The AI tutor inside Pain Academy

Meet Soma.
Your virtual coach,
in your pocket.

Trained on thousands of hours of Vinny’s workshops and decades of clinical notes. Available the moment you wake up stiff, the second you flare, and the night you can’t sleep, to guide, support, and coach you back to a body that moves without fear.

Online · alwaysiOS · Android · WebTrained on Vinny
Shaped by Vinny

Soma doesn’t sound like ChatGPT.
It sounds like Vinny.

We didn’t bolt a chatbot onto a fitness app. Soma was built the way you’d build an apprentice, by sitting it in a room with Vinny for years. Every workshop, every clinic note, every correction he’s made to a student doing the wrong thing. That’s the brain Soma started with.

15+
years of clinical practice
3,200+
hours of workshop tape
480k+
words of teaching notes
10,000+
real student conversations
Workshop archive

Years of live teaching.

Every public workshop Vinny has ever run, transcribed and indexed, including the moments where a student says ‘this still hurts’ and Vinny figures out why.

Clinical notes

The notes nobody sees.

Decades of private session notes, the patterns Vinny noticed across thousands of bodies. The reason a hip thing is rarely just a hip thing.

Vinny’s edits

Every answer, reviewed.

Vinny personally reviews and edits Soma’s playbook every week. When the method evolves, Soma evolves with it. No outsourced answers.

How Soma works

A coach that adapts in real time.

Three jobs Soma does better than any app you’ve used.

9:41
Soma
Online · trained on Vinny
Morning, David. How’s the lower back today on a 0–10?
A 6. Stiff getting out of bed.
That’s normal after a long sleep, the nervous system gets quiet overnight. Want me to queue a 7-minute morning reset? Calibrated for stiffness, not pain.
Yes please.
▸ Morning Reset · 7 min · Tap to begin
Ask Soma anything…
01
Asks the right questions

Soma starts by understanding today.

Not a generic check-in. Soma maps your morning stiffness, your commute, your last flare, so its first question already knows your story.

02
Suggests the next move

The exact session, calibrated to right now.

Sore? Stiff? Anxious? Exhausted? Soma reads the moment and queues the right meditation, the right movement, the right lesson, never a generic plan.

03
Remembers everything

You never start over.

Your pain story, your wins, your hardest weeks. Soma carries them forward so the support compounds. By month three, it knows you better than most clinicians ever did.

What you can ask

Ask Soma the questions you couldn’t ask your doctor.

At 2am. Mid-flare. After a confusing PT visit. Soma is there.

My lower back is tight after sitting all day. What should I do?
Let’s start with the Downstate routine. It’s perfect for releasing lower back tension. Focus on the spinal rotation movements and take your time with each breath.
How do I know if I’m progressing?
Progress isn’t always about doing harder movements. Notice: are you moving with less pain? Breathing more easily? Feeling more confident? Those are the real wins.
I had a flare-up last night. Can I still do today’s session?
Yes, and we’ll dial it back. I’m swapping today’s movement for the Flare-Up Reset. Slow, low-load, parasympathetic. You’ll feel better, not worse.
My PT said I shouldn’t bend my spine. Is that true here?
Spine bending is one of the most demonized movements in the world, and it’s also how you were built to move. Vinny’s teaching here is nuanced. Want me to pull up the lesson on this?
The difference

Why Soma isn’t just “ChatGPT for pain.”

Generic AI chat
Soma
Trained on
The whole internet
Vinny’s 15+ years of clinical work
Knows your body
No memory between sessions
Remembers your pain story forever
Recommends
A list of generic exercises
The exact session in your library
When you flare
Suggests rest or a doctor
Adapts your routine in real time
Reviewed by
Nobody
Vinny, every week

Your conversations with Soma stay inside your account. We never use them to train outside models, and they’re never sold. Read the privacy policy.

Always with you

In your pocket. On your nightstand. In your browser.

Soma syncs across iOS, Android, and the web. Sign in once and your pain story follows you everywhere.

Meet Soma

Sixty seconds.
And Soma already knows where to start.

Take the free placement test. Soma reads your answers and queues your first session, calibrated to your body, your history, and today.

Free · No card required · 60 seconds