Yoga Therapy

Sherry Brourman, PT, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is a movement educator, physical therapist, yoga therapist, and author with over five decades of clinical experience and more than 25 years integrating yoga therapy into physical therapy practice.

She is the author of Walk Yourself Well (Hyperion, 1998), a foundational text that introduced a self-assessment–based approach to gait, helping readers understand how individual walking patterns reflect whole-body movement history and inform functional movement choices. Her recent book, From Bodily Knowledge to Intuitive Movement: Where Physical Therapy, Yoga Therapy, and Pain Science Meet (Singing Dragon, 2025), expands this work by focusing on how movement decisions are made continually—by feel. Rather than emphasizing exercise prescription, the book teaches clinicians and patients how to sense, interpret, and respond to moment-to-moment bodily information, using interoception, breath awareness, and attention to support regulation, adaptability, and healing.

Prior to yoga therapy’s wider integration into healthcare, Sherry taught a decade-long course for physical therapists and other health professionals entitled, Using Yoga Therapeutically. Sherry’s current clinical work addresses complex pain conditions, nervous system regulation, and the biopsychosocial-spiritual dimensions of movement. Over the past decade, her approach has been increasingly informed by contemporary pain science, while remaining grounded in lived clinical experience, relational care, and embodied awareness.

She continues to practice and teach in Santa Monica, California, working individually with patients, mentoring clinicians, and teaching live and online yoga therapy classes.