Creating a Safe, Joyful and FUN Education in the Water from Birth and Beyond since 1994
503-343-3004
Portland NE
Airport Learning Tree Daycare School
12029 NE Ainsworth Cir #100 |
Portland, OR 97220
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A Warm Indoor 92 Degree Pool Provides a Safe, Joyful and FUN Environment that Encourages Learning
Our DolFUN Method
DolFUN’s multi-faceted disciplines include this basic approach, placing an emphasis on the learner's natural relationship with the water and uses the qualities of that relationship as one's primary safety device.
A child learns to focus on mastering the water's natural forces to influence brain development and aquatic comfort.
From these postures children (and beginning adults mastering water fear) can first learn to manage aquatic foreces for safety and then propulsion.
Incorporated into our method is the Swimplicity® approach which is an environmentally accurate Learn to Swim program curriculum created by Edie Flood, Milt Nelms, and Bill Boomer-United States Olympics coach.
Class Offerings
Infants 0-6 Months
3 hour Workshop and In-pool Session
Connecting the Natural Aquatic Environment
$55
Learn a gentle holistic approach to early aquatic orientation for the bathtub or spa.
Parents learn techniques that offer physical, emotional & psychological support for the baby’s innate affinity to water.
Experience the presence of water as a communication element between and your new baby as you are body to body and skin to skin.
Connect yourself with your baby’s neurological development: being conscious to their natural buoyancy, heightened multi-sensory stimulation involving touch, hearing, sight & taste.
Enjoy the miraculous moments of intimate time as you reflect on the prenatal relationship with your baby, through the same sensations during the water experience.
After all, you are returning your baby to their original element…. Water.
This Orientation and preparation will be covering the benefits & methods of the Aquatic environment for infants. We will review and answer a number of the question and concerns that have come up for parents when exploring the water with their baby. Then we will experience guided instruction in the pool. We will also prepare for beginning Aqua Babies classes.
Aqua Babies
2 months to 3 years
25 Minute Lesson - once a week - 6 babies with parents per class
Group Rate: $192 for 12 week session
OR $72 per month (per 4 lessons)
Swimming is one of the most fundamental and joyful of all activities. It provides the basic building blocks for all other types of sports and activities such as flexibility, balance, strength and endurance.
It will strengthen your baby’s respiratory system and general health. Additional benefits also include increase muscle tone, neurological (brain) function, improve coordination, enhance parent-child bonding.
And helps to overcome trauma and improves cranial adjustment after birth.
Reinforce your baby’s natural and innate senses.
Babies demonstrate progress in key developmental areas: Physical, Emotional, Cognitive, and Social.
These Water Babies will retain the imprint, the sense of memory of the first element that nurtured and protected them as they developed in water.
They naturally enjoy themselves as they are introduced to the water again.
Your baby will share with you the experience that began long before their birth, where they first encountered buoyant lift, gravitational pull, and torque rotation….they will teach you.
Most importantly, they are able to identify with all the attention and love that is entirely focused on them. Your baby will acquire developmentally appropriate water skills that increase water safety.
Your baby will learn the Aquatic foundation and basic skill sets needed to set the stage for a positive experience in the water creating a safer swimmer through learned responses.
Studies undertaken by the Sports Academy, Cologne, Germany showed that swimming babies were healthier, better coordinated, socially better adjusted, had higher mental capacities, and generally were more developed than their non-swimming peers.
Private Lessons
1:1 Ratio
Children - 3 Years and Up
$192 per month (per 4 lessons)
Tuition due for full session at time of registration
You are welcome to invite up to three additional children per class that are at similar swim skill levels to reduce your lesson rate down to $16 per class. A maximum of four children per class. A minimum of three children must be enrolled to receive the group rate
Semi-Private Lessons
2:1 Ratio
Children - 3 Years and Up
$96 per month (per 4 lessons)
Tuition due for full session at time of registration
Class may consist of 2 children with similar swim skill levels or class may be split up into 15 minute lessons for each child that are at different skill levels. This may be a good option for a family with siblings that are different ages and skill levels.
Our DolFUN Method
DolFUN’s multi-faceted disciplines include this basic approach, placing an emphasis on the learner's natural relationship with the water and uses the qualities of that relationship as one's primary safety device.
A child learns to focus on mastering the water's natural forces to influence brain development and aquatic comfort.
From these postures children (and beginning adults mastering water fear) can first learn to manage aquatic foreces for safety and then propulsion.
Incorporated into our method is the Swimplicity® approach which is an environmentally accurate Learn to Swim program curriculum created by Edie Flood, Milt Nelms, and Bill Boomer-United States Olympics coach.
Pre-School Level
3 - 5 Year Olds
Boto ~~~ Bottlenose ~~~ Spinner
Your child will learn Interface Breathing. The Aquatic Signature Float (Jellyfish float) and Basic Aquatic Postures: X,Y,I,T,L, Pencil Posture, Ball and Turtle.
These positions will assist in the intimate relationship to the aquatic environment for the back and front prone body positions, pop up and rhythmic breathing. They will also lay the foundation for future stroke technique.
Elementary Level
6 Year Olds and Up
Beluga ~~~ Humpback ~~~ Orca
(NOT available at this location due to the size of pool)
You will work on the coordination of the human stroke: Body Roll Breathing, Elementary Back Stroke, Front Crawl, Breast Stroke and Butterfly. Treading Water and Platform Entries.
All while building your swimming endurance, diving and much more.
Breathing is the key to complete comfort in the aquatic environment. Being able to submerge, release air, surface at the interface, and accept air rhythmically is the secret to being in harmony with the water.
