Inside Pain Academy

The app where
the program comes together.

An auto-built week that schedules itself. A notebook that captures every session. An AI tutor trained on Vinny. A movement library you can shape. A wall of wins from real members. All in one place, already coordinated for you.

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01The home screen

Open the app, and
the day is laid out.

No spreadsheet, no figuring out what comes next. The week you see at the top of the home screen is auto-built from the programs you've unlocked. Today's activities sit at the top as colored circles, one per layer, so you can see Monday at a glance and know exactly what's on it.

9:41Mon · April 14
Good morning,
your week.
M
T
W
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F
S
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On the plate today
Meditation
Foundations · 7 min
Relief
Lower Back Relief · 12 min
Strength
Core Stability · 8 min
Mobility
Hip Mobility · 10 min
Today's activities, ready to start
A scrollable list of every routine, meditation, and lesson scheduled for today. Tap one and you're in the player, no menu hunting, no decision fatigue.
A side-scroll calendar at the top
One column per day, with colored circles for the activities scheduled that day. Tap any day to see what's coming. The dots use the same practice colors you've already learned.
Auto-built, never frozen
The schedule isn't a one-time spreadsheet. As you add programs, change cadences, or take a break, the dots reflow. The app holds the layering complexity so you don't have to.
02The schedule

Three layers,
woven into one week.

Movement isn't one thing, it stacks. The app figures out which layer runs on which day, with a cadence that suits each layer's role. Open the schedule sheet and you can adjust any layer by hand, but the defaults are usually the answer.

01Relief

Calm the area down.

The eight starting programs by body area. Where you begin. The pain dies down enough that the next layer becomes possible.

Default cadence
Daily, every single day
Daily because the nervous system needs daily reps to learn safety in the painful area. Skipping days means starting the calming over.
02Strength

Stabilize what was painful.

Core and posture work that locks in the relief. The stabilizers your painful area had been outsourcing.

Default cadence
Twice a week, usually Mon & Thu
Twice a week because muscle adapts on a 48–72 hour cycle. More often becomes counterproductive; less often and the gains slip.
03Mobility

Expand the range.

The positions and movements your body had stopped trusting. Resilience, a body that can be loaded in more ways without complaint.

Default cadence
Every other day
Every other day because mobility responds to rhythm. Daily can flare a sensitised system; rest days let the new range settle in before you ask for more.
Meditation underneath all of it. Daily.
The fourth layer that doesn’t change cadence. A short guided session opens every day, settling the alarm system so the movement layers above land instead of flare. It isn’t optional. It’s the floor everything else stands on.
03The routine

Tap Start, and you’re in
a playlist for today’s body.

Each routine is a curated playlist of movements, usually five to seven, in a specific order, timed and cued by Vinny’s voice. Before you press Start you see what’s coming, what equipment you need, and your full history with this exact routine: every time you’ve done it, every note you wrote, how each one felt.

TodayRound 3 · Day 4
Sleeping Volcano
For days when the back is loud.
14 min
Duration
7
Movements
3 / 6
Round
What you’ll need
Yoga matWallPillowoptResistance bandopt
No mat? Carpet works. The pillow is a comfort upgrade for the floor work.
Today’s playlist
Tap any to swap
  1. 1
    Cat-Cow
    Warm-up
    0:90
  2. 2
    Pelvic Tilts
    Standard
    1:30
  3. 3
    Bird Dog
    Standard
    2:00
  4. 4
    90/90 Stretch
    Hip opener
    2:00
  5. 5
    Glute Bridge
    Standard
    1:30
  6. 6
    Modified Cobra
    Easier · floor
    2:00
  7. 7
    Child’s Pose
    Cool-down
    2:00

Your history with this routine

Five times in,
you can see it adding up.

Every time you finish this exact routine it gets pinned to the routine’s own log. You see the trajectory at a glance, feel rating, the note you wrote, how today compares to two weeks ago.

Sleeping Volcano · last 5
Trending up
  • Today

    “Hip felt loose by the second set.”

  • 4 days ago

    “Smoother than last time. Glute bridge clicked.”

  • 1 wk ago

    “Tight in the morning. Cobra was the breakthrough.”

  • 11 days ago

    “Skipped the bird dog, hand was off.”

  • 2 wks ago

    “First time. Lots to learn.”

  • The playlist is yours to shape, tap any movement to swap it for an alternate (chair, floor, harder, easier).
  • Vinny’s voice cues every transition. No menu hunting, no thinking about what comes next.
  • Equipment listed up-front and per-movement, so you know what you need before you press Start.
04The notebook

Every routine, captured.
The work stops evaporating.

Every session you finish gets logged automatically. Drop in a quick note about how it landed, mark how the body felt, and over the weeks a real picture starts to form, which routines your hip actually likes, which days you tend to skip, which variation finally cracked the pattern.

Notebook · this week
14-day streak
Today · Hip Relief
Sleeping Volcano · Round 3
Felt
Better than last time

“Hip felt loose by the second set. The 90/90 was the one that finally clicked, going to swap it in tomorrow.”

Yesterday · Core Stability
Bird Dog → Quadruped Reach swapped in
Logged
Last 18 sessionsTrending up
Auto-logged, never manual
Finish a routine and the entry shows up, date, routine name, duration, the day inside the round. You didn't have to remember to journal.
A note + a feeling, in five seconds
A quick five-dot scale for how the body felt, and a single text field for whatever's worth remembering. Specific is better than long.
Patterns the eye can't catch
Over weeks, the notebook surfaces the routines that consistently land and the ones that consistently flare, so the program can adjust around you.
Searchable, exportable, yours
Search by routine, body part, or the words you wrote. Export to PDF for your PT or doctor whenever you want.
05Soma · the AI tutor

Stuck on something?
Ask Soma.

Soma is the in-app AI tutor trained on Vinny's teaching, every workshop, every lesson, every protocol. It answers the questions you'd want to ask between sessions, in plain English, with the same framing as the rest of the program. It's not a chatbot. It's the closest thing to having Vinny's voice in your pocket at 11pm when something flares.

Soma11:42pm
My lower back is flaring after today’s session. Did I do too much?
Probably not, a flare after a session almost always reads as the nervous system being noisy, not as tissue damage. Vinny calls this the “alarm response.”

Two things to try right now: a 7-minute Settle meditation, then ten slow Cat-Cows. Skip the rest of tomorrow’s movement layer if it’s still loud in the morning. Want me to queue that for you?

Trained on the program

Vinny’s voice,
in your pocket.

  • Explains your flare in the same language Vinny uses in the workshops, so what Soma says lines up with what you've been learning.
  • Recommends specific routines, meditations, or workshop clips from the actual library, not generic advice.
  • Knows your history. Soma sees what you finished today, what's flaring, what you've already swapped, and answers in that context.
  • On your timeline. 11pm question, 6am question, 30 seconds before a session. Soma's there.
06The movement library

Every routine. Every variation.
Every angle.

350+ filmed movements live in the library, the standard versions Vinny teaches, plus chair, floor, hand-friendly, and harder variations of nearly every one. The killer feature: tap any movement inside any routine and swap it for an alternate that fits your body today. The plan moves with you, not the other way around.

350+
filmed movements
4–6
alternates per movement
100%
of moves are swappable
On-screen
form cues, every rep
  • Standard, chair version, floor version, harder version, usually all four for any movement that has variations.
  • Hand hurts today? Floor isn't happening? You've outgrown a variation? Swap it in two taps.
  • Routines stay coherent: the alternate slots straight into the round, no need to re-time or re-cue anything.
Today’s round · Lower Back ReliefRound 3 · Day 4
  1. 1
    Cat-Cow
    Standard
  2. 2
    Pelvic Tilts
    Standard
  3. 3
    Bird Dog
    Standard
  4. 4
    Glute Bridge
    Standard
  5. 5
    Child's Pose
    Standard
Movement #3 cycles through alternates to demonstrate the swap feature. In the app you tap once.
07The Win Wall

A wall of wins
from real members.

Inside the program there's a shared wall where members post the moment something shifts. A flare-up that didn't come. The first morning they didn't reach for the wall. The chair version they finally graduated out of. Read them. Post your own. Celebrate someone else's.

Pain reduction
First morning in four years I didn’t reach for the wall to stand up.
Maya
Lower Back Relief · Day 24
187
Pain reduction
Slept on my left side for the first time since 2021. I forgot what that felt like.
Tom
Shoulder Relief · Day 31
142
Mobility
Tied my own shoes from standing. From standing! I haven’t done that in three years.
James
Hip Relief · Day 22
213
Mobility
I can check my blind spot when I drive again. That’s the win. That’s it.
Lena
Neck Relief · Day 14
78
See the full Win Wall
08Bites · the discovery feed

Sixty-second clips.
From every workshop we’ve made.

Open Bites and scroll like you'd scroll TikTok, except every clip is the most interesting minute from one of Vinny's hour-long workshops, contextualized to where you are in the program. When something lands, tap once. The full workshop opens, queued exactly where the clip left off. The library becomes a feed.

BitesToday · 2 min
From · The Vagus Nerve Workshop
“Why one slow exhale resets the whole nervous system in seven seconds.”
0:48 of 1:00 · clipWatch full · 100 min

How it works

The library,
turned into a feed.

  • Every clip is one minute from one of our hour-long workshops, the most interesting minute, hand-picked.
  • The feed knows where you are in the program, so what you see is contextual, not random.
  • Tap once and the full workshop opens, queued at the exact moment the clip ended. No searching for it later.
  • Saved clips live in your notebook so you can come back to the moment that hit.
09Always learning

Twenty-two deep-dives.
On demand. Free with enrollment.

Hour-long workshops with Vinny on the topics that quietly run pain, vagus nerve, sleep, pain reprocessing, posture myths. New ones added monthly, voted on by members. Watch them straight through, or let Bites pull you into one sideways.

  • The Vagus Nerve Workshop100 min
  • Pain Reprocessing 10185 min
  • Sleep & Pain. A Deep Dive120 min
  • Why Your Posture Isn't the Problem65 min
  • Flare-up Protocol45 min
  • The Science of Slow Healing70 min

Six of 22+ in the library. New workshops added monthly, and members vote on what gets made next.

Explore the Education pillar

See it in your hand

Open the app.
Today is already there.

A sixty-second placement test puts you in the right starting program. Seven days free. Cancel before day eight and pay nothing. Less than one PT visit a month after that.

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