Ryan Miller Wolf has over 20 years of experience in Martial Arts, Movement therapies and healing arts. He is a committed seeker of states of freedom of body, mind and spirit. 

Born to an Indonesian immigrant mother and a European-American and traveling most of his young life with his Christian missionary father, Ryan considers himself a “third culture kid” - he is at home nowhere and everywhere, a naturally Liminal being. Ryan has always instinctually felt the connection of all things, never wanting to reject, rather wanting to integrate and bring things together.

Initially, Ryan studied Piano performance at Seattle Pacific University, then completed his studies in Sustainable Design at Evergreen State College. He began training at the Kannagara Aikido Dojo in Washington state in 1997 and in 2004 began an apprentice residency with Koichi Barrish at Tsubaki Grand Shrine, home of Kannagara Dojo. For two years he undertook intensive studies in both Aikido and Shinto, a Japanese indigenous shamanic spirituality. During this time, Ryan performed Misogi daily, (ritualized cold water purification rites), and studied Shinto prayers, practices, ceremonies and formal ritual architecture. It was through these experiences that Ryan came to understand the deeper purpose of his Aikido practice and the way it centered around community. Bridging the gap between the individual and the community has become the central pillar of Ryan’s work and the essence of his engagement with Liminal Arts.

Systema came into Ryan’s practice unexpectedly in 2006.  Coming directly from a very strict, hierarchical training environment, Systema provided a more casual platform to study freedom of movement as well as offering unique teaching methodologies within the context of martial arts training. He was unusually blessed with the opportunity to study with Kaizen Taki and Brian King and began teaching Systema in 2010 with permission of chief instructor, Vladamir Vassiliev.

In addition to martial arts, Ryan has also worked with shamanic practices for over 7 years and offers healing sessions. He offers shamanic healing sessions, Reiki, and the Rossiter System of assisted stretching for myofascial release. Ryan is also an avid beekeeper and offers private healing sessions using, Apitherapy/bee sting therapy and other such and creates "medicines from the hive".

For 10 years, Ryan and Nico ran Golden Well Sanctuary in Vermont on the crossroads of Spirit, Nature, Community and Self. For ten years they farmed the land, held community events, hosted and taught seminars and retreats, fed thousands, and brought two children into the world. Then on the tail of a Pandemic, took a leap into the Unknown and moved to Brooklyn with a distilled vision of his work in hand and came to co-found School of Liminal Arts.

Today Ryan’s work is devoted to the Materia of Relationships. Included in this life work is the desire to find the likeness in all things. Not in order to render all things the same, but rather recognize the beautiful warp and weft of the world and to repair and reconnect these threads within our own histories and future stories.