You learn to listen to your own playing as if someone else is playing. The musical line and the physical movement are never static. Each moves the other as if in a dance. To accomplish the synthesis of all these levels, she has sayings that connect the student to the otherwise abstract concepts that she is trying to convey. So it goes during a lesson.
Imagery is important.
During the lesson, she is standing and moving, and her ears are dancing along with the musical line, always in touch with the physical tone that creates the sound. One morning in Adamant during one of her classes, a student was playing for her while she was across the room. She cannot see well now, but her ears and 6th sense about tone are so sharp, that she could immediately sense that there was a tightness in the right elbow. Upon reflection, the student was startled to realize that that indeed was the case. Move into tone, don t hit.