I had no idea what to expect from last night's Meet the Perrys get-together at Regent's College. I went to see what I could learn, and I wasn't disappointed.

The introductory talk was a little long, or perhaps just more hypnotic than I realized consciously, and I found myself zoning out a bit, but when they got on to Moshe Feldenkrais I perked right up. My knowledge of his work was very slight indeed. I found their description of it utterly fascinating, and fascination is, in my experience, a great state for learning.

I fell back into disappointment when they announced they wanted to work on fingers. Fingers! I'd hoped to take more away than working on fingers. You might imagine that feeling quickly dissipated when I began to understand more about what was happening in Beverley's nervous system as they worked on the fingers of one hand. The larger picture could scarcely have been revealed more dramatically to my rather limited thinking on the subject as that whole side of Beverley's body began to change. From eight or ten feet away I could clearly see the difference between one side of her face and another, like looking at halves of two different people as her nervous system chunked up the new information Ron was inputting at the far end.

The practical exercise later was likewise dramatic; I could feel an amazing difference between the hand Jenny worked on and the other one, diminishing as the information worked its way through my body, and a few minutes after they resumed speaking at the front of the room, my head and neck did this sort of shifting thing and settled into a new position. My whole upper body took on new relationships, and I felt like perhaps I'd only just felt what true relaxation must be like.

Thanks to Chris for arranging this, and to everyone who showed up and helped make the evening the treat it was, and especially to the Perrys for extending my understanding and giving me a fantastic new tool or six, and for making it all so very easy to understand.

And thanks to Vince for appropritate humor, and to Pizza Express for the hurricane.