The Detox House Method: Cold Immersion Facilitator Training

In this module, we cover:

• Polyvagal theory made simple.

• Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn responses in the plunge.

• Building the Window of Tolerance through exposure.

• Using breathwork and somatic grounding before, during, and after immersion.

In this module, we cover:

• Brain chemistry and neurotransmitters (dopamine, norepinephrine).

• Controlled stress (hormesis) and “stress inoculation”.

• Brain plasticity: how controlled cold exposure rewires threat responses.

This module teaches you how to use the cold plunge as a rewiring environment. The stress response brings old survival patterns online, while breath and regulation help you practice a different response in real time. From that more receptive state, you can also rehearse new beliefs, behaviors, and ways of being, giving your brain and nervous system new evidence for what is safe and possible.

This modules covers the foundations of breathwork and techniques for shifting states, including in a cold immersion experience.

These are important things to consider when guiding plunges and determining if you and anyone else you are guiding is safe enough to cold plunge.