Spring: The Season That Awakens the Body

There’s a point in the year where something inside us begins to stir again. More daylight. Softer mornings. A sense of the body thawing after months of stillness.

For over 15 years at Ecstatic Dance London & URUBU, we’ve watched people enter spring already halfway transformed, simply because the season itself opens them.

Spring is not just a time of renewal around you.
It’s a renewal that happens within you.

And when you understand why spring creates such fertile ground for transformation, you begin to work with the season rather than against it.

Let’s explore the deeper intelligence of spring, and why it’s the ideal time for embodiment practices, somatic healing, and attending a spring wellness or ecstatic dance retreat.

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1. Your Body’s Energy Naturally Rises

With the return of light, your biological rhythms change.
Sunlight increases serotonin and boosts energy regulation. The nervous system becomes more responsive. Creativity and motivation lift.

This makes spring the perfect moment for:

• reconnecting with your body
• beginning new habits
• emotional renewal
• engaging in somatic practices
• stepping into deeper personal work

A facilitator from our URUBU team puts it simply:

“In spring, people arrive more open. Their bodies want to move again, the work lands deeper.”

Transformation feels lighter in spring because your system is already preparing for change.

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2. Spring Supports Emotional Release & Somatic Unwinding

During winter, the body naturally contracts, physically, emotionally, and energetically. Spring brings warmth, circulation, and a gentle loosening of what was held.

It’s common to feel more sensitive, more emotional, or more aware of what you’re ready to release. This isn’t a problem, it’s a signal that your body is beginning its seasonal unwinding.

Somatic practices such as:

• ecstatic dance
• trance dance
• breathwork
• bioenergetics
• meditation
• sound journeys

…become especially potent in spring because the body is primed to soften, open, and let go.

We see this every year at our Spring Awakening retreat: people release months of emotional tension through a single dance, breath session, or sound journey.

Spring allows the body to exhale.

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3. Nature Models the Transformation We Long For

The natural world is the greatest teacher of embodied growth.

Spring shows us that transformation is not abrupt; it’s rhythmic, gradual, and deeply rooted. Shoots emerge without haste. Blossoms open when ready. Old growth falls away to make space for new life.

When we practice embodiment, dance, or breathwork in spring, we echo what nature is already doing: opening, rising, moving, becoming.

This alignment between the body and the season is what makes spring the most powerful time for transformational work.

Transformation doesn’t need to be pushed, you simply synchronise with the season.

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A Moment of Alignment

If you’re feeling this inner shift already, we’re hosting our Spring Awakening Retreat 2026: four days of movement, dance, somatics, sound, nature, and community.
A retreat designed specifically to work with the seasonal energy of spring.
Find out more information here

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4. Intentions Root More Deeply

January is a cultural moment for resolutions, but biologically, it’s the hardest time of year to create change. It’s dark, cold, and inward.

Spring, however, offers everything needed for intentions to flourish:

• rising vitality
• clearer focus
• more optimism
• increased light
• emotional spaciousness
• a naturally expanding nervous system

In spring, intentions don’t just stay in the mind; they begin to live in the body.

This is why many people feel drawn to reconnect with movement, nature, creativity, and community during this season. Spring holds the momentum that change requires.

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5. Spring Strengthens Community Connection. And Humans Heal in Community

Humans are seasonal beings. As spring arrives, community spaces naturally come alive again.

At our events, spring brings a noticeable shift:
people talk more, express more, share more, trust more. The willingness to connect — and to be seen — rises.

Group embodiment practices such as ecstatic dance and breathwork become especially potent in spring because community amplifies personal transformation.

Healing in community is powerful, and spring makes that community feel even more alive.

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6. Spring Is a Transformational Accelerator

From decades of facilitating movement and somatic spaces, we’ve learned that spring consistently brings the deepest breakthroughs and the most graceful ones.

Participants often arrive feeling:

• ready for a fresh start
• emotionally full or heavy
• in transition
• curious about inner work
• called toward something they can’t yet name

And by the end, there’s a lightness. A clarity. A renewed sense of belonging to themselves.

When you combine spring energy with movement, breath, nature, sound, sweat, and shared ritual, powerful things happen.

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FAQs: Spring, Healing & Transformation

Why do I feel more emotional in spring?

Your nervous system is thawing from winter. Stored emotions begin to move again — this is normal and healthy.

Is spring really a better time for a wellness or embodiment retreat?

Yes. Your body is more open, resilient, and receptive to change.

What practices work best in spring?

Somatic movement, ecstatic dance, breathwork, bioenergetics, nature immersion, sound healing.

Do I need experience to join a spring retreat?

No — people of all ages and backgrounds join our retreats. You’re guided gently the whole way.

Why is spring associated with inner renewal?

Both nature and your nervous system shift from contraction (winter) into expansion (spring), creating ideal conditions for emotional and personal growth.

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Your Spring Awakening Begins Here

If you’re feeling the pull toward deeper embodiment, emotional release, and renewed vitality, you’re not alone. Spring brings that energy to all of us.

We invite you to join us for:

Spring Awakening — Deep-Dive Ecstatic Dance, Embodiment & Wellness Retreat

8–12 April 2026 (with a weekend-only option)

Movement. Stillness. Nature. Sound. Breath. Community.
A space to shed what’s heavy and open into what’s next.

Learn more and reserve your place