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Creating a Safe, Joyful and FUN Education in the Water from Birth and Beyond since 1994

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Tualatin Pool

20553 SW 94th Avenue | Tualatin, OR 97062

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Tualatin Pool 32' L X 16' W X 3.5' Deep

Plenty of room for fun learning! ~~~ Available for rental too!

Physical Therapy, Watsu, Birthday Parties

A Warm Outdoor 92 Degree Pool Provides a Safe, Joyful and FUN Environment that Encourages Learning

Classes Held Rain or Shine ~ Pool is Covered

NEW Nature2 Sanitation System

Nature is a sanitizing system that uses patented mineral-bed technology to provide crystal clear water and improved water quality. Working with the pool filtration system, Nature uses elemental minerals that combine with a small amount of chlorine to inhibit bacteria growth and eliminate contaminants. Minerals make the water noticeably softer, and less chlorine means a lower potential for red-eye, dry skin or foul odors. With Nature, your swim experience is clean, fresh, and gently soothing.

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

Aqua Infants
Infants 0-6 Months
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)

Learn a gentle holistic approach to early aquatic orientation for the bathtub, spa and pool.

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. Encounter with them bouyant lift, gravitational pull, and torque rotation.

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.

You will receive our Aquatic Beginnings Guide book for Early Aquatic Orientation. This Orientation and preparation guide book will be covering the benefits & methods of the Aquatic environment for infants and beyond.  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.

In the pool you will experience guided instruction, and prepare for beginning Aqua Babies classes.

 

Aqua Babies

6 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.

Swimplicity® is an environmentally accurate Learn to Swim program curriculum created by Edie Flood, Milt Nelms, and Bill Boomer.

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.

 

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

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.

 

Jr Lifesaving Course


Building Safer Kids…Safer Environment…Around Water

10:00 - 2:00pm ~ Tue-Wed-Thurs
Two week course ~ 10 students per session
11-15 year olds ~ $140
Jr Lifeguard Instructor:  Jamal Baghdadi

This course is designed for HAVE FUN while learning lifesaving skills!

Boy Scout Merit Badges earned: First Aid w CPR, Swimmers, Lifesaving

6 hours of stroke development and technique swim instruction

Basic First Aid with CPR, Swimming and Lifesaving (Qualifying Merit Badge requirements for Boy Scouts)

Basic Rescues and Lifeguard Skills and Communication Techniques

Basic building blocks to become a safer attendant around water for yourself/others

Basic requirements to becoming a Jr. Lifeguard

Click here for more details

  

 

Learning to Swim and Loving It!

5 Year Old Noodle Work Time

10 Month Old Hangin' Out Under Water

Tuition:

Group: $192 for 12 week session, once a week

OR $72 per month (per 4 lessons)
Private: $192 per month (per 4 lessons)
Semi-Group: $96 per month (per 4 lessons)

$30 Annual Administration Fee per Family

Additional days and class times opened as needed. Days and times subject to change at anytime due to enrollment.

Course Information :

Document:

Review before Class

Directions:

Tualatin Aqua Babies Group

3-7 Months Aqua Babies Harbor Hold Wheels on the Bus

Playing Ball

Water Babies Ball Play

12 Months Old Ijja in a Free Float

Tualatin Aqua Infants Safety Hold 0-6 Months

0 - 6 Months Aqua Infants Safety Hold

Olivia 3.5 Years Old

3.5 Year Old Olivia

Bryce Down Under 12 Years Old

12 Year Old Bryce

Aqua Infant - Luke 10 Weeks Otter Ride

Luke 10 Weeks Old Aqua Infant Otter Ride

Luke 10 Weeks Old Aqua Infant Safety Back Float

3 Year Old Learning to Blow Relaxed Bubbles

3 Year Old Learning to Blow Relaxed Bubbles

Anita Encouraging 5 Year Old to Overcome her Concerns

Anita Encouraging 5 Year Old to Overcome her Concerns

5 Year Old Mastering a Relaxed "X" Float

5 Year Old Mastering a Relaxed "X" Float

3 Years Old Comfort Balance and Blowing Bubbles

3 Year Old Comfort Balance and Blowing Bubbles

Floats Elementary Level

 

TUALATIN LOCATION

20553 SW 94th Avenue | Tualatin, OR 97062

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Tualatin Family Joy

Joyous Family Time

5 Year Old Roll n Reach

Wall Safety Preparing for Backfloats