Aqua Sensory Podcast

In this episode we talk to Meg Faure, Occupational Therapist, co-author of 8 parenting titles including the best-selling Baby Sense and Weaning Sense  books , and founder of  Parent Sense baby app We start with a deep dive with how our 8 sensory systems are massively important and how they are affected in water. “The vestibular sense and proprioceptive sense, which are the critically important hid...

In this episode we talk to Torill Hindmarch, recipient of the prestigious Virgina Hunt Newman Award for promoting the “Gentle Way” of baby swimming. It is always a pleasure to connect to our International Aquatic Community. Torill, shares her passion and knowledge from her many years’ experience and her observations.   “In 1973 I was given the responsibility for a mother and child group in a pool...

At Aqua Sensory we love to connect with experts in their fields, like with Jess Kennedy from My OT and Me. In this episode, Jo talks with Jess about supporting parents and professionals, understanding sensory integration, and supporting challenges in and out of the pool. One of the topics we talk about is ‘parent capacity’, about how much a parent can change, take on and how much external support...

At Aqua Sensory we love to bring more awareness into the pool of the words we say and how we communicate. In this episode, Jo talks with Kate Burgess, a speech and language therapist who supports parents with early intervention and ways to be more effective in their communication. Kate’s passion is to simplify speech and language strategies for parents, in a simple and accessible way. “You are abs...

At Aqua Sensory we love to create sensory harmony in water and understand child development, we have a hold and move we call bear feet babes, so of course when I saw there was a book called Finding Their Feet - I was so drawn to buying it and reading.  In this episode, Jo talks with the author Bernie Landels from Finding Their Feet about why bare feet is good for child development, how going baref...

Kayleigh McDine runs Swim with Kayleigh a small swim school based in the Highlands of Scotland in a Seaside Town called: Nairn. In this episode it was a treat to catch up with Kayleigh, to chat about her swim school, Bath Babies and Aqua Sensory adventures and her swim school, values: Community, individual learning, mindfulness and water safety. “We used to travel over an hour to get to our neares...

In this episode we talk to Deborah McNiels (M.Ed) Author, The First 60 Days & The Neuro-Nurturing®, Brain Insights Founder,  International Speaker  and Initiator of The First 60 Days Movement. Wow! Deborah is certainly a uniter of those that are making a difference. Because the brain is so malleable by the experiences that they are having in the earliest days, weeks and months, early experienc...

Christian and Jo, co-creators of Aqua Sensory reflect their shared experiences and observations. In this episode, Christian and Jo talk together about how we support our children and swim families more, to provide a compassionate supportive base. To have a ‘can do’ attitude and to cultivate a program that promotes ‘more presence and more opportunities to discover.’ We talk about what creating more...

In this episode we talk to Monika Anzueto International Swim Educator and Owner of the prestigious swim school founded by her parents Delfin de Chipas. It is always a pleasure to connect to our International Aquatic Community. Monika shares her focus on global child development and aquatic skills as well as her passion for music in the pool to enhance the early years learn to swim journey. “20 yea...

In this episode we talk to Clare Stead, creator of the amazing parent app: Oliiki. We chat about why the first 1000 days a critical window. Why is understanding our child’s development important, and the big question, why is it good to support child development from the start, rather than fixing issues later. Tune into some amazing facts like; “A child’s development at 22 months old, predicts thei...

We are delighted to share with you this golden talk about how we can view our nervous systems with a new lens in the pool with the amazing Hannah Rose from Breathe. Hannah offers breathwork and wellbeing workshops to transform the mind, body, and soul.  In this episode, Jo talks with Hannah about how important our nervous systems are as the foundation of our mental and physical health. We touch on...

What does sensory harmony mean to you? In this episode, Jo talks and reflects on what sensory harmony means to her. How can you bring this into your classes? What does your class need today? How do we create sensory harmony in water? Tune into a few top tips and her useful ‘rocket’ analogy.   Let’s keep connected. @aquasensory https://aquasensory.com

Creating safe spaces, to embrace culture, and inclusivity in our teaching practices.  In this episode, Jo talks with Josette Stitcher from Urban Birth Plus about being a parent and supporting parents on their journey, giving them a voice and a place to share experiences. Embracing culture is a theme throughout, being mindful of bias, language and conscious in choices.  “It is all about letting oth...

Water safety is a big focus across the world and of course more so in countries where there are many back yard pools like in the States. When Nicole Fairfield, a swimming teacher from the US approached Aqua Sensory with their intentions to create a 'sea change' to create a parent education water safety program that offered a parent choice to the popular roll and float lessons. We were honoured and...

In this episode, Jo pulls on research and neuroscience to explain how important water is hold emotions, imprints and messages. Jo also shares with you how to reflect when in water and play in water. Let’s respect water, rather than treating it like a commodity. You can connect with Jo your water wonders and thoughts below.   Let’s keep connected. @aquasensory

In this episode, Emie Kitson and Jo reminisce over twenty years of baby swimming. Aqualight baby swim school and Emie made such a big impact to my swim journey professionally and personally. In this episode, Jo talks with Emie (International Baby Swim Teacher & Founder of Aqualight) about the changes in the baby swim industry, how practices have changed, particularly submersion practices. We h...

We are delighted to introduce Dr Greer Kishenbaum PhD, Neuroscientist, Doula, Infant and Family Sleep Specialist and Life Coach to talk about how nurture shapes our brains from early childhood. In this episode, Jo talks with Greer about how we can improve health by understanding the importance of how genetics and experiences shape the brain, nervous system and body to influence lifelong mental and...

Christian and Jo, co-creators of Aqua Sensory reflect over the last ten years. In this episode, Christian and Jo talk together about the highlights of their light bulb moments. Our changing world, child-development, free movement, opportunities for sensory play are just a few topics of conversation. The pool has everything it needs for optimum child-development.  We talk about what we are observin...

Welcome to the Aqua Sensory podcast! We are on a mission to spread our passion and expertise for sensory developmental play in water to nurture the next generation from womb to world, with water as a driver to support a child’s development. Because it is during the early years that is the most critical window, impacting babies and young children’s social-emotional, physical and cognitive developme...