"The moment you quit to feel better is the moment your dream may die." ~ Christine Van Loo ~
"Christine Van Loo's abilities to inspire and wow her audience is beyond inspiring."
~ Christopher Kai - World’s leading authority in story-based leadership
"Christine held my attention in the palm of her hand from the beginning to the end of her marvelous journey. She leaves you feeling that, YOU can FLY!!"
– Cherilynn Castleman, The Relationship Sales Expert
No one expected Christine Van Loo to become an athlete much less a champion. Her parents enrolled her in acrobatic gymnastics to decrease a hyperactivity so severe she could scarcely remember from moment to moment what her coach had just told her. She was also weak and klutzy, the last to learn tricks and to advance levels. Her coach would say, “There are children in the world with talent… then there is Christine."
Defying the odds, through champion mindset techniques, Van Loo became a 7-time consecutive elite National Champion, Female Olympic Athlete of the Year, Athlete of the Decade, in the Hall of Fame and Legend in her sport.
Until age 19 her life revolved around acrobatic gymnastics. She was featured on ESPN’s World Class Women and ABC Wide World of Sports. Her picture was on the cover of International Gymnast magazines and in National Geographic World Magazine. However, after retiring from competition, marrying her first boyfriend, and becoming a housewife and an Officer’s wife, her sense of identity collapsed and she spent the next seven years, suffering a silent depression, wondering, “Who am I?” She would answer the question by following an unlikely dream. Without coaching or guidance, suffering 2nd degree rope burns, getting tangled in knots, tearing all the skin off her palms and even setting her pant leg on fire, Christine trained herself to become one of the world’s most renown aerialists.
Since then she has performed well over 2000 times to a global audience in over 30 countries, inspiring millions of people around the world, everywhere from the Sydney Opera House to Madison Square Garden to the Kennedy Center. She opened solo for Paul McCartney before a million and a half people on his European tour. She has shared the stage with mega artists such as Aerosmith, No Doubt, Sarah McLachlan, Josh Groban, Ricky Martin, REO Speed Wagon, Sugar Ray, Tommy Lee and Earth, Wind and Fire. She choreographed the aerials for Britney Spears World Tour for the Stars on Ice US Tour, and for NBC’s Celebrity Circus. She has even performed for Cirque du Soleil an aerial act 600 feet in the air from a hot air balloon. She tours regularly now with Cirque de la Symphonie.
Christine shares “champion mindset” and “elite athletic habits” that apply directly to anyone in any industry who wants to transcend limiting beliefs and achieve their ultimate success.
Van Loo is co-founder of Airborne Arts Retreat Center in Costa Rica, founder and CEO of Van Loo Productions and of VisionAerialist, LLC. She is the author of Falling to the Top and contributor to the mega-bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Christine plays an active role in leaving this world a better place than how she found it. Whether it’s a smile, kind words, or time or money given to various social and environmental causes. For more info see: Resume