Michelle Silver Yoga

09/18/2025

May you feel protected and safe.
May you be kind, content and free.
May you well in mind and body.
May you live with ease and peace.

09/17/2025

in these troubled times, I feel the smallest joys become even more important … thank you to Lisa Wade Purcell for sharing this. ❤️

09/16/2025

09/14/2025

“each leaf, each sound, each breath calls me to be present”

In the Quiet Heartbeat of Now

The world keeps turning.
Yet here I stand.
Moments slip like water
through my fingers.

Tasks beckon.
Phones ping.
Clocks keep ticking.
And still, I breathe.

Even the smallest acts,
folding laundry,
pouring tea,
watering a plant,
become portals into presence.

The scent of coffee rises.
Warm. Familiar.
The cup rests in my hands.
Its heat seeps into my fingers.
Its aroma grounds me.

Steps on the pavement.
Soft. Deliberate.
The wind brushes my face.
The sun lingers on my shoulders.
And the world slows around me.
I am simply here.

Each leaf, each sound, each breath
calls me to be present,
to observe,
to savor,
to exist fully.

I discover peace
not in escaping,
but in arriving,
again and again,
in the quiet heartbeat of now.

~ 'In the Quiet Heartbeat of Now' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Lise Fischer

09/12/2025

✨ We know you’ve been waiting for this ✨

Thank you for your patience. We missed gathering with you in August!
We’re very happy to share that our next Community Acupuncture will be held on:

📅 Tuesday, September 30th
📍 River Roots 724 King Street, Bridgewater.
🕠 5:30 PM

If you haven’t joined us before, this is a very relaxed, welcoming circle. The treatment offered is the NADA protocol — just five tiny needles in each ear. It’s a gentle yet powerful way to support relaxation, release stress, and restore balance.
💛 Come as you are, payment is by donation. Settle in, and experience this beautiful group healing practice. Everyone is welcome.
We can’t wait to see you there!

09/08/2025

it’s not too late … a few spaces remain for Gentle Yoga for Healthy Aging …

I awoke this morning to a gentle soft rain. A welcome and much needed reprieve. We need more, more rain, more balance. With our lives and with the land. I have been contemplating equanimity, one of the four pillars of healthy aging… well, really, healthy living. Calmness, balance, finding and living one’s centre in challenging times. Yoga practices can be a support for this, through body awareness (somatics), Breathwork, centring … join me in these practices.

Starting the week of September 15th (full details in poster photo):

Rose Bay
Mondays 4:45 pm - 5 spaces available
Thursdays 9:15 am - 1 space available

Bridgewater
Tuesdays 2pm - 2 spaces available

In gratitude,
Michelle
River Roots Wellness, Bridgewater, NS
Trinity United Church, Rose Bay , NS

09/03/2025

‼️ I have some news ‼️

✨ All classes now offer both chair and classic options for floor-based-postures (i.e. sitting, kneeling, laying on the floor choices)

✅ cLAiM YOUR space NoW.

… with September and many people starting back to school and work, it often feels like a time of fresh starts, for me anyway. ☺️ I always look forward to gathering in yoga with each of you.

River Roots Wellness
Trinity United Church, Rose Bay

08/30/2025

🌀What a summer … I feel like now more than ever, these are times when gathering with community and sharing a collective grounding breath together is needed and wanted.

🌀In this gentle yoga practice, with breath and body awareness, we work on balance, flexibility and strength and in my opinion, most importantly, equanimity. Cultivating our inner resources and wisdom to find our centre, our ground, our balance in these ever changing times.

🌀Join me for this next series of classes, starting the week of September 15th.

✨Classes in Rose Bay Trinity United Church, Rose Bay Mondays 4:45pm and Thursdays 9:15am

✨Bridgewater at River Roots Wellness Tuesdays 2pm

02/20/2025

Feels so good to get out and move with other people … find your flow in this gentle, graceful yoga for healthy aging practice. You choose, traditional and chair options … make this your yoga. 🪑🧘🏻‍♂️ 🌀✨

02/20/2025

one of the earliest nectar sources for bees and other beneficial insects as well as

Story Time 📖

Dandelions

"The dandelion is the only flower that represents the three celestial bodies of the sun, moon, and stars: The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moons, and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars.

The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep.

Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine, and dye for colouring.

Up until the 1800s, people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva and chamomile.

The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves.

Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant.

Dandelion seeds are often transported away by a gust of wind and they travel like tiny parachutes. Seeds are often carried as many as five miles from their origin!

Birds, insects, and butterflies consume nectar or seeds of dandelion.
Honey from bees pollinating dandelions is quite delicious.

Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seeds.
Root of dandelion can be used as a substitute for coffee.

Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as a diuretic.

If you know dandelions, they’ll grow shorter stalks to spite you.

Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist. They are masters of survival worldwide."

02/19/2025

Hi! For anyone interested in the lecture from last night we have a link (set to private) on the business youtube, a full immune system guide PDF and some recipes. If you would like Krystal to email these files please ET $15 to krystalmassage@hotmail.com