*New* Foundations Immersion: Coming Home to Water (Part One) -

Join for an experience unlike any other - a two-day swim immersion in community with other BIPOC women and nonbinary adults, held in a small group at a private pool.  The new two-day immersion format is an exciting option that allows for continuity and embodiment, helping skills, confidence, and trust develop naturally, in a format that fits your schedule. 

This course is the same well loved journey toward empowered, liberated swimming, offering 13 hours of trauma-informed, culturally based instruction in a warm (90°), 4-foot-deep pool. Participants build foundational skills—breathing, water comfort, buoyancy, floating, body alignment, gliding, and early stroke development—while being supported to move at their own pace in a safer, affirming space.

Through mindfulness, meditation, and self-inquiry, we center healing and deepen your relationship with water. No prior swim experience is required; the course is especially supportive for adults of color with fear of water, and also welcomes those who already enjoy being in water and want to grow their skills in a supportive environment. 

Logistics

Held Over Two Saturdays, 9:30 am - 6:30pm daily (new format!)

Total Instruction Time: 13 hours (18 hour course including breaks)

Location: Lower Queen Anne, Seattle 

Setting: Small group, private pool (90°, 4 ft deep), located in a residential apartment building.

Maximum number of Students: 5

Pool Description: Indoor pool 4ft all the way across, 92 degrees, located in Lower Queen Anne. 

*COVD-19 Precautions: We no longer require a covid test or vaccine status, but please stay home and care for yourself if you're showing any of the symptoms. Class size limited to 5 students.

*Accessibility: There are 12+ steps and unfortunately this location does not have another way to enter.  There is no parking lot and most street parking has a 2 hour limit.  Please plan to use one of the nearby private lots ($15/day range).  Under 5 minutes to the D line,1 and 33/24 bus lines. 

*Food: The schedule each day includes one break (30min) and one meal time (1hour 15 min).  Participants are encouraged to bring snacks and there are a variety of restuarants within .3 miles.  You are also welcome to bring your own meal, but please note there is no lunchroom at the facility. 

*Please note this class is a space for those who have experienced gender and race based exclusions from aquatic environments (womxn of color and non-binary POC). The space centers Black women and lovingly welcomes other identities! Contact oshunswimschool@gmail.com if you have questions or want to find a different way to be involved! 

We are so excited to offer this 3 hour Coming Home to Water Mini Course - a snap shot of the well loved Coming Home to Water journey toward empowered, liberated swimming.  As always, we center trauma-informed, culturally based instruction.  If you have taken the CHTW course and would like a refresh, more time with the skill building, or to get prepared for a more advanced class, this is for you!  We will re anchor our selves in our relationship to water, while building confidence with front and back float, breath work, and under water comfort.  More advanced students will work on their propulsion and breathing while moving.  This is the perfect opportunity to brush up on your skills and prepare yourself for a strokes course.  This space is an affinity space for women of color and non-binary POC. 

This course is also a great fit for swimmers new to OSS who want to feel out the programming with a shorter and more affordable session than the 13 hour immersion.  A lot of growth unfolds in 3 hours, after which point you may feel ready to continue onto the full course, or perhaps pursue a strokes class.

Through mindfulness, meditation, and self-inquiry, we center healing and deepen your relationship with water. No prior swim experience is required; the course is especially supportive for adults of color with fear of water, and also welcomes those who already enjoy being in water and want to grow their skills in a supportive environment. 

Logistics

3 hour course:  9:30 am - 12:30pm OR 2:30-5:30pm (new format!)

Total Instruction Time: 3 hours 

Location: Lower Queen Anne, Seattle 

Setting: Small group, private pool (warm 90°, 4 ft deep), located in a residential apartment building.

Maximum number of Instructor to Student Ratio: 1:5

Pool Description: Indoor pool 4ft all the way across, 92 degrees, located in Lower Queen Anne. 

*COVD-19 Precautions: We no longer require a covid test or vaccine status, but please stay home and care for yourself if you're showing any of the symptoms. 

*Accessibility: There are 12+ steps and unfortunately this location does not have another way to enter.  There is no parking lot and most street parking has a 2 hour limit.  Please plan to use one of the nearby private lots ($15/day range).  Pool is under 5 minutes to the D line,1 and 33/24 bus lines. 

*Food: Participants are encouraged to bring snacks and there are a variety of restuarants within .3 miles.  You are also welcome to bring your own meal, but please note there is no lunchroom at the facility. 

*Please note this class is a space for those who have experienced gender and race based exclusions from aquatic environments (womxn of color and non-binary POC). The space centers Black women and lovingly welcomes other identities! Contact oshunswimschool@gmail.com if you have questions or want to find a different way to be involved!