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Noodelation is the massage of the buttocks
accompanied by the practitioner’s chanting
of the prescribed Noodelation vocalization.
Few people contemplate the connection between the buttocks and good health. With built-in comfortable padding, the buttocks functions as the seat of our physical structure. At the base of the spine, this largest muscle in the body houses a mass of nerve endings that reaches to every cell in the body. In Hindu Vedic philosophy, the route to conscious enlightenment begins with the Muladhara Chakra, the first of seven energy centers, framed by the musculus gluteus maximus, the butt, the muscle that enables the human being to stand erect . . .
. . . The Noodelation massage, unusual as it may be, is a genuine physical therapy technique. It has the benefits of all massage therapies, but also the potential to free us from unwanted psychological defenses about a part of the human body so often maligned, derided, and obscured by taboo . . .
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The tiny island nation of Okolewikiono is impossible to locate on most maps of the world, and yet its joyful cultural permissiveness serves as a model of enlightened human interaction . . .
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An apparent lack of jealousy and an open sexuality has probably contributed to an acceptance of touching parts of another’s body without the familiar taboos found in most cultures on the planet. Okole oni’oni, what we have come to call Noodelation, is widely practiced among both children and adults . . .
Okolewikiono Postcard c.1907
. . . Okolewikiono is a pear-shaped volcanic island with a deep water inlet on its southern coast. Rounded steep sloping barren cliffs of an unusual light tan volcanic obsidian on all sides of a prominent double mountain on the island gave Malaspina the impression of encountering a shining bifurcated pearl rising out of the sea . . .
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. . . As the ancient Okolewikiono people have understood for millennia, the humorous acceptance of the diverse appearances and functions of nature frees the mind from a potential fearful or negative association. Living in a tropical paradise does not insure a life of peaceful harmony. From the pain and intense gratification of childbirth, we enter the world with the constant duality of choosing to identify with our fears or our joys, and every reality in between. Noodelation, when performed with a joyful open heart and no ulterior motives, gives us a much needed experience of service combined with fun. The Okolewikiono people say, When the buttocks wiggles, the whole world giggles . . .