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Thursday Morning Swim Foundations: Coming Home to Water (Three Week Cohort)

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of swimming and water-related workshops for Southwest Philadelphia residents.   This class/workshop centers Black womxn and non-binary people, but all identities are welcome.  Friday morning classes are for elders specifically, all other cohorts welcome ages 13-99+. This foundational swim course will run once weekly for three weeks (three classes total).  It is a step towards empowered, liberated, and skilled swimming for Southwest Philadelphia community members. We will build skills around breathing, understanding your body in relationship with water, floating,

Friday Morning Swim Foundations: Coming Home to Water (Three Week Cohort) ELDERS ONLY

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of swimming and water-related workshops for Southwest Philadelphia residents.   This class/workshop centers Black womxn and non-binary people, but all identities are welcome.  Friday morning classes are for elders specifically.  All other ages may join the Thursday morning or Friday afternoon cohorts. This foundational swim course will run once weekly for three weeks (three classes total).  It is a step towards empowered, liberated, and skilled swimming for Southwest Philadelphia community members. We will build skills around breathing, understanding your

Saturday Evening Drop In: Coming Home to Water

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of swimming and water-related workshops for Southwest Philadelphia residents.   This class/workshop centers Black womxn and non-binary people, but all identities are welcome.  Friday morning classes are for elders specifically, all other cohorts welcome ages 13-99+. This foundational swim class is a step towards empowered, liberated, and skilled swimming for Southwest Philadelphia community members. We will build skills around breathing, understanding your body in relationship with water, floating, and correct body alignment.  Afro-Indigenous-centered, trauma-informed, and healing oriented instruction supports

QTPOC Aquatic Rest & Play

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of workshops related to swimming and water, for Southwest Philadelphia residents. Who this class is for: Queer and trans People of Color. This workshop is an invitation to soak in rest, play, and swim-skill building, in community with other Queer and Trans people of color.  We will build skills around breathing, understanding your body in relationship with water, floating, and body alignment.  Through mindfulness, meditation, and self-inquiry activities, we center healing and deepening your relationship with water. Holding curiosity

We Come from Mermaids I: African Diaspora and Water (Classroom)

Bartram’s Garden Barn

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of swimming and water-related workshops for Southwest Philadelphia residents. This classroom-based workshop is an invitation to immerse yourself in the rich history of the African Diaspora and water!  Learn more about the ways our ancestors engaged with water for resistance and joy during slavery times and during the Middle Passage, as well as the multitude of rich aquatic traditions in pre-European Atlantic African cultures. Through games, conversation, readings, lectures, and meditation, we will tap into the joy, liberation,

Thursday Morning Swim Foundations: Coming Home to Water (Three Week Cohort)

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of swimming and water-related workshops for Southwest Philadelphia residents.   This class/workshop centers Black womxn and non-binary people, but all identities are welcome.  Friday morning classes are for elders specifically, all other cohorts welcome ages 13-99+. This foundational swim course will run once weekly for three weeks (three classes total).  It is a step towards empowered, liberated, and skilled swimming for Southwest Philadelphia community members. We will build skills around breathing, understanding your body in relationship with water, floating,

Friday Morning Swim Foundations: Coming Home to Water (Three Week Cohort) ELDERS ONLY

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of swimming and water-related workshops for Southwest Philadelphia residents.   This class/workshop centers Black womxn and non-binary people, but all identities are welcome.  Friday morning classes are for elders specifically.  All other ages may join the Thursday morning or Friday afternoon cohorts. This foundational swim course will run once weekly for three weeks (three classes total).  It is a step towards empowered, liberated, and skilled swimming for Southwest Philadelphia community members. We will build skills around breathing, understanding your

Friday Afternoon Swim Foundations: Coming Home to Water (Three Week Cohort)

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of swimming and water-related workshops for Southwest Philadelphia residents.   This class/workshop centers Black womxn and non-binary people, but all identities are welcome.  Friday morning classes are for elders specifically, all other cohorts welcome ages 13-99+. This foundational swim course will run once weekly for three weeks (three classes total).  It is a step towards empowered, liberated, and skilled swimming for Southwest Philadelphia community members. We will build skills around breathing, understanding your body in relationship with water, floating,

Saturday Evening Drop In: Coming Home to Water

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of swimming and water-related workshops for Southwest Philadelphia residents.   This class/workshop centers Black womxn and non-binary people, but all identities are welcome.  Friday morning classes are for elders specifically, all other cohorts welcome ages 13-99+. This foundational swim class is a step towards empowered, liberated, and skilled swimming for Southwest Philadelphia community members. We will build skills around breathing, understanding your body in relationship with water, floating, and correct body alignment.  Afro-Indigenous-centered, trauma-informed, and healing oriented instruction supports

Swimming with “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals”

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of workshops related to swimming and water, for Southwest Philadelphia residents.   This class/workshop centers Black womxn and non-binary people, but all identities are welcome (age 13+). This workshop is an opportunity to explore Undrowned, a “book-length meditation for the entire human species, based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has spent hundreds of hours watching our aquatic cousins…Employing a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility, naturalist observation, and Black feminist insights, she translates

We Come From Mermaids II: African Diaspora and Water (Pool Workshop)

FITNESS ALIVE CENTER CITY 1425 Arch Street B level, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Led by Chandrika Francis of Oshun Swim School. Bartram’s Garden is partnering with Oshun Swim School this fall to offer a series of workshops related to swimming and water, for Southwest Philadelphia residents. Who this workshop is for: members of the African diaspora (Complete beginner to intermediate adults, 13+ youth welcome to join with an adult. Please register separately). Join us for an embodied journey into African diasporic aquatic traditions!  Gain swim skills while learning more about the ways our ancestors engaged with water for resistance and joy during slavery times and the middle passage, and the multitude of rich aquatic