ALP Self Help Tools vs ALP

The IOA tools can reduce anxiety before, during and after each lesson in the pool, or ANYtime you are in or around water. This includes everything from bathrooms, changing rooms, swimming pools, rivers, lakes & the sea. The IOA aquatic mindfulness tools can be used at any point you become physically or emotionally tense or just need to relax. If this does happen, you should stop any activities and by using these techniques you can calm your mind and body. The content within this App has been taken from the IOA App “A swimming pool in my pocket”, available on Google and Apple App stores and has been designed to be used for quick access whenever you need them. This is a stand alone App that can be used to support the actual lessons in the pool or can just be used by anyone who independently wants to use the content to aid stress reduction and encourage relaxation. As you go through this App you will find all of the items you need for breathing and body relaxation techniques. Also 4 mediation videos and our jewel in the crown, the Kolb collection. Especially designed to ease your aquaphobia when undertaking activities in the water. Created with the IOA by Laruen Kolb, a highly respected Clinical Hypnotherapist. Laruen's has made 11 voiceovers for each activity we ask you to do in the water. They are incredibly calming and help you acclimatise to each action. The more you practice them on this app the more it benefits you in your actual lessons in the water. Please work your way through the app playing each video and looking at each of the "how to" slides. You will soon get use to how this (easy to use IOA) system works. Pick the ones you like the most and practice them, moving on to the other techniques as you wish to. You can even make your own up. The content within this App has been taken from the IOA App “A swimming pool in my pocket”, available on Google and Apple App stores and has been designed to be used for quick access whenever you need them. This is a stand alone App that can be used to support the actual lessons in the pool or can just be used by anyone who independently wants to use the content to aid stress reduction and encourage relaxation. As you go through this App you will find all of the items you need for breathing and body relaxation techniques. Also 4 mediation videos and our jewel in the crown, the Kolb collection. Especially designed to ease your aquaphobia when undertaking activities in the water. Created with the IOA by Laruen Kolb, a highly respected Clinical Hypnotherapist. Laruen's has made 11 voiceovers for each activity we ask you to do in the water. They are incredibly calming and help you acclimatise to each action. The more you practice them on this app the more it benefits you in your actual lessons in the water. Please work your way through the app playing each video and looking at each of the "how to" slides. You will soon get use to how this (easy to use IOA) system works. Pick the ones you like the most and practice them, moving on to the other techniques as you wish to. You can even make your own up.

Aquaphobia 12 stage programme by www.instituteofaquaphobia.com. This App product has been created for online learning only. (Please see our disclaimer, when you purchase the App this will be displayed). If you then wish to take these techniques, to a pool or open water, we only recommend you do this with an IOA certified aquaphobia coach. The Aquaphobia Learning Programme (ALP) is a 12-stage step approach to support those with a fear of water, providing them with the confidence, skills and techniques to enjoy the unique freedom that only being in water can give. Distinctive from swimming programmes, ALP focuses on eliminating and desensitising fear, with the physical mechanics of swimming being secondary. The aim of the programme is to teach a participant how to relax, float, feel happy and in control in the water and reduce all stresses in a safe and careful way. Taught by a certified Aquaphobia Coach, each course is tailored to the individual’s personal needs and degree of fear, going at their own preferred pace, so they feel uplifted, encouraged and comfortable to undertake lessons on a regular basis. When a person has achieved a stage, they then progress on to the next one in sequence, with no set timescale or pressures on the individual they will learn key swimming skills that really boost enjoyment and relaxation. By going through the 12 steps, participants will grow in confidence and learn the basic principles of: entering, standing, floating, moving and breathing in water. Creator & author of the course Master Coach Mike Burman LIII said: “As each new swimming action is correctly learned, it is embedded into both the conscious and subconscious mind and also into muscle memory. This increases the skill base, knowledge and self-belief in each individual. “As the skill level goes up, the fear reduces. You will never be rushed into achieving the next stage. We understand that some aquatic skills are easier learnt than others with some aspects of the fear being more entrenched than others.“ Every achievement, however small, is a milestone. Something to be proud of, boost confidence and be happy about”.