Our Story

“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity” – Bruce Lee As we are all no doubt aware, COVID and the global pandemic has wreaked havoc across the world. Instead of seeing this as a catastrophe we choose to see this as an opportunity. During the lockdown period, our scheduled swimming classes were forcefully put on hold which took us all by surprise. In addition to our anxiety, we  experienced a “parent panic pandemic” based on the realization that the crucial window period or “sweet spot” to teach water safety could be lost. Like many industries we have had to adapt and elected to conduct our usual classes via Zoom and were completely impressed by the unprecedented  positive response. We recognize that parents are ideally placed to be their child’s own swim coach and more so as they have a trust and comfort bond with their child. The barriers that would usually take several tiresome, frustrating sessions to break through could now easily be overcome. The trust and separation anxiety that kids and parents often have to endure during swimming lessons is no longer an issue. The kids feel secure as they are in the loving arms of one of their parents, relatives or caregivers with whom they trust, love and feel safe whilst, in their own environment, whether it is in a bath a blow-up pool a jacuzzi and/or of course the swimming pool. For the first SIX crucial steps one does not yet need the swimming pool as a bath or blow-up baby pool suffice well enough for instructing parents and their little ones THE SWIMPLIFIED™ METHOD was created by us, sisters, Lara Gillman and Robyn Uria, given our vast expertise and experience teaching infants and kids to swim with ease and confidence for the past 30 years. The main objective of this method, being, to promote the absolute love of water, and developing an essential life skill of swimming. Given necessity being the mother of invention our SWIMPLIFIED™ METHOD evolved and was developed to help guide parents through the sometimes-tricky waters of swimming lessons. We have created a system that is easily accessible for EVERYONE and the 10 SIMPLE STEPS will become a part of the kids’ routine, which experts all agree is vital. We have been extremely encouraged at the astonishing results which have been achieved, despite the challenges of the pandemic With the SWIMPLIFIED™ METHOD. Parents are now empowered with the knowledge and tools to teach their OWN kids the skill to be safe, savvy and SWIMMING simply and successfully. SWIMPLIFIED™!! .