About
SHERRY BROURMAN P.T., ERYT 500, C-IAYT
SHERRY IS A WHOLE BEING MOVEMENT SPECIALIST WITH A PASSIONATE FOCUS ON PAIN SCIENCE.
Sherry is a movement educator. As a physical therapist for five decades, and a yoga therapist for two and a half decades, these disciplines are now woven into how she provides movement education today. Sherry's first book, Walk Yourself Well, (Hyperion 1998) gives readers a map for understanding their personal walking style (gait), movement patterns and ways to feel incongruencies to movement efficiency and fluidity. These incongruencies might be due to injuries or simple old habits such as a lean into one hip. A childhood ankle sprain, a desire to look a certain way as a teenager, playing a flute for years without the understanding to offset the postures, can all change a person’s gait. Movement changes, and even very old patterns can be so subtle, they go unnoticed until either intention or discomfort pulls them up to consciousness. Walk Yourself Well gives the tools for self exploration, personal gait cues, and matching exercise remedies to seal the self healing that simple walking can bring. Postural gait changes may come easily, yet working with them over time pulls bodily awareness more to the surface. Increasing bodily awareness within a yoga therapy format tends to include heightened psychosocial awareness. In these last few decades, Sherry has combined her PT background with walk therapy, yoga therapy, as well as the spiritual and emotional aspects of healing. All of this will be spelled out in her new book, (Singing Dragon, in progress for 2025).
The coalescence of her fields along with her passion for movement are the themes now strewn through her live work in both private and small class settings, in studio and online. (Zoom in!) In this work, you will feel how your walking style and yoga practice are reflective of each other using discernible inner guideposts. In her classes, Sherry gently individualizes and articulates a fundamental and accessible education so that yoga therapy draws you into the self awareness and self compassion that fuels healing.
Historically, physical therapy has had a fixor, fixee mentality that meant if you could discern the local source of discomfort, and you studied enough techniques, you could choose the relevant treatment plan and usually help reduce if not eliminate pain. You could even get the credit for that. Fifty years later, Sherry has gratefully discovered that what she most honors about the gift of her patient/client/student relationships is providing guidance toward their abilities to heal and manage their bodies, inclusive of all bodily systems and layers of being.
Yoga therapy in its illuminating, interconnected mindset helps to elicit that place within every individual where breath, energy and sensitivity collude to deliver peaceful movement. Sherry continues to hold herself accountable to current literature especially focused on pain science, movement biomechanics, and the importance of every unique bodily story that she feels privileged to hear. In her new book, (Singing Dragon, 2025) she brings together the fundamentals of her PT background, the multi kosha’d approach of YT, and the wealth of knowledge that comes from listening and responding to individual stories for 50 years.