Dogwood Studio is happy to welcome our newest intern, Aviva!
Aviva Chaye Tulasi is a registered yoga instructor (RYT) who is currently enrolled in a IYAT certified 800 hour yoga therapy program. She is thrilled to be Dogwood Studio’s newest intern. She has trained and taught with the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers - a classical yoga system integrating the 4 paths of yoga.
Along with teaching yoga, Aviva is the chair of a non-profit food backpack. Both of these positions have evolved from 15 years of teaching high school science. Her goal is to support others with yoga - combining her love of teaching and desire to help others. She has sought out yoga courses geared towards this goal. She completed chair yoga, gentle yoga, trauma informed yoga and yoga nidra training.
As her name suggests, Aviva (which means spring) and Chaye (which means life) is a vibrant positive person. When Aviva completed her 200 hour YTT, she was given the name Tulasi (Sanskrit: तुलसी). Tulasi means “incomparable one,” and is a symbol of healing and protection. At that time, she was ready to start a new stage in life and decided to change her last name to Tulasi as a reminder of the person she was striving to become. In India, Tulasi is considered a holy plant because it is used as medicine for the body, mind, and soul. Aviva teaches yoga to bring Tulasi and all of its associated positivities into her students’ lives.
Aviva is happiest when she is in nature, which is one of the driving reasons her family and she moved to the Chapel Hill area two years ago. She feels fortunate that she lives surrounded by forests. She loves being in North Carolina where it is easy to take weekend trips to the mountains or the beach. In her spare time, you can find her hiking with her husband, two step-sons, and two dogs.
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