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YOswim, Glasgow (2025)

06/08/2025

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14/07/2025

Chickety check it, Aberdeenshire people....

🌊 One to one sessions

🌊 Small group sessions

🌊 Fully guided (no technique work) or fully coached open water (technique based) sessions

🌊 Open to all levels

🌊 Develop open water safety knowledge while having fun

💧New to it all and nervous?

I am a fully qualified aquaphobia and open water swimming coach as well as a swimming teacher and yoga guide and incorporate all my skills and knowledge to work with you to build confidence and work through any fears

💧Want to transition from pool to open water?

I can help guide you and keep you safe.

💧Want to transition from breaststroke to front crawl?

I can help you get there with stroke technique sessions.

💧Entered your first swimming event?

I can give you race pointers, work on your open water swimming technique and help you train.

💧Out of breath and want to get faster in the water?

Let me help you become a more efficient, faster swimmer.

💧Training for a 10k?

Let me plan your training sessions for pool and open water.

💧Suffering from poor mental health and want to experience the benefits of cold water safely?

Let me facilitate that for you.

💧Want to practice waterside yoga and go for dip/swim?

I can lead you through some movement and breathwork and take you in to the water for one of the most beautiful combinations for a relaxing, exhilarating, soulful experience, reconnecting to your mind, body, breath and the nature all around you that we are all a part of 💛

Send me a message for costs and a chat to help tailor your sessions to your, or your groups, individual needs 🌊🧘🏼‍♀️❤️

17/06/2025

Sometimes, I also enjoy watching from the sidelines 😘

(I'd already been in)

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08/05/2025

Pool day 💦

This is only some of the kit I carry from pool to pool when teaching babies and toddlers to swim and be safe in the water 👶🏼💛

I teach babies until pre school age in the pool, and youths and adults in the open water and I love, love, love seeing everyone's confidence and ability increasing, as much as I love being in the water with them...although, on days like today, open water definitely wins 🌊🌞😎

04/05/2025

Sunday swim here.

When I'm not working in the water...

I'm still in the water 🧜🏼‍♀️♥️

The temperature is feeling lovely right now. Whether you're looking to start your open water swimming journey, or are looking for help to get over any fears, or to train for an upcoming event, now is a great time to start. Beautiful Aberdeenshire has many places I can coach from, ponds, lochs, the sea 🌊Lets see where suits your needs and get in the water together 💛

22/04/2025

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society, where none intrudes by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

I love not man the less, but nature more – Lord Byron

It’s not a secret that spending time in nature is good for you...and so is being barefoot! Also called 'earthing' or 'grounding' the simple act of walking around barefoot offers many benefits that often get overlooked by mainstream society pushing the importance of wearing shoes at all times. Walking with your feet directly touching the soil, grass, sand, rocks, dipping your toes in the sea, a loch, a river allows your body to absorb negative electrons through the Earth, which help to stabilise daily cortisol rhythm and create a balanced internal bioelectrical environment.

We have lost so much of our connection with Mother Earth due to modern living, but making an effort to spend more time outside, barefoot in nature, can reduce inflammation and pain, help improve your sleep, strengthen the immune system, reduce the risk of heart disease and regulate the nervous system decreasing feelings of anxiety and stress, helps loosen tense muscles, boosts energy levels annnnd helps protect the body from dangerous EMFs!!

Today marks the 55th Earth Day, a day that aims to highlight the importance of our planet and the conservation of its ecosystems on all continents and oceans. This year's theme being renewable energy.

Look after our planet, and our planet will look after us 💛

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02/04/2025

Would you like to swim outside, but you've never really learnt to swim?

If you're based in, or the surrounding areas of Westhill, Aberdeen why not invest in some lessons with me and do both.

Outdoor lessons for adult beginners available. You don't have to learn in a pool! In just a few sessions I can help you build confidence, work through any fears, teach you to float, swim breaststroke, front crawl, build your knowledge on water safety, in and out of the open water...

One to one and small group sessions (up to 4 people of your choosing) available.

I am a fully qualified swimming teacher, open water swimming and aquaphobics coach.

Swimming is an important life skill, that can also be a lot of fun with amazing physical, mental and emotional health benefits...and you're never too old to learn.

Contact me here, or email yoswimcoaching@gmail.com for more information.

Happy to chat 💛

02/03/2025

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19/02/2025

Please, please like and share Likkle Swimmers page 💛💚🖤

Their original page was disabled in December and they've had to start all over again.

I had mine disabled a month ago, but I was one of the lucky ones, that managed to successfully get it back. Losing all your all your pictures, your posts, the hard work put in over the years building followers and that reach you developed being lost, is really devastating.

They are a wonderful small charity, teaching drowning prevention and swimming to the local people in the beautiful village of Treasure Beach, Jamaica. They offer free swimming lessons in the rural community on the south coast of Jamaica, providing sessions to children aged 4+ (soon baby and preschool too) and also adults, as well as facilitating lifesaving courses to the locals...

and I had the absolute pleasure of volunteering my time and teaching for them over there in 2023.What an amazing place and community, full of lovely, welcoming people.

Before Likkle Swimmers was founded this coastal community had no access to a public pool, or swimming lessons and this led to multiple incidents of drowning.

Likkle Swimmers and the Treasure Beach community didn't have the best luck last year with hurricane Beryl ravaging the village and damaging the purpose built Unicef pool when she hit, but the pool is due to reopen in April 2025, and there are lots of exciting times ahead for them.

The work they do is so, so important and very much needed and a page like and a page share are just two small ways in which you can help them.

https://www.facebook.com/share/163vQRohfM/

If you like the sound of the work they do and would like to help rebuild the pool and with their future programmes, then you could always donate too

Financially via

https://justgiving.com/campaign/likkleswimmers2025

and practically,

they are always looking for donated swimwear too, new and used in good condition 🙏🏼💛

14/02/2025

'It is a universal mistruth that you must be in a relationship to be loved.

My friend, you are loved, every day, in many different ways. So many in fact, perhaps you could not count...

you are loved by friends, by family, by pets. You are loved supernova-style, by those passed over, and the ones who loved them too. You are quietly and diligently loved by colleagues, by random people you shine light on, as you make your way through this world. You are loved by the sun, the earth and the moon. You are loved, little one, so loved. Start counting the ways and celebrate them...

today, on Valentine's Day and every single day'

Donna Ashworth

Whether you're loved up, single, or somewhere in between, remember today is just another day to simply tell ALL your nearest and dearest how important they are to you. Reach out and tell someone you care today. Taking the time to do so can have such a huge impact.

Ive sent (and received) many a lovely valentine, to (and from) friends, parents, partners, the dog...love comes in many forms, not just the coupled up kind. Embrace it all.

While a wee token of love on a specific day of the year can be nice and can bring someone a brief smile, showing loving kindness all year round (to yourself and others) is what really makes the difference in this life. Yoga is a tool through which you can learn to love yourself, with or without a 'lover'. You'll feel more love and have more love to give than ever before.

Love fearlessly and spread it far and wide 💛

Happy Valentine's Day. Peace and love, y'all ♥️

21/01/2025

How is everyone feeling post ?

Some of you may already know, but if you don't, yesterday is often referred to as the most depressing day of the year!

If like me, it hasn't been the start to the year you'd hoped for, for whatever reasons, and January seems, as it usually does, to be dragging on...

then please just remember, Spring is around the corner 🙌🏼

In myth, snowdrops were brought to Earth by the goddess of spring, Persephone, when she returned from the underworld each spring. They have become a familiar indicator to us of the shifting seasons and a sure sign that warmer weather is on its way...and I saw some on my walk 🥰

Warmer, longer, lighter days and more inviting water temperature's are a' comin!

Meanwhile, try to enjoy the slower pace, continue easing yourself slowly and gently in to the year. Get outside and in to nature when you can. Inhale the crisp, chilly air, reconnecting to your breath and keep your peppers peeled for the snowdrops...and soon enough the daffodils will be sprouting too 💛

02/01/2025

Baby it's cold outside ❄️💛

Having a wee moment to myself in the cosy spa of the house I've been staying in for the past week, thinking about my fabulously crazy family, my beautiful friends, both near and far, my wonderful partner, daughter and family and all of those i met along the way last year as clients. You are all amazing and I'm feeling so grateful to have you all in my life. It was another year filled with ups and downs and round and rounds. Of highs and of lows. Of moving forwards, being dragged backwards. Of learning, of failing, of achieving. Of loving, of losing, laughing, crying...but I'm feeling the most content I've ever been.

Life is complicated and it can hurt, sting and burn, but its full of magic too. Sometimes obvious, sometimes less so, and you never know what twists and turns it's going to take. We always say the bad times will pass, but if they do, then remember sometimes, the good will too, so take the time to get to know yourself, build on your inner strength. Appreciate what and who you have in your life and all the small things we too often take for granted. Then, even in the darkest of moments, you'll find there is always, always something to be grateful for.

Sometimes the hardest part of creating a life you love is just letting go...of people, habits, jobs, places, thoughts, that no longer bring you joy. Learning to release expectations is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. Trust all of it. Trust that your past actions have brought you to this moment and that you have the power to change the next moment, simply by harnessing your own energy. Speak your dreams in to existence, go conquer your goals, but keep an open heart, always. Never take people for granted, or presume they know how you feel, or that you know how they feel. Communicate. Never believe that you are entitled to anything. Take every lesson that comes to you and know that you are exactly where you are supposed to be, for now. Life is an ever flowing, changing, sometimes calm and sometimes raging river...and so are you.

Peace and love to all i know and to those i dont, you are all a part of me. The world can be a weird, worrying, but wonderful place to be and for every sad, mad & bad, there's a thousand good. So, open your eyes, open your hearts and minds, be kind to yourself and others and go gently forward.

Hello, 2025!

Remember, whatever goals you set yourself, or challenges, or changes you wish to undertake...there is no time limit. It may be the start of a new year and youre thinking about these things, but this year has 365 days. That's 365 fresh starts to be had. Not just one. Here's to a healthy 2025 filled with love, luck and laughter 💛

Lang may yer lum reek 🙏❤

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