POLAND – Marcy Covey, owner of Dragonfly Health Touch, a bodywork studio in Poland, has completed advanced training in Thai yoga bodywork.

Covey recently finished four years of training with renowned Thai yoga healing arts instructor Jonas Westring. She has also studied Thai yoga massage with Kam Thye Chow of the Lotus Palm School of Massage in Montreal, and has attained certification in pre-natal Thai yoga bodywork through the Palm School.

Thai yoga bodywork is a type of massage and bodywork that stimulates and stretches each of the body’s muscle groups. During a typical Thai yoga bodywork session, Covey places her students in yoga-like positions and helps them deepen stretches and balance energy lines, helping them achieve feelings of deep relaxation, balance and serenity.

A Vermont native, Covey graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and went on to create an exercise-wellness program for North Country Hospital in Newport, Vt. In the early 1990s, she created the first wellness programs at CMMC, helping to design the CMMC Wellness Center, which she managed from 1995 through 2002. She continues to serve as a wellness instructor at the hospital-based facility, where she teaches yoga classes, leads Fit ‘n’ Fun exercise classes for seniors, and assists with the Wellness for Life program for cancer patients and survivors by introducing them to yoga.

She is certified in first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ropes course facilitation, lifeguarding, lifeguard instruction, water safety instruction, cross-country skiing, and a variety of exercise modes.

For more information about Thai yoga bodywork, phone Covey at 998-3577.