Oshun Swim School

Thank you to everyone who came to our September BIPOC + Allies Open swim 🏊🏽‍♀️ 💛

🗓️Our next open swim is October 17th at Rainer Beach Community Center and Pool. No swim experience is required!

🎟️Register using the link in bio

End of summer splash 💦💛

What’s a better way to say goodbye to the Seattle sun than floating in the pool? ☀️🛟

Come close out the summer with us at out September BIPOC (+Allies) open swim! No swim experience is required 🏊🏽‍♀️

Event Info:

🗓️Date: Saturday, September 19th
⏰Time: 6:15-7:45pm
📍Location: Rainer Beach Community Center and Pool

🎟️Register using link in bio.

Introducing: Introduction to Freestyle- Stokes Clinic 🏊🏽‍♀️⭐️

After many requests, we are so excited to offer this 3 hour Introduction to Freestyle strokes clinic! This course focuses on the foundational mechanics of free style (aka the crawl), and gives you the building blocks you’ll need to continue perfecting the stroke on your own. This course is an affinity space for POC of all genders. We will work on:

⭐️Arm movements
⭐️Kicks
⭐️incorporating breath
⭐️weaving mindfulness, meditation, and self-inquiry, and center healing and deepening your relationship with water

Please note, this course is designed for OSS community members who have taken the Coming Home to Water foundations course, *and* who can calmly and confidently breath rhymically with a submerged exhale, and get in and out of a back/front floats.  If these skills do not feel solid yet, we encourage you to take a CHTW Refresher Course, or practice independantly before signing up for the strokes clinic⭐️🏊🏽‍♀️

The course is especially supportive for adults of color with fear of water, and also welcomes those who already enjoy being in water and want to grow their skills in a supportive environment 🫂⭐️

Event Info:

🗓️Dates: Sunday, September 20th
⏰Instruction Time: 3 hours each session (Session 1: 9:30am - 12:30pm OR Session 2: 2:30pm - 5:30pm)
📍Location: Lower Queen Anne, Seattle (exact location shared upon registration)
🏠Setting: Small group, private pool (90°, 4 ft deep),located in a residential apartment building.

🎟️Register using link in bio. Limited spaces available.

Coming Home to Water Mini Course🌊💛✨

The same course we know and love but now shorter. We are so excited to offer this 3 hour Coming Home to Water course in this shorter format but still with the same theme of empowered and liberated swimming. This is a great class for swimmers who are new to OSS and want to feel out the programming with a shorter and more affordable session. The mini course will include:

✨ 3 hours of trauma-informed, culturally based instruction (with two time options!)
✨ warm (90°) private 4-foot-deep pool
✨Small group (5 participants max)
✨Building confidence with front and back float, breath work, and under water comfort
✨Support to move at your own pace in a safer, affirming space

Through mindfulness, meditation, and self-inquiry, we center healing and deepen your relationship with water.
No prior swim experience is required; the course is especially supportive for adults of color with fear of water, and also welcomes those who already enjoy being in water and want to grow their skills in a supportive environment💛

Event Info:

🗓️Dates: Sunday, September 13th
⏰Instruction Time: 3 hours each session (Session 1: 9:30am - 12:30pm OR Session 2: 2:30pm - 5:30pm)
📍Location: Lower Queen Anne, Seattle (exact location shared upon registration)
🏠Setting: Small group, private pool (90°, 4 ft deep),located in a residential apartment building.

🎟️Register using link in bio. Limited spaces available.

📣Calling all volunteers 📣

Do you love Oshun Swim School and wish more BIPOC individuals knew about us? Then join us this summer in spreading the word about Oshun Swim School this summer!

We need enthusiastic volunteers to distribute flyers and talk about what we do at upcoming community events. We have several community events we are planning on attending this summer ☀️🌻

If you are interested, please click the link in bio and complete the form to register as a Oshun Swim School Outreach Volunteer!

We look forward to working with you 💛🧜🏽‍♀️

May Open Swim Photo Recap 🧜🏽‍♀️🌊

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our May BIPOC Open swim. We had so much fun floating, swimming, and splashing around 💛

🗓️Our next open swim in June 13th and it is Pride focused! Link in bio to register and make sure to check out our page for specific COVID protocols for this open swim. Information will also be sent out via email the day before.

Swim with you soon! 🐠

Lesbifriends Travel x OSS take on Puerto Rico🇵🇷

We still can’t get over our trip to Puerto Rico with so enjoy these photos as we reminisce 💛🥹