Functional Movement Injury Prevention Strength Development

Applied Yoga: Applied Yoga Shoulder Mobility

A self-paced continuing-education course for yoga teachers and movement professionals on assessing and treating the shoulder. Blends traditional asana with functional movement to address glenohumeral and scapular dysfunction, motor control, and pain. Earns 5 Yoga Alliance YACEP hours.

Modules: 2 Modules
Lessons: 10 Lessons
Duration: 5h
Certification: CE credits
Format: self-paced
Skill level: intermediate, advanced
Career pathway: advanced training

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Course program

Applied Yoga Shoulder Mobility by Applied Yoga is a continuing-education course led by Jory Serota that explores the shoulder as one of the most complex and mobile regions of the body. The training blends classical yoga with functional movement and biomechanics so practitioners can work skillfully with shoulder restrictions, pain, and injury.

Certified yoga teachers, advanced practitioners, and movement professionals with a working knowledge of asana who teach, treat, or train others and routinely encounter shoulder issues.

The curriculum focuses on assessing and treating the glenohumeral joint and scapula, recognizing limited range of motion in the glenohumeral joint, identifying scapular dyskinesis, and applying the Apley’s Scratch test as a clinical assessment. Students will examine the role of the thoracic spine in shoulder motion and scapulohumeral mechanics. The course covers when and how to use passive versus active stretching, how to use muscular activations to alleviate pain, and how to detect dysfunction within common therapy poses. It emphasizes proper alignment, active strategies for functional motor control, and treating asana as an investigation of joint mechanics, movement capability, and motor control.

The course is taught by Jory Serota, founder of Applied Yoga Seminars and a NeuroKinetic Therapy Instructor with over twenty years of experience in kinesiology and movement disciplines. He has trained thousands of yoga teachers and bodyworkers in his applied-anatomy method and is known for translating dense biomechanical material into clear, usable teaching.

The format is fully self-paced and online. After enrolling, students get lifetime access to all course material across any device, with no fixed start date or schedule. There are no required live sessions, and the course can be revisited as needed.

Meet your teacher

Jory Serota

Founder of Applied Yoga Seminars with over 20 years of experience in kinesiology. NeuroKinetic Therapy Instructor who has trained thousands of yoga teachers and bodyworkers in therapeutic movement applications.

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Kevin Courtney

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Jory offers a depth of knowledge that can only come from direct experience and dedicated self-study. Without fail, every time I practice with him I walk away with new techniques to awaken my body and steady the mind. He naturally weaves together the integrity of all eight limbs of yoga and leads his classes with humor, focus and precision. Jory represents a powerful link in a chain of teachers going back centuries, and is himself, an embodiment of Yoga.