Early Life and Navy Career

Michael grew up in Queens, NY and after high school and some local college saw that there was a bigger purpose for him. Michael started to investigate opportunities with each branch of military service and finally chose to enlist in the U.S Navy Helicopter Search and Rescue program.

Michael finished the rest of military service with the Eighballers where he qualified as a Antisubmarine warfare operator, Combat Search and Rescue operator, Naval Aviation Training and  flight instructor and squadron Rescue Swimmer instructor. Michael earned two Navy accommodation medals (Gold Star) for his successful recovery of a downed  fighter pilot  and selection for Aircrewman of the year for the United States Navy. Michael was deployed immediately after 9/11/2001  for Operation Enduring Freedom and again in 2003. 

Michael finished his Naval career and moved to Phoenix, Arizona to start his civilian career and finish his education and work in the  civilian sector.

Transition to the civilian sector

Michael would continue working full time as a college advisor for military students and their families and attending class at night for the next 9 years graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business management BSB/M, MBA (Master’s Degree in Business Administration) and master’s degree in Adult Education and Training (MaED/AET). Throughout these nine years of continuous education Michael used his benefits earned by his military service to advance his knowledge of the business and education world while also climbing his way up the private education sector ladder eventually earning the responsibility of Senior Director of Military Operations for the Office of Military and Veteran Affairs for Apollo Group inc. 

Integration struggles

Michael stayed very productive in his civilian transition but did not integrate in a healthy way. Michael kept his “inner struggles” a secret for many years. Michael struggled with insomnia, anxiety, alcohol abuse, service connected spinal injury that kept him in pain management clinics, chiropractors, on a variety of medications,  pain medication, psychiatrists office and doctors’ offices dealing with a variety of symptoms that eventually led to an anterior cervical surgery (neck fusion) leaving him with nerve cell damage, clonus and peripheral neuropathy. 

From the Arizona desert to the Amazon Jungle

My first stop to natural medicine cures was the beautiful country of Brazil. After a variety of life changing experiences, changes in perception , Michael continued on this path and started taking trips to Iquitos Peru, 100 km from the Brazil border and studying under a Peruvian Mestizo Shaman.  Michael had made significant breakthroughs and deeper understanding of self. 

Healthy, Happy and Strong

 Michael had found himself watching a documentary discovering Wim Hof Method. Wim had achieved 26 world records, notably for hiking Mount Everest 22,000 ft (6700 meters) in his shorts and no shoes, spending 1:52 minutes in ice, hiked to the top of Mount Killmanjaro Africa within 2 days wearing only shorts, completed a half marathon in the arctic circle of Finland and a full marathon in the Namib desert of Africa with no water and the list goes on.  Wim had claimed that he could control his autonomic nervous system, endocrine system and immune system. Wim used Mindset training breathing exercises and cold therapy to gain access to these superhuman abilities. All of his claims were being researched and validated by science which made Wim’s method so unique and fascinating. The process seemed so easy, too good to be true. This sent Michael "down  a rabbit hole" into the Wim Hof Method to learn more and gain access to these abilities for inner strength, happiness, discipline and health. 

Shortly after Michael started to implement the WHM into his daily practice of regimens learning about the power of breathing exercises, mindset training and cold water.  Michael learned a profound new wisdom that the natural elements can teach us. 

Wim Hof Academy Certified

Michael has since finished the Wim Hof Academy at Innerfire and become a certified instructor teaching the Wim Hof Method throughout the U.S giving people this unique and ancient technique to fight back against inflammation, autoimmune disease, depression, anxiety, insomnia and many other chronic illnesses that hold us back from living fully. 

Michael and his business partner, also a Wim Hof instructor started their own Human Optimization Centers in Arizona called Optimyze, Mind, Body , Breath, empowering others to take responsibility f their mental, emotional, physical health through natural methods like cold water therapy, sauna, PEMF, breathing exercises and other non-invasive therapies. 

Michael Roviello, MBA, MaEd,

U.S Navy Veteran 

Wim Hof Method Certified Instructor

Founder of Optimyze,  Human Optimization centers in Arizona

Early Life and Navy Career

Michael grew up in Queens, NY and after high school and some local college saw that there was a bigger purpose for him. Michael started to investigate opportunities with each branch of military service and finally chose to enlist in the U.S Navy Helicopter Search and Rescue program.

Michael finished the rest of military service with the Eighballers where he qualified as a Antisubmarine warfare operator, Combat Search and Rescue operator, Naval Aviation Training and  flight instructor and squadron Rescue Swimmer instructor. Michael earned two Navy accommodation medals (Gold Star) for his successful recovery of a downed  fighter pilot  and selection for Aircrewman ...