POLAND — Marcy Covey, owner of Dragonfly Healing Touch, a Thai yoga bodywork studio in Poland, has completed a yoga teacher training certification process.

Covey recently concluded a two-year yoga instructor training program through Phoenix Rising, a nationally-recognized yoga therapy and instructor training program headquartered in Bristol, Vt.

Covey’s formal education in yoga also includes four years of training in Thai yoga bodywork with renowned Thai yoga healing arts instructor Jonas Westring. In addition, she has 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 grew up with dancing and singing and developed a deep appreciation for the performing arts. She 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 developed the first wellness programs at Central Maine Medical Center, 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 Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing’s Wellness for Life program for cancer patients and survivors by introducing them to yoga. Covey leads the Personal Toolkit Series of programs twice a year, also through the Dempsey Center.

For more information about Phoenix Rising yoga therapy, call Covey at 998-3577, or at CMMC’s Wellness Center at 795-2473.