Mark Moriarty began studying tai chi and teaching high school English in 1988 in western Massachusetts. He studied the Yang style long form in Paul Gallagher’s Deer Mountain Taoist Academy.

​

In 2000, Moriarty began studying Professor Cheng Man-ch'ing's Yang style, 37 posture, simplified form in Wolfe Lowenthal’s Long River Tai Chi Circle, a wonderful community of tai chi students in western New England.

​

After moving with his wife to the Shore Acres neighborhood in Collinwood in 2023, he was pleased to open the Long River Tai Chi Cleveland branch in 2024. Moriarty is also a tai chi sword maker.