Episode 1: How Does Floating Work?

Cori Myka — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 05:00:35 +0000

Episode 1: How does Floating work?

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Learn how to create your wildest dreams in and out of the water with Orca Swim School’s new weekly YouTube episodes. I’ll use the water as a laboratory to share lessons to help create the life you want.

Here are little known things I love:

Mondays
Transition times-such as the start of the calendar or school year
Big goals, dreams and then figuring out how to make them happen
Teaching adults the freedom to create their wildest dreams

Am I weird to love these things? It is a fresh start where anything is possible. An opportunity to feel accomplished.

When I was a new mom with a tiny baby, I would wake up to a fresh day full of possibility. I’d make a list of what I hoped to accomplish that day. The list typically read like this:

Shower
Eat
Keep baby alive
Step outside

Guess what? That baby is now 17 years old and filling out college applications. Accomplishment!

Weekly YouTube Episodes

My fresh start this academic year is to begin a weekly YouTube show. The show will help you accomplish your simple bucket list then lead you to imagine and achieve your wildest dreams.

The comment we always get from students in our hands-on course is, “I can use this in many areas of my life”.

Our teaching is powerful because it helps move you forward in the pool AND in your life. This helps you minimize how life’s doubts and fears impact your life. The weekly episodes have both a lesson about the water and a life lesson.

The YouTube show is for graduates and people new to the Orca Swim School.

Watch the video below and learn a bit about how we began and the foundational model we use. This model can lead to powerful changes both in and out of the water. For new people, I apply the mindset lesson to answer questions like:

How does floating work?
Do I need to float to swim?
Why can’t I float?
How can I learn to float?

Misconceptions about floating can keep people from being confident in deep water. We help you understand how floating works and then how your body floats.

Join our fresh start. Find out what you need to know to learn to swim. Take your swimming to the next level and bring the life lesson from the pool and create your dreams anywhere.

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Floating Is Only Helpful If You Can Feel It

Cori Myka — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 09:01:19 +0000

Have you ever been out with a group of friends and felt alone? Been on vacation and planning your next time to be happy by scheduling the next adventure. Then there is the classic Facebook experience to post something interesting you did, only to scroll through other people’s posts to think, “Wow my life is not that engaging”.
When people get into the pool for they have an image of what a float “should” look like. Much of the time is spent in the future or the past leaving you with the same unsatisfying feeling you have when being alone with a group of friends. In order to change your outcome, you have to change how you experience the activity. For swimming, you must FEEL what is happening. You cannot try to float, make yourself float or create a float.

Floating starts when you enter a pool. You could get data on this if you stood on a scale in the pool. The shallower you are the closer the number would look to your bathroom scale. The deeper you are the closer that number would look to your dream number or way less because you cannot even get your toes on the scale. The point is you are lighter on your feet right away.

This lightness is not reassuring to people, however, because they cannot feel it. They are not present for the idea: this is how it works, and it is good. They are in their head in some future place of what they imagined floating is like. They are busy saying if my feet are touching the floor then, floating is still in the future. Even though we all know, “the scale doesn’t lie”.

Floating is a practice of what is happening right now with no effort. Floating, unlike swimming, is not an activity. It is completely and totally passive. A rubber duck put in water will float. No work, learning, skill, or mind over matter required. A brick put in water will sink. No work, learning, skill or mind over matter required here either.
Humans are made up of both “rubber ducky parts” and “brick” parts of their body. This is normal. The proportions are different for everybody. The proportions matter very little. What actually matters is if you can feel and be present to your body’s proportions. In other words your float.

To get the most out of your time with friends, vacations, Facebook-worthy life events or a float is to be fully engaged in what it is right now. Not to be in the unknown future or regrettable past. Feel what is currently happening. Take in the evidence that you do have friends, that you are on vacation, you do have an interesting daily life AND that the water holds you up just as you are. No work required.

Learning to swim is a place to practice learning in the present moment. It’s the only way to learn. Come to check out an introduction class to learn the process with Orca Swim School.

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Episode 1: How Does Floating Work?