Are you struggling with mental blocks in your Irish dancing? It's not uncommon for dancers to hit a plateau or feel stuck in their progress. But with the right mindset coaching, you can overcome these obstacles and take your dancing to the next level. In this blog, we'll explore how to identify and ...

Multiple organisations are preparing to host their World Championships over the next few weeks. This is such an exciting time for those dancers who are preparing to head to Montreal, Killarney and Dublin. But there are many dancers all over the world who won't be attending the World Championships. 

Do you have any idea how powerful your words are? 

If you are anything like the MWM Team, you talk quite a lot! But we experience language in so many other ways than just what we say. We experience language every time we think, when we hear other people talk, when we watch TV, listen to music an...

"I want to give everything I can to my dancing. I want to do everything I can to be the best dancer that I can possibly be."

This is something we hear a lot during our MWM Club classes and our 1:1 sessions by dancers who are filled with passion and determination for their dancing. This is someth...

How many times have you all heard me talk about the importance of drinking enough water?

I must say it about 15x a week - at least!!

But that's because it is super important and sometimes we all need a little reminder to go and get some more water. But, like anything in life, it can be hard to k...

 Working with dancers on their confidence is something that Annabelle, our MWM Mindset Coach, does on a daily basis. This is something that can affect any single dancer - from World Champions to beginners, from young children to senior dancers. There's lots of different ways we can work on our confi...

 For a lot of Irish dancers, Irish dancing is a competitive sport. It is something we spend a lot of time doing, working on, thinking about, worrying about, feeling excited about…there's a lot of emotions that come with Irish dancing! These emotions can affect more than just feises, they can also sp...

‘How do I improve my stamina?’ We hear this all the time! It seems like every dancer wants to know the secret. Here’s the thing, there’s no big mystery. No big secret. Just these simple points…

Firstly, it is not all about cardio fitness. It’s about muscular endurance and muscle memory. Running ...

You may have seen other dancers with a long, colourful cylindrical item sticking out of their dance bags and wondered what it is? Or maybe your Mum has bought you one but you've no idea what to do with it or understand how it can help? 

That item is a foam roller and it is used by dancers (and many...

It’s back to school time here in the UK and that means back to dancing for a lot of us. Whilst we still have dance class in the summer holidays, we tend to relax a bit more, spend more time with our friends and family and go on holidays. Our bodies and minds need this break in order to perform well ...

Being an Irish Dancer and working with Irish Dancers over the last 5 years has shown me how much we neglect our greatest tool, our feet. We have all suffered with blisters and sore feet on the surface and we do our best to prevent and manage these, however what is going on below the surface of our f...

Although Irish dancing is a subjective sport (meaning that every judge will look for different things), there are some basics for Irish dancing that we all try to perfect. Turnout, timing, correct posture, arch, stamina and the focus of today’s blog…crossover! 

So we asked Meg, Aimee and Aoibhea...