BreathingCold

Hi everyone,

After a month in Canada celebrating my 50th birthday, I'm back!

I spent two weeks off-grid in the wilderness, living in a van with no phone signal. On my birthday I got a flat tire over 100 km from the nearest decent road... somehow a fitting summary of my first 50 years!

I didn't get eaten by a bear, eventually got help, and even managed to have birthday cake.

More importantly, I feel something shifted during this trip. I came back feeling softer, more grounded, and I noticed a different quality in the way I facilitated while I was in Canada. I think I like this version of myself a little more.

I'm excited to be back facilitating our online Breathwork Ritual this Monday, 6–8 pm Bali time, and I'd love to breathe with you.

Join here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2uLVfb0TTpeWf_WwQTKiyw

Looking forward to seeing some of you there.

Alex

Three weeks ago I sat with a man who told me he hadn't cried in twenty years. Not because nothing hurt — because he'd built a life optimized for not feeling. Halfway through his second breathwork session, something cracked open. He cried for forty minutes. Then he laughed. Then he said, "I forgot I was allowed to cry sometimes."

I've watched this happen close to hundreds of times now, in twenty-plus cohorts of the facilitator training here in Ubud. And every time, I'm reminded why I built this thing in the first place.

Here's the honest story:

I didn't come to breathwork because I was thriving. I came because I was depressed and out of ideas after the mother of my kids left me. The breath and the cold were the first things that got me back into my own body after years of living entirely in my head. I didn't set out to build a school. I just kept doing the work, kept getting asked to share it, and eventually realized: this is the thing. This is what I'm here to hand to other people.

Ten years and 7,000+ guided sessions later, I've trained close to 600 facilitators who are now doing this work in over 40 countries. I've learned how to create a space where people stop performing and start actually meeting themselves.

That's what the next 3 weeks in Bali are for.

August 9–28. Ubud.

This isn't a weekend workshop that leaves you inspired for a week and then fades. It's a full immersion — five modules taking you from your own healing, through the physiology and philosophy of breathwork, into trauma-informed facilitation, group dynamics, and finally into supervised practice where you actually facilitate sessions and get real feedback before you leave.

You'll walk out with:
→ A recognized facilitator certification
→ Hands-on experience facilitating both 1:1 and group sessions
→ A trauma-informed framework you can trust under pressure
→ A global community of graduates who've got your back
→ And — this is the part people don't expect — a completely different relationship with your own nervous system

Who this is for:

Maybe you're already a yoga teacher, coach, or therapist and you can feel that your clients need something your current toolkit doesn't give you.

Maybe you've done a breathwork session yourself and you already know, in your bones, that you're meant to be on the other side of this work — guiding, not just receiving.

Or maybe you're just tired of living small, and some part of you knows the fastest way through is to help someone else find their way through first.

Whichever door you're walking through — this room is built for you.

Practical stuff:

Only 2 early-bird spots remain at $3,480 USD (regular $3,980). If money is the only thing standing between you and this, reach out — I've never turned someone away from this work over finances, and I'm not about to start now. There's also a full scholarship spot for anyone actively working with refugees or in prison systems.

I built this training because someone once gave me a room like this when I needed it most. Now I get to be the one holding the door open.

If you've been circling this decision for weeks or months — this is your sign. Spots are limited.

📩 Comment 'Breathe' If you want to have a chat about it or check the details here: https://breathingcoldbali.com/breathwork-facilitator-training-bali/

A question for fellow breathworkers and practitioners...

At what point does a personal practice become something you're ready to share with others?

Over the years, I've met many people who have experienced profound shifts through breathwork — from reducing stress and anxiety, to emotional healing, deeper self-awareness, and a greater sense of connection.

Yet many hesitate when it comes to facilitating.

Not because they lack passion, but because they want to develop the confidence, skills, and understanding needed to guide others safely and effectively.

Questions like:

• How do I facilitate a powerful breathwork journey?
• How do I create a safe environment for people to explore?
• How do I work with strong emotions that may arise?
• How do I combine technique with presence, intuition, and genuine human connection?

These are some of the foundations I explore in my BreathingCold Breathwork Facilitator Training in Bali this August.

The training goes beyond breathing techniques. It combines breathwork science, nervous system regulation, trauma-informed facilitation, authentic relating, somatic practices, cold exposure, and ongoing mentorship.

My intention is not simply to teach people how to guide a breathing session, but to support them in becoming more grounded, connected, and confident facilitators.

For those who feel called to deepen their practice or explore facilitating breathwork, you can discover more here:

https://breathingcoldbali.com/breathwork-facilitator-training-bali/

I would love to hear from this community:

What has been the biggest lesson or challenge in your journey with breathwork?

Have you experienced the power of breathwork and felt the call to go deeper?

Not just to practice it for yourself, but to learn how to safely guide others through transformation?

This July in Bali, I'm facilitating an immersive Breathwork Facilitator Training for those who want to develop the skills, confidence, and presence required to facilitate powerful breathwork journeys.

You'll learn:
✨ The science and psychology behind Breathwork
✨ How to create safe and transformative spaces
✨ Trauma-aware facilitation principles
✨ The art of guiding emotional release and integration
✨ 1:1 and Group facilitation skills
✨ How breathwork can be combined with nervous system regulation and cold exposure
✨ The inner work required to become an authentic facilitator

If you're curious, send me a DM and I'll happily share the details.

Alex

There is something profoundly healing about being fully seen.

Not fixed.
Not analyzed.
Not interrupted.
Just witnessed.

When someone listens without responding, a space where giving advice is not allowed, listens without projecting their own story, and without judgment, something inside us begins to soften.

The nervous system relaxes.
The mask starts to fall away.

A core part of the BreathingCold method is creating safety and genuine human connection.
A space where people can feel how they impact one another and discover that they are not alone in their struggles, fears, hopes, or dreams.

So much healing happens when we realize that the person sitting across from us is not as different as we imagined.

The moment we become real—authentic, vulnerable, and brave enough to say what is actually going on beneath the surface—the healing process has already begun.

Because healing is not always about finding the right answer.

Sometimes it’s about finally feeling safe enough to tell the truth.

Ready to experience this for yourself?

Join us this June for workshops, retreats, and facilitator trainings.
Check the link in bio or send me a DM for details.

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It’s easy to appreciate beauty.

It’s harder to face what we’ve discarded.

The same is true within ourselves.

Most people spend their lives chasing sunsets—peak experiences, moments of awe, temporary highs.

But healing begins when we turn around and face the pile we’ve left behind:
the grief,
the anger,
the fear,
the stories we don’t want to feel.

Breathwork teaches us that transformation doesn’t come from escaping discomfort. It comes from meeting it.

Nature reflects our inner world.

What we ignore doesn’t disappear.
It accumulates.

Whether it’s plastic on a beach or emotions in a body, eventually we’re asked to stop looking away.

The sunset is beautiful.

But so is the courage to turn around.

Ready to stop looking away?

Comment “FACE MY TRASH” below and I’ll send you my free course.

Because what we resist persists.

What we face can finally transform.

“There is no physiological benefit to staying 10 minutes in an ice bath.”

And technically, that’s true.

Most of the physiological benefits of cold exposure happen within the first few minutes.

But that’s not why I invite people to stay longer.

When people arrive at my workshops, many tell me they hate the cold. Some don’t think they’ll last 10 seconds.
And yet they do.

Then 30 seconds becomes a minute.
A minute becomes three.
Three becomes five.
And when they finally stay for 10 minutes, something profound happens.

They realize they are capable of far more than they believed.
The ice bath stops being about the cold.
It becomes a mirror.
A mirror reflecting every story they’ve told themselves about their limitations.

In that moment, they discover that many of those limits were never real.

What they gain is not a stronger immune system or a bigger dopamine spike.

They gain trust in themselves.

They build evidence that they can stay present in discomfort, move through resistance, and do hard things.
And that realization often impacts their life far beyond the ice bath.

Because the greatest benefit of the cold isn’t what it does to your physiology.

It’s what it reveals about your potential.