Regulating Your Nervous System Is Coming Home 🏡

What does it really mean to regulate your nervous system?

For me, it’s about coming home—home to your body, home to your truth. It’s feeling safe in your existence, safe in your being. It’s cultivating harmony within yourself, feeling peaceful, and actually feeling comfortable just being who you are.

When you feel safe and peaceful, your nervous system naturally regulates. You breathe easier, your body softens, your mind quiets. You return to yourself.

This is what I do—whether I’m teaching movement, guiding a class, doing hands-on work, or holding space online. I work with the body and spirit to remind you who you are.

You are a powerful being.

It is your birthright to feel safe, to feel protected, to feel guided.

It’s time to remember.

It’s time to come home—back to your body, back to yourself, back to your natural state of ease.

If this resonates with you, move with me. 💫

Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ 💃💞

Carrying vs. Metabolizing Emotion: The Body Knows the Difference

We’ve all been told to let go.

Let go of pain. Let go of fear. Let go of the past.

But the truth is—our bodies don’t just “let go” because someone told us to. The body isn’t a machine that can be rebooted with positive thinking. It’s a living, breathing, sensing archive of everything we’ve lived through.

And often, what we call “holding on” is actually the body saying:

“I’m not ready to release this yet. I haven’t metabolized it.”

🌀 Holding is not the same as Healing

When we carry emotion, it often lives in our fascia as tension, inflammation, fatigue, or even chronic illness. It sits there—undigested. Trapped in time. Waiting.

But when we metabolize emotion, something different happens.

Instead of storing it, the body begins to process it. Like a healthy digestive system, it extracts the truth from the pain, keeps what we need for our growth, and flushes out what we don’t.

This is the body’s version of alchemy.

💠 What Metabolizing Emotion Looks Like:

• Feeling without fear

• Letting the body soften, not brace

• Talking to the pain instead of fighting it

• Breathing into the places we once avoided

• Letting energy move—through tears, sweat, shaking, sound, even gas or skin eruptions

“Hello, pain. I love you. What do you want me to see?”

That’s how you begin.

🌿 The Fascia Doesn’t Lie

Your fascia records everything—every heartbreak, every betrayal, every unspoken truth.

But she isn’t punishing you.

She’s protecting you.

She holds what you weren’t ready to feel—until you are ready.

And when you finally return to those places in your body with love, presence, and patience, something sacred happens:

Your body stops bracing.

Your tissue starts absorbing.

Your nervous system says, I’m safe now.

And the shadow begins to integrate into the light.

🕯️ You’re Not Broken. You’re Healing.

There is nothing wrong with carrying emotion. We all do. But true healing begins when we stop demonizing the pain and start partnering with it.

Because healing isn’t just about “letting go.”

It’s about metabolizing what was never meant to stay stuck.

You don’t need to fix yourself.

You need to feel yourself—fully, honestly, safely.

That’s the portal.

💫 Want to Explore This Work?

Join me, the Fascia Oracle™, every Monday at 4PM PST on Instagram Live for Find Your Flow—where we dive into emotional embodiment through Fascial Maneuvers, movement medicine, and real-time recalibration.

→ Streaming on @ikuedancer and @humangarage IG

Ikue | Fascia Oracle™

🖤 Metabolizing Shadow: The Missing Step in Emotional Alchemy

Most people say: “Feel it. Release it. Alchemize it.”

But that’s not how the body really works.

We don’t just release emotions like steam.

We store them—until we feel safe enough to look, observe, and metabolize.

When we carry shadows unconsciously, they show up as tension, pain, shutdowns, or overreactions. We may think we’re being strong by holding it together—but really, we’re delaying digestion.

True alchemy begins with:

• Regulating the nervous system

• Acknowledging the stored emotion

• Feeling it fully and safely in the body

• Observing without judgment

• Metabolizing it through sensation and surrender

Your body knows what to keep and what to release.

Sometimes it exits as a yawn.

Sometimes it’s a fart, a skin breakout, a hot flash, or a deep cry.

However it leaves, it’s wisdom in motion.

After metabolizing, the shadow doesn’t just go away—it becomes light.

It integrates into your being as embodied wisdom, not a memory to be feared.

💎 This is how we stop looping trauma and start living truth.

Ikue | Fascia Oracle™

The Difference Between Carrying and Digesting Emotion

We often speak about healing, release, and self-awareness—but few of us are taught how to actually move emotions through the body. In this post, I’ll break down a truth I shared in a recent Embody Your True Essence session on Instagram Live: there’s a profound difference between carrying emotion and digesting it.

There’s a difference between carrying emotions in the tissue—trapped, tight, avoided—

versus holding emotions in the heart—felt, safe, and surrendered.

Most of us are walking around with unfelt emotions tucked into our fascia—memories, heartbreak, guilt, grief, self-betrayal.

We say we’ve “let it go,” but the body remembers.

And here’s the truth:

✨ Emotion is just energy in motion.

Like food, it’s meant to be digested, metabolized, and optimized.

But digestion doesn’t happen through force.

It happens through safety, acceptance, and presence.

When we surrender fully to the feeling, without judgment or analysis, the body relaxes and lets the emotion be absorbed.

Only the wisdom remains.

The rest—what no longer serves—flushes out naturally.

Here’s the deeper truth we’re reclaiming now:

✨ Emotion just wants to be digested, metabolized, and alchemized.

When you observe your emotions without resistance—when you feel them without fear—they become medicine.

Even the heaviest emotions can become portals to liberation.

We’re meant to feel.

We’re safe to feel.

And when we do, we set ourselves free.

So your self-actualization?

It’s not about fixing or ascending out of your humanness.

It’s about becoming the one who can digest your truth and embody your frequency.

This is the essence of what we practice each morning inside Embody Your True Essence.

If you’ve been carrying emotional weight you can’t name—come move with us. Come feel with us.

Your body is waiting for safety. Let’s give it that, together.

Join me, Fascia Oracle, Monday through Friday at 11am PST on Instagram Live (@ikuedancer). 💃✨💞

Your Emotions Are Not the Enemy. They’re the Medicine.

At 9° Cancer, we’re invited into one of the most tender initiations of the zodiac:

Acting on what we feel.

But for many of us, feeling has been labeled as too much—too messy, too slow, too unpredictable. So we suppress, manage, intellectualize. We try to “stay strong.” But strength is not the absence of feeling. True strength is meeting your emotion without flinching.

And here’s the truth most of us were never taught:

What we refuse to feel becomes what we’re forced to carry.

Emotion Lives in the Fascia

The body never lies. Unfelt emotion doesn’t just vanish—it finds a home in the fascia. That dense, intelligent web of connective tissue begins to store the stories we haven’t had space or safety to feel.

Over time, those stories become restriction. Tightness. Chronic pain. Emotional overwhelm. Disconnection from self.

But that doesn’t mean we’re broken. It means we’re full—full of unprocessed truth that’s still waiting to be acknowledged.

Resistance = Threat

When we resist an emotion—when we label it bad, scary, inconvenient—our nervous system interprets that emotion as a threat.

And what does the body do when it’s under threat?

It tightens. It holds. It protects.

Suddenly, we’re not just dealing with the original emotion anymore. We’re dealing with a whole body that’s now armored around it.

Feeling Is the Gateway to Freedom

The alchemy begins when we choose a different path.

Instead of running from the emotion, we face it.

We feel it.

We breathe with it.

We move with it.

And when we do, something sacred happens:

The emotion metabolizes.

It moves through the fascia.

It softens the system.

We’re no longer fighting the current—we become it.

And in doing so, we let the wave pass through us.

That’s how the lesson becomes the medicine.

That’s how emotion becomes liberation.

Embodiment Is the Portal

This is why movement is sacred.

Why fascia work is more than therapy—it’s ceremony.

Because your body remembers.

And when you let it feel, it also knows how to heal.

So today, in the energy of 9° Cancer, I leave you with this:

Don’t run from the emotion.

Feel it.

Face it.

Move it.

Metabolize it.

That’s how you transmute pain into power, tension into truth, and story into sacred embodiment.

You are not too much.

You are the medicine you’ve been waiting for.

And your fascia already knows the way.

With love and liberation,

Ikue – Fascia Oracle

The day when I got stung by a bee 🐝

Today, I got stung by a bee.🐝

Right at the center of the bottom of my left foot.

It happened mid-class, while I was teaching @fascialmaneuvers outside—life swirling, sounds everywhere. A sudden sharp pain, a jolt to the system. For a moment, my body tried to protect itself.

Tension. Guarding. That instinctual defense.

But I was teaching. Holding the field. So I stayed present.

I breathed, stayed soft, and removed the stinger gently. I put an essential oil on it. And I continued.

Then later, we moved into the anti-gravity Fascial maneuver. When I did a full squat, I felt the stretch exactly in that spot—the center of my foot where I’d been stung. And in that moment, I felt something shift.

My fascia released.

The sting began to soften. The pain… dissolved.

Like the venom had been seen and the body whispered,

“Thank you. You heard me.”

✨ When I acknowledged and thanked the pain, it dissipated.

I didn’t walk away with wounds.
I walked away with wisdom.


✨ My Divine Feminine got activated.

Everything happens for a reason.

And I trust my fascia.

She speaks to me—and I listen.

Ikue 💃💞

I Feel, Therefore I Flow: Abundance in the Waters of Cancer Season

✨ The more I flow, the better everything falls into place.

✨ The more I relax into feeling, the more magnetic I become.

The Sun is now at 2° Cancer.

This is the Grandmaster degree of “I feel.”

Not weak. Not chaotic.

Powerful. Navigational. Sacred.

In Cancer season, we remember:

🌀 Emotions are not distractions. They are directions.

🌀 Sensitivity is not a flaw. It’s a frequency.

When you feel fully, you no longer chase abundance.

You become the current.

You become the magnet.

You become the truth.

Today, I invite you to slow down.

Not because you’re behind, but because your soul wants to catch up to the moment.

Breathe.

Soften.

Let the water of feeling guide you.

This is how we receive more.

This is how we live in abundance.

Not by force—but by flow.

Let it be felt. Let it be known. Let it be received.

With love,

Ikue

Fascia Oracle | Frequency Holder

🌊🌸💞

Restrictions Are Blessings In Disguise?!

I developed this theory: "Temporary restrictions create contrasts and different pathways to explore and expand our body and our life."

During my facial maneuver training, I learned that when you pin the fascia, it cannot move, while everything else must adapt around it. By pinning the skin, the densest part of the fascia, your body starts to adjust to the new pattern and pressure changes, creating new pathways or variations. As a result, you alleviate tension and restrictions, finding ease and release.

I connected this theory with my freestyle dance training. Although there are countless ways to dance freestyle, dancers sometimes impose rules or conditions, such as "now you can only move your right arm and dance." When given restrictions or conditions, we discover different ways to move, resulting in vast and interesting variations. This is when creativity emerges.

Another example is organizing an event where a headline act is stuck in traffic and cannot arrive on time. You are forced to adapt and consider alternatives, perhaps asking someone to perform last minute, which may create a new opportunity.

My point is that any change, contrast, restriction, challenge, or crisis can create opportunities for exploration and expansion. From this theory, I conclude that temporary restrictions and conditions compel us to adapt and explore new pathways. Change is a constant in life, and a positive attitude involves adapting and trusting that good things will emerge from change. There is nothing to fear because contrasts are actually blessings in disguise!