Global Instructor Team

Abraham Levine creates high-impact experiences designed to produce real transformation and lasting results. Drawing from a background in athletics, leadership development, wilderness first responder trainings, and immersive high-intensity environments, Abraham brings grounded authority, calm intensity, and real-world credibility to the work of human performance. His leadership style has been further shaped by elite training experiences such as Echelon Front’s FTX, strengthening an approach rooted in ownership, discipline, and presence under pressure. Forged through his own path of overcoming addiction, regulating a dysregulated nervous system, and rebuilding through intentional challenge, Abraham’s work is deeply personal as well as highly practical. From the mountains of Colorado, to Antarctica, to 10 years of the radical intensity at Burning Man, he is drawn to experiences that strip away the unnecessary and reveal what is real. He helps high-performing individuals build resilience, sharpen self-trust, and expand their capacity for stress in ways that carry directly into leadership, performance, and life. The result is an experience that feels both elevated and unforgettable: expertly held, deeply intentional, and built to create change that lasts.

Alexander, an Austrian mindset specialist, empowers high-stress entrepreneurs and pro-athletes to achieve peak success. With a past as a professional athlete and former owner of a professional hockey club, he understands the pressures that undermine performance. After selling his organisation and stepping away from business, Alex now dedicates himself to guiding others toward excellence. Certified as a Cold Club Instructor, he also holds credentials in hypnosis and breathwork (Daniel Allen), blending cold exposure, mental strength, and stress regulation.

With over 20 years as an inventor, athlete, entrepreneur, executive, and coach, Alex excels in performance coaching and nervous system reset strategies. As a hypnosis therapist and mental coach for elite athletes, he leads workshops and seminars, equipping participants with tools to thrive under pressure. His mission is to help individuals unlock their potential through science-backed, holistic practices, drawing from his diverse career to inspire resilience and success.

Born and raised in Alaska, Dianna is a lifelong seeker driven by discovery and a commitment to the well-being of her family and community. As a mother navigating the transitions of mid-life, she thrives on the challenges that unlock resilience, having experienced her own transformation with the essential support of intentional breath and cold exposure.

Her approach is built on the belief that our greatest wellness resources - breath, hormetic stress, nature, and authentic connection - are freely available to everyone; we just need to learn how to use them. With an M.S. in Evolutionary Biology and a background in education, Dianna integrates scientific understanding with the elemental experience. She is dedicated to sharing the profound benefits of nature-integrated wellness and helping individuals rediscover their inherent power within the elements.

Dylan spent over a decade on wildfires as a US Forest Service Hotshot and Smokejumper, so is no stranger to stressful situations. Most recently he established his arborist company, Goodwood Tree, so still finds exhilaration from climbing trees. In both roles, stress is not an obstacle but a condition of the work. He learned a defining truth - resilience is built by working with stress, not against it.

To sustain that edge, Dylan turned to breath work and deliberate heat and cold exposure. Today, these lessons shape everything he teaches. At Cold Club, he helps others develop their own capacity for resilience and strength.

When Dylan is not in the trees, he enjoys spearfishing, bow hunting, and taking care of Opal and Ida, his beloved dogs.

His mission is simple - help people harness stress, build resilience, and live with intention. Because when you fully inhabit the present, the future handles itself.

Jason, an integrative wellness specialist dedicated to enhancing athletes' performance and recovery. Holding a Doctor of Pharmacy and a holistic certification with Cold Club, he brings a unique blend of expertise to his practice. He is a certified personal trainer, boxing fitness trainer, Tsun Jo martial arts instructor, and black belt holder in two martial arts systems. Jason combines diverse skills to guide his clients. A lifelong athlete, martial arts coach, and innovative pharmacist, his mission is to merge Western medicine with natural healing methods, empowering clients to achieve peak performance through a balanced, science-backed approach.

Jebediah Stewart combines 20 years of executive culinary leadership with breath work, cold exposure, and stress-management practices to help people build resilience, clarity, and connection. After years of leading large-scale culinary operations in demanding, high-pressure environments, he saw firsthand the toll stress can take on the body and mind. That experience now informs his work guiding individuals, families, and teams through breath-led wellness experiences centred on recovery, performance, and meaningful human connection.From cold plunge and contrast therapy to family-centred events and intentional food gatherings, Jebediah’s work is rooted in practical tools that help people become stronger, calmer, and more connected in everyday life.

John Paul Huffer, founder and operator of Cold Nature Alaska and RunTekAKademy, is a pioneer of guided cold training and contrast therapy in the wild waters of the Last Frontier. This lifelong Alaskan provides premium local expertise for everyone who wants to learn cold training on top of the world. John Paul coaches' elite performance and transformation protocols through guided cold training expeditions, mobile sauna contrast therapy sessions, multi-day retreats, and private workshops for small groups, corporate teams, and organizations.

At his RunTekAKademy, John Paul trains elite high school track and field athletes to optimize their performance in competitions in Alaska and around the country. He also offers personal training to anyone looking to refine technique and improve speed and endurance. John Paul believes cold training, breathwork, contrast therapy, running, and focused recovery are key to unlocking full human potential. This philosophy drives his mission to empower individuals to achieve peak performance, resilience, and excellence. Learn more and connect with John Paul at coachhuffer.com.

Marc is an Executive Transformation Coach. Prior to embarking on his wellness career, he spent nearly two decades as a banking executive, mastering leadership in high-pressure sales environments. Initially set to inherit his family’s automotive dealership, his path shifted when those plans collapsed, triggering an autoimmune disease, Ankylosing Spondylitis, that tested his resilience. Years later, at the height of his banking career, burnout struck—depression, insomnia, and relentless stress became all too familiar.

His journey through these challenges forged a unique strength: the ability to dissect complex problems and craft practical solutions. This skill, honed in banking, now empowers him as he guides executives out of crisis, drawing on his own transformation and over 20 years of management experience.

He discovered that true recovery lies not in medications or fleeting work-life balance fixes but in reprogramming the autonomic nervous system. Through scientifically-backed cold and contrast therapy, targeted breath work, and a resilient executive mindset, he helps leaders break free from the prison of their own success, reclaiming vitality and purpose.

After two decades working with corporate executives, professional athletes, military personnel, and people facing serious health challenges, Matt Soule realized something surprising: there was no comprehensive system that truly taught people how to work with stress. As the Founder and CEO of Cold Club®, Soule created a global training platform built around what he calls Adaptive Stress Training™—integrating breathwork, cold and heat exposure, fasting, and movement to build resilience and long-term health. His own journey began early, growing up around domestic violence and later battling inflammatory health challenges that forced him to learn how the body responds to stress. Today Soule has taught more than 10,000 participants and trained instructors from over 40 countries. His work includes working with companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Coupa, and Urban Outfitters. Through Cold Club, his mission is simple: help people turn stress into a powerful tool for growth, resilience, and long-term health.

With over 33 years in the global financial sector and as a former Big 4 partner, Robert is well versed in handling stress. Following a highly successful career in finance, Robert gravitated to the wellness sector in recent years, completing various global certifications around breath work, cold immersion and mindset, and now helps career-minded professionals manage and control their day-to-day stress to continue to perform at the highest levels. A keen sportsman, Robert also helps individuals enhance their fitness through better connection to the breath, and has an additional focus on men’s mental health.

Todd, a dedicated husband and father, is a United States Marine Corps veteran with a 27-year career in education. Starting as a special education teacher’s assistant for six years while earning his teaching degree, he spent 19 years as a special education teacher in Michigan and Alaska public schools. Currently in his third year as a middle school assistant principal, Todd holds a Bachelor’s degree and two Master’s degrees, embodying a lifelong learner. As a Certified Cold Club instructor, he explores breathwork through Deep End Fitness and cold plunging, ignited by a year-long wellness journey. A retreat experience rekindled his love for community, reminiscent of his military days.

Driven by a passion for knowledge and service, Todd seeks to enhance his family’s and community’s health. His mission is to lead by example, using science-backed methods like cold therapy and breathwork to transform lives. With a heart for assisting others in optimising their well-being, he aims to fill his purpose through education, leadership, and community impact.

Yury Opendik is a Miami-based specialist in breath work and meditation, integrating cold exposure, nourishment, and restorative practices into a holistic approach to well-being.

Originally from Russia and raised in Brooklyn after his family’s immigration, Yury’s early years were filled with challenges that became catalysts for resilience and transformation. His path of self-realisation began with yoga and has since expanded into a lifelong journey of self-healing, growth, and mastery.

Today, Yury’s mission is to empower others to live healthier, happier, and more connected lives by guiding them back to their innate strength. Through breath work, cold exposure, meditation, and empowerment practices, he helps people reconnect with themselves and unlock their full potential.

Arthur Krause is what happens when a scientist stops explaining the human body and starts listening to it. He doesn't teach breathwork. He reverse-engineers it.

After a decade in academia, strategy consulting, and international advertising — and years deep in martial arts, yoga, meditation, and the cold — he kept asking the question most facilitators never dare to ask: Why does this actually work? That question took him across the world. To the most respected breathing scientists alive. Through traditions most practitioners never reach. Always understanding first the research, then testing it on himself.

Arthur holds a PhD in the life sciences - and he uses it differently than you might expect. Not to add complexity, but to strip away the mysticism that has kept breathwork on the fringes for too long and reveal what is genuinely powerful underneath: the biology, the nervous system, the breath itself. He works with individuals, groups, and teaches breathwork facilitators, in both German and English, and is currently developing one of Europe's first science-based breathwork certification programmes. If you have ever felt that your mind and body are running two completely different programmes, this is where the conversation starts.

His mission: to give people back the one tool they were born with and forgot how to use.

Positive Change for Life: Turning Stress into Strength, Experience into Insight. Lauren’s work sits at the intersection of Positive Psychology, Jungian depth psychology, and the Physiology of Stress. Like many, she spent years exploring the mind and emotions before turning her attention to the intelligence of the body. Her experiences with conscious breathing and cold exposure proved transformative, leading her to integrate breath work, heat and cold exposure into her daily life. What began as a way to steady anxiety revealed a deeper truths: stress, when approached with awareness, is a powerful teacher. Building on this foundation, Lauren now guides others in these practices. Her professional work is deeply informed by her own journey and is grounded in a simple aim: to help people shift their approach to self-care and longevity from reactive to proactive, empowering them to build resilience before it is urgently needed.