Sanela

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(23 reviews)

Uchechi

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Uchechi

« Perfect! Sanela is an excellent teacher! She has really helped build my confidence in swimming and now I’m nit so scared of getting into the pool. With just a few lessons, I’m already feeling like a pro! I had to take a break from my lessons for medical reasons but I really can’t wait to start off again! Sanela is Highly recommended, she is gentle and her tutoring style is top notch »

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Classes offered by Sanela

Individual

The classes will be held

at your home
By webcam

Taught subjects

Swimming
Synchronized swimming

Levels

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Professional
For children

Improve your relationship with water - Motivational ASA qualified Swimming & Synchro Swimming Coach with over 30 years of experience and well over 7,000 students World wide

Methodology

My greatest satisfaction always comes from seeing my clients enjoy their progress. Experience the difference between learning to swim and learning to swim the right way. Have a chance to become a swimmer who is powerful, graceful and effortless with any of the four strokes.

Whether working with nervous beginners who need to conquer their fear of water or with more advanced swimmers who want to reach triathlon or other swimming goals, I am certain that I can help you improve your results through supportive and experienced instruction.

I will help you develop body awareness with breathing techniques and swimming confidence in the water and we will go through nitty-gritty details of of any four swimming strokes or synchronised swimming figures and sculling positions that you wish to achieve.

I also teach swimming based on principles of the Alexander Technique together with the focus on body awareness and its alignment and how to use body more effectively. This technique of swimming focuses to generate Alexander Popov’s 3 R’s : Rhythm, Relaxation and Range of movement and is good for clients who are recovering after an operation of the knee, hip or any other injury. The emphasis of this type of swimming is focus on a quality of experience rather than distance or speed and building better body awareness by transforming swimmers’ relationship with the water.

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Background

Experienced in teaching professional athletes, people with special needs, adults, children and babies. I have also had a chance to work with one of our county's swimming Olympians Mr. David Wilkie - MBE during the 1990s and was part of the team campaign before London 2012 to narrow the gap in gender inequality in sport between men and women in synchronised swimming. Now men are able to swim in mix duets and teams at National and International competitions. With that came the achievement of our first mixed duet winning a gold medal for Great Britain at FINA World Masters Championships in South Korea in 2019.

I was nominated for the London Award 2013 in the category Coach of the Year 2013 across the UK and have been recognised as an ambassador for quality of teaching.

I am very proud of what I have achieved with clients who have put an awful lot of commitment and dedication into reaching their goals.

Head Coach in West London Club for the past 11 years.

My coached clients have received recent media interest including coverage on the Andrew Marr Show (BBC), The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, ABC News, Jo Brand’s Big Splash on Dave, Radio 4, Reuters and Eurosport. I have also been featured in Health and Fitness, ID and Vogue Magazines.

Rates

Transportation Fee : ₹5

Rate for online classes : ₹6,166/hr

Details

Spring promotion offer of 15% discount will be applied to your lessons if you book before 21st June 2021.

CHILDREN ( 30 min )

PAY AS YOU GO - AD HOCK 1:1
covers sperodic lessons bookings - £45.00

PAY AS YOU GO - AD HOCK 2:1
£40.00 per child

PACKAGES 1 : 1
£175 for a package of 5 lessons. Lessons are once a week ( 30min ) for 5 consecutive weeks or twice a week ( 45min ) for 2 consecutive weeks. Price of each individual lesson is £35.00

CRASH COURSES
Lessons every day for 5 days £32.00 1:1/ £27.00 2:1

SHARE A LESSON WITH A FRIEND 2:1
£125 for a package of 5 lessons per child . Lessons are once a week for 5 consecutive weeks. Price is based per individual and works out as £25.00 per child. Children swimming ability has to be at the same level.

ADULTS ( 60 min )

PAY AS YOU GO - AD HOCK 1:1
covers sperodic lessons bookings - £75.00

PAY AS YOU GO - AD HOCK 2:1
£65.00 per person

CRASH COURSES
Lessons every day for 5 days £55.00 1:1/ £40.00 2:1

PACKAGES 1 : 1
£300 for a package of 5 lessons. Lessons are once a week for 5 consecutive weeks. Price of each individual lesson is £60.00

SHARE A LESSON WITH A FRIEND 2 : 1
£225 for a package of 5 lessons per person. Lessons are once a week for 5 consecutive weeks. Price of each indidvidua lesson is £45.00. Adult's swimming ability has to be at the same level.

ADULTS ( 60 min ) - swimming based on principles of the Alexander Technique. The main priority of this form of teaching is to get you at ease without any hurry in the water, rather then to get you to move through the water. It is a slow pace of learning preventing you from feeling panicked.

PAY AS YOU GO - AD HOCK 1:1
covers sperodic lessons bookings - £125.00

PAY AS YOU GO - AD HOCK 2:1
£90.00 per person

CRASH COURSES
Lessons every day for 5 days £90.00 1:1/ £70.00 2:1

PACKAGES 1 : 1
£500 for a package of 5 lessons. Lessons are once a week for 5 consecutive weeks. Price of each individual lesson is £100.00

SHARE A LESSON WITH A FRIEND 2: 1
£400.00 for a package of 5 lessons per person. Lessons are once a week for 5 consecutive weeks. Price of each indidvidua lesson is £80.00. Adult's swimming ability has to be at the same level.

CHILDREN & ADULTS ( 60 min ) Artistic swimming ( Synchronised Swimming)
Synchronised swimming skills with basic body positions, movements, figures and skills to hold breath

PAY AS YOU GO - AD HOCK 1:1
covers sperodic lessons bookings - £75.00

PAY AS YOU GO - AD HOCK 2:1
£40.00 per person

CRASH COURSES
Lessons every day for 5 days £60.00 1:1/ £35.00 2:1

PACKAGES 1 : 1
£275 for a package of four lessons. Lessons are once a week for 5 consecutive weeks. Price of each individual lesson is £55.00

SHARE A LESSON WITH A FRIEND 2 : 1
£175 for a package of 5 lessons per person. Lessons are once a week for 5 consecutive weeks. Price of each indidvidua lesson is £35.00. Adult's swimming ability has to be at the same level.

BIRTHDAY PARTY LESSON WITH FRIENDS
A package of 2 - 3 hours lessons with a group of up to 20 individuals.

Price of 5 individuals in a lesson is £15.00 per hour
Price of 10 individuals in a lesson is £10.00 per hour
Price of 20 individuals in a lesson is £5.00 per hour

Swimming ability has to be at the same level. A swimmer needs to have ability to swim at least 25m with ease.

Classes offered by Sanela

Individual

The classes will be held

at your home

webcam

Taught subjects

Swimming
Synchronized swimming

Levels

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Professional
For children

Sanela 's CV

Gold medalist and record breaker in the 100m and 200m backstroke from 1986 to 1991;
* FINA JUDGE at National and International competitions. FINA is an International federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee.
• ASA (QCF) Level 1 & 2 in Coaching Swimming;
• ASA Level 1&2 Certificates in teaching Swimming;
• ASA Level 1&2 Certificates in Synchronised Swimming;
* STA Baby and Pre-School Diploma Up-Skill,
* RLSS National Rescue for Swimming Teachers and Coaches,
* First Aid Award with CPR.

23 reviews on Sanela

5/5

All our ratings are collected by us and are given in confidence, they correspond to a real experience.

Uchechi

Perfect! Sanela is an excellent teacher! She has really helped build my confidence in swimming and now I’m nit so scared of getting into the pool. With just a few lessons, I’m already feeling like a pro! I had to take a break from my lessons for medical reasons but I really can’t wait to start off again! Sanela is Highly recommended, she is gentle and her tutoring style is top notch

Sanela 's response

Successful communications.

Daria

Perfect! Sanela has been teaching swimming to my kids for a couple of months now. She is highly professional, enthusiastic and she loves what she is doing which is so important. It has been a pleasure to be working with her.

She has also given a couple of classes to my husband who also enjoyed the lessons.

Sanela 's response

Successful communication.

Nauf

Perfect! Sanela was absolutely amazing ! My 2 year old felt very comfortable being in the water with her from the start . I am so glad we found her !

Sanela 's response

Have thoroughly enjoy the interaction with lively and delightful little boy Badr who has embraced his new experience with water.

Sian

Perfect! Sanela has achieved a small miracle with my daughter who has learnt to swim with Sanela in just 2 hours!

Sanela is calm, patient and has the ability to instill confidence in children which is so important for learning.

Thank you Sanela!

Sanela 's response

Amelie responded well in her first lesson. She managed to learn to float on her front within the first 20 minutes of the lesson. I was very delighted for this little girl. An amazing result!

19 recommendations

Sanela is amazing with children. Not only is she an extremely competent swimming instructor but she has a great understanding of pedagogy and it becomes evident she loves teaching children. Watching our son's progress with Sanela after trying so many different swimming schools and incompetent instructors has been incredibly rewarding. He accomplished with Sanela in months, what he didn't accomplish in years. We couldn't recommend Sanela more.

Christian

In January 2020 I took the decision to learn how to properly swim. I was looking for 1:1 class near work (before the pandemic), with somebody who could gradually work on the basics and then improve my confidence and my technique. Sanela has been absolutely amazing. She is true professional, both in terms of technique and in terms of coaching. She listen, observes and explain very clearly and thoughtfully. My technique and confidence made huge leaps at each session - Sanela very quickly identifies what needs to be worked on, helps you overcome fear of water, works on every aspect of the technique, and gently pushes you to reach the goals. Having a swimming coach like Sanela makes a huge difference, and I warmly recommend her to anyone interested in learning how to swim or improve swimming skills.

Aimi

I did a crash course on synchronized swimming with my beautiful teacher Sanela. (Five 30-minute sessions) She’s really helped build up my confidence in the sport and made sure that the sessions are always fun! In my few sessions, I manged to do the basic sculling with ease. I’m so pleased with my progress and renewed enthusiasm for the water! Thank you for coming into my life and making it a bit more interesting than before.

Roma

I have been taking individual swimming lessons with Sanela for several months and I really enjoy learning with her. She is knowledgable, patient and explains and demonstrates things clearly. She obviously loves to teach, and takes real pleasure in her students' progress. She is also very professional and reliable. I am happy to recommend her.

Harshvinder

With her vast experience Sanela is able to 'diagnose' and recommend changes. She is empathetic which makes it much easier to discuss concerns. And she's a lovely person too.

Shona

Sanela is a fantastic swimming teacher. She is patient, and has excellent teaching skills, giving clear instructions that everyone can understand. She is very warm, and knows very well how to make people feel competent and confident.
She worked with a group of 12 women and gave them their first synchronized swimming lesson, and the group felt they achieved a great deal in a short space of time. I cannot recommend her more highly.

Uchechi

Sanela is a really amazing tutor! We have had just about 5 lessons so far and I have transformed from being totally scared of dipping my head into the water to being confident to swim to the deep end of the pool! She even worked with my little daughter for only an hour and guided her carefully with a few pointers & that has made her more confident to swim the length of our pool on her own! I would recommend Sanela any day...She is simply the best!

Grace-Ann

Sanela has been such an amazing teacher.
I’ve always been scared to go in the deep end and I’m amazed at what I’ve learned from Sanela in just a couple of lessons.
I was nervous about swimming but she has helped me overcome that fear and love the water.
I would definitely recommend her without a doubt.

Lulu

Sanela is an amazing instructor that has a wealth of experience. I have quickly learnt and improved in my swimming techniques in a few hours of lessons with her. Would not recommend her enough !

Queena

We are thankful for Ms. Sanela for teaching my children swimming. She always very patient to them, and make classes very interesting.

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Review from Sanela

QUESTION 01 | 08

What age did you start playing sport? Tell us about this time or moment in your life.

Sanela — I have always been a bit of a water baby. I developed a passion for water sports from a young age and have a very wide background and knowledge of aquatic sports including swimming, synchronised swimming and waterpolo.

I was a competitive swimmer and subsequently a gold medalist and record breaker in 100m and 200m backstroke between 1986 - 1991 in Former Yugoslavia.

At later years as a master swimmer I practiced waterpolo and predominantly synchronised swimming. My swimming background helped but I had a lot to learn; control and poise became vitally important.

As part of a synchronised swimming team I competed in the European and World Championships and have been a gold medalist in the solo event at National Masters Level Competition in the UK. I enjoyed camaraderie of the sport.

QUESTION 02 | 08

What are your favourite sports; those that you practise at a high level, a simple hobby, and a sport that you'd still like to discover?

Sanela — My other hobbies include love for cars, reading, cooking and yoga. I would like to learn to ski.

QUESTION 03 | 08

What gives you the motivation and passion to pursue your sport?

Sanela — For me swimming has timeless allure. I feel free and at ease. It is one of the sports I will be able to enjoy until later years.

QUESTION 04 | 08

Do you have a sporting achievement that you're particularly proud of?

Sanela — In 1991, I moved to the UK. I then had the opportunity to swim with David Wilkie to raise money for The Leukaemia Trust and won best collection for the STORT Enterprise Trust.

QUESTION 05 | 08

How have your achievements and challenges made you a better sportsperson?

Sanela — A great component in doing any sport is the element of fun and enjoyment while practicing a new set of skills.

I was fortunate enough to have supportive parents and coaches to provide me with the right guidance to start this journey. The rest of it was down to my own personal ambition.

Being involved in sport has thought me how to deal with time management, follow the rules, be part of a team, accept a loss without making excuses, learn to respect others and deal with self - control.

QUESTION 06 | 08

If you had to go for a jog with a famous athlete, who would you choose? And what questions would you ask them?

Sanela — As a kid I remember watching brilliant Franz Klammer dominating ski slops during his time with a win after win in downhill cup titles.

I would ask him how did he develop his ski style without being too aggressive and how did he manage to ski on the absolute edge yet stay in complete control at 80 mph?!

QUESTION 07 | 08

How do you help people stay motivated?

Sanela — I think it is important to create a good and positive environment that is fun. Like that students will value the enjoyment of sport above winning. Winning comes later once they feel entrench in sport they are practicing.

QUESTION 08 | 08

What makes you a Superprof in sports?

Sanela — Define your goal - stay focused - avoid the reasons not to do it - take small steps towards it - enjoy the journey in getting to your goal.

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