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 🐝
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 💃💞
You Don’t Belong Because You’re Accepted—You Belong Because Your Frequency Matches Truth
Today’s New Moon in Cancer at 4° is one of those quiet yet profound moments in the frequency field.
Cancer holds the codes of emotional safety, intuition, and sacred softness. She doesn’t shout—she whispers. She doesn’t force—she nourishes. And in that nourishment, she activates a power so steady it can’t be shaken.
But what makes this New Moon especially significant is its degree:
4°—a number that resonates deeply with the frequency of Aquarius.
Aquarius is the innovator, the cosmic frequency holder, the soul who doesn’t chase belonging—because they are the belonging.
Aquarius doesn’t conform to tribe—they call the tribe in through resonance.
So when the watery womb of Cancer meets the electric pulse of Aquarian 4°, we receive a transmission that sounds like this:
“You don’t belong because others choose you.
You belong because you chose yourself.
You belong because your vibration matches truth.”
In this energy, abundance is not external.
It’s not something you reach for, strive for, or try to prove you’re worthy of.
Abundance is what pours in when your inner home is calibrated.
When your fascia softens, your body relaxes, and your emotional field becomes coherent with love, not survival.
🌊 Embodied Abundance Practice for This Moon:
Place your hand on your heart. Feel your own rhythm.
Whisper: “I am already home.”
Ask your body what part of you has been hiding—like the head under the bed.
Breathe that part out of hiding. Invite it into the light.
Move slowly. Feel deeply. Remember: Emotions are magnetic. Let them guide your wealth.
Let this moon be the moment you stop trying to fit in—and instead, stand in the frequency of who you truly are.
Because the more at home you are in your being,
the more your life becomes a mirror of real, radiant abundance.
Much love,
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
🌊🌸💞
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!
I guide reconnection.
Through movement, fascia, and frequency, I help people of all ages remember how to move freely—with joy, love, and compassion.
Whether through classes, private sessions, or subtle touch,
my work invites your body to release, reset, and return—
to who you are beneath the tension.
No performance.
No pressure.
Just presence.
This is more than a method.
It’s a reclamation of your body’s wisdom.
Let’s move together.
Let’s remember.
Let’s come home.