Introduction to Body mapping

Jennifer Johnson played as second violin of the Atlantic String Quartet and principal second violinist of the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra from 1993-2004. After a playing-related injury in 2004, Jennifer studied the Alexander Technique and trained and licensed in Body Mapping with founder Barbara Conable. She is now a designated Teacher Trainer (Sponsoring Teacher) for the Association for Body Mapping Education.

Jennifer is an internationally sought-after Master Teacher and is renowned for her expertise in helping musicians to move according to the design of their bodies to address and prevent playing injuries. She has been on faculty of the New York Philharmonic’s Zarin Mehta Program and has presented Body Mapping workshops to orchestras and festivals, conferences and music schools around the world, in-cluding the The Juilliard School of Music, The Finnish National Opera and The Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival. She was a keynote speaker at the Australian Strings’ Association 2015 Conference.  Jennifer was the featured guest of Juilliard’s Noa Kageyama on the Bulletproof Musician podcast in October 2019 and of Renée-Paule Gauthier’s Mind Over Finger podcast in the fall of 2022. Jennifer maintains an active private violin studio in St. John’s, NL and continues to perform regularly. Jennifer is presently serving on the steering committee of the newly formed Music and Health Re-search Institute (MHRI) based at the University of Ottawa.

Jennifer has written three books on Body Mapping: What Every Violinist Needs to Know about the Body; Teaching Body Mapping to Children and Musician, Heal Thyself: Free Your Shoulder Region through Body Mapping. Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese with Por-tuguese and German translations forthcoming.  She is presently working on a documentary about Body Mapping and its founder Barbara Conable.