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Swimming Without Stress
United Kingdom
Приєднався 29 січ 2009
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Swimming Without Stress. Learn to swim with the Alexander Technique. Our videos aim to show you important basic swimming skills.
We specialise in helping non-swimmers and nervous swimmers. But people who are more confident in water also benefit from going back to basics.
The water can help us to do less, to release and expand by embracing its support. Being too keen to improve your stroke and swim lengths for fitness can get in the way of experiencing the real benefits of swimming. See swimmingwithoutstress.co.uk for blog and more about our approach, or to find out about our residential course in Wales.
Swimming Without Stress. Learn to swim with the Alexander Technique. Our videos aim to show you important basic swimming skills.
We specialise in helping non-swimmers and nervous swimmers. But people who are more confident in water also benefit from going back to basics.
The water can help us to do less, to release and expand by embracing its support. Being too keen to improve your stroke and swim lengths for fitness can get in the way of experiencing the real benefits of swimming. See swimmingwithoutstress.co.uk for blog and more about our approach, or to find out about our residential course in Wales.
Відео
Swimming Without Stress: Cheryl's Breaststroke
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Cheryl is using body undulation and thinking about lengthening in the glide and widening for the breath. She also likes to think about going deeper into the support of the water and softening her limbs and joints. Filmed in Lanzarote, January 2018.
Swimming Without Stress: A few thoughts on learning to swim on your back
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Most men's legs (and some women's) sink when floating on the back in any water that isn't salty. So kicking the feet 'up up up', making little splashes with one foot at a time, may be important, at first, just to keep you afloat. The ability to move forward will improve with more relaxation, confidence and practice. Even before you gain the ability to swim efficiently for sustained periods on y...
Swimming Without Stress: 3 Key Non-Doing Activities
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Ian demonstrates 3 key non-doing activities: floating face down, sitting or floating vertically and gliding. These basic activities are great for calming the nervous system, waking up the cardiovascular system (without stressing it) and promoting head, neck, back integrity. see blog for more explanation of the benefits of these activities: Tip Top Tips, October 24th 2020 :)
Swimming Without Stress: Practising Making Bubbles At Home
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In the video Ian is practising breathing out into water at home. There isn't a great body of water underneath me, for that unique sense of support swimmers enjoy. But this matters less than I thought it would. And for non-swimmers, it may be an advantage to practise in your own environment, with your feet on solid ground. I wanted to find out from this exercise whether, when I'm missing making ...
Swimming Without Stress: Swimming Without Strokes
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Focusing on freeing the neck and enjoying the support of the water instead of pushing strokes out.
Swimming Without Stress: Ian's breaststroke before and after a 5 minute lesson from Cheryl
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Ian's breaststroke before and after a 5 minute lesson from Cheryl. It feels completely different because she's changed (180 degrees) my guiding thoughts. The change is in not holding on to the glide. This subconscious doing is getting in my way as it results in fixing in pelvis, neck and shoulders. The release of the legs and everything else as soon as the feet come together to complete the kic...
Swimming Without Stress: Breaststroke in Robotic, Mechanical versus More Flowing Style
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To accompany blog post Learning to Swim Like a Robot, where Ian discusses how trying to get the strokes right produces a stiff and rigid way of moving which is opposite to going with the flow. What you think is what you get. A certain type of thinking produces a corresponding quality of movement.
Swimming Without Stress: Rachel, December 2018
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Rachel came to us this week as an anxious non-swimmer with a chronic spinal injury. We promised her that we wouldn't do her any damage. This is her on the last day of her course of 8 lessons.
Swimming Without Stress: A Relaxing Recreational Breaststroke
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A relaxing way to approach recreational breaststroke, demonstrated by pupil Matt: quality time underwater, with a few big, natural sweeps of the arms, then plenty of time for a leisurely inbreath, breaks the cycle of frequent head movement for a breath every stroke, which often leads to neck tightness and gaspy breaths. Back by popular demand, Ian's dulcet tones employed for commentary..
Swimming Without Stress: Exploring Authentic Movement
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Using the water to play with movement and see what happens, inspired by 'Authentic Movement' experiences and using the Alexander Technique, of course.
Swimming Without Stress: Widening Your Margin of Error
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To accompany blog, Quality Time, if you can give up the idea of swimming the strokes like an athlete and stop worrying about speed, you can focus more on relaxation and natural breathing. Take your time to enjoy being underwater then spend plenty of time in the breathing position.
Swimming Without Stress: Treading Salt Water
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Swimming Without Stress: Treading Salt Water
Swimming Without Stress: Alexander Technique work
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Swimming Without Stress: Alexander Technique work
Swimming Without Stress: Back to Basics 2018
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Swimming Without Stress: Back to Basics 2018
Swimming Without Stress: A Sea Swimmer in June
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Swimming Without Stress: A Sea Swimmer in June
Swimming Without Stress: Surface Tension?
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Swimming Without Stress: Surface Tension?
Swimming Without Stress: Update from Ewan
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Swimming Without Stress: Update from Ewan
Swimming Without Stress: Cheryl and Ian floating about in the Witch's Cauldron
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Swimming Without Stress: Cheryl and Ian floating about in the Witch's Cauldron
Swimming Without Stress: Filmé en Corse
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Swimming Without Stress: Filmé en Corse
Swimming Without Stress: It's Too Cold
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Swimming Without Stress: It's Too Cold
Swimming Without Stress: Enjoying the journey with butterfly and breaststroke
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Swimming Without Stress: Enjoying the journey with butterfly and breaststroke
Swimming Without Stress: Front Crawl Breathing - Why Don't I Just Stick My Neck Out?
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Swimming Without Stress: Front Crawl Breathing - Why Don't I Just Stick My Neck Out?
Swimming Without Stress: Diving Into Breaststroke
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Swimming Without Stress: Diving Into Breaststroke
Swimming Without Stress: BBC Radio Oxford Discussion on Learning to Swim
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Swimming Without Stress: BBC Radio Oxford Discussion on Learning to Swim
Swimming Without Stress: "What Are You Training For?"
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Swimming Without Stress: "What Are You Training For?"
Swimming Without Stress: A Happy Sea Swimmer Easily Adapts Her Strokes
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Swimming Without Stress: A Happy Sea Swimmer Easily Adapts Her Strokes
Swimming Without Stress, Sue learning front crawl with attention to head and neck
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Swimming Without Stress, Sue learning front crawl with attention to head and neck
Swimming Without Stress: Sally Head Up Breaststroker Before and After 2 Lessons
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Swimming Without Stress: Sally Head Up Breaststroker Before and After 2 Lessons