ABOUT SHEREEN YUSUFF
Shereen Yusuff describes herself as someone deeply curious about the full capacity of the body, mind, and spirit. Born and raised in Oman, she played tennis competitively as a child before earning her degree in Aerospace Engineering in India. Her career took her across the globe—China, the UK, the U.S., Brazil, Colombia, and the Ivory Coast—where she witnessed firsthand how culture shapes people’s approach to life. Through these experiences, she began to see how easily we conform to societal expectations rather than living from a place of truth.
This awareness sparked a search within her—a desire to understand who she truly was beyond roles and achievements. Her exploration took many forms: martial arts, freestyle dance, strength training, hiking, climbing, and endurance sports such as marathons, ultramarathons, and Ironmans. These pursuits revealed the importance of rest, nutrition, and recovery, and awakened her to the extraordinary potential of the human mind—especially its ability to accomplish what once seemed impossible.
A turning point came in 2016, when a serious ACL injury forced her to slow down. During recovery, she began to explore breathwork and foundational movement more deeply, studying at Onnit Academy in Austin and earning certifications in Functional Range Conditioning (FRC), Body-Mind Centering, and Animal Flow. Her growing fascination with breath led her to train in the Wim Hof Method, Buteyko Method, and Oxygen Advantage, eventually becoming a certified instructor in all three.
In 2018, Shereen experienced a profound spiritual encounter that drew her into silence and contemplation. After years of atheism, she returned to Islam, seeking answers to questions that reason alone could not satisfy. Two years later, in October 2020, she encountered Christ in a deeply personal way and was baptized into the Catholic Church in April 2021. In prayer, she felt Christ calling her to “teach in His name,” leading her to unite her scientific background and her life of faith through breath, movement, and stillness. In 2023, she felt an even deeper calling to go into silence, and took a year to discern a call to become a Benedictine Oblate of the Christ in the Desert Monastery.
This integration culminated in her first book, Seeking the Spirit Within, set to be published on February 3, 2026. The book explores how breath can be a pathway to silence—the place where one encounters God.
Through her work, Shereen invites others to discover what she has learned: that alignment between body, mind, and Spirit opens the way to true healing and freedom. Her vision is to share the transformative power of breath, movement, and cold exposure so that others may live medication-free, resilient, and joy-filled lives—becoming lights for the world around them.
With her background as a semi-professional tennis player, Shereen is also passionate about sports performance enhancement, helping college and professional athletes reach new levels of physical and mental excellence.
