UPDATED for 2026
Begins August 25th

Neil Pearson's Pain Care Mentorship

Excellence in pain care requires knowing more plus effectively sharing this deep understanding.

Individualise your communication to meet the needs of clients and health professionals.

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Prerequisite: Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, Movement Professional or Health Professional and completion of Pain Care Aware Foundations Course.

Learn with Neil

  • A clinician with over 40 years experience as a PT in hospitals, pain management centres and private practices, and currently with veterans.
  • An educator who has effectively brought this knowledge to MDs, people in pain, and health professionals in Canada, USA and internationally.
  • An advocate who is the founding chair of the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division, member of the first Canadian Pain Summit and previous director of Pain BC.
  • A recipient of national and provincial awards for his education and clinical work.
  • An innovator of resources for people in pain and the professionals who serve them.

Personal Note From Neil

Dear Friend,

Your commitment, time and efforts are worth this! Nine months seems long, yet it passes so quickly that right from the beginning you need to be ready for a shift in your workload. Reading a book and multiple articles every month, watching related videos, developing a daily pain self-care practice, and applying all this knowledge to your current work requires most people between 5-8 additional hours each week.

This mentorship is not just about basic science, terminology and philosophy. Equally important is your ability to translate your knowledge into improved pain care outcomes – including writing of reports, recording self-care techniques as audio files for your clients, sharing case studies with your peers, and offering a pain education session. When you learn more perspectives about pain, you will more effectively share your knowledge with others. When you practice writing and discussing pain and pain care in your own words, you find new ways to ‘say more with fewer words’.

Join this community of like-minded health professionals and yoga therapists.

Become a leader.

Neil

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Testimonials

"Neil is a gifted teacher, able to explain challenging concepts with a combination of humour and compassion. He is a role model for so many all over the world. Chronic pain is such a complex and difficult problem yet people leave Neil’s classes with a sense of optimism and hope. He truly inspires people to the possibility of less pain through changing their beliefs and changing their behaviours. To know that we can change what happens to us by attitude is a gift and he gives all who meet him that gift in an empathetic manner. Neil provides a unique experience for his students. I would highly recommend that anyone with chronic pain and anyone teaching Yoga to people with chronic pain learn from him. It will be a life changing opportunity for sure. Having been a witness to Neil’s wonderful work and crystal clear method of teaching and motivation, I highly recommend him as a truly humane being. Yours in yoga."
Ananda Balayogi BhavananiPondicherry, 2015
"I am just finishing up a 300 hr mentorship with Neil Pearson. This program has my whole being lit up and my perspective has shifted. As a yoga teacher I often felt like I didn’t know enough science on how pain works in the body to truly help people living with chronic pain. This was stressful since many student’s coming to yoga classes live in chronic pain. I am incredibly grateful to Neil for creating and offering this course, for his constant work to help people living with chronic pain move with more ease and less pain, and most importantly for his ability to offer HOPE and allowing people to feel safe enough to feel it again. May we all move with less pain and more ease. Love and light."
Lalita ScottPenticton, 2018

Why This Mentorship is For You

  • If you have completed a Pain Care Aware Certificate.
  • If you are a health professional, yoga therapist or movement professional
  • If you are hungry for more knowledge of specific pain conditions and of practices to increase compassion in your work
  • If you want to excel in integrating pain science into care of the people you serve

Then the Pain Care Mentorship is for you!

What You'll Gain

With the Pain Care Mentorship

  • THREE HUNDRED hours of CE
  • Monthly 3-hour webinars, one-on-one phone calls, and feedback on homework reports
  • Approximately 7 hours of study, personal practice and practicum work each week
  • Up to date current research and theory
  • Insights from peer professionals enrolled in the mentorship program
  • Practical clinical resources
  • Organize and guide group pain education sessions highlighting how you can uniquely engage with people in pain
  • Receive distance mentorship in clinical diagnosis, treatment planning and outcome measures
  • Guide others to greater ease of movement, less pain and improved quality of life
  • Conviction that pain is not immutable, and that it is possible to live well in pain

What to Expect

  • Receive distance education and mentorship to enhance your therapeutic outcomes and education
  • Explore a broad range of scientific, clinical and experiential perspectives on pain and pain care, while gaining experience guiding your clients in evidence-based pain care techniques
  • Monthly live webinars and one-on-one feedback calls to guide your deep exploration of current understanding of pain, of people living in pain, and of providing effective pain management, whether you are working as a private practitioner or within a pain care team.
  • Weekly time commitment of 5-8 hours.

9 Months

Neil Pearson's Pain Care Mentorship

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We start August 25th, 2026.

$4000 USD

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Frequently Asked Questions

For additional questions about this course, please reach out to us anytime at info@paincareaware.com

  • Those who have completed a Pain Care Aware Certificate
  • Those committed to and focused primarily on helping people with complex persisting pain and those intending to continue as pain care educators for therapists and people in pain
  • Yoga therapists, yoga teachers and health professionals who want to take a deep dive into pain, pain theories, pain science, and pain care
  • People who want to learn how to provide public pain education

The Mentorship is a virtual training. Submit our application form by Aug 2026 if this is the right time for you to begin a pain care mentorship, or to talk to Neil about this program.

Neil Pearson

  • On-time completion of worksheets and reports
  • Client and personal worksheets
  • Evaluation of final case study and public pain education session
  • Final essay on personal practice of Pain Care principles and techniques
  • On-time receipt of course payments

Deferrals and pausing until a subsequent year are possible. Course fees remain due in fully once the mentorship commences.

Course fees can be paid in full on registration, with a deposit of 10% and then remainder payable when mentorship commences, or remainder as three installments or remainder paid monthly.

  • Monthly guidance and mentorship -virtual
  • Exposure to key scientific articles and to books with varying views of pain and pain care
  • Deep dive into pain physiology
  • Guidance with your own contemplative practice
  • Brainstorming and enhancing the scope of your clinical applications of pain science
  • Monthly feedback and greater precision in how you communicate with others about pain in written and verbal media
  • Building your capacity to provide pain education – effectively to more people in more diverse settings
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