About

SHERRY BROURMAN P.T., ERYT 500, C-IAYT

Sherry Brourman, PT, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is a movement educator, physical therapist, yoga therapist, and author who has been bridging these fields for more than five decades.

Over the past decade in particular, her work has been increasingly informed by contemporary pain science, shaped through study with leading pioneers in the field, and integrated into a deeply individualized, whole-person approach to care.

Sherry’s path began early. At age twelve, she volunteered at a school for children with disabilities where she was first exposed to the power of movement to soften, organize, and regulate the body. She graduated from Boston University as a physical therapist in 1973 and later developed classical skills in working with persistent pain and long-term rehabilitation at the Rusk Institute in New York City, where John Sarno, MD, was the resident on her floor.

In 1975, Sherry opened her first private physical therapy clinic in New Mexico. Over the decades that followed, her work expanded beyond traditional rehabilitation models to include gait, breath, sensory awareness, and the emotional and spiritual dimensions of healing. Her clinical approach has evolved alongside advances in pain science while remaining grounded in lived clinical experience, relational care, and deep listening to bodily stories.

Sherry is the author of Walk Yourself Well (Hyperion, 1998) and From Bodily Knowledge to Intuitive Movement: Where Physical Therapy, Yoga Therapy, and Pain Science Meet (Singing Dragon, 2025). She continues to practice, teach, and mentor in Santa Monica, California, working individually with patients and clinicians and teaching live and online.