Aida is a "water baby" by her own admission, and has been swimming since she can remember. Anything to do with water she's there, whether it's a chance to go lake swimming or practice her surfing on holiday.

She spent 8 years as a teenager training and competing for one of the top clubs in the South East, Guildford City Swimming Club. Her favourite heats to enter were breaststroke 50 and 100m.

She had a chance to get her Padi diving certification in the coral reefs of the Providencia Lagoon National Park in the Caribbean Sea. 

Before coming back to the water, Aida worked as an international human rights lawyer in Cambodia and The Netherlands, and later as a TV production lawyer in London. Alongside swimming instruction, she's now a digital illustrator, currently working on a children's book and taking portrait commissions. 

Aida enjoys teaching all ages, using her skills to help non-swimmers find their way in water and move on to stroke technique, and more advanced clients to perfect their technique and improve on speed and stamina. 

Aida was impressed by Swimming Nature’s methodology, focusing on enjoyment of the water, drawing out the instincts present in all of us to make swimming easy and uncomplicated, and of course commitment to beautiful and correct technique.

Her hobbies are Middle eastern dance, capoeira, improvisational theatre.