Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

✨🌈 Pride at the Pier 🌈✨

A beautiful look back at House of La Douche performing at Pride at the Pier as part of North Shore Pride Week!

Jojo Zolina (@joshivamatha) and I (@ikuedancer) had the joy of representing @houseofladouche in the Performance Spotlight at The Shipyards in North Vancouver. After our performance, we opened the space for an all-ages dance and runway session—inviting everyone to move, strut, celebrate, and be fully expressed. 💃🏽🏳️‍🌈✨

A huge thank-you to Gary, director of Pride at the Pier, for welcoming us and creating space for House of La Douche to share our movement, energy, and joy.

Thank you to @northshorepridealliance for creating such a beautiful celebration of Pride, community, diversity, and belonging. ❤️🌈

And thank you to the brilliant Jonathan Lalas (@joanathanlalas) for capturing these moments so beautifully. 📸✨

More memories from this beautiful day are coming soon…

#HouseOfLaDouche #NorthShorePride #PrideAtThePier #VancouverDance #PridePerformance

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1 day ago | [YT] | 1

Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

A throwback appeared today—a love note to the body that I once deeply needed.

But I’m not dragging myself out of bed anymore.
I’m not in the same place.

And on the threshold of this lunar eclipse, I felt called to write a new promise to my body:

Thank you for carrying me through
every hardship,
every betrayal,
every heartbreak,
and every version of myself
I had to become to survive.

Thank you for never abandoning me—
even during the times
I abandoned you.

I know differently now.

I will not leave you
to earn love.

I will not betray you
to belong.

I will not push you
past your truth
to prove that I am enough.

I will listen to you.
I will care for you.
I will honor your timing.

I am allowed to take
one honest step at a time.

I do not need to be perfect.
I only need to be real with myself.

Whatever falls away,
whatever this next chapter reveals,
one thing is certain:

I will never abandon myself again.

I will never abandon my body.

I am here now.
And I am staying. 🌑✨

Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor 💃💞

#APromiseToMyBody #FasciaOracle #EmbodiedHealing #BodyWisdom #LunarEclipse

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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

We are water. 🌊

Historically, we were often taught that the human body was close to 70% water.

Early research placed adult body water anywhere from approximately 63–70%, with some estimates even higher. A direct chemical analysis published in 1945 measured one adult male body at 67.9% water. Lean, fat-free tissue itself is approximately 73% water.

Today, the number most often shown is closer to 50–60%.

Part of this change comes from more precise measurement and a wider range of bodies being studied. Water percentage shifts with age, sex, muscle mass and body fat.

But perhaps there is another layer.

Modern bodies are moving less.
Holding more tension.
Losing lean tissue.
Living under constant compression.
Drinking water without always allowing it to move through us.

Maybe we once held ourselves more like water.

Fascia is a fluid-rich connective-tissue network. Its watery matrix supports sliding, gliding, communication and adaptation throughout the body.

To me, fascia is a bag of memory and fluid.

It remembers how we moved.
How we braced.
How we protected ourselves.
And how naturally we once flowed.

Hydration is not only something we drink.

We breathe.
We sway.
We spiral.
We compress and release.
We rest.
We dance the water back through the tissue.

Your body has not forgotten the current.

You do not have to force the flow.

You are the flow. 🌊💃

Research: Mitchell et al. (1945); Pace & Rathbun (1945); Watson et al. (1980); Schleip et al. (2011); Fede et al. (2021).

#FasciaOracle
#FascialEmbodiment
#MovementIsLiberation
#FasciaFlow
#WeAreWater

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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

Apparently, becoming more yourself is kinda chic too. 💛

Dancing through every era.
Celebrating people exactly as they are.
Remembering where my rhythm came from.
Staying inspired by the next generation.
Making friends wherever I go.
Letting nature bring out my inner child.
Loving the body I live in.

The older I become, the less interested I am in becoming anything other than fully myself.

And honestly? I think that’s kinda chic too. ✨

Which one is your kind of chic?

📸 Slide 1 photo by @joanathanlalas
📸 Slide 2 photo by @jerkonec

Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor 💃💞

#KindaChic
#DanceEmbodiment
#BecomingMoreMyself
#DancerLife
#MovementIsLiberation

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3 days ago | [YT] | 8

Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

Soft. Grounded. Open. Fully here. ✨

Confidence does not always need to be loud.

Sometimes it looks like feeling at home in your own body.
Trusting what you carry.
Knowing who you are.
And allowing yourself to be seen exactly as you are.

This chapter of my life feels less like becoming someone new—and more like fully embodying the woman who has always been here. 💞

Beautifully captured by @jamieponcreative
Photographed at @th3z3nzon3 ✨

Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor 💃💞

#FasciaOracle
#EmbodiedConfidence
#DanceEmbodiment
#VancouverCreative
#WomenWhoLead

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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

Why is tongue release so powerful? 👅✨

Your tongue is not isolated.

It connects through the jaw, hyoid, throat, neck, breath, and fascial relationships that influence your entire postural pattern.

Releasing the tongue may help soften tension through your:

✨ Jaw
✨ Throat
✨ Neck
✨ Breath
✨ Postural pattern

A small release in the tongue can create a whole-body ripple. You may feel your jaw and neck soften, your breath deepen, and the shift travel from your head all the way to your feet.

Release the tongue.
Soften the neck.
Let the whole body reorganize.

👅 Watch the full Tongue + Neck Release on YouTube:

youtube.com/shorts/0gxd0BCVv2...

Give it a try, then stand still and feel what changed in your body. 💞

Join my @humangarage
@fascialmaneuvers Vancouver classes!
Thursdays 7:30 p.m. & Sundays 10 a.m.
341 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada
🇨🇦 — follow @vancouverfascialmaneuvers
www.ikuedancerfasciaoracle.com/human-garage-vancou…

💗 Let’s Move Your Fascia with EQA | Fascia Oracle™
Mondays 4 p.m. PT —
@ikuedancer Instagram

💃 Embody Your True Essence
Weekdays 11 a.m. PT on @ikuedancer IG Live

💞 Want to book your one-on-one session with Ikue?
www.ikuedancerfasciaoracle.com/1-on-1-fascial-embo…

Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor 💃💞

#FasciaOracle
#TongueRelease
#NeckRelease
#FascialEmbodiment
#VancouverFascialManeuvers

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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

I stopped forcing the shift.

I softened—and life moved me.

This moment was captured in Lillooet, BC, during a beautiful journey of teaching, sharing, receiving, and reconnecting with the land.

Sometimes a quantum shift doesn’t arrive as one dramatic moment. Sometimes it happens when we stop overthinking, stop gripping, and allow ourselves to move with what is already opening.

The breakthrough comes when the body no longer has to brace against becoming.

I don’t need to force the next version of myself into existence.

I trust the flow.
I trust my body.
I trust who I am becoming.

More from this beautiful workshop journey is coming soon. 💃💞

@vancouverfascialmaneuvers

#QuantumShift #TrustTheFlow #FasciaOracle #EmbodiedTransformation #LillooetBC

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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

Your body is always speaking.

Not through force.
Not through urgency.
Through sensation, movement, contraction, expansion—and the quiet places asking to soften.

Create space and let your body move.
Soften the places that learned to protect you.
Release what your body no longer needs to carry.

Your body remembers the way home.
Will you trust it to lead you?

Swipe through 💞

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Join my @humangarage
@fascialmaneuvers Vancouver classes!
Thursdays 7:30 p.m. & Sundays 10 a.m.
341 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Mondays 4 p.m. PST —
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IG Live

💞 Want to book your one-on-one session with Ikue?
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Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor 💃💞

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#MovementIsLiberation
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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

Letting go is not giving up.
It is not abandoning what you love.
It is not that you stop caring.

Sometimes, holding on is the very thing that keeps us from receiving what is trying to come toward us.

Letting go does not mean that I stop caring.
Letting go means that I start trusting. 💗

Trusting my body.
Trusting the timing.
Trusting the unfolding.
Trusting that I don’t have to control everything in order for everything to be okay.

The body knows the difference between holding and being held.

So today, soften your grip.
Breathe.
Create space.

You can care deeply without carrying everything.

You can love deeply without controlling the outcome.

You can let go — and trust. 🌊💞

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Join my @humangarage @fascialmaneuvers Vancouver classes!
Thursdays 7:30 p.m. & Sundays 10 a.m.
341 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦
Follow @vancouverfascialmaneuvers
www.ikuedancerfasciaoracle.com/human-garage-vancou…

💗 Let’s Move Your Fascia with EQA | Fascia Oracle™
Mondays 4 p.m. PST — @ikuedancer Instagram

💃 Embody Your True Essence
Weekdays 11 a.m. PST on @ikuedancer IG Live

💞 Want to book your one-on-one session with Ikue?
www.ikuedancerfasciaoracle.com/1-on-1-fascial-embo…

Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor 💃💞

#FasciaOracle
#VancouverFascialManeuvers
#MovementIsLiberation
#FascialEmbodiment
#HumanGarageVancouver

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Ikue | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor

Check out this week’s class recording on YouTube! 💃✨
Next week’s class is canceled as I’ll be out of town.
In the meantime, explore more class recordings on my YouTube and keep moving your fascia with me. 💞
See you back LIVE in two weeks!

✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
✨ TODAY’S CLASS RECORDING IS NOW ON YOUTUBE ✨

Missed today’s Let’s Move Your Fascia with Ikue Live? 💃💞

We moved, softened, released, and recalibrated together through this powerful Lion’s Gate → Total Solar Eclipse energy. 🦁☀️✨

I also shared some of the practices I use in my own personal movement ritual.

✈️ I’ll be out of town next week, so there will be NO LIVE CLASS next Monday.

I’ll see you back here in two weeks! 💞

In the meantime, move with today’s recording whenever your body is ready.

🎥 Watch the full class on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/sUZ5IO40dYw?si=FC0RM...

Keep moving. Keep softening. Keep listening to your body. 💃💞

💞 Join my @humangarage @fascialmaneuvers Vancouver classes!
Thursdays 7:30 p.m. & Sundays 10 a.m.
341 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada
🇨🇦 — follow @vancouverfascialmaneuvers
www.ikuedancefasciaoracle.com/human-garage-vancouv…

💗 Let’s Move Your Fascia with EQA | Fascia Oracle™
Mondays 4 p.m. PT — @ikuedancer Instagram

💃 Embody Your True Essence
Weekdays 11 a.m. PT on @ikuedancer IG Live

💞 Want to book your one-on-one session with Ikue?
www.ikuedancefasciaoracle.com/1-on-1-fascial-embod…

Ikue Ueno | Fascia Oracle™ & Dance Embodiment Mentor 💃💞

#FasciaOracle #VancouverFascialManeuvers #MovementIsLiberation #FascialEmbodiment #HumanGarageVancouver

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