Grant Gibbs is a life-long learner and focuses his interest and attention on the physical challenges faced by each person who walks into his office. He assists each patient by awakening and enhancing their natural, intrinsic ability to develop solutions for their own unique body. Ruthy Alon, developer of Bones for Life®, refers to this intrinsic ability as biological optimism. "It's like the chicken and the egg," said Grant, "as our awareness of easy movement increases, we become more willing to move. The most difficult function our body performs is to sit or stand in gravity all day with poor alignment. Our muscles get tight and tired from holding us up and, then, when we try to perform some dynamic movement, our body is unable to easily respond. Making movement easier also makes sitting and standing more comfortable. Muscles are relaxed and ready for activity." Patients are met with this positive and optimistic approach as Grant explores with them, "What can you and I do in a session that is helpful, improves your function, and expands your perception of yourself and your ability to be in motion? What tools can I give you to kindle a curiosity in you to move more easily and with greater resonance in life?"

"I like to move," he says, "I know, through injuries, what it feels like not to move and I am intimately familiar with the process of rehabilitating the body's innate willingness and desire to move, to be healthy. How to stimulate this willingness for health, ease, and vitality, is what most interests me. There is great pleasure in movement that is spontaneously well coordinated. It is the focus of my current study and the beginning and end of my work with patients and students here at Avante."

Grant is a certified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist and a Certified Bones for Life® Teacher and Trainer. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska and spent much of his life alpine skiing, both as a competitive racer and a coach. He has 20 years of experience as a massage therapist, spent 15 years teaching yoga, and the past 25 years raising his four children. Grant now practices and teaches at Avante.