Description: Conquer Your Fear of Water by Melon Dash Overcome fear in water without risks. An extraordinary system using a simple diagram and common sense. Learning is fun and inevitable in small comfortable steps. Stay true to yourself at all times. Be transformed in all parts of your life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Overcome fear in water without taking risks.A swimmer needs to know more than how to go from here to there. The ability to rest in deep water saves lives...not strokes. Every person needs to be peaceful in deep water going nowhere. Fear is healed by feeling safe, taking small comfortable steps, and being in control all the time. It is kept in place by pushing oneself and rushing.The following teachings in the book make every last person successful: - Overcome fear without risking your safety, control, or dignity.- Comfort comes first. If youre comfortable, everything else in aquatics is possible. Dont try to relax.- Get your safety from yourself, not the bottom or the side. - Its okay if your feet touch the bottom when you float in shallow water.- Learn to be comfortable being still in deep water.- "Strokes are merely choreography" for efficiency. -C. Canaday, Miracle Swimming InstructorDo you wish you could swim? Every single point and conversation, exercise and thought experiment you need to be successful is explained. Say goodbye to shame."...The book is amazing. I am so grateful I found it because it speaks to the heart of me. I am taking swim lessons at the local rec center and while they are terrific for what they are, they are exactly as you describe. Without your book and video, I would not have the courage and confidence to speak up and tell the instructors what I need. To their credit, they listen! They help me and I think I am helping them by being the student Ive become thanks to your enlightening me."--Gratefully, PWStrokes are irrelevant to overcoming fear and are omitted.Kirkus Review: "Our Verdict: Get it"An insightful, warmly reassuring how-to for novice swimmers.Anyone can feel confident swimming in deep water, according to this soulful beginners swimming course....introduces rudimentary skills in a pressure-free, self-paced manner that allows learners to edge into the shallow end, acclimate while clinging to walls, and build slowly up to the...step of submerging their faces. More advanced lessons cover front floats and back floats, arm motions and hand orientations, and frolics like underwater somersaults and handstands....cogent-detailed, lucid, and eminently practical for helping newbies overcome fundamental but often overlooked barriers. Swimming programs often ignore students struggles with basic aquatic competency, and Dashs book ably fills that gap in a fun and appealing way.BookLife Prize - 2022 by Publishers Weekly"In this well-executed text, with a step-by-step approach to not only overcoming a fear of water but also learning to swim in spite of it, Melons perspective... make(s) it easy to understand her lessons. For anyone who thought it wasnt possible to learn to swim from a book, this book will prove that theory wrong.Miracle Swimming School for Adults founder Dashs work recently appeared in The Observer (Sarasota FL), Suncoast View (ABC 7 TV Sarasota), International Business Times, and Sarasota Magazine. Author Biography Melon Dash is a nationally ranked masters swimmer who began teaching swimming at fourteen. She founded Miracle Swimming School for Adults in 1983 in Berkeley, California. Her books, podcast, video, courses, and patent--The Aquatic Learning Station--show that overcoming fear can happen without taking risks. She solved the biggest problem in adult-learn-to-swim: fear. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN.com Opinion, NPR, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, NBCs Today Show, CNNs Headline News, Psychology Today, Real Simple, Sarasota Magazine, Tampa Bay Times, and dozens more. But no journalist ever saw the point. She resides in Sarasota, Florida and swims many days a week. Her innovations in adult swimming lessons have influenced water safety worldwide. Details ISBN1734097302 Short Title Conquer Your Fear of Water Publisher Brooklyn Writers Press Language English ISBN-10 1734097302 ISBN-13 9781734097306 Format Paperback Pages 346 Year 2022 Edition 2nd Publication Date 2022-04-08 Imprint Brooklyn Writers Press UK Release Date 2022-04-08 Author Melon Dash Subtitle A Revolutionary Way to Learn to Swim Without Ever Feeling Afraid Edition Description 2nd ed. Audience General DEWEY 797.21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135030791;
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