Aquatic Minimalism

Dan Cayer
3 min readJul 26, 2021

How to use buoyancy and density to swim beautifully.

I’m always trying to pare my swimming down, to take off the extra commotion that keeps me from feeling pure flow in the water. ( Work in progress .) I find sometimes that I’m just not in sync with the water; I’m like a person who stormed into a quiet room and is talking unnecessarily loud and fast. Luckily, water can give us the feedback to ramp down production. Shed our busy, disconnected self and merge more with the marvel of weightlessness and a substance so much thicker than air.

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Dan Cayer

Meditation + Alexander Technique teacher. Author of “Don’t Get Better,” forthcoming guide to sanity, humor, and wisdom during illness. dancayer.co