14 days · 5 min/day
Pain 101
Start here.
The foundation course. Fourteen short lessons that rebuild your understanding of pain from the ground up. Most members say this is what finally made it click.
2,400+ graduatesEnrolled
IIIEducation · The mind
Fear feeds the pain.
Understanding starves it.
Daily lessons, drip-feed courses, deep-dive workshops, and a TikTok-style discovery feed. Education at Pain Academy meets you in three minutes or three months, whichever you need today.
IIIEducation
Understanding pain
is what makes it stick.
Movement heals the body. Meditation calms the system. Education is what keeps you doing both, on the days it’s working, and the days it isn’t. From three-minute morning lessons to ninety-minute deep dives, education at Pain Academy meets you wherever you are in your day.
15 RCTs
randomized trials
Pooled in 2025 SRMA
810
patients meta-analyzed
Chronic low back pain
−1.1 SMD
pain reduction
At 1-month follow-up
−1.57 SMD
reduction in fear of movement
Tampa scale
Pain neuroscience education (PNE), pioneered by Lorimer Moseley and David Butler, is one of the most well-evidenced non-drug interventions for chronic pain. See the full research →
Today’s lesson
Day 14 · 3 min read
7:14 AM
Why your pain is loudest in the morning.
Your nervous system gets quiet at night. The first signal it sends in the morning is calibration, not catastrophe.
Tomorrow · When stretching makes pain worse
Day 15Daily lessons
Three minutes
every morning.
One short, neuroscience-grade lesson, written so a 12-year-old could follow it. Read or listened to. Saved if it lands. Designed to compound: by week six, you’ll explain pain better than most doctors.
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ShareFrom · The Vagus Nerve Workshop
“Why one slow exhale resets the whole nervous system in seven seconds.”
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Bites · 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 our workshops. When something lands, tap once. The full workshop opens, queued exactly where the clip left off.
- A new bite waiting every time you open the app
- Vertical, full-screen, made for the in-between moments
- Tap once → jump straight into the full workshop
- Surfaces the deep-dives you’d never have searched for
Multi-week courses
A little bit
every day.
Beyond the daily lesson, we run drip-feed education courses that move you through a single topic at the pace your nervous system can absorb. Five to ten minutes a day. No homework, no quizzes, just slow, compounding understanding.
21 days · 6 min/day
The Catastrophizing Reset
When the thoughts spiral.
A three-week practice for the inner voice that turns a twinge into a future of suffering. Naming it, separating from it, choosing differently.
1,100+ graduatesEnrolled
10 days · 7 min/day
Understanding Your Diagnosis
Reframe the labels.
What “disc bulge,” “arthritis,” “stenosis,” and “central sensitization” actually mean, and what they don’t. Take your medical paperwork less personally.
780+ graduatesEnrolled
Deep-dive workshops · members’ favorites
When you want
the whole picture.
The 60-to-130-minute workshops are where we go all the way in on a single topic. A handful of the ones members keep coming back to.
Movement
110 min
The Scoliosis Deep Dive
Living strong with a scoliotic spine. The myths, the imaging, the breathing patterns nobody taught you, and the daily practice that quietly changes everything.
Vinny Crispino8 lessons
Movement
80 min
Tight Hamstrings, Decoded
Why you stretch them every day and they’re still tight. The neural piece, the pelvic piece, and the actual fix, built around how hamstrings really work.
Sarah Chen, Movement Coach6 lessons
Meditation
100 min
The Vagus Nerve Workshop
Polyvagal theory in plain language. Breath, tone, and the autonomic toolbox you didn’t know you had.
David Kim, CSCS7 lessons
Pain science
55 min
Why Your MRI Isn't the Answer
What scans miss about chronic pain. (Spoiler: 64% of pain-free people have disc bulges on MRI.)
Marcus Wright, CES4 lessons
22 deep-dive workshops in the library, all included with enrollment. Browse them all →
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Soma
Listening
Hey David. How’s the lower back this morning, on a scale of 0–10?
A 6. Stiff getting out of bed.
That’s pretty normal after a long sleep, your nervous system gets quiet overnight. Want me to queue up a 7-minute morning reset? It’s calibrated for stiffness, not pain.
Yes please.
▸ Morning Reset · 7 min · Tap to begin
Ask Soma anything…
Soma · your tutor
A virtual coach in your pocket.
Trained on Vinny.
Soma is the AI tutor inside the Academy, trained on thousands of hours of Vinny’s workshops and decades of clinical notes. Available the moment you wake up stiff or flare at 2am.
- Trained on thousands of hours of Vinny’s workshops.
- Reads the moment, queues the right session, right now.
- Remembers your story. Never makes you start over.
The pain library
Everything we know.
Open to you.
Years of research, hands-on experience, and student stories, organized for the moment you actually need them. Search-friendly, bookmark-able, and growing every week.
Pain Science
60+ explainers
Anatomy & Movement
40+ deep dives
Recovery Stories
100+ interviews
Q&A Archive
200+ answered
Ready to put it
into practice?
Take the 60-second placement test. We’ll show you exactly where to start, and the first seven days are on us.