Ms. Oosterbaan works with individual clients in learning basic principles of the Alexander Technique: primary control,awareness, inhibition, and direction.
She works with clients to understand how these concepts apply to balance and coordination of their bodies. Once the students have grasped the Alexander concepts and embodied them, they learn how to apply the principles to different activities.
Following the step by step process outlined by Alexander, Ms. Oosterbaan shows the students how to change their own patterns of behavior to approach new activities with more poise, freedom, and ease.
Based on the Carrington Tradition, a typical lesson involves hands - on work from Ms. Oosterbaan. She also integrates chair work and table work in the lesson.
Ms. Oosterbaan integrates principles of standard violin pedagogy with the Alexander Technique for her individual violin students.
These lessons are for students returning to performing and/or working after an injury. They include Alexander Technique work and specific application to the student's musical instrument or profession. Ms. Oosterbaan works with each person and tailors a program of returning to play after injury in a systematic manner.
Based on working with several students with tendinitis, Ms. Oosterbaan outlines a detailed approach of returning to full performance ability and of maintaining this ease in their playing so that the problems do not return.
