Swimfulness helps you to enhance the health benefits from the time you spend in the water. Allowing you to fully enjoy and benefit from the weightlessness and experience a freedom of movement not found on dry land
Swimfulness helps you to enhance the health benefits from the time you spend in the water. Allowing you to fully enjoy and benefit from the weightlessness and experience a freedom of movement not found on dry land
Whether you are skilled, challenged, beginner or nervous swimmer - Swimfulness has something to offer
Swimfulness helps you to become a better swimmer, swimming with more ease and efficiency, in a way that treats your body well.
Many skilled swimmers swim without paying much attention to how they use their body. Maybe the focus is on counting laps or planning the next week. Their habitual way of swimming may be compromising the physical as well as mental benefits that can be gained from the swimming practice.
The habitual way of movement tends to feel correct and even comfortable. In the long run, however, this habitual way of moving may have unfortunate consequences.
Swimfulness helps you to recognize what you are doing and offers you ways to change unhelpful and possible harmful movement patterns in your swimming practice.
Swimfulness can for example help you to release tension in your neck and shoulder and gain smooth and relaxed breathing.
The approach in Swimfulness is particularly beneficial for people facing physical as well as mental challenges.
The approach is advantageous for people dealing with arthritis hypermobility, fibromyalgia, overweight and so on, as well as for those recovering after injuries or sickness.
The movements and strokes are based on the Alexander Technique and the Shaw Method of Swimming. The Alexander Technique helps you to move more freely without unnecessary tension involved and in the Shaw Method the four traditional strokes have been redesigned in such a way they promote minimal strain on joints and good body alignment.
The mindset to the swimming practice in Swimfulness focuses on the present moment, engaging the mind just as much as the body, and exploring how these are related. This is a swimming practice contributing to one’s perception of the soothing and calming effects of the water.
Most swimming practice has its roots in the competitive swimming world, a world permeated with way of thinking and practice, which may be compromising to the health benefits possible to gain from the water and is not suitable for all swimmers.
It can therefore be argued that the approach Swimfulness preaches has a preventive value for all kinds of injuries and challenges that most of us face with increased age.
In Swimfulness the first step of the swimming journey is to create a good relationship with the water.
Confidence and trust in the water is the cornerstone for joyful, safe, and successful water adventures in the future.
To feel uncomfortable, unease or frightened contributes to tense muscles, shortness of breath and unclear thinking.
These are reactions that compromise our safety in the water and will also compromise the quality of our swimming.
Safe and secure teaching environment is seen of paramount importance in all lessons with Swimfulness.
To feel safe both makes you more receptive for learning from own experience as well as from others.
Exploring and creating awareness how you interact with the water is highlighted. There is taken care of creating successful and positive experience in the water.
Swimfulness provides you a solid and healthy fundament for enjoying the water and swimming the strokes.
It is never too late to start enjoying and benefitting from the water!