Susie Vanderlip, CSP, CPAE is passionate about teaching people how to understand and move their bodies in confident and healthy ways. She has taught dance and yoga for 50 years as an Associate Professor in Dance at Coastline Community College, dance studios, in middle and high schools across the country. Over the last 13 years, Susie has taught Zumba Gold and Yoga at 24 Hour Fitness in Orange County, California. She is a certified AFAA group fitness instructor and works has instructed extensively with seniors ages 55 through 89 years old. In addition, she has created her own format entitled Core Life - for Balance and Core Awareness. She enthusiastically teaches all ages how to connect the body and mind, understand their muscles, and how to use them for flexibility, stability, balance, and the joy of movement. Susie is a certified meditation instructor for ActualDesign meditation, and she is passionate about helping students develop interoception as well as improved proprioception - teaching adults how to be conscious of muscles they may be neglecting, how to strengthen and stretch them, eliminating poor posture to reduce the aches and pains and potential for falls as we age.
From 1991 thru 2015, Susie was a professional speaker/theatrical keynote speaker and toured across the US and Canada presenting her original one-woman presentation, LEGACY OF HOPE to over one-million youth and adults. She did assemblies at middle and high schools, keynoted conferences for youth/counselors/law enforcement/foster parents/gang reduction/juvenile probation and more to address prevention issues including alcohol and drugs, gangs, suicide, self-harm, trauma and stress. She earned the National Speaker's Assocation Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation and was one of a select group inducted into the NSA Speakers Hall of Fame and awarded the CPAE credential.
Susie has always been dedicated to helping teens through seniors find their strengths, their joys, their own empowerment. Through all her endeavors, she seeks to make others feel safe and supported as she guides young and old alike to more awareness of what is possible in their lives, whether it be physical, emotional, mental or spiritual.
Susie has been married since 1984 to husband, Ken Vanderlip, Ph.D. clinical psychologist specializing in EMDR for trauma and peak performance. Together, they have written De-Stress for Success Workbook® and EMDR Phase 2 Resourcing Tools as well as jointly conduct webinars for EMDR Therapists.
Lastly, Susie has an additional passion – Monarch Butterflies! She is the Monarch Conservation Specialist in southern California for Monarch Watch. She gives engaging talks entitled Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Monarch Butterflies to garden clubs, at expos, community centers, churches. She consults with individuals, organizations, and cities on how to plant monarch butterfly habitat and create Monarch Waystations. She encourages others to be part of monarch butterfly conservation by planting as much milkweed and nectar plants as possible. She has a beautiful children’s photo storybook available as an eBook on Amazon and as a paperback book available only on her website. that children ages 2 thru 10 absolutely love
