distinction from the University of Virginia. | |
