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Ian Cross

I set up Swimming without Stress with my wife Cheryl in 1996 and have taught swimming full time since then. I qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 2002, after completing a three-year full-time course. I hold the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) Teacher Certificate. In 1997 I also trained on the first course for Steven Shaw's Diploma in Aqua Development and Health. This is the only training course which applies the principles of the Alexander Technique to the teaching of swimming. In 1991 I graduated from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. I have also worked as a language teacher and as a careers adviser.

I appeared on ITVs The Test in 2003, helping an aquaphobic lady to overcome her fear of water over a course of ten lessons. Click to the home page for a short clip from this film. I wrote Swimming without Stress, Lessons for Land Lovers in 2004. Order here

Cheryl, Chie and I have taught hundreds of people to swim without stress through our one to one lessons. See what people have said about our teaching. Reviews

Cheryl Cross

Having not swum for many years I had to re-learn in my twenties. I had first hand experience of some very poor group swimming lessons. But through my own effort rather than any help I received there, my swimming gradually improved and then really took off with Ian's enthusiastic support.

I trained to be an ASA swimming teacher just before starting the Diploma in Aqua Development and Health with Steven and Limor Shaw in 1998. I have been attending Alexander Technique lessons regularly ever since. I have been team-teaching with Ian since 1998. We share the teaching on our residential course in Pembrokeshire. I enjoy working with swimmers of all abilties and love helping people to improve their swimming by showing them how little they really need to do.

Chie Cross

I was born in Tokyo in 1961, and began competitive long-distance swimming while a student at Tokyo Women's College of Physical Education, where I completed a bachelor of education degree in 1984. I then taught swimming first as a PE teacher at a Japanese high school and later as an instructor at a private sports club. A full teaching member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique since 2001, I am a regular visiting teacher at STAT teacher training schools in Maidenhead and Oxford.

I became aware of the Shaw Method of swimming through Ian, who is my brother-in-law. While working for Swimming Without Stress, teaching individuals in Oxfordshire since 2002, I have been gradually developing my own approach to applying the principles of the Alexander Technique in the water.