Elevate Your Dance. Empower Your Mind. Nourish Your Body.
Finding your dance flow and elevating your dance, is only partly about mastering timing, technique or even the connection of the partnership. The parts we forget to practice are our own creativity, confidence, and connection.
We forget to look after our hearts, bodies and minds, before we ask them to perform under pressure, and it can lead to us loosing the joy and community feeling of our dance.
WCS Wellness is a community-driven hub created by dancers, for dancers to help solve this. Our aim is to help create an environment where we can all:
☯️ Boost our physical and mental wellbeing
🧠 Cultivate confidence, clarity, and emotional resilience
🤝 Connect deeply—with ourselves and others
✨ Explore playfulness, creativity and heart-centred movement
Our crew of wellness professionals and passionate Westies are here to help you thrive—whether you’re just starting out or already a seasoned pro.
We are all about helping you live a happy healthy life full of joy, play, and connection regardless of your level of knowledge or experience in West Coast Swing. We believe that the content shared here and the services our Wellness Westies can offer you, will benefit everyone – from the brand-new novice, the social dancer, to the seasoned Pro.
What is Wellness?
Wellness is a term that has been increasingly used in all walks of life over the past decade or so. There are many different definitions and interpretations of wellness and wellbeing. For us it is a holistic and practical approach to finding balance within ourselves – mentally, spiritually and physically.
Wellness involves a sense of empowerment to live a happy, healthy and fulfilled life. Empowerment goes hand-in-hand with taking personal responsibility for your day to day choices in our lives. Wellness and balance are self defined, based on what you think is important and needed, as well as on your personal goals and values.
In short, wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life. It is more than being free from illness, it is a dynamic, flowing and continual evolution of the self.
“…a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
– The World Health Organization
“Wellness is a conscious, self-directed and evolving process of achieving full potential.”
– The National Wellness Institute
The content on this site will explore many themes within wellness all be centred around the eight-dimensional model developed by University Health Service at University of Michigan in 2012 and verified by the National Wellness Institute, 2012.
We’ll of course be focusing more on the mental, physical and social sides of wellness, but we can’t promise not to stray across the rest of the wheel as well!
We invite you to be curious, try out different ideas and perspectives and much like your favourite dance moves, find the best ways to wellness for you.
To help, we’ve developed a mini guide with ideas, exercises and explanations on how to remove the inner critic, build confidence, set and achieve your dance goals, become more confident on both the social and competition floor and much much more……….
Ways to Wellbeing: A Dancers Guide!
Buy the PDF of the booklet here
Buy the Booklet
References:
Swarbrick, Margaret & Yudof, Jay. (2017). Wellness in the 8 Dimensions. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299127407_Wellness_in_the_8_Dimensions
http://www.theeight.org/aboutus/8dimensionsofwellness.html
https://umwellness.wordpress.com/8-dimensions-of-wellness/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508938/#!po=78.5714