learning how to be at one with water

Listed below are a selection of useful considerations to explore when you next visit the water. More are also available in teachings & insights.

• Enjoy some time when you first arrive in the water connecting with it. Walk to find your ground. 
  Float to discover you buoyancy and breath. Create space for your body and mind to readjust   
  to being semi-weightless.

• The water is in a constant state of flux, as are we. Allow each body of water to inform and 
  inspire you. On each visit discover something new.

• Observe your mind and your thoughts as you move through the water. Are you thinking about 
  what someone at work told you today? Are you considering what to have for dinner later or 
  what to wear tomorrow evening? Allow these thoughts to move where they need to go. Avoid 
  attaching too greatly to them. Come back to your experience of movement.

• Whilst you swim consider how the water meets your movement. Does it invite you to move 
  freely? Does it support your weight? Does it caress your skin?

• Use both the support of your breath and the support of the water whilst you swim. Avoid 
  holding or wasting your breath.

• Discover a seamlessness from air to water and water to air, from inhalation to exhalation, from 
  exhalation to inhalation. Invite this fluidity into your movement.

• Listen to the sound of your breath underwater as you swim. Let the sound to guide your 
  rhythm and flow.

• Spend a while floating on your back. Follow the wave of your breath. Feel the gentle rising and 
  sinking of your inhalation and exhalation. Surrender the weight of your body to the support of 
  the water beneath you as exhale. Allow your whole self to be held.

• Learn to submerge freely. Learn to use the weight of your body to sink effortlessly. Learn how 
  to use your direction and intention to float.