Silver Kim-Videira

Silver Kim-Videira E-RYT® 500, YACEP®

Silver brings over twenty years of experience teaching yoga to her role as Yoga Therapist at New Life. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Sports Management and Marketing in 2000. Silver has taught yoga since 2003, and has been a yoga therapist since 2008. She has also trained yoga teachers since 2006 and hosted international yoga retreats since 2009. Silver has studied and trained with world-renowned teachers Bruce Bowditch, Todd Norian, Randy Boyd, Jennifer Reis, Anodea Judith, Ellen Saltonstall, Jillian Pransky, Dr. Douglas Brooks, Dr. Paul Muller Ortega, and many more. One of the first Ashaya Teacher Trainers, Silver helped develop, assist, and co-teach workshops, training courses, and conferences with founder Todd Norian. Additionally, she is the founder and former owner of Kula Heart Yoga and Wellness Centre. Her Yoga Alliance status qualifies her as a Yoga Teacher Trainer and a Continuing Education provider for CE credits to yoga teachers.

Silver is a dedicated teacher and confidant to all who look to her for support, direction, and guidance. She empowers others to live and work with courage, integrity, and respect. She encourages holding clear, loving boundaries while remaining open-minded and open-hearted to life as it gracefully unfolds. It brings Silver great joy when her therapeutic work as yoga teacher uplifts her students and empowers them to discover their full potential and engage in life more joyfully. She lovingly challenges her students to dive deeper for radical self-discovery. She feels that when we tap into our gifts, we live a life with more meaning and passion. In her work, Silver infuses philosophy, life lessons, humour, stories, and lightheartedness. She also uses energy work, massage, and therapeutic body work to help her students and clients find relief from pain and discomfort. 

When working with private clients in yoga therapy sessions, Silver listens deeply and uses her many diverse trainings and experiences to help heal each person as a whole: body, mind, and heart. She infuses yoga philosophy, body work, energy work, meditation, mantra, pranayama, asana, and inner excavation to help clients to unravel false limited belief systems to uncover and reconnect with their true SELF. Silver guides each of her students and clients to arrive at the true purpose of yoga, which is to remember, to embody, and to live more fully with Ananda: inner joy, freedom, and bliss.

At New Life Portugal, Silver is delighted to share her passion and purpose as Yoga Teacher and Body/Energy Worker with all those who long to restore, renew, and retreat together in community. As a constant seeker and a dedicated student of life, she is excited for the next chapter of her life together with her love and life partner/husband, Jose. Silver is also a writer, traveller, and explorer of diverse cultures all over the world. She is also a certified massage therapist and Reiki practitioner. She enjoys teaching private lessons, public classes, workshops, retreats, conferences, and training courses in different locations around the world. Her vision is to connect and build community while sharing her love of yoga, meditation, and healing.

Training and Qualifications:

10-Day Silent Vipassana Meditation (2020) – Delaware, USA

Advanced Yoga Therapy with Randy Boyd (2015-2019) – West Virginia and Pennsylvania 

200 Hour and 500 Hour Advanced Ashaya Yoga and Yoga Therapy with Todd Norian (2014-2019) – Kripalu, Massachusetts and Kula Heart Yoga, Pennsylvania 

Tantra Yoga Philosophy with Dr. Douglas Brooks (2004-2018)

Yoga Therapeutics with Todd Norian (2009-2017) – Kula Heart Yoga, Nazareth and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 

Assisted and Studied Tantra Yoga Conference with Todd Norian, Dr. Douglas Brooks, Bill Mahoney, and Sally Kempton (2015 and 2016) – Kripalu, Massachusetts  

Chair Yoga and Advanced Chair Yoga with Delia Quigley (2015 and 2016) – Kula Heart Yoga, Pennsylvania 

Neelankha Meditation and Tantra Yoga with Dr. Paul Muller Ortega (2014-2016) – Pennsylvania and Massachusetts

Ball Yoga Therapy and Yoga for Osteoporosis with Ellen Salsanatall (2015) – Kula Heart Yoga, Pennsylvania 

Chakra Yoga with Anodea Judith (2015) – Kripalu, Massachusetts  

Advanced Anusara Yoga with Desiree Rumbaugh (2010-2015) – Pennsylvania

500 Hour Hatha Yoga with Bruce Bowditch and John Levis (2013-2014) – Kula Heart Yoga, Pennsylvania 

Yoga Nidra with Jennifer Reis (2013) – Kula Heart Yoga, Pennsylvania 

Yin Yoga with Ellen Mosko (2012) – Kula Heart Yoga, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 

Certified Massage Therapy (2011) – Health Options Institute, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 

Yoga for Special Needs (2010) – Chamber School, New Jersey 

Advanced Restorative Yoga with Jillian Pransky (2010) – Kula Heart Yoga, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 

Prenatal Yoga with Sue Elkind, (2009) – Kula Heart Yoga, Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Yoga Therapy with Bruce Bowditch (2008-2009) – Kula Heart Yoga, Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Advanced Studies Anusara Yoga with Elena Brower (2008 and 2009) – Kripalu, Massachusetts and Kula Heart Yoga, Pennsylvania 

Advanced Studies Anusara Yoga with John Friend (2005-2009) – Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York

Vinyasa Yoga with Sean Corn (2006-2007) – Pennsylvania

Iyengar Yoga with Brooke Meyers (2004-2006) – Iyengar Institute, New York 

200-Hour RYT Anusara Yoga with Naime Jezzeny and Sue Elkind (2005) – Hope, Pennsylvania 

Prenatal Yoga with Carrie Parker (2004)

Restorative Yoga with Jillian Pransky (2003) – Yoga Works, New York 

Ashtanga Yoga with David Swenson (2002) – Doyestown, Pennsylvania 

Bachelor of Science in Sports Management and Marketing (2000) – Kennesaw University, Atlanta, Georgia 

Bachelor of Science in Textile Technology and Marketing (1991) – Fashion Institute of Technology, New York  

Volunteer work: 

Silver started the non-profit group KulaCares, which offers free yoga to those in need and works with cancer survivors, adolescents in juvenile detention, and schools and prisons.