My Journey with Human Garage: Nearly Six Years of Fascial Maneuvers in Vancouver

My relationship with Human Garage began in 2020, when Fascial Maneuvers was still very new.

I became one of the early Human Garage coaches, but what began as learning and sharing Fascial Maneuvers gradually became something much bigger.

I kept showing up.

Week after week.

Year after year.

For nearly six years, I have continued teaching Fascial Maneuvers consistently in Vancouver.

Officially and unofficially, I have taught Fascial Maneuvers more than anyone else in the world. Not because I set out to achieve a title, but simply because I continued to show up and teach.

That consistency has made my Vancouver class the longest-running weekly Fascial Maneuvers class in the world.

And through all those years of teaching, my understanding of fascia, movement, embodiment and community has continued to evolve.

My Early Years with Human Garage

My relationship with Human Garage has taken many forms over the years.

I have taught and opened Human Garage events, worked behind the scenes, contributed to the development of the coaching program syllabus, and mentored other coaches.

As Human Garage evolved, its coaching program and direction evolved too, and my role within the organization went through several evolutions along with it.

But one thing remained consistent:

I kept teaching.

I kept working with bodies.

I kept learning directly from what happened when people practiced Fascial Maneuvers consistently.

And I kept building community in Vancouver.

Building the Vancouver Fascial Maneuvers Community

Today, I continue to run and build the Vancouver Fascial Maneuvers community through my two weekly classes.

What has developed here wasn’t created overnight.

It came through thousands of hours of teaching, observing bodies, listening, experimenting, refining, and meeting people exactly where they were.

Some people come once.

Some return years later.

Others come week after week and allow me to witness their bodies change over time.

That continuity has given me a perspective that is difficult to acquire through training alone.

There is what you learn about fascia.

And then there is what thousands of hours of working with actual bodies teach you.

That distinction has become central to my work.

Bringing Fascial Maneuvers Into Japanese

Another important part of my Human Garage journey has been creating Fascial Maneuvers content in my native language, Japanese.

One of my earliest projects was guiding the Human Garage Stress Reset in Japanese, alongside Gary and Jason.

https://youtu.be/_EkAMr6wxys?si=gTn0rk0KxzZfDcM5

From there, I independently created an entire Japanese Fascial Maneuvers playlist so that Japanese speakers could experience the practice in their own language:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQFiOE0JLL48tJTQj9IIclBe9NxpIKMhE&si=WWZAx72aFhRtzKe4

I also created Fascial Maneuvers content through Human Garage, including this upper-body practice:

https://youtu.be/M_9mtZE41bw?si=OjWH0UMSFfcBcWqC

Human Garage later created this piece sharing my story, my Vancouver community, and how I became a coach:

https://youtu.be/8IawWxKqJEk?si=IprCU9s_LoRD4Ir4

Being Japanese and building this work in Vancouver has given me an interesting bridge between two worlds.

And that bridge is beginning to call me again.

Vancouver to Japan

When I return home to Miyazaki later this year, I am planning to teach Fascial Maneuvers in Japanese.

There is something beautifully circular about that.

I began this chapter in Vancouver.

I spent nearly six years teaching, refining, observing and building community here.

And now I have the opportunity to bring everything those years have taught me back to Japan — not simply translating words into Japanese, but translating an embodied experience.

Because movement doesn’t translate word for word.

Neither does fascia.

You have to understand the body underneath the language.

My Work Continues to Evolve

Today, my work extends beyond simply teaching a sequence of Fascial Maneuvers.

My background as a professional dancer and choreographer, decades of movement experience, and years of working directly with fascia have naturally woven together.

Human Garage has been an important part of that journey.

And my relationship with Human Garage continues to evolve.

I continue building the Vancouver community. I teach my two weekly Fascial Maneuvers classes with Human Garage’s sponsorship, and I collaborate through my community with Human Garage partners including H2 Water Expert, Tech for Health and Survival Moss.

But perhaps the greatest teacher has simply been showing up.

Again.

And again.

And again.

Bodies have taught me.

People have taught me.

Community has taught me.

Nearly six years of consistency has taught me.

And after all these years, I am still curious about what fascia has to reveal next.

This work is still evolving.

So am I.

— Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™

Vancouver, Canada