LEWISTON – “Growing Through Cancer: Your Personal Toolkit” is the theme of a multipart workshop series being presented by the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing at Central Maine Medical Center.

The presenter for all the events in the series will be Marcy Covey, a CMMC wellness instructor and owner of Dragonfly Health Touch, a yoga bodywork studio in Poland.

The series will begin on Tuesday, April 1, with “Coping with Life’s Stressful Events,” which will explore breathing techniques and gentle yoga postures that can be useful in managing stress.

Other topics will be discussed at presentations on April 8, 22 and 29, and May 6, 13, 20 and 27.

Covey recently finished four years of training with 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.

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.

Covey 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.

The presentations will be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in Conference Room I on the lower level of the 12 High Street Medical Office Building. Anyone with questions should call 795-8251 or 1-877-DEMPCTR.