From 1993-2004 Jennifer Johnson held the position of second violin in the Atlantic String Quartet based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. After a playing-related injury in 2004, Jennifer licensed in Body Mapping with founder Barbara Conable. She is now a Sponsoring Teacher and a member of the Training Committee for the Association of Body Mapping Education.

Jennifer is an internationally sought-after Master Teacher in Body Mapping 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 music organizations around the world, including the 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. She was invited to teach Body Mapping at the Starling-Delay Violin Symposium at Juilliard in May 2023.

Jennifer is presently serving as the Lead for Musicians’ Health Research Initiative at Canada’s newly formed Music and Health Research Institute (MHRI).

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 Portuguese and German translations forthcoming. Jennifer is now touring through the U.S., Canada and Europe with her new documentary that delves into the compelling stories of musicians whose whose lives have been profoundly changed by Body Mapping and the wisdom, compassion and vision of Barbara Conable.
It is called Music, Movement & Transformation: The Body Mapping Story and had its World Premiere at the National Opera Center in NYC in the spring of 2025. The documentary has been screened at international film festivals and was awarded the Best Canadian Indie Film for the 2026 seasonal Montreal Women’s Independent Film Festival.