About Your Team
Our team of talented and dedicated swim instructors will guide you through every step of your swimming journey, starting from the basics and advancing to refined technical performance, from the comfort of your in-home pool.
Meet Marta!
With five years of competitive swimming experience and a strong foundation in stroke technique—especially breaststroke—Marta brings a calm, confident presence to every lesson. After retiring from competition, she transitioned into coaching and has since gained experience teaching swimmers of many ages, skill levels, and lesson types.
While she enjoys technical coaching, she’s especially passionate about intro and beginner levels—helping swimmers build rock-solid fundamentals like floats, submersions, and glides. Her teaching style is fun, safe, and encouraging, with a focus on building comfort in the water and steady, confidence-building progress.
She also has experience working with special needs clients, including supporting a non-verbal autistic child in a group setting. She adapts her approach to meet each swimmer where they’re at, making lessons supportive and rewarding for every student.
Certifications:
Swim Instructor Award (Lifesaving Society BC & Yukon)
Standard First Aid & CPR/AED-C
- OFA Level 1
Meet Rizzel!
Based in Kerrisdale, Rizzel teaches throughout Vancouver’s West Side, including UBC, Dunbar, and Kitsilano. With about three years of swim instruction experience, she brings a patient, encouraging, and fun style to every lesson—while keeping safety front and center.
Rizzel especially enjoys working with preschoolers and young beginners, helping kids become comfortable and confident in the water from day one. She focuses on the fundamentals that matter most early on: water safety, floating, submersions, and building strong foundations for front crawl, back crawl, and early breaststroke skills.
Her goal is simple: help children develop strong water safety habits and create positive early experiences with swimming so progress feels natural, steady, and exciting.
Certifications:
Swim for Life Instructor (Lifesaving Society)
National Lifeguard (NL)
First Aid & CPR-C
Meet Faezeh!
Faezeh is a certified swim instructor and lifeguard with 10+ years of experience teaching swimmers of all levels—from beginners to advanced. She brings a calm, supportive approach that helps swimmers build confidence, improve technique, and stay safe in the water.
She especially excels with children and youth, using the structure and patience of an experienced children’s team coach—perfect for families looking for lessons that are fun, encouraging, and clearly progressive.
Faezeh has taught both private and group lessons (including YMCA programs), tracks swimmer progress, and provides helpful feedback so students keep improving lesson to lesson. With a Master’s in Sport Injuries & Corrective Exercise, she also brings strong movement knowledge that supports efficient technique and steady endurance development.
Certifications:
Swim Instructor (Lifesaving Society BC & Yukon)
National Lifeguard (Lifesaving Society)
Standard First Aid & CPR/AED-C (Canadian Red Cross)
Meet Mina!
Now in her second year with Swim Lessons Vancouver, Mina brings over 10 years of swim instruction experience and a teaching style that’s best described as warm, structured, and results-driven. She’s incredibly passionate, extremely organized, and known for planning lessons with real intention—so each swimmer feels supported and knows exactly what they’re working toward.
Mina shines with children and female adults, especially those who feel nervous, unsure, or are getting back into the water after a long break. She creates a calm, respectful environment that builds trust quickly, then steadily layers skills in a way that feels safe and achievable—without pressure.
Her strength is personalized progression: she tailors every session to the swimmer in front of her, adjusting cues, drills, and pacing to match learning style and comfort level. The result is consistent confidence-building progress, with safety and technique always leading the way.
Certifications:
- Swim for Life Instructor (Lifesaving Society)
- National Lifeguard (NL)
- First Aid & CPR-C
Meet Diogo!
Originally from Florianópolis, Brazil, Diogo is a seasoned swim instructor with over two decades of expertise. He is a Lifesaving Society Swim for Life Instructor and a practicing Kinesiologist with a Bachelor of Kinesiology from the University of British Columbia.
Diogo began teaching in 2000 and has a background in competitive swimming in Germany and Canada. He specializes in teaching adults and individuals who face significant challenges in learning to swim. Diogo believes everyone can learn to swim and tailors each lesson to meet individual needs, ensuring a positive and effective learning experience.
Join Diogo on your swim journey and let his expertise guide you toward achieving your aquatic goals.
Certifications:
- Swim Instructor Award (Lifesaving Society)
- Standard First Aid & CPR/AED-C