Association for Body Mapping Education upcoming events

What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body (07 Nov 2026)

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:30:00 GMT

What Every Musician Needs to Know

about the Body

with Jennifer Johnson

Open to ABME Members and Non-Members

November 7th and 8th, 2026

10:30 am - 2:00 pm Eastern Time

(Two 3.5 hour sessions)

ABME Members: $150. Non-Members: $200

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Section One: An Introduction to Body Mapping: Learn about how the way you think about your body changes your movement.

Section Two: Balance: Understand our six places of balance to find freedom and dynamic buoyancy in movement.

Section Three: Legs: Move with a greater understanding of weight delivery.

Section Four: Arms: Map the whole arm and its relationship to the torso.

Section Five: Breathing: Accurately map breathing structures for better breathing.

Section Six: Body Mapping Masterclass: How to cooperate actively with your anatomy, in macro and micro movement while singing or playing your instrument.

About the instructor

Jennifer Johnson

What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body (08 Nov 2026)

Sun, 08 Nov 2026 15:30:00 GMT

What Every Musician Needs to Know

about the Body

with Jennifer Johnson

Open to ABME Members and Non-Members

November 7th and 8th, 2026

10:30 am - 2:00 pm Eastern Time

(Two 3.5 hour sessions)

ABME Members: $150. Non-Members: $200

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Section One: An Introduction to Body Mapping: Learn about how the way you think about your body changes your movement.

Section Two: Balance: Understand our six places of balance to find freedom and dynamic buoyancy in movement.

Section Three: Legs: Move with a greater understanding of weight delivery.

Section Four: Arms: Map the whole arm and its relationship to the torso.

Section Five: Breathing: Accurately map breathing structures for better breathing.

Section Six: Body Mapping Masterclass: How to cooperate actively with your anatomy, in macro and micro movement while singing or playing your instrument.

About the instructor

Jennifer Johnson

Webinar: How Body Mapping Changes Musicians' Brains: Results from MHRI Musicians' Health Research (15 Nov 2026)

Sun, 15 Nov 2026 19:00:00 GMT

How Body Mapping Changes Musicians' Brains: Results from MHRI Musicians' Health Research

with Jennifer Johnson, Dr. Andra Smith, and Dr. Angela Boland

November 15thh, 2026; 2:00-4:00 PM EST

Free for ABME Members

Non-member fee: $10.00

The non-member fee may be applied to the annual affiliate membership cost!

Using the fMRI scanner available to us through the MHRI, our research team scanned professional musicians' brains both pre-Body Mapping intervention and post-Body Mapping intervention. The "intervention" was a 7-hour WEM course with a heavy emphasis on Inclusive Attention and how it effects change in a musician's experience of performance anxiety. Join us on November 15th to see the exciting results of this 2026 research!

About Jennifer: Jennifer, former violinist of the Atlantic String Quartet, has been on faculty of the New York Philharmonic’s Zarin Mehta Program teaching injury prevention, and has presented Body Mapping workshops to music organizations around the world. 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. Jennifer is now touring through the U.S., Canada and Europe with her new documentary called Music, Movement & Transformation: The Body Mapping Story which had its World Premiere at the National Opera Center in NYC in the spring of 2025.

About Dr. Smith: Dr. Andra Smith's bio: Andra Smith is a Full Professor in the School of Psychology, at the University of Ottawa. She has spent her career using brain imaging (fMRI) to understand the brain and how it works, and sometimes does not work. She believes that knowing how the brain works can empower people's behaviour and recovery with injury and disease. Her recent research has been to investigate how interventions, like exercise and mindfulness, can change the brain in different populations, including musicians with performance anxiety.

About Dr. Boland: Dr. Angela Boland's bio: Angela Boland is a postdoctoral fellow at the Music and Health Research Institute, working with Dr. Gilles Comeau. She recently completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Dr. Andra Smith. Her doctoral research focused on musicians' health. Specifically, her thesis investigated the neural impacts of mindfulness-based and somatic interventions on music performance anxiety, including Body Mapping. Angela's postdoctoral research focuses on the neural, cognitive, and health-related impacts of community music and movement programs.