Our Story

Flow State Swim Co. was founded on a simple observation: when children feel safe in the water, everything changes.

Not just their swimming — their willingness to try, their ability to focus, the way they carry themselves out of the pool.

The Flow State Aquatic Method™

After more than twenty years working with children in the ocean and pool environments of Byron Bay, Simon Jones developed an approach built around one central principle: emotional readiness comes before skill.

The Flow State Aquatic Method™ is an anxiety-informed, confidence-first framework for aquatic education. It draws on an understanding of how children's nervous systems regulate under pressure — and how a calm, attuned teaching environment enables genuine learning.

In practice, this means Simon reads each child's state before he reads their stroke. Every session adapts to where the child actually is — not where the curriculum says they should be.

The result is children who don't just learn to swim. They learn to feel at home in the water.