LEWISTON — Certified yoga instructor Marcy Covey will lead a five-part yoga series at the Central Maine Medical Center Wellness Center beginning in July.

The classes will be offered from 4:45 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, July 6 through Aug. 3, in the CMMC Health and Wellness Center, 12 High Street Medical Office Building.

The series will focus on yoga practices to unite the physical body and the inner self. Yoga can be used by anyone to improve health, lower stress levels and increase flexibility and strength.

Covey is owner of Dragonfly Healing Touch, a Thai Yoga Bodywork studio in Poland.

She 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.

Her 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.

A fee will be charged for participation in the program and must be paid prior to beginning the program. Class registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Call 795-2473 to register or to obtain more information. Information also available through the Events Calendar at www.cmmc.org.