Susie Vanderlip is passionate about helping others, and especially seniors, live their best lives by encouraging everyone to exercise, dance, MOVE. She has 50 years of dance and yoga teaching and performance experience. She is currently a certified AFAA Group Fitness Instructor and has taught Zumba Gold since 2014 to 55 through 92-year-olds. She also teaches her original Core Awareness and Balance classes that she calls ‘Core Life’ to provide seniors with one-on-one feedback on how to use their core muscles, maintain good posture, increase flexibility, and improve balance to reduce falls and increase self-confidence.
In 2013, she founded and continues to direct SOS Dance Crew (Seniors Over Sixty Dance Crew), taking her students to senior living facilities and community events to perform and inspire all ages to exercise, to move, and to dance. She is a Lifetime Credentialed instructor in Dance from Coastline Community College District in Orange County, California where she taught modern and jazz dance for 12 years. For twenty years, she was Executive Director, choreographer, and principal dancer for Dance Kaleidoscope of Orange County, a regional modern and jazz dance ensemble.
In addition, Susie toured across the United States and Canada for 25 years as a solo professional performer presenting her original LEGACY OF HOPE assemblies at middle schools, high schools, colleges, churches, communities, and keynote at conferences to address alcohol and drug abuse, teen pregnancy, gangs, AIDS, suicide, self-harm, and trauma (www.legacyofhope.com) speaking to over one million youth and adults. She has earned the Certified Speaking Association (CSP) credential from the National Speakers Association (NSA) and been inducted by NSA into the “Speakers Hall of Fame.” For the last 13 years, she has also spoken at senior assisted living facilities sharing Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Monarch Butterflies, as she is now the Monarch Conservation Specialist in Southern California for Monarch Watch.
Susie is 75 years young and is an inspiration and compassionate coach to seniors of all ages.
BALANCE FOR SENIORS SPEAKER
Susie Speaks on BALANCE FOR SENIORS for church senior ministries, senior and assisted living facilities,
community senior centers, senior events, and fitness gyms.
Her extensive speaking experience coupled with depth of knowledge about movement, posture, balance, and core muscles for seniors makes her a beloved speaker for seniors. She is a compassionate, empathetic, motivating, and
knowledgeable speaker that other seniors enjoy while being inspired and encouraged!
In addition, Susie speaks to seniors on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Monarch Butterflies as she is the Monarch Conservation Specialist in Southern California for Monarch Watch. An expert in monarch butterflies, she provides an incredibly entertaining, informative, and inspirational program for all types of senior events and environments. (www.monarchbutterflyspeaker.com)
AUTHOR OF BOOKS TO GUIDE SENIORS IN AGING WITH CONFIDENCE
Susie is also Author and Publisher of two very “well-written and illustrated” books to guide seniors in exercise options and understanding the aging process, how it affects us as we age, and
best easy methods to combat unwanted change to strength, flexibility, and balance. Both books are available on Amazon as paperback, audiobook, eBook, and hardcopy books
at www.tinyurl.com/BooksbyVanderlip
Balance for Seniors – Understand Aging and Exercises for Core, Flexibility, and Stability
www.BalanceforSeniorsBook.com
“This book is perfect for my needs. I love the fact we can download exercises and that the appendix shows what exercises are best for each part of my day. I am at an age where my balance is not the best, so this book came in time! The fact that Susie not only is helping us with physical work but that she addresses the mental part as well.”
“Wow! This book couldn’t have come at a more perfect time for me! Now in my 55+ years and just diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and arthritis in my lower back…I need this book! I’m gingerly stepping into these exercises, as I recognize that lack of core strength is a major reason for my back problems. This book clearly and compellingly describes why balance and core strength are so important as we age.”
THE Perfect guide to simple exercises with illustrations and instructions that are easy to follow. There is even a PDF to download and print off that creates an 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper guide to use easily at home.
www. tinyurl.com/Buy-10EasyStretches
As we age, whether you are in your 40’s, 50’s or well into your senior years, do you want to be active, healthy, full of energy, and manage the stress from everyday life? Are you feeling more stiff or more tired and less motivated due to stiff joints, sore muscles, what you think is just natural with aging?
This book is for everyone, regardless of age, that wants an antidote to the aches, pains, stiffness and mental and emotional drag that aging and life happenings can have on us. STRETCHING is such a simple concept, but it does make a difference on the body and the mind.
