About Valerie
Professional Bio
P. Valerie Dauphin is the The Dancing Confidence & Authenticity Coach, Award-Winning Author of Feel Good Kick Ass Confidence: Using Your Body to Rock Your Life and Creator of The Rock Your Life Danceshops™. Her mission is to inspire you to live confidently and authentically with harmonious flow in every area of your life by cultivating a deep connection to your physical body. She is a Certified Dream Coach®, OMLife® Certified Coach and OM Trainer, Certified Group Power Instructor, and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. Valerie has a knack for guiding others in creating and fulfilling their personal and professional dreams. She helps clients get clear about what they want, surmount doubts and limiting beliefs, build great confidence, and create powerful strategy and action steps to bring the dreams to fruition.
Valerie is also the Company K!ds Director and Dance Instructing Artist at Gabriella Charter Schools in Los Angeles. Her dance training and performances include Salsa, House, Samba, Hip Hop, and numerous dances of the African Diaspora. She has participated in CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater’s Futuro Dance Intensive, served as Executive Board Member of African Rhythms Drum and Dance Troupe, and served as a judge for the NAACP ACT-SO Competition in the dance category. She is most passionate about the freedom and exhilaration experienced through the fusion of styles like AfroHouse and Salsa Hip Hop and has taught group dance and fitness classes at various studios and gyms in L.A., including the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, Heartbeat House, Your Neighborhood Studio, and Sweat Pilates, as well as having served as Adjunct Faculty in Sports and Wellness at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Additional dance teaching artist residencies and guest facilitation include artworxLA, YouTHink, L.A. Arts Group, American Cancer Society Relay for Life, The I Have a Dream Foundation, Inner City Arts, YWCA Annual Health Fair, Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Venice Eco-Festival, and a special dance class for a top 10 tech company. As a 2018-19 Arts for LA ACTIVATE Fellow and California Arts Education Leadership Cohort Emerging Leader, Valerie works towards the attainment of equitable access to the arts for all California youth. Valerie loves cookie-dough ice cream, New York pizza, and is currently teaching herself how to play the flute.
Shorter Bio:
P. Valerie Dauphin is The Dancing Confidence & Authenticity Coach and Award-Winning Author of Feel Good Kick Ass Confidence: Using Your Body to Rock Your Life. Her mission is to inspire you to live confidently and authentically with harmonious flow in every area of your life through cultivating a deep connection to your physical body. In addition to being a Certified Dream Coach® and Certified OMLife® Coach and OM Trainer, Valerie is a Dance and Fitness Instructor, having taught at various studios and gyms in L.A., including the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, Heartbeat House, Your Neighborhood Studio, and Sweat Pilates, as well as having served as Adjunct Faculty in Sports and Wellness at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Valerie is also the Company K!ds Director and Dance Instructing Artist at Gabriella Charter Schools in Los Angeles. Her dance training and performances include Salsa, House, Samba, Hip Hop, and numerous dances of the African Diaspora.
P. Valerie Dauphin is the The Dancing Confidence & Authenticity Coach, Award-Winning Author of Feel Good Kick Ass Confidence: Using Your Body to Rock Your Life and Creator of The Rock Your Life Danceshops™. Her mission is to inspire you to live confidently and authentically with harmonious flow in every area of your life by cultivating a deep connection to your physical body. She is a Certified Dream Coach®, OMLife® Certified Coach and OM Trainer, Certified Group Power Instructor, and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. Valerie has a knack for guiding others in creating and fulfilling their personal and professional dreams. She helps clients get clear about what they want, surmount doubts and limiting beliefs, build great confidence, and create powerful strategy and action steps to bring the dreams to fruition.
Valerie is also the Company K!ds Director and Dance Instructing Artist at Gabriella Charter Schools in Los Angeles. Her dance training and performances include Salsa, House, Samba, Hip Hop, and numerous dances of the African Diaspora. She has participated in CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater’s Futuro Dance Intensive, served as Executive Board Member of African Rhythms Drum and Dance Troupe, and served as a judge for the NAACP ACT-SO Competition in the dance category. She is most passionate about the freedom and exhilaration experienced through the fusion of styles like AfroHouse and Salsa Hip Hop and has taught group dance and fitness classes at various studios and gyms in L.A., including the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, Heartbeat House, Your Neighborhood Studio, and Sweat Pilates, as well as having served as Adjunct Faculty in Sports and Wellness at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Additional dance teaching artist residencies and guest facilitation include artworxLA, YouTHink, L.A. Arts Group, American Cancer Society Relay for Life, The I Have a Dream Foundation, Inner City Arts, YWCA Annual Health Fair, Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Venice Eco-Festival, and a special dance class for a top 10 tech company. As a 2018-19 Arts for LA ACTIVATE Fellow and California Arts Education Leadership Cohort Emerging Leader, Valerie works towards the attainment of equitable access to the arts for all California youth. Valerie loves cookie-dough ice cream, New York pizza, and is currently teaching herself how to play the flute.
Shorter Bio:
P. Valerie Dauphin is The Dancing Confidence & Authenticity Coach and Award-Winning Author of Feel Good Kick Ass Confidence: Using Your Body to Rock Your Life. Her mission is to inspire you to live confidently and authentically with harmonious flow in every area of your life through cultivating a deep connection to your physical body. In addition to being a Certified Dream Coach® and Certified OMLife® Coach and OM Trainer, Valerie is a Dance and Fitness Instructor, having taught at various studios and gyms in L.A., including the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, Heartbeat House, Your Neighborhood Studio, and Sweat Pilates, as well as having served as Adjunct Faculty in Sports and Wellness at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Valerie is also the Company K!ds Director and Dance Instructing Artist at Gabriella Charter Schools in Los Angeles. Her dance training and performances include Salsa, House, Samba, Hip Hop, and numerous dances of the African Diaspora.
Now a more personal touch...
I help individuals and groups unabashedly uncover what they really want personally and professionally by enhancing their confidence and authenticity through body awareness, body-based practices, and exquisite attention on desires.
I've experimented with the power of intentionally combining coaching, inspiration, and movement to do more than just achieve and maintain physical fitness.
As I taught various fitness and dance classes over the years, I found myself naturally coaching and sharing inspirational stories to help my participants and students activate a deeper holistic mind/body/spirit connection in their lives in and outside the gym or studio. My experimentation led to the creation of a personal success hybrid coaching model as well as The Danceshops(TM), both of which I devoted an entire chapter to in my first book Feel Good Kick Ass Confidence: Using Your Body to Rock Your Life. I just love what I do.
But life isn't without challenges.
One of my challenges had been finding my true professional place in the world, despite having graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. I bounced around jobs I was dispassionate about, knowing in my heart what I was naturally drawn to, but dealing with tsunamis of well-meaning loved ones, naysayers, the media, and my own self telling me “No, you can’t do that.” Add an eating disorder and poor body image on top of that and you've got a strong cocktail of deferred dreams.
I underwent deep personal transformation and developed the confidence to pursue my on-camera dreams and desires in acting, dance performance, public speaking, and appearances in fitness videos, including Richard Simmons' Tonin' to the Oldies 5 and Misty Tripoli's BodyGROOVE. I'm now excited to teach others how to develop the strength and trust in themselves to pursue and experience what they most want out of life.
I help individuals and groups unabashedly uncover what they really want personally and professionally by enhancing their confidence and authenticity through body awareness, body-based practices, and exquisite attention on desires.
I've experimented with the power of intentionally combining coaching, inspiration, and movement to do more than just achieve and maintain physical fitness.
As I taught various fitness and dance classes over the years, I found myself naturally coaching and sharing inspirational stories to help my participants and students activate a deeper holistic mind/body/spirit connection in their lives in and outside the gym or studio. My experimentation led to the creation of a personal success hybrid coaching model as well as The Danceshops(TM), both of which I devoted an entire chapter to in my first book Feel Good Kick Ass Confidence: Using Your Body to Rock Your Life. I just love what I do.
But life isn't without challenges.
One of my challenges had been finding my true professional place in the world, despite having graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. I bounced around jobs I was dispassionate about, knowing in my heart what I was naturally drawn to, but dealing with tsunamis of well-meaning loved ones, naysayers, the media, and my own self telling me “No, you can’t do that.” Add an eating disorder and poor body image on top of that and you've got a strong cocktail of deferred dreams.
I underwent deep personal transformation and developed the confidence to pursue my on-camera dreams and desires in acting, dance performance, public speaking, and appearances in fitness videos, including Richard Simmons' Tonin' to the Oldies 5 and Misty Tripoli's BodyGROOVE. I'm now excited to teach others how to develop the strength and trust in themselves to pursue and experience what they most want out of life.
Oh now who's that right there?!
