Yosi Echeverry Burckhardt
Yosi is the founder of Sacred Resilience, embodied — a coaching and breathwork practice supporting women and mothers in the humanitarian and social impact sectors through burnout, transition, and the journey back to themselves.
Drawing on 18 years as a Senior Leader with the United Nations and NGOs across multiple duty stations and contexts, Yosi's work is grounded in a simple conviction: that sustainable service begins from within — and that the women who hold the world's hardest work deserve to be held too.
Her approach weaves crisis-forged resilience with sacred practice — blending Conscious Connected Breathwork, somatic coaching, and life transitions support to help women return to their bodies, their breath, and the embodied wisdom that has always been their greatest asset. She works in particular with humanitarian women and mothers navigating the hypervigilant nervous system, the identity questions, and the overwhelming weight of holding everything at once.
Yosi is a certified Seven Directions Breathwork practitioner and has recently joined the Seven Directions Breathwork school as a support mentor for new trainees. She is also a certified Qigong teacher with the Forest Rock temple lineage and a certified Life Coach with Mindvalley Evercoach. A SOAS graduate and passionate human rights advocate, Yosi recently transitioned out of the aid sector and relocated from Kenya to Portugal, where she is raising her daughter, Anaïs Aurora (2) as a solo mom.
Workshop
Between Two Calls to Care: Motherhood and the Inner and Outer Transitions of Humanitarian Women
Wednesday, April 8 @12pm EDT / 6pm CET / 7pm EAT
Motherhood and humanitarian work are both rooted in care, but they do not always sit easily side by side.
This session explores the often unspoken inner experience of women navigating the journey into motherhood while working in the aid sector. From the desire to become a mother, through matrescence, and into the ongoing negotiation between personal and professional care, it offers space to reflect on what is rarely named.
Together, we will explore the emotional and identity tensions that arise when two deep commitments to care begin to pull in different directions, and how these tensions are not simply problems to solve, but experiences to understand, process, and relate to differently.
Through a blend of reflection and gentle somatic practices, this session invites you to slow down, reconnect with your body, and bring more awareness to your own experience.
You will leave with a deeper understanding of yourself, language for what you may have been carrying, and a more grounded way of relating to both your work and your motherhood journey.
This is not a conversation about balance or quick fixes. It is an invitation to slow down, to notice, and to bring more awareness to both the inner and embodied experience of this transition.
Practice
Conscious Connected Breathwork Session
Saturday, April 11@12pm EDT / 6pm CET / 7pm EAT
This guided Conscious Connected Breathwork session offers a gentle yet powerful opportunity to move what may be held beneath the surface.
For many women in the aid sector, especially those navigating motherhood or the transition into it, the experience of holding, managing, and continuing can become deeply embodied. Tension, fatigue, and unprocessed emotions often settle in the body in ways that are not always visible, but deeply felt.
This session creates a dedicated space to pause and tend to that inner landscape. Through a guided 45-minute Breathwork practice, you will be supported to connect more deeply with your body, allowing emotions, sensations, and held tension to surface and release in a safe and held way. No prior experience is needed, but the invitation is to come with an open mind and heart.
In this session, you can expect:
* A clear and gentle introduction to Conscious Connected Breathwork
* A fully guided breathing journey in a safe and supportive space
* Time to slow down, soften, and reconnect with your body
* A closing integration to help you land and process your experience
You will leave with:
* A sense of release, lightness, or emotional clarity
* A deeper connection to your body and inner experience
* Tools to support ongoing self-awareness and regulation
* A feeling of being more grounded, present, and resourced
This is an invitation to step out of doing, even briefly, and into a space where your own experience can be felt, acknowledged, and gently supported.
Please carefully read the Waiver for Conscious Connected Breathwork in advance of the session, which you can find here
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