“Five months in and I can’t remember the last time I took an Advil. I move without pain, but more importantly, without fear.”
Mary Phillips
6-month member
Pain isn’t permanent.
We’ll show you the way out.
A daily practice for chronic pain — gentle movement, nervous-system training, and short lessons that finally make it stick.
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From our members
10,000 students.
One real change at a time.
Real members, real stories, real photographs from the work. Tap any face to read their full recovery.
10,000+
students worldwide
76%
feel better after one session
350+
filmed movements
4.8★
App Store rating
In their own words
“18 years of chronic back pain, herniated discs, stenosis, and sciatica. No PT visit ever helped me the way this program has. I’m not scared to move.”
Paz Barrueto
Back · 18 years · 7 weeks in
“Five years I couldn’t put on my shoes, get into the car, lie down without pain. I was thinking about a hip replacement. Day 11 here. I sleep, I walk, I’m hiking again this weekend.”
Stephanie Henderson
Hip · Day 11
“A year ago I was broken, couldn’t carry my own kids. My wife had to carry the groceries. I cried sometimes by myself, in the bathroom. After a month here, I was pain-free.”
Jefferson Garcia
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The Adaptive System
Your program adapts
as you go.
You sample four starter routines. After each session you rate it — better, same, or worse. Five sessions in, we recommend the path your body responded to.
Step 1
20 sessions
Hip Exploration
Sample four starter routines, five sessions each.
Your Rating
After each session
How did it feel?
Better
Same
Worse
Twenty sessions, twenty ratings. The data points to the path your body responded to.
Decision · dive deeper
Step 1 complete · your data
Time to dive deeper.
Your body responded best to Whispering Pines. 5 of 5 sessions felt better.
Next Round
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Whispering Pines family
Pine Hush
Outer-hip and glute stabilization holds.
+ six more rounds unlock in this path
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The method
Three practices.
One daily plan.
Movement to help the body. Nervous-system training to help the system feel safe. Understanding to make pain feel less confusing. Not three programs — one daily practice you follow from home.
Deadbug Hold with Brace, Flat Back
Static Leg Lift, Both Legs Straight
Pelvic Tilt
Single-Leg Lift March in Place
Single-Arm Reach Across
Breathe with Ab Tension & Pelvic Floor
Heel-Slide, Right then Left
Abdominal Tension
Deadbug Hold with Brace, Flat Back
Static Leg Lift, Both Legs Straight
Pelvic Tilt
Single-Leg Lift March in Place
Single-Arm Reach Across
Breathe with Ab Tension & Pelvic Floor
Heel-Slide, Right then Left
Abdominal Tension
Single-Arm Overhead Reach
Combined Heel-Slide & Overhead Reach
Pelvic-Floor Activation, 3 × 5s
Triangle Knee-Pillow Squeeze
Bridge with Pillow
Knee-Pillow Squeeze with Heel Slide
Plank
Deadbug, Opposite Arm & Leg
Single-Arm Overhead Reach
Combined Heel-Slide & Overhead Reach
Pelvic-Floor Activation, 3 × 5s
Triangle Knee-Pillow Squeeze
Bridge with Pillow
Knee-Pillow Squeeze with Heel Slide
Plank
Deadbug, Opposite Arm & Leg
Front Plank, Knees on Ground
Abductor Lv. 1 — Clamshell in Extension
Abductor Lv. 2 — Top Leg Lifts
Static Wall Press
Oblique Twist, Supine Deadbug
Side Plank, Knees Bent
Side Plank, Legs Straight
Tabletop Leg Kickback
Front Plank, Knees on Ground
Abductor Lv. 1 — Clamshell in Extension
Abductor Lv. 2 — Top Leg Lifts
Static Wall Press
Oblique Twist, Supine Deadbug
Side Plank, Knees Bent
Side Plank, Legs Straight
Tabletop Leg Kickback
IMovement
Built for the parts
that hurt.
Start with the program built for your pain area. The work is gentle, progressive, and built for sensitive bodies that may flare from too much, too fast.
- Eight starting programs by body area — back, hip, knee, neck, shoulder, sciatica, postpartum, full-body.
- Gentle enough for sensitive bodies. Designed to never flare you up before it earns the right to push.
- 350+ filmed movements you can swap into any session, so the plan adapts to the body you have today.
IINervous-system training
Soften the alarm.
The body listens.
Chronic pain lives in a sensitized alarm system. Meditation is the only tool we have that turns that alarm down directly. Done daily, it changes what every other tool in the program is capable of.
- Each session opens with 3–7 minutes of breath, because a calm system is what lets the movement land.
- 80+ guided sessions — morning settles, body scans, sleep protocols, flare-day SOS audio.
- Foundations, Vinny’s flagship 31-day course. Do it once and the floor of the whole practice changes.
With Vinny · Starter Meditation
Day 1 · Settle the nervous system
The first session of the on-ramp into the practice
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Movement
Live · Jun 23
Somatic Tracking Workshop - June 23rd
With VinnyMovement
Replay
When Pain Changes, So Can You
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Movement
Replay
Stop Chasing Fixes
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Movement
Replay
The Alarm Isn't Always Right
With Vinny16+ workshops
IIILearning
Pain makes more sense
when you understand it.
Short daily lessons explain what’s happening in your body, why pain returns, why flares aren’t failure, and why the practice works. Knowing the “why” is what makes the practice stick.
- 3-minute lessons baked into your daily plan — not a separate library you have to remember to visit.
- Written for the moment in your body, not the syllabus. The lesson on flares lands on the day a flare lands.
- Helps you trust progress over time instead of chasing a single breakthrough that never quite arrives.
Inside the app
You don’t need to plan anything.
Just open the app.
Today’s movement, today’s meditation, today’s lesson, in the order that makes sense for your body and your week. No spreadsheet, no coordinating, no figuring out what comes next.
The Schedule
Every day,
already planned for you.
Meditation every day. Your Relief course every day. Strength twice a week. Mobility on alternating days. The app figures out which one runs on which day so you wake up to one clean plan.
Daily meditationLayered programsCadence that listens
This week
October · Week 3
M
24 min
T
16 min
W
Today
24 min
T
8 min
F
24 min
S
16 min
S
8 min
The Notebook
Every routine.
Quietly logged.
Every routine you finish gets saved automatically. Drop in a note about how it landed, mark how the body felt, and over the weeks a real picture starts to form. The work stops evaporating.
Auto-loggedNotes & feelWeekly arc
Notebook
Recent routines
Lower Back Relief, Day 12
Today, 7:42 am
Foundations, Day 11
Yesterday
Lower Back Relief, Day 11
Yesterday
Foundations, Day 10
2 days ago
Hip Mobility, Day 4
2 days ago
Foundations, Day 9
3 days ago
The Library
350+ filmed movements.
Swap any for any.
Not every movement is right for every body on every day. Every movement in your routine has alternates you can swap in — easier, harder, kinder to a flare — and the rest of the plan re-flows around the change.
350+ movementsTap to swapBuilt-in alternates
Today’s movements
Lower back, gentle
Deadbug Hold with Brace, Flat Back
1 min
Static Leg Lift, Both Legs Straight
1 min
Pelvic Tilt
2 min
Single-Leg Lift March in Place
2 min
Single-Arm Reach Across
2 min
More than schedule, notebook, and library.
Soma the AI tutor, the Win Wall, flare-day SOS — every feature inside the app gets its full beat on /app.
Every screen you own
Built for the hand.
Beautiful on the table.
The routine, the schedule, the notebook, the library — every screen you tap on iPhone shows up at full breath on iPad. Lessons read in two columns alongside the player. The movement library spreads out across the table. Pick up the day on whichever device is closest; the streak doesn’t notice.
Pain Academy/Education/Module 3
Day 12
Lesson 3 · 4 min read
Why flares aren’t failure.
Pain is not always a measure of damage. More often, it’s a measure of alarm — the nervous system asking for less load, not less life.
When a flare arrives, the body isn’t breaking. It’s reporting. A 4× weekly load became 7× this week; the report rises. Drop the load two notches and watch the report drop with it.
Read on — flares as data, not verdicts · the three-week settle · what to do today.
← Module 2 endsLesson 3 of 7Next: Window of tolerance →
Today
Lower Back Relief
Day 12 · 22 min · 8 movements
Pelvic Tilt
0:42
Up next
Breathe with Ab Tension & Pelvic Floor
1 min
Abdominal Tension
1 min
Single-Leg Lift March in Place
1 min
Wednesday
Today
Today
Lower Back Relief
22 min · 8 movements
Meditation
Morning settle
7m
Same data · every device
Lessons read in two columns on iPad
The Education pillar lives next to the day's routine. Read without leaving the player; queue movements without leaving the lesson.
Pick up where you left off
Start a routine on iPhone over coffee. Finish it on iPad next to the mat. The notebook keeps both halves in the same entry.
Cast to the room you're in
AirPlay or Chromecast the player to the TV during longer practices. The phone or iPad in your hand stays the remote.
iPhoneiPadAndroidAndroid tabletWeb· Coming soon
Explore the appReal stories
The work, in their words.
Pick a story.
Long-form recovery stories written up by Vinny. The full arc, what they tried before, what they did inside Pain Academy, what changed.
Severe scoliosis · no pain
A nurse who didn’t trust his foundation. Now he does.
A severe curve on the X-ray, no pain at all. Reggie came in because his body felt imbalanced.
Ongoing · Scoliosis MethodRead story
Scoliosis at fifteen
A curve from 24° down to 13.5° in a single year.
A 24-degree curve in early teens. The doctors said watch and wait. The fear weighed more than the curve.
Ongoing · 24° → 13.5° · Scoliosis MethodRead story
A ruptured disc, recovered
Told he needed surgery. Years later, fully recovered.
Decades of back pain, then a severe disc rupture in 2017. “A guy I barely recognize.”
Multi-year recovery · Disc + Spine RecoveryRead story
How it works
One app. One daily practice.
Built around how your body responds.
01
Choose where you’re starting.
Begin with the area that needs support — ankle, knee, hip, back, neck, shoulder, or full-body pain. Pain Academy gives you a starting path that meets your body where it is today.
02
Follow your daily practice.
Each day combines gentle movement, breathwork, nervous-system training, and short lessons so you know exactly what to do without guessing. Open the app, follow the practice, and let the work build over time.
03
Let your body guide what comes next.
Pain Academy learns from your experience, your feedback, and your responses over time so the practice can evolve with you. Instead of guessing what works, your body helps show the way.
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The less pain makes sense,
the more frightening it becomes.
Most people in pain have real physical things going on in their body and a nervous system that has become more sensitive over time.
Pain Academy works with both. Gentle movement so the body rebuilds confidence. Nervous-system training so the alarm quiets. Education so the work makes sense.
Because healing isn’t just doing the movements. It’s learning how to trust your body again.
Founder · Pain Academy
Vinny Crispino
About the founder
Built by someone
who lived the problem.
Vinny was an 8× All-American D1 swimmer when a surfing accident broke his back in multiple places. The bones healed. The pain didn’t. He spent the next decade in physical therapy and on medications that didn’t hold.
“Pain was my greatest teacher.”
When he finally found the work that pulled him out, gentle movement paired with nervous-system training and pain education, he built Pain Academy to put it in everyone’s hands.
Tuition · Essentials Plan
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Join 10,000+ members already in the practice.
Every plan includes
Full curriculum, body, nervous system, mind
Every program, every body area
Soma AI tutor, unlimited
Personalized rounds, adaptive courses
New programs added monthly
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Curious how this stacks up against PT, chiropractors, and massage? See the full comparison →
Want extra support? Add a coach.
Optional add-on · by application · +$149/mo on top of your Essentials plan. A real human paired to you, only for active members who want one.
Common questions
What you’re probably
about to ask.
Pain Academy is built for sensitive bodies. Your plan includes gentle starting points, movement swaps, and calmer options for flare days. There’s an SOS mode you can switch on any day you need it.
Still have questions? Download the app, look around inside it first, and you can ask anything before deciding.
Join 10,000+ members already in the practice.
Your body doesn’t need
another random stretch.
It needs a safer starting point.
Start your 7-day free trial and let Pain Academy build a daily practice around your body, your pain, and your next best step.
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