Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Grant Clark. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Grant thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to go back in time and hear the story of how you came up with the name of your brand?

I named my company based on my strong belief in everyone I work with. I believe that within each of us, we have the capability to be strong and healthy. This may look different depending on the person, their experience, mindset, history of injury or illness, and physical limitations. But at the end of the day, the body and mind are capable of so much when we dig deep and become aware of any untapped strength and resilience. All my clients are Hidden Warriors. They have put the time in to not only identify what they want to change, and how they want to feel…but most importantly, who they want to be. They get to embrace and use the warrior within to move well and feel well!

Grant, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

At Hidden Warrior, we take people out of pain. We educate our clients through classes, personal training or workshops so that they have the tools to build awareness, strength and well-being. Our approach borrows from a number of modalities – including yoga, functional movement training, physical therapy, and even body building! – to help each individual find the best solution for their nagging issue.

As the founder, I came from my own very long, painful and fear-riddled health journey. Healing has meant fine-tuning methods and approaches that target breath-work, inflammation, nerve and muscle weakness and mental set-backs.
Too many people are resigned to their lackluster experience – nerve pain, chronic stiffness, “getting older.” Tell the last one to our 89-year old client who came in to work on his pull-ups! It is exhausting to live in a body that you’re just dealing with, not enjoying.

When someone comes to us, ready to feel well again, we do everything within our diverse and empathetic knowledge-base to find the solution for them. We relentlessly pursue results, so that our Hidden Warriors can walk away feeling better than they did before. And better yet, maintain and build on that positive feeling.

A great place to start is through an intro course online: https://www.hidden-warrior.com/

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

“It’s all in your head.” I heard this for so many years from doctors, friends and family as I struggled with chronic physical issues. I was skinny (“oh I wish I had that problem!” – another thing I would hear), I felt weak, my back hurt, food didn’t sit well with me, I had skin rashes, and doctors kept telling me I was fine.

I was not fine. In fact, for many years, I was not digesting my food – the healthy body digests about 80 percent of its food intake. I was digesting 28 percent. In my 20’s, as I later found out, I was dying.

With the help of my wife, I found an integrative doctor who explained what had happened and helped me start a long yet finally productive journey towards healing. I had had epstein barr, which so thoroughly inflamed my system that my body was in lymphatic lockdown.

Through digestive healing and work on my fitness and cardio, I have been able to physically transform. However, it has been a meandering journey, as every health one is. It is not a linear direction towards feeling whole again.

In fact, after my body started feeling great, the biggest set-back was my mind. I was so afraid every time my digestion levels were low, or I felt pain or inflammation, that I was unknowingly slowing down my healing process.

Learning from masters in mental and physical well-being has been crucial. I would say the key to my resilience has been remaining humble yet determined. I know there is much yet to learn, and I am here to soak up everything I can, and then immediately share it with anyone who wants to feel well again.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I have had to untangle this reasoning: “I have learned from so many masters, that I am only ever a student.” In fact, my wife to this day has to remind me that I am a leader and that I have had this business for over a decade because I guide people every day. Every day I learn something new, and when I am in the presence of someone who has spent 40 years teaching the same methodology, it is easy to fall into that imposter syndrome. Like I have somehow tricked everyone that I actually know something. I have to unlearn this frequently – being a learner does not mean you are not a teacher. In fact, the best way to learn is to teach!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://hidden-warrior.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiddenwarrioryoga/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwarrioryoga
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hidden-warrior-yoga