We choose to give everyone a lot of personal attention (max. 8 participants) and work with the Alexander Technique. This is something different than regular swimming lessons. Swimming is a means to an end, namely that you learn to effectively control your own movement and functioning. You learn a way of swimming that is healthier for you than the conventional way of swimming and with which you save a lot of energy. In addition, you can apply the principles from the lessons in daily life, for example in the way you sit behind a computer.

Our teachers have undergone intensive training for this and are always in the water with you. You will receive hands-on guidance. Our teachers are highly educated people who are also doctors, musicians, etc. We rent water that is wonderfully warm and where you can stand, so that we can do slow exercises for your technique without you getting cold. All this results in a higher course price, but you also get more value for your money and you have a better result in a shorter time. In addition, you will receive a series of videos with which you can continue practicing yourself after the course. We realize that this price is not for everyone, but we prefer to provide something valuable in optimal conditions. It could not be cheaper. Occasionally we also support people who would like to participate but absolutely cannot afford it, such as professional musicians.

Yes, that is possible. Both if you know well in advance that you cannot attend a date, and if you unexpectedly become ill, there are catch-up opportunities. In this case, send an email to planning@swiminbalance.nl and our staff will offer you several alternatives. Not all groups are fully booked. We use the remaining places to help students catch up on their missed lessons. Our courses run synchronously, so if you, for example, have the 5^e If you miss a lesson from a 6-week course, you can take your 5-week course the week in which your^e lesson would take place on another day, follow the same lesson with a different group.

This depends. If you can already float on your back and on your stomach, and you dare to go under water with your head, then you can immediately register for the basic front crawl course or the breaststroke course. We build up the swimming stroke from scratch, you don't have to be able to do anything technically yet. If you have a fear of water or you can't float yet (legs off the floor), we recommend that you first do the Water Confidence course. It is important that you first feel completely at ease in the water. In the Water Confidence course you will learn to float, exhale underwater, swim on your stomach with the legs of the front crawl so that you can move forward like when snorkeling, turn yourself in the water, etc.

After this course you will have enough skills to be able to be comfortable in a swimming pool, for example on holiday. You will feel free in the water, you can make playful movements in it and save yourself if you fall in. You can also move in the water, like you snorkel, with the leg movement of the front crawl, on your stomach and on your back.

If you really want to take up swimming as a sport, for example by swimming laps every week, we recommend that you take a front crawl or breaststroke course after the Water Confidence course, so that you can swim the stroke in question in a technically beautiful way.

Alexander Technique is a 100-year-old movement theory that is widely used by musicians, actors, dancers and professional athletes. With this technique, you learn to function more effectively both physically and mentally. Thinking is central to this. Your brain is put to work, while the movement becomes lighter and easier for your body. For example, you learn when to use force and when not (this saves a lot of energy!). Your awareness of the functioning of your back and joints increases, which allows you to use your body more efficiently. You will learn to 'swim mindfully', where you focus on swimming. The insights from the swimming lessons can be directly applied to daily activities such as walking, sitting behind a computer, looking at your mobile phone, standing for a long time, etc. We also often hear from students that this way of moving (especially in the water!) has beneficial effects on depression and burnout.

Yes. On this website you will see an overview of the many convincing scientific studies that have been conducted on the Alexander Technique. Alexander Technique lessons have a positive effect on chronic neck complaints. This effect can still be demonstrated a year after the lessons. This is evident from a clinical scientific randomized study among 517 participants, published on November 3 in the Annals of Internal MedicineThe three-year study was conducted at the University of York, England. See tickets & info the full investigation.