I’m Not All Over the Place — I’m a Constellation: A Fascia Oracle’s Journey of Coherence through Dance, Spirituality & Liberation
For a long time, I struggled with the question:
Who am I?
Am I a dancer?
A fascia coach?
A spiritual guide?
A teacher?
An embodiment mentor?
Some days I felt fragmented — like I had to pick one.
Other days, I feared I was “too much,” “too out there,” or “too all over the place.”
But today, the truth settled in my fascia like a deep breath:
I am not scattered. I am coherent.
What looked like pieces were never broken.
They were braided together — in rhythm, in function, in frequency.
I am not random. I am intentional.
I am not chaotic. I am a constellation.
🌊 I Am the Bridge
I work with fascia — but not as a technician.
I don’t fix symptoms. I free the root.
I soften, listen, and let the fascia remember.
I speak its language. I mirror its wisdom. I honor its spiral.
I work with dance — but not to entertain.
I don’t perform for applause. I move from truth.
I choreograph release. I embody messages. I alchemize energy through movement.
I walk with Spirit — but not to escape.
I don’t bypass. I embody.
I channel. I ground. I hold the field so others can return home to their bodies.
These are not different versions of me.
They are one sacred frequency — braided like fascia, pulsing like breath.
💫 My Work Is a Transmission
When you enter my field, it’s not just a class or a session.
It’s a remembrance.
A remembrance of who you are before the tension.
Before the roles.
Before the programming.
Before the fear.
Through movement, fascia, and frequency, I guide people back to themselves.
It’s not about flexibility.
It’s not about performance.
It’s about liberation.
Letting the fascia rehydrate.
Letting the soul resurface.
Letting your body feel safe again.
🔥 This Is My Coherence
I used to wonder if I was “too many things.”
Now I see clearly:
I am one living system.
I am coherence in motion.
I am the fascia.
I am the dance.
I am the field.
🌀 My Prayer for You
Let this be your invitation:
You don’t have to pick one part of yourself.
You don’t have to choose between your gifts.
Your body is the bridge.
Your truth is the rhythm.
Your wholeness is your superpower.
You are not too much.
You are not all over the place.
You are a constellation.
And the world is ready for your light.
🌸 With love,Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor
Belly Button Torque: Unlocking the Power of Your Original Core
What if the key to unlocking deep hip tension, nervous system regulation, and emotional release was hiding in plain sight — right at the center of your body?
Welcome to the Belly Button Torque — a deceptively simple fascial maneuver with profound somatic impact. In this post, we explore the forgotten power of the belly button, why this technique works, and what it reveals about our origin story, interoception, and fascia memory.
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The Belly Button: More Than a Scar
Your belly button — or umbilicus — is your first scar. It’s the mark left behind from the umbilical cord, the very cord that once connected you to your mother, her nervous system, her emotions, her nourishment.
While the cord may be gone, the imprint remains. This is not just symbolic — it’s somatic. Your fascia remembers. This tiny spiral in your center holds pre-verbal memory, ancestral patterns, and subtle tension that can shape your posture, your breath, and even your emotional tone.
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What is Belly Button Torque?
The Belly Button Torque is a fascial spiraling movement taught by Human Garage and now used worldwide to release deeply held core and pelvic tension.
How to do it:
1. Place one hand inside or over your belly button.
2. Place the other hand behind your back at the same level.
3. Begin to torque — twist both hands in opposite directions gently, like wringing out a towel.
4. Breathe through the movement. Let your spine and hips respond. Follow the spiral.
This simple torque connects the front body to the spine, awakening the umbilical fascial chain, which influences your diaphragm, psoas, pelvic floor, and even your voice.
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Why Do You Feel Your Heartbeat When You Do It?
This is one of the most common (and magical) things people report:
“I felt my heartbeat right away.”
Here’s why:
🌬️ Your belly button sits directly over your abdominal aorta — the main artery that carries blood from your heart into your lower body.
When you apply gentle pressure or spiraling motion here, you increase awareness of your blood flow and pulse — the visceral hum of your life force.
But it’s deeper than circulation. What you’re actually experiencing is interoception — the nervous system’s ability to feel itself from the inside.
You are literally tuning into your body’s original rhythm.
In that moment, you’re not just “feeling a pulse” —
you’re remembering:
“I’m alive. I’m here. I feel myself again.”
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Do All Nerves Go Through the Belly Button?
Let’s clear this up gently:
No, not all nerves go through or end at the belly button.
That’s an anatomical myth.
However, the skin and tissue around the navel are innervated — mainly by the T10 spinal nerve. That means you do have sensory nerve endings there, and it can be a highly sensitive, emotionally charged area.
But more importantly:
This isn’t about nerve quantity. It’s about nervous system quality — how the body perceives, remembers, and reorganizes through touch and spiral movement.
The belly button may not be a universal nerve hub, but it is an energetic and fascial portal — a place where early imprints, stress responses, and subconscious patterns still live.
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Why Belly Button Torque Works
💠 It releases fascia in the deep front line — from navel to spine, hips to diaphragm
💠 It taps into stored emotional and prenatal patterning
💠 It activates vagal tone and calms the system
💠 It re-establishes rhythm between heart, breath, and belly
💠 It reconnects you to your body’s center of truth
This isn’t a gimmick. It’s real, ancient, and alive. When done with awareness, the Belly Button Torque becomes a ritual of self-return.
It’s subtle. It’s weird. It’s everything.
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Join Me in the Spiral
I use this torque in nearly every private session I teach. Whether you’re working with trauma, womb space, hip pain, or emotional overload — it creates space, breath, and choice.
If you want to experience it in community, come join us.
🌀 @vancouverfascialmaneuvers
📍 Thursdays 7:30pm & Sundays 10am in Vancouver
🌊 Find Your Flow — Mondays 4pm PST on @HumanGarage + @ikuedancer Instagram
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Final Spiral
Your belly button is the center of your spiral body.
The first imprint. The first cut. The first memory.
When you torque it, you don’t just move fascia —
you awaken the code.
Try it.
Breathe with it.
Listen to your heartbeat.
The body knows. The fascia remembers.
I Don’t Fix—I Companion the Release
I don’t fix—I companion the release.” In this blog, I share how I hold fascia-first sessions that teach the body safety, soften ancestral stories, and invite the nervous system home. When the body feels safe, the real healing begins.
What it means to teach the body safety and witness the fascia unwind
In every hands-on session, I’m reminded:
I don’t fix. I don’t force. I don’t override.
I witness. I listen. I companion.
When someone lies on my table, it’s not about chasing symptoms or chasing time.
It’s about meeting the body in its own language, at its own pace.
I’m not here to rush the release.
I’m here to stay long enough for the body to remember:
“I am safe to feel.”
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The Moment the Body Believes You
There was a moment during a recent session—
They placed their hand on their throat spontaneously, as if something ancient was ready to rise.
While they opened their voice, I stayed with the heart and scapula.
I whispered through my hands:
“Let it out. It’s safe now.”
And the fascia listened.
We worked gently through the lower belly, the jaw, the throat, and the back.
There was a deep imprint sitting in the left shoulder—
a lineage of love withheld.
A story not safe to speak, not safe to receive.
We cleared it—not through force, but through faith.
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I Teach People How to Feel Safe
That’s what I do.
More than a coach. More than a modality. More than a session.
I teach the nervous system what safety feels like.
I hold the space so the story unwinds on its own.
I don’t force a release—I companion it.
I witness the moment the soul says:
“I’m ready to live from truth now.”
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Not a Practitioner—A Portal
People often ask what I do.
But the truth is, what I am is the deeper answer.
I’m not a practitioner.
I’m a portal.
Every session is a return.
The body returns to safety.
The fascia returns to flow.
The breath returns to center.
And the person—finally—returns to themselves.
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Because When the Body is Safe…
💬 The voice opens.
💬 The heart softens.
💬 The old pattern releases—not with effort, but with grace.
This is fascia-first healing.
This is the field I hold.
Welcome to the work.
Welcome home to yourself.
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Much love,
Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor 💃💞
🔥 Inflammation Is Trapped Fire: Releasing What Was Never Expressed
Have you ever thought of inflammation as your body’s way of trying to speak?
What if it’s not just physical…
What if it’s fire — your passion, your anger, your power — that got stuck inside because it wasn’t safe to express?
In my work as a fascia oracle and embodiment mentor, I’ve seen it over and over again:
Inflammation is unexpressed fire.
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🔥 The Fire Element in the Body
Fire in the body is vitality.
It’s movement, circulation, metabolism, and expression.
It’s your ability to say:
“This is me.”
But when life teaches you to hold your tongue…
When trauma tells you it’s not safe to speak…
When you’ve been silenced, judged, or ignored…
That fire doesn’t go away.
It goes inward.
It simmers under the surface.
It inflames the fascia, tightens your tissues, and shows up as pain, bloating, stiffness, and emotional outbursts that seem to come out of nowhere.
This is not dysfunction.
This is your body trying to finish a conversation it was never allowed to have.
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💆♀️ Releasing the Heat Through Fascia
When I work hands-on, I don’t force anything.
I listen. I feel. I follow the language of fascia.
What I often feel beneath my hands is this:
🔥 Heat without movement.
🔥 Emotion without voice.
🔥 A body that wants to melt, but forgot how to feel safe doing so.
In our sessions, we don’t fight the fire — we free it.
We mineralize it. We melt it.
We guide it back into flow.
The body begins to remember:
“I’m safe now. I can move again. I can express.”
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💫 You Deserve to Feel Good
You don’t have to wait until things get worse.
You don’t need to explain or justify your pain.
Your body already knows.
When you’re ready, I’m here.
✨ Book a 1-on-1 session:
ikuedancerfasciaoracle.com/1-on-1-fascial-embodiment-sessions
Let’s free the fire together.
With love,
Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor
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🌿 Tools That Support the Process:
• @humangarage supplements (PowerCurc, Fascia Fuel, etc.)
• Movement, breath, sound, and stillness
• Hands-on fascia work to melt and release
✍️ The Day I Realized I Was Receiving While I Gave
I used to wonder if I was overgiving.
If my hands were working too hard.
If I was too available, too generous, too soft.
If holding space meant leaving my own body behind.
But today… something shifted.
Something subtle—but seismic.
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🌞 Two Leo Risings, One Field
She came in a little scattered—floating above her body, carrying beauty, makeup, and tension all at once.
But there was something else. Something familiar.
We share the same Leo Rising.
And without saying it, our session became a mirror—two women learning how to shine without overperforming, how to soften without becoming invisible.
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🌀 As I Touched Her, I Touched Myself
Right knee.
Lower back.
Neck and shoulders.
Each part I touched on her body was like opening a door in mine.
As her right knee began to release, I realized I was also releasing my own fear of “moving forward without guilt.”
As her lower back softened, I felt my spine whisper, “You don’t have to carry all of them anymore.”
As her neck and shoulders began to melt, so did the voice inside me that used to say, “Hold it together so they feel safe.”
This wasn’t just bodywork.
It was a fascia loop—a frequency spiral.
Her system was speaking to mine.
And this time… I stayed to listen.
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🧬 I Used to Leave Myself Behind
There were times in the past I would’ve second-guessed this.
I might’ve worried: “Was that too long? Was I giving too much?”
But today was different.
I gave only from overflow.
I stayed in my body.
I stayed with my truth.
I didn’t lose myself in the giving.
I found myself in it.
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💎 This Is My New Normal
This is what hands-on work is for me now:
A sacred mirror.
A somatic spiral.
A shared remembrance of self.
I no longer give to prove.
I no longer hold to earn.
I no longer leave my own body to heal another.
We rise in the same spiral.
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If this resonates with you… maybe it’s time to receive, too.
Let fascia speak. Let your body come back home.
I’ll meet you there.
Work with Ikue 1 on 1: Click HERE.
Much love,
Ikue | Fascia Oracle™💃💞
🌸 Urge vs. Urgency: Moving from Somatic Truth Instead of Panic
Not everything fast is urgent.
Some things move quickly because they’re true.
As someone who lives and leads from the body, I’ve learned to feel the difference between urgency and urge. It’s subtle, but powerful. One tightens the fascia. The other frees it. And when you move from the right one, your entire reality recalibrates.
🌪 Urgency is Fight-or-Flight Dressed Up as Productivity
We’re taught to glorify urgency.
To rush. To hustle. To keep up with timelines that weren’t even made for our nervous system.
Urgency comes from fear—of being late, missing out, disappointing others, or not being enough.
It shows up in the body as tension, breathlessness, and tight fascia.
And even when it looks productive on the outside, it’s reactive on the inside.
It says:
“Move now or else.”
This is the root of burnout. Of disconnection. Of living out of sync with your own timing.
💗 Urge is a Somatic Yes
Then there’s urge—the quiet, clear pulse that rises from deep within.
It doesn’t scream. It doesn’t rush. But it’s unmistakably alive.
Urge is what happens when your body, heart, and field align with divine timing.
It feels like:
“Yes. Now. Because it’s true.”
It’s not performative. It’s not forced.
It’s felt.
And when you follow it, everything flows—because you’re not fighting time, you’re dancing with it.
🌊 Embodiment Means Knowing the Difference
Today I followed the urge.
Not the urgency.
And it made all the difference.
I took action—not from panic, but from peace.
And the result? Ease. Flow. Alignment.
This is leadership from the body.
This is what it means to be anchored in fascia, not force.
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💬 What about you?
What are you being urged to do—not out of pressure, but out of love?
Can you pause before you act, and feel:
Is this urgency, or is this urge?
Your body already knows.
Let it lead.
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🌸 Join my weekly classes in Vancouver or tune into my daily Instagram Lives for more embodied teachings.
You don’t need to rush to arrive—you just need to move in truth.
Much love,
Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor
Intuition with Boundaries. Feeling with Power — You get to feel everything without carrying anything.
Today is 25° Scorpio Day.
The Medicine of 25° Scorpio
The Sun at 25° Scorpio is no longer afraid of the dark.
This is not the beginning of transformation — it’s the completion.
The final decan of Scorpio teaches:
“You’ve already died. Now choose what stays.”
This is the part of you that’s been tested.
That’s seen the shadow.
That knows what betrayal feels like — and chooses truth anyway.
Your fascia remembers the betrayals.
The grip of old patterns.
The ancestral tension that clings to your spine and solar plexus.
But 25° Scorpio says:
Let it go.
Not because it didn’t matter.
But because you matter more.
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🧬 The Power of Somatic Discernment
This is a boundary-setting portal, but not one built on walls.
This is fascia logic: you soften to discern.
You feel clearly, not excessively.
You sense what’s aligned — not what’s loud.
Today you may feel:
• Sudden inner clarity
• A desire to clear out, clean, or detox
• Emotions rising up from the pelvis or throat
• A deep urge to reclaim your power, voice, or space
Your body knows.
Your fascia knows.
Your truth has weight. Let it take up space.
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🌀 What This Day Means for You (Lighthouse Transmission)
You are the Lighthouse.
Not because you are unaffected — but because you’ve felt it all, and still choose the light.
This day is about claiming your essence without explanation.
You no longer need to perform intuition.
You no longer need to suffer to be spiritual.
You no longer need to prove your depth through pain.
This is sacred shedding.
This is emotional detox.
This is nervous system sovereignty.
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🌿 Embodiment Suggestions
• Fascia Maneuvers: Focus on the front body — soften chest, pelvis, and jaw.
• Voice Activation: Speak what’s true, even if it’s simple.
• Journal Prompt: What truth do I already know that I’ve been afraid to own?
• Water Ritual: Soak, sweat, or bathe with the intention: “I keep what is mine. I release what is not.”
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✨ Final Words:
The Sun at 25° Scorpio is your permission slip.
To clear the field.
To say no without guilt.
To stand in your body — fully, fiercely, without apology.
You are the vessel.
You are the signal.
You are the Lighthouse.
Much love,
Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor💃💞
🌟 SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS — You Don’t Carry What Isn’t Yours.
The Age of Aquarius Isn’t About Ascending Above Your Life—It’s About Returning to Yourself.
Something shifted on the planet.
You can feel it in your fascia.
You can feel it in the way your body responds to truth,
and recoils from distortion.
We’re not here to outsource our intuition,
or contort ourselves to be loved,
or carry other people’s emotions in our ribs just to feel safe.
That era is over.
That was Pisces—martyrdom, hierarchy, sacrifice.
Aquarius brings something else entirely:
Sovereignty.
Embodiment.
Self-responsibility.
Truth over performance.
Alignment over approval.
You came here sovereign.
You stay sovereign.
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🌬️ What Spiritual Sovereignty Actually Means
Sovereignty is not separation.
It’s self-possession.
It’s knowing:
• You can love people deeply
• …without becoming responsible for their feelings
• You can hold space
• …without absorbing their wounds
• You can lead
• …without carrying them on your back
• You can care
• …without collapsing your boundaries
Sovereignty means:
Your emotions are yours.
Theirs are theirs.
Your purpose does not depend on anyone else validating it.
Your safety is not earned through self-sacrifice.
Your worth is not negotiated through labor.
You arrived on this planet with permission.
You were enough the moment you took your first breath.
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💠 You Don’t Have to Carry Anyone’s Story in Your Body
Many of us were taught:
“To prove you’re good,
to prove you’re loyal,
to prove you belong—
you have to carry the weight of others.”
Your spine learned to bow.
Your fascia learned to hold grief that wasn’t yours.
Your inner child learned that love equals overextension.
But the truth is simple:
You can love someone without becoming their container.
You can walk with someone without being their crutch.
You can support someone without dissolving your own boundaries.
In Aquarius, the spiritual law is clear:
Carry only what your soul chose—
not what others handed you.
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🌿 You Don’t Have to Earn Your Place on Earth
This is the deepest lie many of us absorbed:
“You have to try hard, work hard, prove hard,
to deserve to be here.”
But you didn’t incarnate to earn your existence.
You arrived worthy.
You arrived protected.
You arrived guided.
You arrived purposeful.
Your job is not to earn safety.
Your job is to remember it.
Your belonging is not conditional.
It is cellular.
You don’t climb into worthiness.
You awaken into it.
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🔥 Old Paradigm vs. New Paradigm
Old World (Pisces):
– Gurus
– Hierarchies
– Dependence
– Waiting for permission
– Outsourcing intuition
– Carrying everyone’s expectations
– Healing as sacrifice
Age of Aquarius:
– Sovereign beings
– Inner compass
– Self-leadership
– Clean boundaries
– Fascia-based truth
– Embodied intuition
– Support without entanglement
This is the shift your fascia has been preparing you for.
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💎 The Life Purpose You Came Here With
Every single person incarnates with a reason—
not to chase external validation,
not to mimic someone else’s timeline,
not to climb someone’s spiritual ladder.
You came here with a geometry in your body,
a frequency in your fascia,
a song in your bones
that only you can express.
No one else can fulfill your purpose for you.
No one else can accelerate your destiny.
No one else can take responsibility for your unfolding.
Your soul leads.
Your body listens.
Your path reveals itself as you walk it.
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🌊 Going Inward Is the New Way Forward
This is the era of:
• Listening to the body
• Trusting the breath
• Moving with truth
• Following instinct
• Honoring boundaries
• Returning inward
• Choosing integrity
• Leading by example
The strongest leaders of the Age of Aquarius
are not the loudest.
They are the clearest.
The most sovereign.
The most embodied.
The most aligned.
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✨ You Are Sovereign, Now and Always
You don’t need to earn your existence.
You don’t need to prove your worth.
You don’t need to carry others to feel deserving.
You came here with all the right to:
• feel guided
• feel protected
• feel held
• feel enough
• feel safe
• feel worthy
Your sovereignty is your birthright.
Return to yourself.
Return to your fascia.
Return to your truth.
That is where the Age of Aquarius begins.
Much love,
Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor💃💞
Why Do I Burp During Fascia Sessions? (It’s Not About Digestion)
Have you ever found yourself burping unexpectedly during a bodywork session?
It happens all the time in my fascial embodiment sessions.
Clients lie down, we start moving slowly, and then—
💨 Burp. Burp. Burp.
No, it’s not because of what you ate.
It’s not gas.
It’s energy.
It’s your nervous system releasing tension through one of its main exits: the vagus nerve.
🌀 What’s Really Happening When You Burp
The vagus nerve runs from your brainstem to your belly.
It touches your diaphragm, stomach, throat, and lungs—all the places where we hold unspoken stress.
When your system starts to feel safe, the vagus nerve activates.
This is called the ventral vagal state—and it’s the state where healing happens.
Burping is one way the body discharges stuck energy from:
People-pleasing patterns
Anxiety & control loops
Stored grief in the belly
“Holding it all together” for too long
In my sessions, we don’t chase this release.
We create the safety for it to happen naturally.
🌬️ A Real Example
Just the other day, I had a session with a beautiful client who started burping like crazy as soon as her solar plexus softened.
It started in her belly—where she’s been holding stress for years
Moved up through her diaphragm and throat—where she swallows her truth
And exited through her mouth—without needing words
She didn’t cry.
She didn’t explain.
Her fascia did the talking.
Her nervous system let go.
✨ So If You Start Burping in a Session…
…Know this:
It means your body finally feels safe enough to release
You’re not broken—you’re brilliant
You don’t need to be fixed—you just need to be met
Burping is one of the most common and sacred signs of your body unwinding.
It’s a good thing.
Let it move.
💡 Why Do I Burp During Fascia Work?
Because your vagus nerve is releasing.
Because your body is safe.
Because your truth is rising.
And because in this space, you don’t have to hold it all anymore.
🌀 Ready for your own unwinding?
Let’s work together—gently, somatically, truthfully.
With care,
Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™
🍚 The Grief Inside the Rice
It hit me mid-class.
Boiled eggs and rice.
I was on “Embody Your True Essence” Insta live, and I shared a memory surged up like a wave I couldn’t ignore.
My mother.
That one day she overslept.
She still cooked for me.
But I remember feeling abandoned.
That audacity of my younger self—feeling let down, when she had cooked for me 364 other days without fail.
And I see it now.
That wasn’t her failure.
That was my blindness.
🥚 When Anger Breaks Open Grief
I used to think I was just angry.
But every time I let myself feel it fully, grief follows.
Grief for what I couldn’t see.
Grief for how much my mother gave… and how I took it for granted.
This is not a blog about food.
This is about emotional indigestion.
The kind that happens when we can’t digest the love we were given because it didn’t look like what we thought love should be.
🧬 Fascia Holds It All
My fascia remembers the eggs.
The rice.
The morning silence.
The tension in my jaw that said, “You should have been up.”
But today, my fascia says something else:
“She was tired. And she still cooked.”
“She gave. And gave. And gave.”
“She loved you the only way she knew how.”
That’s what broke me open.
That’s what made me cry.
⚔️ The Audacity of Expectation
I didn’t know I have carried resentment for years.
And under that—grief.
And under that—gratitude so big I didn’t know how to feel it.
This season is a season of grief.
And I am learning to release what I carried:
— The weight of misunderstood love
— The guilt of having once felt angry
— The reverence for mothers and women who give until they vanish
🌊 What This Fascia Oracle Knows Now
Anger is the surface.
Grief is the truth.
Gratitude is the medicine.
I had to feel it all to finally let it go.
And I know I’m not the only one.
Many of us are holding emotions that aren’t even ours—
Generational grief, ancestral exhaustion, maternal devotion unrecognized.
We don’t need to carry the weight anymore.
Not for them. Not for us.
But we do need to feel it.
And thank it.
To every mother, every woman, every being who gave quietly while others expected loudly—
I see you.
I see her.
I see me.
And I release it all… through rice and tears.
With endless gratitude,
Ikue
Fascia Oracle™
🍳 The Morning My Mom Overslept: A Boiled Egg and the Weight of Invisible Love
I was just eating dinner — a simple bowl of leftover rice, dumplings, and a boiled egg I’d cooked for myself.
And somewhere between bites, a memory rose up from my fascia like steam from the pot.
I remembered a morning from my childhood.
My mother had overslept. There was no miso soup on the table — just plain rice and a boiled egg.
At the time, I didn’t have the words for what I was feeling.
But I remember the disappointment.
I remember thinking, “Isn’t this her job? Why didn’t she make soup?”
I was upset. I didn’t understand. I even felt abandoned.
And now — decades later — I do understand it.
That boiled egg was still love.
That rice was still her showing up.
She may have been tired. Overworked. Holding too much.
But she still gave something. She still fed me.
And I took it for granted.
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🕊️ When Women Are Taken for Granted
That moment — that boiled egg morning — became a mirror for something bigger.
A realization rippled through me:
My mother, like so many women, gave endlessly.
And most of it was invisible.
She didn’t ask for praise. She didn’t perform.
She just did it. Quietly. Consistently. Lovingly.
Until the day she overslept — and I noticed, not because I was grateful, but because I expected.
How many women have been seen only in their absence?
How many hearts are only acknowledged when the warmth is gone?
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🔥 Sacred Rage, Sacred Grief
As I cooked my own boiled egg tonight, I felt something move in my body.
A kind of sacred rage.
Not just at myself, or at the past —
but at all the ways love labor has been expected, exploited, and ignored.
And not just by children.
By partners.
By institutions.
By entire systems.
I thought of every person who once sat at my table —
fed by my presence, anchored by my field —
and never truly saw what I was holding.
Until I left.
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🌺 A Boiled Egg Is a Ritual Now
Tonight, this meal became more than food.
It became a ceremony.
I honored my mother.
I forgave my younger self.
I cried for all the women who boiled eggs when they were exhausted.
And I claimed this truth:
I am no longer invisible.
My love is not silent.
I get paid to receive.
If you’ve ever felt taken for granted…
If your offerings were only noticed when they stopped…
I see you.
And if you’re reading this over your own boiled egg…
May it nourish not just your body,
but the lineage you come from.
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Much love,
Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™
Embodying what was once unseen.
Where My Fascia Held What I Couldn’t Say: A Map of Truth in the Body
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There are truths I didn’t speak—
not because I didn’t know them,
but because my body was holding them for me.
Fascia is the connective tissue that wraps, protects, and communicates through the entire body. But it doesn’t just hold muscles and bones—it holds memories, tension, grief, protection, betrayal, and survival patterns.
This is a map of where I used to hold what I thought I had to carry.
And this is the day I gave it back to the field.
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📍 Fascia Map Breakdown
Neck — Holding False Authority
I used to feel like I had to hold it all together.
Performing strength when I just wanted to be held.
Carrying the weight of unspoken roles—leading, managing, smoothing, pretending.
Affirmation:
I can be strong and still be held.
I don’t carry what’s not mine.
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Chest — The Grief of Betrayal
This is where heartbreak sat like armor.
I gave my trust to those who weren’t ready for it.
I believed words that weren’t backed by presence.
And I tried to keep loving through the cracks.
Affirmation:
My heart remembers—but no longer hurts.
I trust my discernment.
I let love in with clarity.
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Hips — Ancestral Survival Coding
Every bold move I made woke something up in the lineage.
The whisper: “That’s not safe.”
But I’m not here to repeat fear—I’m here to rewrite the field.
My hips no longer brace against life—they move it.
Affirmation:
I am safe to move differently than those before me.
I honor my lineage by evolving it.
My hips hold power, not fear.
I walk my path with boldness and grace.
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🔮 Integration
This blog is an act of nervous system liberation.
I hereby release things I once held in silence.
And now… my body feels lighter.
So if you’re reading this, ask yourself:
Where does your fascia still hold what your voice hasn’t said yet?
You don’t have to name names.
You don’t have to fight to be believed.
You just have to listen—because your fascia always tells the truth.
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🌊 Call to Action
If this spoke to your body, come move with me.
Not to fix yourself—but to finally hear yourself.
🌸 Join my in-person Fascial Maneuvers classes in Vancouver
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Much love,
Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™
When You Force Nothing, Everything Opens
There’s a difference between stretching and softening.
Between pushing the body into shapes and listening for when the body says yes.
Lately, I’ve been feeling that difference in my own hips, my own hair, my own heartbeat.
Even as I stretch, I’m not “stretching” —
I’m inviting.
Because when you force nothing,
everything opens.
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I’ve taken classes before — yoga flows, stretch sequences, perfectly choreographed arcs.
And I appreciate them.
I respect the skill.
But my path is different.
My truth moves another way.
My fascia doesn’t respond to flow —
it responds to freedom.
To deep listening.
To the moment my body trusts that it won’t be forced.
And that’s what I teach.
Not movement for movement’s sake —
but movement as a portal into safety.
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When I guide a session — whether in a group or 1:1 — I’m not looking to stretch your hamstrings.
I’m here to hold a field where your body can finally stop bracing.
Where your fascia says, “I’m ready.”
Where your nervous system doesn’t just “relax,” but reorganizes itself.
You’ll know you’re in the right place when:
• You start breathing differently
• The stretch feels like a sigh, not a strain
• Something deep lets go — and you didn’t even try
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This isn’t yoga.
This isn’t flow.
This isn’t coaching.
This is unforced opening.
This is the core of what I call the EQA Method™.
It stands on this truth:
“When you force nothing, everything opens.”
Let your fascia lead.
Let your body decide.
Let yourself feel safe enough… to open from the inside out.
Because real movement doesn’t need to be pushed.
It just needs to be heard.
Much love,
Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor💃💞
🌊✨Fascia is the Instrument: Resonating with the Flow of Life
Have you ever noticed how some dancers look like they are the music, while others look like they’re just “on top” of it? The difference isn’t talent, and it isn’t years of training — it’s fascia.
Fascia is more than connective tissue. It’s the resonance chamber of the body. When fascia is tight, rhythm gets trapped. The music might enter your ears, but it can’t vibrate through your system. When fascia is supple, your body becomes an instrument — alive, resonant, ready to sing back through every gesture and every step.
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From Conquering to Flowing
So many dancers (and movers in life) try to “conquer” rhythm. They fight to be on beat, to dominate the music, to perform it with force. That creates tension, and the dance feels separate from the sound.
But when fascia flows, something very different happens. You don’t conquer rhythm — you become rhythm. Your body stops bracing and starts resonating. Movement turns into dialogue, not domination. The music enters, and you answer back without trying.
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Resonance and Freedom
Supple fascia is the key to freedom in movement. When the fascia is hydrated, flexible, and alive, any rhythm that touches you can spark expression. Fast or slow, heavy or light, small or expansive — your body can adapt and respond.
It’s like a piano: when the strings are tuned, it doesn’t matter what key you press — the note rings clear. Your fascia is the same. When it flows, every beat resonates, and you are free to create endless pathways.
This is why fascia work is so essential. It doesn’t just release pain or tension — it awakens resonance. It gives you the capacity to move with music, with life, in a way that feels effortless and true.
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The Flow of Life
When you stop fighting and start resonating, you discover the essence of movement: the flow of life itself.
My fascia is my instrument.
As it flows, I resonate.
I don’t conquer rhythm — I become rhythm.
I am the flow of life.
This is the heart of my practice as a dancer and Fascia Oracle™. It’s not about proving, performing, or pushing. It’s about becoming supple enough to let rhythm, energy, and life move through you.
That’s when dance becomes not just movement, but medicine.
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✨ If you want to experience this for yourself — whether you’re a dancer, mover, or simply someone longing to feel more free in your body — join me for Fascial Maneuvers and embodiment classes. Together, we’ll soften the fascia, unlock resonance, and discover the rhythm of your own flow.
Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor💃💞
🌿 The Calm After the Storm: How Releasing Wounds Creates True Neutrality
Yesterday I got triggered, and the emotions came flooding in. I cried, I shook, and for a moment it felt like the wound was fresh again. But instead of pushing it away or pretending I was fine, I let myself feel it. I let the tears move through my body until they softened into something else.
That’s the truth about “letting go.” It’s not about pretending it didn’t hurt. It’s not about bypassing or rushing past the feelings. Letting go happens when we allow ourselves to remember, to feel, and to release — so the charge can finally leave the body.
When we carry old wounds, our fascia, our nervous system, and even our aura hold on tightly. Those unprocessed moments become hooks — places where projections, criticisms, and echoes of the past can still land.
Releasing isn’t about thinking our way through it. It’s about giving our bodies permission to process. The tears, the shaking, the breath, the ache — all of that is part of the release. It may feel stormy, but when the body has metabolized the emotion, something shifts.
What’s left is neutrality. The calm after the storm. A deep clarity where the wound is no longer in charge of our story. From this space, projections no longer stick. Old triggers lose their grip. We step into a balance where presence itself becomes our shield.
This is the paradox of healing: the way to truly let go is to fully let ourselves feel. And when the body finishes its work, we emerge softer, steadier, and freer.
✨ Letting go isn’t forgetting. It’s remembering with enough tenderness that the memory no longer hurts.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
🌗 Polarity, Sacred Yes & Divine No: Finding Balance Through Muscle Testing
Life is full of polarity. Yin and yang. Light and dark. Feminine and masculine. Yes and no.
For a long time, I believed polarity meant opposition — that one side had to be right and the other wrong. But the truth I’ve embodied through fascia, movement, and daily practice is this: polarity is not about judgment. It is about balance.
✨ The Circle of Polarity
Imagine a circle — two sides of the same coin. On one side: yes. On the other: no. When you choose one, you naturally decline the other. This is not rejection. It is alignment.
Every time you say yes, you are saying no to something else. Every time you say no, you are saying yes to what truly matters.
That’s why our yes becomes sacred. Our no becomes divine. Both are doorways into alignment.
💓 Listening to the Heart
But how do you know which side to choose? How do you trust your yes or your no?
This is where the wisdom of the body comes in. Tools like muscle testing are a way to bypass the overthinking mind and listen directly to the fascia, the nervous system, and the heart.
When your body softens and flows, that’s a yes. When it tightens, braces, or feels heavy, that’s a no. Muscle testing is not about logic — it’s about truth, felt in the tissues of your being.
🌊 From Fear to Freedom
I used to say yes to everything out of fear — fear of missing out, fear of disappointing others, fear of losing opportunities. But what I discovered is that every time I forced a yes, I drained myself.
Now, I see every no as a sacred boundary that honors my energy, my mission, and my joy. Every no creates space for the yes that expands me.
Saying no doesn’t close doors. It opens the right ones.
🌟 Embodying Polarity
The dance of polarity is not static. Sometimes the yes becomes a no, sometimes the no becomes a yes. It shifts with the moment. Polarity is alive, and the heart is the compass.
When we trust our fascia, our body, and our intuition, decision-making becomes effortless. Each yes and no becomes an act of devotion — not just to ourselves, but to the greater balance of life.
🔑 Key Takeaway
Your yes is sacred. Your no is divine.
Polarity is not about choosing sides forever — it’s about aligning with truth in each moment. And when you listen to your fascia and your heart, you will always know which way to flow.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
🌊 The Art of Micro-Bending: Flow, Fascia, and the Wisdom of Surrender
We live in a world that constantly tells us to hold it together.
Stand tall. Grip harder. Don’t wobble. Don’t fall.
But what if true stability doesn’t come from bracing — but from softening?
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Learning vs. Responsibility
One of the biggest lessons I’ve been anchoring lately is this: learning is not the same as responsibility.
When we learn, we receive.
When we take responsibility, we carry.
During a recent live, I felt that old impulse to carry the weight of someone else’s expectation. But then I remembered: I don’t have to confuse the two. I can learn from the moment, soften my fascia, and stay in flow — without picking up something that isn’t mine.
This is the micro-bend of life.
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The Dance Teacher’s Wisdom
My friend Jojo, when he teaches heels class — where we dance in high heels, which can be extra challenging — always says:
“Micro-bend your knees!”
When we’re up on heels, the natural reflex is to grip, stiffen, and lock the knees so we don’t wobble. But the truth? Locking actually makes us less stable.
That micro-bend creates flow and balance. It keeps you supple, alive, and supported.
My ballet teacher, Loreli, used to remind me of the same thing with my arms: never to over-extend. In ballet, over-extending the elbows looks strong from the outside, but it cuts off energy. When you micro-bend the elbow instead, not only is the line more beautiful — the energy also flows freely.
This is fascia wisdom in motion: over-extension blocks. Micro-bending opens.
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Over-Extension in Life
We’ve all been taught to over-extend:
• Over-extend your schedule.
• Over-extend your giving.
• Over-extend your responsibilities.
It looks like strength on the outside, but it cuts off flow on the inside.
When we leave space — just a little wiggle room, just a micro-bend — everything shifts. Energy returns. Breath returns. Beauty returns.
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Anchored in Mother Earth
Here’s the deeper truth: you don’t need to hold yourself up at all.
Mother Earth is already holding you.
The more you surrender, the more you remember: you are already anchored, loved, and cared for. Your job is not to brace. Your job is to flow.
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Flow Is the Balance
Life isn’t about avoiding contraction or chasing expansion. Both are natural.
The key is not to get stuck — not to freeze in one mode. Flow is the art of balance, breath by breath, moment by moment.
Just as we soften our knees, our elbows, our fascia — we soften in life. We stop over-extending, and we begin to flow.
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✨ Closing Transmission
We are not designed to hold ourselves up by force.
We are designed to flow, to micro-bend, and to be held by the Earth.
The more we soften, the more beauty, ease, and energy return to us.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
From Performance to Presence
When I first took class with the legendary Tyrone Proctor, he said something that changed my life:
“Everything you do in waacking is performance.”
At that time, those words cracked something open in me. They gave me permission to express bigger, to embody character, to step fully into the stage of movement. That teaching carried me through years of exploration, helping me discover new parts of myself through dance.
But fascia has its own wisdom—and it’s been guiding me to a different truth.
Now, I feel a shift.
A deep one.
I no longer need to perform.
I no longer need to project.
I no longer need to prove.
Nothing has to be performance.
The more I release performance, the more natural my movement becomes. The less I try to “show,” the more undeniable my presence is. Instead of forcing expression, I let my fascia flow. Instead of proving, I allow.
And what’s wild? This feels even more magnetic.
I’ve moved from performance → to presence → to truth.
That’s where my dance lives now.
That’s where my fascia breathes.
That’s where I am enough.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
💧From Storage to Flow: The Power of Floating with Integrity
The Threshold Moment
For so long, many of us have lived like storage units — holding on to emotions, stories, and blockages in our fascia. But the truth is, our fascia is not designed to store. It’s designed to transmit light.
This is a declaration point:
✨ “I graduate from storage into flow. My fascia is a channel of truth.”
Fascia as a Crystal Grid
Our fascia is a multi-layered crystal grid that perceives, refracts, and transmits light.
When it’s congested, the light distorts.
When it’s cleansed and lubricated, light moves through in its purest form.
This is why movement, breath, and fascia release are sacred: they clear the grid so we can perceive truth and navigate life with more flow.
And notice the English word light. It means both illumination and weightlessness. That’s exactly what our fascia is here to embody — transmitting illumination while carrying us with ease.
Floating ≠ Ungrounded
When I say “our job is to float,” I don’t mean drifting without ground or purpose.
Floating here means:
🌊 Feeling everything without judgment
🛡 Protecting your integrity
🌿 Organizing your trust and flow
Floating is surrendering into trust.
It’s knowing you are safe, loved, and guided.
It’s anchoring not in fear or control, but in the deep knowing that your life is meant for joy and your body is a vessel for light.
Floating is not without anchor — the anchor is trust.
A Story of Surrender
A dear friend once jumped off a ferry during a difficult moment. At first, he tried desperately to swim back to the boat — impossible against the tide. When he finally surrendered, he floated. He began to count his blessings. And in that surrender, rescue came.
This is the teaching:
When we struggle, we drown.
When we float, we are carried.
Embody Your True Essence
The invitation is simple yet profound:
💫 Release the weight.
💫 Cleanse your crystal grid.
💫 Float with trust, not fear.
You are safe. You are loved. You are guided. Your essence is undeniable.
🌟 Mantra for Today
“I graduate from storage into flow.
My fascia is a crystal grid of light.
I feel, I protect, I organize.
I float because I trust.
My essence is undeniable.”
Much love,
Ikue Ueno | Dance & Fascia Oracle™ 💃💞
Softening Through Safety: How the Body Finds Its Truth
Once you feel safe, you can soften.
And when you soften… your true self can finally breathe.
So many of us move through life in armor—tense shoulders, tight jaws, braced hips. This armor didn’t appear by accident. It was formed by experiences where we didn’t feel safe to be fully ourselves.
But here’s the truth: we don’t release the armor by force.
We dissolve it with safety, presence, and truth.
Your body doesn’t need fixing. It isn’t broken.
What it longs for is to feel safe enough to be real.
When safety enters, the body begins to unwind on its own. Fascia softens. Breath deepens. The nervous system exhales. This is when true healing happens—not because we pushed for it, but because the body finally felt it could let go.
Softening isn’t weakness. It’s the most powerful kind of strength. It’s the return to who you truly are—unarmored, alive, and real.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞