21st Century Swimming Lessons Inc. Company Profile
Twenty-seven years ago, as a traditionally trained swimming instructor teaching a college beginning swimming class, M. Ellen Dash asked why the system was not working for 10 of her 20 students. The answer was simple: With their attention on survival, they could not focus on stroke mechanics.
A new system was born: The 5 Circles Teaching Method.
Today, it's clear to everyone involved with our program that the Miracle Swimming Five Circles Teaching Method TM is the missing ventricle from the heart of beginning swimming lessons: Teach students how to be comfortable, feel safe, and remain in control. Teach them how the water works. Swimming comfortably and feeling safe in deep water is the spontaneous, inevitable result. That's Miracle Swimming.
News from 21st Century Swimming Lessons Inc.:
Comforting Universal Lessons Teach Adults to Swim More Effectively
Adults are no longer being taught children's lessons by instructors in the know SARASOTA, Fla., March 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Swimming lessons for adults began evolving in the early 1980's when instructors realized that lessons they were trained to teach to children did not work for adults, especially adults who were afraid in water. Photo […]
Non-Swimming Adults Flock to Sarasota, Florida for Winter Swim Classes in the Sun
21st Century Swimming Lessons, Inc. Hosts Five- and Ten-Day Winter Swimming Classes for Adults Who Fear Water SARASOTA, Fla., Jan. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — A non-profit swim school based in Sarasota, Florida hosts five-and ten-day swimming classes during the winter so that northerners can get a welcome relief from winter and learn a life-changing, potentially life-saving […]
Comparative Study of Adult Learn-to-Swim Systems
SARASOTA, Fla., July 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — This week, Dr. Michelle Tichy, professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa and chair of the Holistic Learning Special Interest Group for the American Educational Research Association with her small team of researchers will begin a comparative study of the major Learn-to-Swim (LTS) systems used […]
Charleston Symphony's Harpist to Swim New Zealand's Cook Strait
49-year-old musician, City Council member, and world class marathon swimmer will brave tough currents to complete the fifth trek of her "Ocean's 7" swims CHARLESTON, S.C., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Charleston, South Carolina's City Council member and symphony harpist, Kathleen Wilson and her U.S. crew of two will fly to New Zealand February 27 with high […]
Miracle Swimming Wins Two Grants to Take Program Alleviating Deep Water Fears National
SARASOTA, Fla., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — 21st Century Swimming Lessons, Inc. of Sarasota Florida, developers of Miracle Swimming: New Lessons for Adults Afraid in Water, has been awarded two grants by national organizations to expand its reach nationally. The National Swimming Pool Foundation (NSPF) granted $10,000 to "21st" at the Step Into Swim Congress […]
70 Percent of American Drownees Are Adults
World Swim and SCUBA Diving Instructors' Conference Identifies Answers to Drowning SARASOTA, Fla., Oct. 24, 2011 — People who can't swim panic without the knowledge of how their bodies and the water work together. 21st Century Swimming Lessons, Inc. ("21st") of Sarasota, FL reports that, nationally, many beginning swim class skills are too advanced for […]
A New Paradigm of Teaching Arrives in 3 U.S. Cities Disguised as New Adult Swimming Lessons
21st Century Swimming Lessons, Inc. has a new message: when teaching swimming, use the appropriate definition of swimming- and teach a method that works for all SARASOTA, Fla., Aug. 19, 2011 — Swim instructional agencies sound the same call every year: teach your child to swim. Sarasota, Florida's non-profit swim school, 21st Century Swimming Lessons, […]
'Learn To Swim' Radio Show Features 'African Americans, Swimming, and Hair'
SARASOTA, Fla., Jan. 13, 2011 — The Internet radio show, "The Learn To Swim Show with M. Ellen Dash" at WorldTalkRadio.com will provide solutions for African Americans who refrain from taking swimming lessons and therefore from learning to swim due to the effects of swimming on their hair and hair-do. The show can be heard […]
New Definition of 'I Can Swim' Needed in Order to End Drowning
If someone can stroke hurriedly across the shallow end of a pool, one cannot presume that he'll be able to stay afloat and remain calm in deep water in order to save his life SARASOTA, Fla., Sept. 9, 2009 — Miracle Swimming Institute of Sarasota, FL will hold a world swim instructors' conference October 7-9, […]
Beginning Swim Classes Too Advanced for Many Beginners; Swim Instructor Conference Slated
Beginning swim classes teach skills too advanced for many swim students to be successful; a conference will train teachers in how to teach in order that all can learn to swim SARASOTA, Fla., June 26, 2009 — This summer thousands of children and a few adults will enroll in Beginning Swimming lessons across the nation. […]
World Swimming Instructors Conference in Sarasota, FL October 7-9, 2009: The 21st Century Swimming Instructor
SARASOTA, Fla., April 10, 2009 — Miracle Swimming Institute (MSI) of Sarasota, FL will hold a conference for swim instructors worldwide to learn the 5 Circles Teaching Method(TM), a paradigm shift in teaching that replaces America's 1914 method of teaching swimming mechanics with the 2009 method of teaching comfort and control in water. Based on […]
New Water Safety Standard Needed in Order to End Drowning
Teaching people to stroke to the side of a pool does not meet the need of the majority of those who do not know how to survive in water SARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 17, 2009 — On the eve of the National Drowning Prevention Alliance meeting in Miami, February 23-24, Miracle Swimming Institute(TM) (MSI) of Sarasota, […]
