Alexander Technique-Eileen Troberman

I heard about the Alexander technique through a friend and had to try it out for some back, and neck pains. Eileen was able to get to the root of my problems and rapidly help ease the tension and guide me through breathing, standing, and walking techniques. I still apply many of her techniques today. If you are open to trying alternative methods then you will definitely find great help from Eileen.

A lesson from Eileen is really a treat. I look forward to every lesson I have with her. She helped me walk and run again after a lower back flair up.

I can’t speak highly enough about Eileen Troberman and her Alexander Technique San Diego center. As a physician with a great deal of expertise in musculoskeletal matters and as a performer, I consider the teachings of Alexander Technique training as something that should be essential to everybody’s basic knowledge of how to go about their activities of daily living. Whether you’re performing in front of an audience or in a cubicle, learning how to move with ease (absence of tension) will improve your skills and comfort. In addition to myself and family members, I’ve referred many patients to Eileen. She is simply amazing and my patients all learn from her. I heartily recommend her!

I was referred to Eileen by my voice teacher (singing) and saw immediate changes in my use of voice in the very first lesson. I continued studying with Eileen and had great improvements over time.
Once I mentioned to her that my right shoulder had been subject to pain whenever I did something as simple as lift a pot of coffee. This pain was from a bicycle accident that happened years earlier. I always assumed the pain was something I would just have to live with. We started working on the ease of movement in the shoulder and related parts of my body. Within a few sessions, I was pain free. It has now been a number of years since those sessions, and I remain completely pain free. What a blessing!

Eileen is an exceptional teacher and I recommend her to anyone looking to find ease of movement in their own body and prevent future pain. As a lifelong dancer and a dance and yoga teacher, I started Alexander Technique to improve my movement and flexibility and after my first lesson with Eileen I knew right away that I had found an incredibly experienced and knowledgeable teacher. Each appointment with Eileen I learn important information about how to move the human body in a healthy and efficient way. Eileen always knows exactly how to best help me on that particular day and with whatever questions/​issues I bring up, so that each appointment with her is unique and fits my needs. Since I have started lessons with Eileen, my whole body movement and feeling has improved, I have less pain and more mobility in all of my joints, I have learned how to breath correctly and correct the root of many of my movement problems beginning with my own thought patterns about movement. Eileen is an incredibly calming, insightful, and caring teacher as well, I can’t recommend her enough!

Eileen is a wonderful practitioner: one who listens and is compassionate. Moreover, she is highly intelligent and has an extensive background in the musculo-​skeletal system.
I am not a musician but I do have some lower back and upper neck aches and pains — getting on in years. I tend to sit at the computer too long.
I work out at the gym and I tried massages, but the effects were never lasting, while Eileen’s table work and postural guidance help me feel better every day.
After spending 15 – 20 minutes with you, Eileen starts to understand how your particular situation has evolved (usually over many years). She also works with young people! She is amazing.
Everyone with pain should at least try the Alexander technique once; if there is no improvement, it’s a small investment.

I started taking Alexander Technique lessons from Eileen when my wrists were hurting from playing electric bass and piano. I was a little skeptical at first because Alexander Technique sounded so «new-​age-​y» and Eileen wasn’t a musician, but decided to give it a try when I learned that a good friend of mine lost his severe tendonitis after about a month of weekly lessons.
My first experience with Eileen was memorable and surreal. After telling her I was having pain from playing music, she asked me to sit at the piano. Before I could play anything, she started to adjust my posture on the piano bench and was teaching me how to sit. She then noticed some strain in my breathing and started teaching me how to breathe. It was a bizarre experience. I, a grown man, was being taught how to sit and how to breathe. I must have played 5 notes in the hour lesson, but I could already tell there was a lightness about my joints that I hadn’t had since I was a kid.
As I attended more and more lessons, I realized that I could maintain all «normal» activities (like walking, sitting, breathing, etc) indefinitely with no strain at all. Gradually, my wrists stopped hurting and I was able to practice for long hours without much physical effort. In my opinion, Alexander technique ended up being one of the most important, if not the most important decision I’ve made to help my body. I ended up continuing my lessons for about a year before I stopped because I moved away from the area.
The best part about my experience with Alexander technique is that after I stopped lessons, I still retained a good amount of the skills and habits. Anytime I do feel strain, I simply remember some of Eileen’s pointers, adjust myself and go about my day. I highly recommend Eileen to anyone experiencing any sort of pain with their day-​to-​day activities since she knows exactly how to help you in more ways than you may know.

I can’t believe that no one has written a review for Eileen Troberman yet! Wow that is really weird because in San Diego a LOT of the local performers see Eileen to work on their performances. I am a vocalist and singing instructor and Eileen is the Alexander Technique instructor that I use for myself and my students in the San Diego area (I also teach in San Francisco and you will see my other review of the AT instructor up there — both are top notch or I wouldn’t use them myself or refer my students to them).
Eileen has worked with a number of my students and the results are really great — I try to get them all to go to Eileen (the SD ones anyway) and when they do it really helps them progress in the voice lessons very fast cause we can work on actual singing technique instead of posture — it really does make a difference in the sound for singers and public speakers. I should also probably mention that Cirque de Soliel in Vegas recruited her to handle their performers for one of their ongoing shows and they fly her out there to work with them so we are talking about a person who industry people know is really at the top of her field.
Another area that I know Eileen works in is Golf people and instrumentalists. I understand she gives master-​classes and does just as great with these people as she does with us vocalists. In San Diego, I ALWAYS recommend Eileen for my students, other singers, and anyone that I meet who has a physical problem that is causing them pain or discomfort. She’s awesome!