Neil Pearson

Neil Pearson, PT, MSc(RHBS), BA-BPHE, C-IAYT, ERYT500 Neil is a physical therapist, yoga therapist and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, teaching in the physiotherapy and Pain Medicine sub-specialty programs. He is also a consultant to the BC medical association, to Lifemark’s 300+ Canadian rehab clinics, and to Pain BC, the Canada’s premier non-profit transforming the way pain is understood and treated. Neil is founding chair of the Physiotherapy Pain Science Division in Canada, recipient of the Canadian Pain Society's Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education award, and faculty in four yoga therapist programs. Neil has authored a patient education ebook - Understand Pain Live Well Again (2008), a book chapter - Yoga Therapy in Thompson and Brooks, Integrative Pain Management (2016), numerous journal articles on yoga and pain including a recent white paper for the International Association of Yoga Therapists - Yoga Therapy and Pain: How Yoga Therapy Serves in Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management, and How It Can Do More (2020), and co-authored/edited the textbook - Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain (2019). Neil offers Pain Care Yoga trainings to health practitioners and yoga therapist, Pain Care mentorships to practitioners passionate for deeper learning in pain science and pain care, online Pain Care Yoga videos, and Pain Care Aware™ training for yoga teachers.