Pain is NO Joke™ × True REST Alexandria
Six weeks to change how pain works in your body.
Learn it. Move it. Rest it. Jen Uschold’s Pain Neuroscience program, paired with unlimited float sessions and unlimited Vitality Suite access. Six weeks of education, movement, and deep rest, combined into one $599 bundle.
ENROLL NOW: $599Why This Combination Works
Two approaches. One protocol.
Jen’s program is built on three pillars: Education, Motion, and Power Down. Float therapy doesn’t just complement the third pillar, it is the third pillar, made physical.
Education
Learn why your nervous system turns up the volume.
Pain isn't always about tissue damage. It's about a nervous system that's learned to stay on high alert. Jen's weekly sessions teach you how that alarm works, and why understanding it is the first step to changing it.
Motion
Move in ways that feel safe, not scary.
Fear of movement keeps pain going long after the original injury has healed. Each session weaves in gentle, playful movement, optional, adaptable, and nothing that feels like a workout.
Power Down
Give your nervous system a real off-switch.
Float therapy is the Power Down pillar made physical. 60 minutes of zero-gravity, zero-stimulation rest teaches your nervous system what "safe" actually feels like, and that feeling compounds across six weeks.
“Learn it. Move it. Rest it.”
Jen Uschold, Pain is NO Joke™
Meet Your Guide
Jen Uschold, PT
After more than 35 years as a physical therapist, Jen noticed something: people understood their pain a lot better when she explained why it worked the way it did, not just what to do about it.
She created Pain is NO Joke™ to combine pain science with movement, play, and connection, because learning shouldn’t feel like another lecture, and healing doesn’t have to be hard.
- Physical Therapist, 35+ years
- Pain Science Educator
- Health & Wellness Coach
- Creator of the EMP Framework
“My goal? To help you take your life back from pain.”
From Jen’s Participants
“I have more control over pain than I thought.”
Christine
Six-week participant
“Before the program I had headaches almost daily. This past week, just one.”
Nancy
Six-week participant
“Fun from the start. Jen made it enjoyable.”
N.M.
Workshop participant
* Individual results vary.
The 6-Week Program
Six weeks. A different way to understand pain.
Each session uses interactive stories, gentle movement, and play to make complex pain science relatable. No lectures. No comparing pain levels. Come as you are.
Week 1
“Your Nervous System, the House Alarm”
Why your alarm sometimes reacts to a leaf as if it were a brick. You’ll understand why pain can show up, or stay around, without anything being structurally wrong.
Week 2
“Pain and the Nosy Neighbors”
Why pain can spread or show up somewhere new. We explore how the nervous system learns, and why that learning can sometimes work against you.
Week 3
“Turning Down the Volume”
Practical ways to calm a sensitive nervous system. This is where the floats start doing their most powerful work, giving your body a real, felt experience of quiet.
Week 4
“The Pain Committee”
The many factors that shape your pain experience. Stress, sleep, emotions, context. Apparently everyone has an opinion. We learn how to work with the committee, not fight it.
Week 5
“Lions, Kittens, and Stress”
How stress turns up the nervous system’s alarm. You’ll learn the difference between a threat that matters and one you can let go of, and how floating resets the dial.
Week 6
“Is the Tissue the Issue?”
Why pain and tissue damage aren’t always the same thing. You leave with a new framework for understanding flares, setbacks, and what your body is actually telling you.
Everything Included in Your $599 Bundle
- 6 weekly sessions with Jen, 75 minutes each
- Max 8 participants, small-group, no pressure
- Workbook + post-program written summary
- Invitation to the Pain is NO Joke™ community
- Unlimited floats at True REST Alexandria for 6 weeks
- Unlimited Vitality Suite access for 6 weeks
The Science
Two research streams. One protocol.
Pain Neuroscience Education has decades of clinical research behind it. Float therapy has 11 independent studies across five countries. When you combine understanding pain with actually feeling safe in your body, the results compound.
Float Therapy Research Highlights
65%
Reduction in cortisol after a single float session
Flux et al., 2001
40%
Reduction in pain intensity, acute and chronic, across 11 studies
Meta-analysis across 5 countries
73%
Of participants reported reduced anxiety after regular floating
Kjellgren et al., 2010
Full citations on our Float for Pain research page.
Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE)
Research consistently shows that people who understand how pain works, not just where it is, experience less fear of movement, reduced pain intensity, and better function. Learning changes the nervous system.
Float Therapy & the Nervous System
Zero-gravity, zero-stimulation flotation removes all external threat signals from the body. With nothing to defend against, the nervous system downregulates. This is the "Power Down" pillar, felt, not just understood.
Why They Work Better Together
Education tells the nervous system there's nothing to fear. Float therapy gives it a physical experience of that safety. Each week, one reinforces the other, until the new baseline isn't pain, it's ease.
Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) is an evidence-based approach developed by researchers including Lorimer Moseley and Adrian Louw. Multiple randomized controlled trials show that patients who learn how pain works, especially how the nervous system amplifies signals, experience significantly reduced pain intensity, fear-avoidance, and disability, independent of any physical intervention.
What Is Float Therapy?
A calm place to reset.
A float pod holds about 10 inches of warm, heavily salted water. Because the water is exactly body temperature and saturated with Epsom salt, you float without any effort, your body has nothing to hold up, nothing to resist, nothing to defend against.
The environment is private, dark (by default), and silent. With no external input, the nervous system has nowhere to go except down. That’s not a metaphor, it’s measurable. Cortisol drops. Blood pressure falls. Muscle tension releases. It’s the closest most people ever get to a genuine full-body off-switch.
New to floating?You’re in control the entire time. The pod door is never locked, the lights and music are adjustable, and your host will walk you through everything before your first session.
Water temperature
93.5°F, your skin temp
Epsom salt
1,000+ lbs per pod
Session length
60 minutes
Your location
Private pod, fully yours
Unlimited
floats + Vitality Suite for the full six weeks, book whenever works for you
The Bundle
Everything you need. One price.
Six weeks of Pain is NO Joke™ plus unlimited float and Vitality Suite access, combined into a single bundle at True REST Alexandria.
The PNJ™ & True REST Package
$599
for the full 6-week program
- 6 weekly sessions with Jen (75 min each, max 8 seats)
- Unlimited float sessions at True REST Alexandria
- Unlimited Vitality Suite access
- Workbook + post-program written summary
- Pain is NO Joke™ community invitation
- Floats never expire, book on your schedule
True REST Alexandria · Small group, limited to 8 seats
A note on what to expect:Six weeks won’t make pain disappear. The goals are preventing flares, recovering faster when they happen, reducing intensity, and getting more time between them. These are things to work toward, not guaranteed results, and that honesty is part of the program.
Coming Soon
Get on the list.
Enrollment for the first cohort at True REST Alexandria is coming soon. Email alexandria@truerest.com to get on the list.
EMAIL US TO GET ON THE LISTFrequently Asked Questions
Questions about the program?
Still have questions? Jen is happy to help you decide if this is a good next step.
Let’s talk. →