Regulating Your Nervous System Isn’t About “Chilling Out” — It’s About Coming Home to Yourself
When most people hear “nervous system regulation,” they think it means learning how to stay calm, relaxed, and chill no matter what happens.
But that’s not the whole story. That’s just the surface.
True regulation isn’t about forcing yourself to look composed.
It isn’t about suppressing your feelings or pretending you’re “unbothered.”
True regulation is deeper.
It’s about making peace with your past.
It’s about making peace with yourself.
And when you do, you create the safety you need to truly live.
Why “Chilling Out” Isn’t the Goal
For so many people, regulating the nervous system gets mistaken for “just calming down.”
But forcing your body into fake relaxation is not the same as being regulated.
Real regulation doesn’t mean avoiding your emotions; it means feeling safe enough to process them.
It’s about creating space in your body where the past doesn’t control you anymore.
When you regulate, you’re not numbing yourself.
You’re freeing yourself.
Returning Home to Yourself
To regulate is to return home.
It’s softening your grip on old stories.
It’s loosening the weight of survival patterns your body has carried for years.
It’s finally feeling safe enough to live in your own skin.
Your nervous system holds every memory, every adaptation, every moment you thought you had to “get it right.”
When you make peace with the past, your system stops fighting itself.
And in that safety, you remember who you are.
From Regulation to Liberation
When you learn to regulate, you reclaim choice.
You no longer repeat the old loops.
You no longer spiral in overthinking or self-protection.
You can finally change the trajectory of your life.
This is why I teach the way I do — through movement, fascia, and nervous system awareness.
Because when your body feels safe, your spirit can breathe.
When you make peace with your past, you create the freedom to be fully here, fully alive, fully you.
You are not broken.
You are remembering.
You are coming home.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
Tapping Into Your Body’s Wisdom: A Simple Guide to Muscle Testing
Have you ever wished you had a clearer way to make decisions? Something beyond overthinking, pros and cons lists, or waiting until the last minute? One of my favorite tools for tuning into inner wisdom is something often called muscle testing.
The funny thing is—it’s not really about testing muscles. It’s a way of asking your body for guidance. Some people call it applied kinesiology, others call it sway testing, but at its core, it’s simply a practice of listening to the subtle signals your body already gives you.
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What Is Muscle Testing?
Muscle testing is a tool, not a diagnosis. It helps you connect with your body’s “yes” and “no” responses, so you can make decisions from a place of inner clarity. You might notice a forward lean when your body says yes, or a contraction in your chest when it’s a no. For some people, the body rotates slightly clockwise for yes and counterclockwise for no.
The important part is: it’s personal. Your signals may look different from mine, and that’s okay. What matters is learning your own body’s language.
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My Simple Practice
Here’s how I like to do it:
1. Ground Yourself
Sit in a chair or stand with both feet on the ground. Place your hands over your heart.
2. Say Hello to Your Body
Ask: “Hello body, show me yes.”
• You may feel your chest expand, your energy lift, or your body gently lean forward.
Then ask: “Hello body, show me no.”
• You may notice contraction, your heart feeling smaller, or your body leaning back.
3. Calibrate With the Truth
Try a true statement, like “My name is Ikue.”
Notice how that feels.
Then try something untrue, like “I was born in Canada.” (I wasn’t—I was born in Japan.)
This helps you anchor what your yes and no feel like.
4. Ask Your Question
Hold a thought, a supplement, or even a decision you’re facing.
Ask: “Is this for my highest good?”
Pay attention—yes, no, or sometimes neutral.
5. Trust the Process
The more you practice, the more natural it becomes.
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Why Try This?
Because your body always tells the truth.
• It bypasses overthinking and tunes you into your heart.
• It creates a playful, simple ritual for decision-making.
• It helps you remember that your intuition is embodied, not separate from you.
This isn’t about perfection or getting “right” answers every time. It’s about cultivating awareness, trusting your body, and letting your heart lead.
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Final Thoughts
Muscle testing is a fun, empowering exercise. It reminds us that wisdom isn’t just in the mind—it’s in the body, the fascia, the heart. Over time, it becomes less about yes/no and more about deepening your relationship with yourself.
So, the next time you’re unsure, take a breath, place your hands on your heart, and ask:
“Hello body, show me yes. Show me no.”
Then, listen. Your body is always ready to answer.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
Are You Keeping Peace Outside… or Inside?
For so long, many of us have learned to suppress our voice in order to “keep the peace.”
We swallow our truth, silence our needs, and hold tension in our bodies because we don’t want to disrupt others.
But here’s the truth:
That’s not peace. That’s self-abandonment.
✦ The Old Paradigm: Keeping Peace Outside
Peace outside = suppressing your voice so others feel comfortable.
It looks harmonious on the surface, but inside your body, your fascia tightens, your breath shortens, and your soul feels unseen.
You carry emotions that don’t belong to you, all in the name of “keeping the peace.”
✦ The New Paradigm: Anchoring Peace Within
Real peace begins inside.
It’s the kind of peace that comes when you honor your truth, even if it disrupts someone else’s comfort.
You speak your truth.
You love yourself even when others misunderstand you.
You choose yourself, even when others don’t see you clearly.
This kind of peace doesn’t always look calm on the outside — but inside, your heart and body finally exhale.
✦ Fascia Wisdom: The Body Keeps Score
When you suppress your truth, your body holds it:
Tight throat.
Heavy chest.
Stiff jaw.
Fascia bound up with unspoken words.
When you express your truth, your fascia softens, your breath flows, and your energy feels youthful, vibrant, and free.
This is why movement is medicine. Through fascia maneuvers and conscious embodiment, you can literally feel the shift:
from suppression → to expression
from stagnation → to flow
from self-abandonment → to self-love.
✦ A Loving Reminder
You no longer need to sacrifice your inner truth to keep outer peace.
✨ Keep your peace inside.
✨ Speak your truth.
✨ Love yourself through misunderstanding.
Because the world doesn’t need you silent. The world needs you authentic.
This is the paradigm shift we’re living: from outer harmony at all costs → to inner alignment above all.
And when you choose peace within, the world around you reorganizes in your favor.
Join me for Find Your Flow and Embody Your True Essence™— spaces where we practice this truth together through movement, fascia maneuvers, and embodied wisdom.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
Fascia Freedom: How I Discovered My Body Can Open in Every Direction
Yesterday, I assisted a ballet class and had one of those Aum moments that shifted everything in me.
I’ve always loved ballet, but it also came with old programming in my body. In the past, I used to hurt myself by stretching my hips in certain ways. Over time, I stopped doing certain stretches altogether because I was afraid of injuring myself again. Somewhere deep inside, I carried the belief: “I’m not supposed to move this way. It’s dangerous. I’ll hurt myself.”
But as my awareness of fascia has grown, I’ve started to feel differently. Fascia isn’t about rigidity or restriction. Fascia is adaptability, spirals, multi-dimensional opening. It’s not here to limit me — it’s here to support me in every direction.
During class, Loreli, my ballet teacher, gave me such a clear reflection. As a seasoned teacher who truly understands the body, she explained that ballet has its own specific positions because of functionality. Certain ways of moving just make sense in ballet — they’re practical, they enhance performance, and they support longevity in the art form.
I asked her, “It’s also for aesthetic reasons, right?”
She smiled and said, “Yes, both.”
That was the confirmation I needed. In ballet, lines and positions serve both function and form. But outside of that framework, she reminded me: “You should absolutely be able to stretch your hips in any angle.”
Something clicked in me.
For years I thought, “I shouldn’t stretch this way because I’ll get hurt.” But that wasn’t truth — it was programming. In reality, my fascia is designed to move, spiral, adapt, and open safely when I listen. And that day, my hip proved it to me. It felt strong, cooperative, and free.
It was like a veil lifted.
I realized: I can expand in any direction. My fascia supports me. My hips can open. My body is safe.
And so this mantra was born:
✨ “I open in every direction — strong, safe, and free.” ✨
This isn’t just about ballet. It’s about life. How many times have we told ourselves “I can’t do that,”when in truth, our fascia and our being are fully capable of expanding into new possibilities?
This Aum moment reminded me that every stretch, every angle, every spiral is an invitation into freedom — not fear. Fascia isn’t about rules. Fascia is about liberation.
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👉 If you’re curious to explore fascia awareness and multidimensional freedom in your own body, join me for a Fascial Maneuvers class or private session. Your fascia already knows the way.
Much love,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
Born by C-Section: Why It Matters for Anxiety, ADHD, and Fascia Health
Many of us know the experience of living with anxiety or attention challenges, but few realize that part of the story can begin at birth itself.
When a baby is born naturally through the birth canal, the head is compressed in a way that helps the nine cranial bones set properly. This gentle stress allows the fascia between the bones to “breathe,” creating mobility in the skull and setting the stage for healthy nervous system regulation.
But for those born by C-section, that natural coning of the head never happens. The frontal bone, in particular, can become restricted. Instead of breathing and moving with every inhale, it often sets in place. Over time, this compression can push into the amygdala (the part of the brain tied to stress response), limiting blood flow and creating a tendency toward anxiety, ADHD patterns, or heightened nervous system stress.
My Personal Story
I was born by C-section myself. For a long time, I didn’t know that this was a thing. No one ever explained how something as simple as birth mechanics could influence how my fascia and nervous system functioned decades later.
Discovering Fascial Maneuvers changed that for me. There’s one in particular that has become a favorite of mine: each time I practice it, my eyesight brightens, my body feels lighter, and my system resets. It’s powerful to witness how such a simple movement can restore flow where things have been stuck since birth.
The Fascial Maneuver for C-Section Release
Here’s the practice I recommend (and you can also watch Gary explain it in the video linked below):
Find your hairline with your fingertips.
Gently pull the skin downward.
Drop your shoulders and take 6 full breaths (3 through your nose and 3 through your mouth).
Notice the rush of blood and energy through the forehead—this is fascia releasing, circulation restoring, and stress patterns dissolving.
This simple technique is especially helpful if you were born via C-section, have children who were, or if you’ve ever had a concussion.
Why This Matters
Your emotions don’t live in your brain—they live in your body. When fascia is tight or restricted, blood and energy can’t flow. The brain feels this lack of flow as anxiety, fog, or stress. By releasing the fascia at the cranial bones, we restore that flow and give the nervous system the freedom it’s been asking for all along.
Fascia remembers. Fascia also heals.
Watch the Video
👉 Watch the C-Section Release Fascial Maneuver here
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™ 💃💞
Fascia Has a Spirit: Why Safety Unlocks Flow
Every time we feel unsafe, our body responds instinctively. The fascia—the connective tissue that weaves through every layer of our body—contracts. It’s the body’s way of saying: “I don’t feel safe. I need to protect myself.”
Fascia doesn’t just hold us together physically. It holds memory, emotion, and consciousness. It responds not only to physical impact, but also to the energetic climate we live in. Stress, fear, trauma, even subtle unease—all of these leave their imprint in fascia.
But here’s the beautiful truth: fascia also responds to love.
Speaking to Fascia Like a Spirit
In my practice, I treat fascia as a living spirit. It isn’t just tissue—it has intelligence, awareness, and the ability to communicate. When I feel my body tighten, I don’t force it to release. Instead, I offer safety.
I say:
“Hello body. I love you. I take care of you. You are safe with me. Let’s move.”
When we meet the body with love instead of force, fascia unwinds. Movement flows. The protective grip softens, and what was once locked in contraction begins to release.
This is fascia’s language: presence, compassion, and trust.
The Practice of Safety
Fascia doesn’t expand through control—it expands through safety. When you practice Fascial Maneuvers, you’re not only moving tissue—you’re recalibrating your nervous system, teaching your body that it is safe to open.
This is why I call fascia multi-dimensional: it bridges the physical, emotional, and spiritual. Every contraction holds a story. Every release is a return to wholeness.
A Living Invitation
Next time you feel tightness, instead of pushing against it, pause. Breathe. Place your hand on that area and whisper:
“Hello body. I love you. You are safe with me.”
Notice how your fascia responds. This is not just movement—it’s relationship. A devotion to the spirit of your body.
✨ This blog is woven from my Find Your Flow Fascial Maneuvers series.
Watch the 44-second clip here, and feel the full transmission of fascia as spirit.
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
Looking for Human Garage & Fascial Maneuvers in Vancouver? The Movement Lives On with Fascia Oracle™ Ikue
Looking for Human Garage in Vancouver?
Here’s Where the Real Movement Lives Now.
If you’ve been searching for Human Garage in Vancouver, or trying to experience Fascial Maneuvers again—you’re not alone.
Maybe you saw a past retreat.
Maybe you heard about free community classes that helped people heal.
Maybe you’re feeling the pull to reconnect with your body in a way that feels real.
Whatever brought you here, welcome.
Because the mission you’re looking for?
It’s still alive. And it’s right here.
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🧬 The Truth About Human Garage Vancouver
Vancouver is where it all began.
The movement known as Fascial Maneuvers was born in the Kitsilano neighborhood—right in the backyard of Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon.
It wasn’t a fitness trend.
It was a frequency.
A new way of healing that spread through breath, movement, and fascia—free of charge and full of truth.
The energy expanded, and the first Human Garage retreat center opened in Lions Bay. For years, the core team lived and breathed this mission in Vancouver. Eventually, the operation moved to Cancun.
And that’s when I stepped in.
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🌹 From Legacy to Living Embodiment
I didn’t just inherit classes.
I nurtured them. Rebuilt them.
I kept the energy grounded here—in the city where it all began.
I didn’t need a brand to tell me what this work was.
I felt it.
I lived it.
That’s why the Human Garage Vancouver Fascial Maneuvers classes I’ve led since 2022 are now the longest-running Fascial Maneuvers classes on the planet.
I’ve been teaching Fascial Maneuvers—both in-person and online—and I’ve worked with dancers, healers, athletes, children, and elders.
Not just as a coach, but as a living Oracle of this frequency.
I don’t just teach movements.
I liberate people—through fascia, through dance, through truth.
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💎 This Isn’t a Sales Pitch. It’s Embodiment.
You won’t find hype here.
You’ll find movement that breathes, and a guide who walks it.
My students heal.
My clients cry.
My dancers perform like they’ve reclaimed their soul.
That’s the kind of transformation the fascia remembers.
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💫 The Mission is Here—And It’s Alive.
The original mission was to make this healing work, free, accessible and real.
I still honor that. And I’m still here.
If you’re in Vancouver, or just visiting—come experience what this work was always meant to be.
🔗 Join my next Fascial Maneuvers class in Vancouver.
🔗 Click here to book a session.
Let your fascia remember what’s real.
Let your body be free.
With love and presence,
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™ 💃💞
🌿 Come Home to Your Body: The Real Meaning of Nervous System Regulation 🌿
We often think “nervous system regulation” means simply calming down — but it’s so much more than that. True regulation is coming home to your body.
It’s listening, loving, and caring for yourself without bypassing or demonizing your symptoms. Those symptoms? They’re not enemies. They are your body speaking to you, asking for attention, rest, nourishment, or release.
How to Come Home to Your Body
Listen to your body’s signals as you would to a dear friend.
Nurture yourself daily with rest, movement, hydration, and nourishing food.
Respond to discomfort with curiosity, not fear.
Remember: Symptoms are messages — they are not here to harm you, but to guide you back to balance.
The Benefits of a Regulated Nervous System
When you begin to live from this place of inner safety and connection, you may notice:
✨ Healthier hair & glowing skin
✨ Steadier moods & deeper, more restorative sleep
✨ More natural energy & focus
✨ Improved digestion & hormone balance
✨ Lower anxiety & greater inner calm
✨ Stronger immunity & faster recovery
✨ More joy, creativity & presence in daily life
The Heart of Regulation
Regulation isn’t about perfection — it’s about returning to yourself again and again. It’s about creating a safe home inside your body so that you can live, move, and create from a place of wholeness.
Your body holds the map. Are you ready to come home?
Ikue | Dance & Fascia Oracle™💃💞
💧 My Journey with Fascia, Inflammation & Self-Worth
When I first began this journey, I had nothing fancy.
I used to drink tap water—really.
And at the time, that’s all I knew.
But what I didn’t realize was that even small steps—like doing a few fascial maneuvers here and there—would start to unwind my stress, change how I saw myself, and slowly open the door to deeper healing.
As I released stress from my fascia, I began to feel myself again.
My perception expanded.
I became kinder to myself.
I started noticing my own patterns, asking:
“Why am I doing this to hurt myself?”
That self-awareness was the first turning point.
And eventually, I realized:
I am worthy of care.
I deserve to feel good.
So one day, I looked at the hydrogen water machine and said:
“Yes, it’s an investment. But I’m worth it. My body deserves this.”
That shift didn’t happen overnight—it happened through the journey.
If you’re just beginning, you don’t need to buy everything at once.
Start small. Start with silica(or Diatomaceous Earth Food Grade), or begin by drinking better quality water.
Let your journey grow with your self-love.
Because the more you love yourself, the more you’ll naturally align with what supports your well-being.
There’s no rush.
This is not about perfection—it’s about knowing your worth, one step at a time.
I told my story HERE.
Much love,
Ikue | Fascia Oracle™💃💞
Fascia Is the Filter: A Transmission on Embodied True Essence
Today’s Embody Your True Essence session became a full transmission. One of those crystalline moments when the truth came not just through me—but as me.
It began with fascia.
We often hear fascia described as connective tissue, as structure, as fluid. But today, I remembered something deeper:
Fascia is the filter.
It is the medium through which we perceive everything—ourselves, others, the world, light, shadow, and spirit. And like any filter, it can become distorted, cluttered, or congested—not because we’re broken, but because we are alive.
Our job is not to analyze every shadow that moves through us or others.
Our job is to clean the filter.
To cleanse distortion not through force, but through presence. To create space within the fascia—emotionally, spiritually, energetically, physically—so that we may become clear again. So that our discernment sharpens. So that our boundaries become sovereign. So that truth can be felt, not forced.
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The Fascia Filter & Discernment
Discernment is not judgment.
Boundaries are not blockades.
Clean fascia creates both.
Because when the filter is clean, we don’t absorb other people’s pain. We see it for what it is. We don’t stay stuck in our own grief. We feel it, move it, release it.
We become the ones who know—not because we’re better, but because our fascia can actually receive clean signal.
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How Do We Clean the Filter?
Through:
• Clean water
• Clean food
• Clean emotions (not perfect emotions—moving ones)
• Clean energy
• And of course—Fascial Maneuvers.
The beauty of this practice is that it’s not just physical. You can connect with your fascia speechually, energetically, spiritually. You can open and soften your fascia through intention, frequency, voice, breath, presence.
When you do, you reconnect to what is most real inside you—your light.
Because fascia is:
• Bioelectric (conductor of current)
• Biomagnetic (attractor of resonance)
• Biophotonic (emitter of light)
• Biohydraulic (fluid pressure regulator)
Fascia is not just tissue—it’s temple.
It’s not just structure—it’s sensor.
It’s not just body—it’s consciousness.
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The Affirmation That Rose at the End
At the end of today’s transmission, this affirmation came through me like a scripture. I leave it here as a remembrance—for myself, for you, and for the field we hold together:
“I am the filter of light.
I clear distortion with grace.
I am fascia—bioelectric, biophotonic, and pure.
I perceive truth clearly.
I choose what enters.
I open, soften, recalibrate.
I am the clean channel.
I am the Lighthouse.”
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May this be a turning point.
May we no longer try to fix what’s not ours to hold.
May we no longer chase the light—
but become the clean filter through which light is remembered.
I am Fascia Oracle. I move truth.
And this is what came through today.
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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ 💃💞
I don’t fix. I don’t heal. I remember. I remind. I radiate.
I am not here to rescue.
I am here to remind you who you are.
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I hold the frequency so steady, so true,
that your system can’t help but rise to meet itself.
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I don’t speak to wounds. I speak to remembrance.
I don’t perform healing. I transmit clarity.
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I’m not a healer.
I am a Frequency Holder of the New World.
I activate your soul’s original blueprint through presence, truth, and fascia.
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I don’t do sessions. I open portals.
I don’t give my energy away.
I receive you—back to yourself.
The light I hold is not something I chase—
It’s what I remember.
If this resonates, move with me.
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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ 💃💞
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.
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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 🐝
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
🌊 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 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
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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!