REWARDING
Teaching our classes is a dynamic and heart-filled experience.
FLEXIBLE
Ensure work-life balance by setting your own schedule.
DEDICATED SUPPORT
We provide the coaching, platform, and tools to make your job easy.
HOW TO GET STARTED
Do you want a place where you can speak up for your clients? Where you are not held back by the same old systems? Our system supports, adapts, and changes as needed for the improvement of all.
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Free Introduction to Certification
Orca Swim School is now offering a FREE course that introduces you to our instructor certification program. This class is the first step in the process of becoming a Foundation of Change swim instructor.
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Instructor Certification Program
Learn the Foundation of Change method to teach students how to create their own safety and confidence in the water. Once certified you can start teaching as an employee, contractor, or independent business using our proven methods and support.
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JOIN OUR INSTRUCTOR PROGRAM
Orca Swim School is the leading system to teach adult recreational swimming. We help the fearful or beginning adult swimmer to feel safe, confident, and able to participate.
Our students often have taken traditional lessons only to be met with frustration, limited success, and shame for failing at something they perceive as simple. Orca understands the unique needs of the adult learner.
In-Person Coaching Includes:
- Meeting students at the pool and lead students through the steps in the Foundations of Learning
- Coaching students in the water to develop and find the skills basic to Foundations of Swimming
- Breaking down the physical skills to the smallest movement then incorporate the mind-management skills to assist the student with their execution of and belief in the skill.
- Documenting student information and notes; Report those notes to the client portal.
- Working private lessons (one-on-one)
- Teaching Foundations 1 & 2 courses (multiple students), clinics, and special events
WHAT STUDENTS SAY
Adult students that come through the program at Orca Swim School will experience a 180-degree change in their perception of being in water.
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Janet S
The 3-Day Learn to Swim Retreat was transformational. I went from being anxious and tense in the water to neutral and relaxed. I better understand how my body moves in water, how to conserve energy, how to get air when I need it, and am building healthy foundational skills. I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to feel safer in water, and more confident in their body and its capacities in water.
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Julia W
First of all, this has been the best learning experience I have had as a new beginner swimmer. I was skeptical at first but so glad I took the leap of faith to enroll. I just competed Foundations 1 classes this past weekend with instructor Karen who is phenomenal! I would also like to acknowledge Jack who helped out the first week. The class number is only 4 people which makes learning easy and enjoyable. I am more comfortable in the water and will continue building on the skills I have acquired. I would definitely recommend anyone looking for adult swimming classes to check out Orca Swim! Thank you again!
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Patrice R
Not the typical swim class. It was guided mindfulness while engaging with water. Fun, educational, and empowering. In the end, we all became swimmers!! Amazing!
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Arnova S
One of the best experience I had learning something. The style of teaching and learning is something I will take beyond just learning how to swim. The swimming lessons, aren't just, here are some movements now copy and swim. It's more focused on being calm in, and having neutral feelings about water. The rest come naturally after you learn how to be calm. Definitely recommend it to everyone! Jac and Becky were the best teachers ever! Tysm.
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Bothell Client
I had a session today with Olivia and am incredibly incredibly grateful. Olivia was absolutely amazing, very calm, very patient, very clear in her explanations on trying things, and wonderful at stepping me through things. I had a bit of a teary moment at one stage because I genuinely enjoyed something that has both been impossible for me and just plain terrifying for 24 years and even though it was very small it felt like a world of progress in just 90 minutes. This was a life-changing moment for me in just one session, I have no words... (which is a first for me because I usually use 20 words when 2 would have been sufficient!). Thank you again, and even though I did tonight please express my deepest gratitude to Olivia as well and I hope to see her again.
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Monika
My daughter learned to swim at OSS and seeing her succeed gave me hope to reconnect with swimming as well. I took the Foundations 1 class, which surpassed my expectations and allowed me to gain a new perspective on my experiences in the water. Our instructor, Olivia, helped us learn what to expect and figure out ways that allowed us to find comfort in the water. I felt like each session helped us fine-tune skills in a way that worked for each of us, in fact, I learned quite a bit from my classmates and their experiences too. So glad we found this swim school!
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Fred
This was so far the best lesson I’ve ever experienced. I was able to share a story that kept me from the water for a long time, and Cori was able to show me some new tricks that I had no idea I could do, lol but it was amazing, looking forward to my next one.
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Anurag
Did the Foundation 1 course, it was really great!! 100% recommend to anyone looking to learn swimming or get over their fear of water.
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