Resources in the community

Books, music, and supplies

• Shar Music
• Performers Music
• Johnsons String Instrument
• Imslp.com
- Free downloadable music written by composers who have been dead for more than 75 years.

instrument rental and purchase

• Roland Feller Violins; www.rolandfeller.com
• Joan Balter Violin; joanbalter@sbcglobal.net • Ifshins; www.ifshinsviolins.com
• Kamimoto String Instruments
• Stevens Violin Ship
• Scott Cao Violins
• Dolce Violins

Repairs and rehairs
• Erin Schrader Bows
• Anthony Lane Violins

selling instruments in the studio

Sometimes students have lovely instruments to sell and it can be a great win win for for the seller and the purchaser to avoid the dealer in the middle so the students can find something they love at a price the parents love. I am happy to assist and support students in selling their instrument in the studio when instruments are being sold in the same condition for the same price.

Expanded Support

summer music adventures

• Intermountain Suzuki String Institute
• Ithaca Suzuki Institute
• Japan Seattle Suzuki Institute
• Los Angeles Suzuki Institute
• PhoenixPhest Grande
• Chicago Suzuki Institute
• Blue Lake Family Camp

Area youth orchestras

• Young Peoples Chamber Orchestra
• Berkeley Youth Orchestra
• Young Peoples Symphony Orchestra
• Oakland Youth Orchestra
• San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

healing for musicians

• Verena Walper; www.walpermanualosteopathic.com
Osteopathic medicine
• Jared Vanderbeek; www.physiopuncture.com
Acupuncture, Integrative Manual Therapy
• Scott Blossom; www.shunyatayoga.com
Acupuncture, ayurveda, yoga
• Amy Likar; www.amylikar.com
Body Mapping, Alexander Technique
• Webster Orthopedic; www.websterorthopedics.com
Elizabeth Sakaldasis, Hand Therapist

Informational support for parents

Support for Suzuki Parents

Nurtured by Love;  The Classic Approach to Talent Education
by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki
A must read for all parents involving their children and themselves in the Suzuki method.  This book explores the principles and history of Dr. Suzuki’s Talent Education method including his ideas on incorporating the mother tongue into teaching children music and his ideas that all children have the ability to learn and all parents have the ability to help their children develop their children’s ability.

Suzuki changed my life
by Masaaki Honda M.D.
Masaaki Honda M.D. explores Suzuki’s concepts through the eyes of a father and an advocate of the method as he works to share it with his daughters and the world.

Helping Parents Practice; Ideas for Making it Easierby Edmund Sprunger
One of the most helpful and practical guides to practice and being a Suzuki Parent in print.  Edmund Sprunger, both a Suzuki Violin Teacher and a trained psychotherapist and one of the most highly sought out clinicians in the United States, brings a whole child understanding to the process of practice and learning.  While honoring the extensive efforts on the part of parents, Ed has organized his book in such a manor that parents need not read the book from beginning to end.  Instead, the book allows for easy hunting to specific questions and gives parents the tools they need to feel more empowered while enjoying the process.  

Inter Disciplinary Materials On Parenting and Learning

Atomic Habits
by James Clear
James Clear explores research and his own experience to share strategies for building lasting habits that support the things in life we want to accomplish. Clear descriptions and doable strategies make this book accessible and motivational.

Drive; The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink
Daniel Pink brings together research from multiple generations and perspectives to explore how we are motivated and what we can to support the motivation of those around us.  

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
. A standard in parent/child peacemaking and conflict resolution for many years, this book is one of the number one books recommended by teachers around the country to help parents build more productive and peaceful relationships with their children.  Also standard recommended reading material in conflict resolution training programs, this book shares many of the standard principles explored in mediation and business practices.  However, the authors take these principles into the context of the growing child and helps adults understand and honor the feelings and needs of the child while still allowing parents to find ways to honor and express their own feelings.  Faber anad Mazlin also help adults with the skill of reframing conversations to help engage the willing cooperation of the child and maintain goodwill in the midst of setting firm limits.   This book really helps the readers understand how to interpret the actions of children so they may find common ground and avoid conflict or work out of it before it escalates.  Most importantly this book helps everyone involved maintain honor their needs, their self-esteem, and find peaceful solutions.

The Inner Game of Tennis 
by Timothy Gallwey
While the subject of study is Tennis, all the ideas on separating the ego from the process are not only transferable, but hit the nail on the head.  Although the Inner Game of Music is available, The Inner Game of Tennis is the ultimate in how to stay in the moment and in the process, how to eliminate tension, rigidity, and fear, how to keep from being distracted by the subjective and judgmental ego, and ultimately to find a high level of ability for greatness in whatever craft is chosen.  All this, while freeing the mind and relaxing the body.

Kids are worth it!  Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline  
by Barbara Coloroso
Barbara Coloroso helps parents, teachers, and all who work with children explore concrete ideas for developing inner discipline in children while honoring their abilities and needs and finding a balance between the extremes of external discipline or lack there.  Barbara brings readers a faith in the ability of children to learn to self direct activities and problem solve both as an integral part of the family and society and on their own.  The book “focuses on helping kids develop their own self-discipline by owning up to their mistakes, thinking through solutions, and correcting their misdeeds while leaving their dignity intact”.  This is one of the best parenting or educational book I have read in a long time.

Mindset; The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
After her ground breaking research into how the view we hold of ourselves effects our ability to bring faith and effort to learning, Carol Dweck explores her findings and strategies for shifting our mindset to support continued learning.

Nonviolent Communication; A language of Life
by Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.
In his first of many books, Dr. Rosenberg outlines his ideas around building connection with supportive and peaceful communication with others and with one’s self.

Outliers; The story of Success 
by Malcolm Cladwell

Punished by Rewards
by Alfie Kohn

Switch
by by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

The Talent Code; Greatness isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.
by Daniel Coyle

Unconditional Parenting
by Alfie Kohn

Your Child’s Self-Esteem
by Dorothy Corkille Briggs
Recognizing that self-esteem and emotional health are key components of child empowerment Dorothy helps parents find ways to trigger this level of personal growth in their children.  Dorothy helps parents better understand the underlying cause of certain behaviors, how they help children grow, and how parents can better use these behaviors to help them understand their child’s needs.  The book also helps parents find ways to honor children's feelings so the children grow and find ways to honor their own emotions and most importantly, learn to honor themselves.  As the children recognize their strengths they no longer need to resort to distructive behavior to regain lost power or loss of self-esteem.  With these ideas, Dorothy Corkille-Briggs gives parents tools to reinforce their child’s positive behavior and self-esteem and tools on how to communicate so the children know that they are surrounded by an environment of emotional and physical safety with the power they need for discipline, productive behavior, and happiness.