ABOUT THE BOOK
To learn to swim, you must feel safe.
What doesn't feel safe to you about swimming?
Deep water? Panic? Sinking? Water in your nose? Bumping into someone?
Conventional lessons?
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Feeling safe in water leads to success. Correct arm and leg technique is irrelevant to healing fear. Rest and move calmly and freely in shallow, then deep water in the simplest way imaginable. Learn how the water works with your body. Make comfort your top priority.
You don't have to struggle or push yourself to become confident in water. With correct information, healing fear is not frightening. Turn your head around about becoming calm in deep water with an industry disruptor who has been leading adult-learn-to-swim since 1983.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melon Dash began teaching swimming at fourteen and has swum competitively all her life. She is a nationally ranked masters swimmer. She founded Miracle Swimming School for Adults in 1983 in Berkeley, California and launched an instructor training program in 2004. Her innovations in adult swimming lessons have influenced water safety worldwide. Her books, podcast, video and patent-The Learn to Swim Float Bar & Tether-were developed to help adult learn-to-swim students and instructors realize the goal of learning to swim in the shortest possible time by solving the biggest problem: fear. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, NBC's Today Show, CNN's Headline News, Psychology Today, Real Simple, Tampa Bay Times, and dozens more. She resides in Sarasota, Florida and swims many days a week. Her goal is to change the way beginning swimming is taught, especially to adults. She sees the day when drowning is a rarity.