The Follicular Season: Your Natural Momentum Window

For anyone whose body rises into clarity, energy, and creative expansion after the reset

If it works for you, step into this one with curiosity. This isn’t about forcing energy. It’s about noticing how your body naturally rises.

The follicular season begins quietly — almost imperceptibly — right after your reset. One morning, you notice a shift:

• your legs feel lighter in tendus

• your balance steadies without effort

• new choreography lands faster

• your brain starts connecting ideas again

You’re not imagining it. You’re entering your natural momentum phase.

This isn’t motivation. It’s biology.

The science behind the rise: estrogen as your momentum hormone

During the follicular phase, estrogen begins to climb. Slowly at first, then steadily.

This rise brings:

• clearer thinking

• improved coordination

• quicker learning

• increased confidence

• higher energy

• natural optimism

Your nervous system becomes more open to challenge, exploration, and new information. For dancers, this is the season when you feel ready to build.

You’re not pushing. You’re responding to a window designed for expansion.

How dancers feel this phase in their bodies

You won’t always have the vocabulary, but your body knows this season well:

• jumps feel more buoyant

• footwork sharpens

• stamina increases day by day

• turns feel more organised

• your centre feels stronger

• combinations stop feeling overwhelming and start feeling fun

Choreographers often notice it before you do — your retention is faster, your focus sharper, your creativity more available.

Follicular weeks are where dancers often surprise themselves.

The emotional intelligence of this season

With estrogen rising, your inner landscape changes in ways dancers feel immediately:

• ideas flow easily

• experimentation feels safe

• you feel more open to correction

• taking risks feels less intimidating

This is the season of play. The season of trying. The season of expansion.

Your brain is wired to learn here — not just move.

Why this season is your strategic advantage

Many dancers try to "start fresh" every Monday.
But your true fresh start happens right here — in the days after your reset.

This is the ideal time to:

• learn new choreography

• build stamina

• take on corrections that require rewiring

• film content or performance clips

• attack technical goals

• increase training intensity gradually

The follicular season is the foundation of monthly mastery.
When you use it well, you lift the entire cycle.

What this phase looks like in daily dance practice (in plain language)

Technique

Your alignment feels responsive. Your body says "yes" more easily.

Strength

Legs feel lighter, jumps feel effortless, turns feel organised.

Learning

Retention skyrockets. Complex choreography feels digestible.

Artistry

You begin to play again — trying new textures, new pathways, new interpretations.

Presence

You feel more open, more capable, more visible.

This is the season where your body recovers faster and adapts faster.

The shift that changes everything

If you choose to, you can let this season be:

• your rebuilding window

• your learning window

• your exploration window

• your safe space to try

• your launchpad for the cycle

When you ride the natural rise instead of forcing an artificial one, you:

• build strength with less effort

• learn faster

• feel more confident

• reduce injury risk

• arrive in ovulation with momentum instead of exhaustion

This season makes progress feel effortless — because it’s wired to be.

A small shift you can try today

If you feel like playing with this season:

• Try one new combination you avoided last week.

• Increase intensity slightly in centre work.

• Let yourself attempt a risk — a pirouette, a jump, a musical choice.

• Add one layer of detail to your artistry.

• Say yes to something that scares you in a good way.

Not because you "should," but because your body is already rising to meet you.

If you want to understand this season inside the full monthly rhythm

If it supports you, the free mini-course will help you identify whether you’re in this phase or another — gently, clearly, and without overwhelm.

You choose when.
You choose how.
You stay in full autonomy.

The follicular season isn’t a fresh start you create — it’s the one your biology gives you.