Liberation Begins Within: A Spring Invitation to Come Home to Yourself
Author: Jaime Butemeyer
As the snow melts and the rivers rise with new life, something ancient stirs beneath our skin.
Spring is not just a season—it’s a remembering. A call from the earth to stretch out of our shells, crack open with sunlight, and trust the wild intelligence of growth. The crocus doesn't ask permission to bloom. The river doesn't apologize for thawing. They simply follow what is true.
And so can we.
For many of us, winter has been a time of contraction—of deep inner listening, quiet deaths, and sacred stillness. But spring arrives like a whisper and a wildfire, inviting us to awaken—gently, wildly, honestly.
This season is an embodied metaphor for liberation.
Not the kind of liberation that shouts over your life, but the kind that moves through it like sap through a tree—subtle, strong, unstoppable.
And just as nature doesn’t force her bloom, we too can practice liberation that is rooted, rhythmic, and real.
Below are a few spring-born, embodied expression rituals—simple, sacred acts of devotion—to help you begin (or deepen) your own inner revolution.
Each is designed to help you shake off the shell, return to your body, and come home to the part of you that is ready to bloom + express.
Start a Quiet (or Loud) Inner Revolution
Here are a few embodied ways to practice liberation this spring—through movement, voice, breath, and choice. These are not performances. They are reclamations.
Whisper What You Wish You Could Scream
Each morning, speak one truth you’ve been afraid to say—but do it softly. This builds intimacy with your voice before it becomes performance. Sit at your altar, in your car, or at your vanity mirror, and whisper it aloud. Notice where your body tenses. Breathe through it. Let truth be a slow exhale, not a dramatic reveal.
Dance With Your Resistance
Rather than trying to shake it off, meet it in motion. Play a 3-song set:
Track 1: Slow and heavy (to meet the resistance)
Track 2: Wild and rhythmic (to move it)
Track 3: Light and devotional (to transmute it)
This isn’t a workout. It’s a sacred conversation with your body. Let it speak.
“I Am” Breathwork (5 minutes)
Inhale: “I am…”
Exhale: name a quality you’re reclaiming—“soft,” “sovereign,” “here,” “enough.”
This breath anchors you back into your body’s truth—without the masks. Let it be a mantra that clears the inner debris so something real can rise.
Mirror Devotion Practice
Once a week, wear something that feels like you before the world told you who to be. Look at yourself in the mirror. Admire without critique. Then ask, What does this version of me long to say or create? Listen. Then go do one small thing she asks.
The Beautiful No
Choose one “no” this week that liberates your energy. Say it kindly, but clearly. Then ritualize the space it opens. Light a candle. Stretch. Create. Rest. When you stop performing for approval, you begin expressing from truth—and that is the most fertile soil of spring!
Liberation is not always loud. Sometimes, it’s a soft unfurling.
Sometimes, it’s a body remembering she belongs.
Sometimes, it’s the moment you choose breath over perfection.
A ‘no’ over a performance.
A song over a script.
This is what spring knows. She doesn’t rush or apologize.
She arrives when the time is right, and when she does—she blooms without holding back.
So if you're feeling the pull—trust it.
Let the season move you.
Let the thaw become a turning point.
This spring, you don’t have to force yourself open.
You only need to remember:
The liberation is already in you.
All you have to do is let it out.
With devotion,
Jamie Butemeyer
www.jamiebutemeyer.com
If you’re wanting to practice and build the skills of liberation in even more powerful ways—alongside a community also walking this path— join us for the LIBERATE 3-day immersive retreat happening at True Nature, May 23–25.
Let’s bloom together.