Wellness & Recreation Services
Foster physical and emotional health during recovery with our integrated wellness services including a cold plunge spa, infrared saunas, nature trails, and a full fitness center with spaces for yoga and meditation.
Integrated Wellness for Whole-Person Healing
Spa & Wellness Experiences
Avalon’s spa environment is thoughtfully designed to promote holistic healing through proven wellness techniques. Each element supports nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, and physical restoration.
- Infrared Saunas & Steam Rooms promotes deep sweating, stimulates circulation, and helps release toxins that may have built up in the body during substance use. Our steam room opens the airways, softens muscles, and provides respiratory relief, especially beneficial for clients recovering from smoking or opioid use.
- Cold Plunge Therapy helps reduce inflammation, improve circulation, and stimulate chemicals in the brain often depleted by substance use. It also improves resilience to stress and supports emotional regulation by calming the overactive nervous system.
- Healing Rituals & Recovery Rhythms guide clients through a cycle of sauna, cold plunge, and steam to mimic the natural alternation between effort and rest, activation and calm. This helps rewire the body and brain for healthier stress responses and emotional balance.
Fitness & Movement Room
Movement is a vital component of healing. Our fitness room is tailored to support both physical wellness and emotional empowerment, regardless of a client’s starting point.
- Cardio & Strength Equipment: Our space includes treadmills, stationary bikes, ellipticals, free weights, and resistance training stations. Clients are encouraged to engage at their own pace while building stamina, mobility, and cardiovascular health.
- Yoga, Stretching, & Breathwork Sessions: Regularly scheduled movement classes promote flexibility, emotional grounding, and nervous system regulation. These group sessions support mindfulness, self-compassion, and inner balance to heal from trauma and substance use.
- Recovery-Focused Training Philosophy: At Avalon, fitness isn’t about physique—it’s about healing. Whether a client is just returning to physical activity or building on an existing routine, our approach emphasizes progress over perfection and celebrates every small win.
Video Lounge & Community Area
Social connection and joyful downtime are essential to recovery. Avalon’s video lounge and community room offer structured opportunities for both relaxation and meaningful peer interaction.
- Large Screen Viewing Area features comfortable seating and a large TV for therapeutic film screenings, educational documentaries, and light entertainment. These sessions can spark conversation, reflection, and laughter, encouraging emotional processing and connection.
- Relaxation & Comfort Zone provides a quiet space to rest, journal, read, or simply decompress in a setting that feels safe and soothing.
- Community Events & Mentorship Opportunities such as group discussions, game nights, creative workshops, and informal gatherings are held here to support relationship-building, emotional safety, and the development of healthy social skills.
Outdoor Activities & Nature Integration
Nature is a powerful ally in the recovery process. Our campus is designed to invite outdoor exploration, movement, and restoration.
- Walking Trails & Open Space: Clients can take advantage of on-site walking paths for self-paced movement, reflective journaling walks, or guided meditative strolls. Walking outdoors helps regulate mood, reduce anxiety, and improve circulation.
- Accessible Disc Golf Course: This promotes light physical activity, focus, and fun. It encourages teamwork, relieves stress, and supports the development of new, sober hobbies in a relaxed and social setting.
- Seasonal Activities: Depending on the time of year, clients may participate in nature-based group activities such as mindful hiking, outdoor yoga, expressive arts workshops, bonfire recovery talks, and grounding practices under the open sky.
Fun in Recovery
We believe that joy, laughter, and new experiences are essential parts of healing. Recovery is not just about what you’re leaving behind, it’s about rediscovering what makes life meaningful and fun. Our programming includes safe, staff-supported outings that help clients reconnect with the world around them in positive and sober ways.
- Bowling Nights offer more than friendly competition, they provide an opportunity to rebuild social confidence, practice peer connection, and experience joy without substances.
- Cultural Enrichment Trips such as visits to local museums, art exhibits, and cultural centers are part of our holistic approach. These experiences stimulate curiosity, inspire reflection, and connect clients to history, beauty, and human creativity.
- Downtown Lawrence Excursions to explore local shops, parks, and cafes gives clients a chance to engage with community life in a supportive, supervised setting. These trips allow for real-world practice of social and emotional skills while enjoying the rich and welcoming culture of downtown Lawrence.
Restorative Care for Mind, Body, and Spirit
Yoga & Meditation
Reflective Walks & Nature Trails
Disc Golf Course & Bowling Nights
Cold Plunge Therapy
Sauna & Steam Rooms
Immersive Outings & Cultural Excursions
How To Arrive
Avalon Wellness & Recovery is located at 801 Iowa Street in Lawrence, Kansas, just 30 minutes from Kansas City and parking is available on-site for your convenience. Clients can reach us by car via major highways connecting Lawrence to the surrounding area. If you are traveling from the airport or out of town, ground transportation options are available to help you arrive safely. Our admissions team is ready to assist with any travel questions to ensure a smooth arrival.
Your Path To Wellness Begins Here
Give us a call and speak to one of our dedicated admissions specialists.
STEP#2
Discuss any questions, logistics, insurance, and payment options.
STEP#3
Get assessed and evaluated so we can better understand your history, current challenges, and goals for treatment.
STEP#4
We help you develop a program schedule, find the right level of care that works for you, and begin healing.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Facilities and Amenities
Are meals provided during the program?
We work with a trusted catering company to provide nutritious meals during residential treatment. If you have special dietary requirements, please notify us during the admissions process.
How do you incorporate wellness into the program?
Wellness is at the core of everything we do, seamlessly integrated into every aspect of treatment. We believe true healing involves addressing the mind, body, and spirit together through personalized, trauma-informed care. Our approach combines evidence-based addiction medicine with holistic therapies like sauna, cold plunge, yoga, and meditation to support nervous system regulation and emotional balance.
How do you ensure my privacy?
We follow strict confidentiality protocols and comply with HIPAA regulations to protect your privacy and personal information. Your data is securely stored in protected systems and never shared without your consent.
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Google Reviews
Chantiel Hevel
I can’t say enough about how nice this facility is and how amazing the staff is. As a family member of a recovering addict it truly brings relief to my heart knowing the workers at Avalon genuinely want to help and bring recovery for the people we love. The love and support without judgement is healing and I cannot recommend them enough! Truly, so grateful for them.
Donald Rayton iii jr
Avalon saved my life!
I was in a pit of misery and despair. My twenty plus years of addiction to meth, and my frequent visits to prison took so much time from my family that I felt like a outcast. In my darkest times I had lost the will to live.
Avalon met my wife and I where we were. Meaning in our addiction. They treated us with kindness and absolute understanding, because many of the staff have been down the same paths. There’s nothing like a bunch of complete strangers treating you like they’ve known you for years. Not passing judgement, or acting like they’re above you.
Their approach to addiction counseling is so easy going and understandable that it’s a wonder they ever have open beds. This place is beautiful. The staff is amazing! The CEO makes himself available to clients for small talk and wisdom. The Director is a Wizard! From the Nursing Staff to the Clinical Staff everyone comes to work smiling. You can clearly tell everyone in the building has your best interest at heart.
Today my wife and I are doing amazing. Avalon has armed us with tools to battle our addiction. The work is a constant grind. But it is worth every minute. I’m now available for my family in a way I have never been.
There is no way to measure the gratitude I have for the people at 801 Iowa St. These people are my family now. They are genuine and intentional in all they do. Lawrence, Kansas is lucky to have this place in the community. For it not for them I would still be either in jail, prison, or worse DEAD.
Thank you Avalon! For helping me to take back my life.
God Bless
Derek Fuller
I would recommend Avalon to anyone looking to make a positive and healthy change in their life. I’ve personally struggled with addiction and alcoholism all of my adult life and needed a change, was dreading rehab based on what I had heard from people I knew who had went to various different places. Avalon made me feel comfortable from the very beginning delivering a family oriented atmosphere that allowed me to feel confident in opening up, getting to the root causes of what lead me to and kept me in my addiction for so long. The facilities are amazing with a game room, spa, weight room and soon a pool, however, these are all just bonuses to the amazing staff who genuinely care about everyone who walks through their doors. They are focused on a unique approach to recovery that focuses on both physical and mental health in a relaxed caring atmosphere that has given me everything needed to move forward in life sober and healthy!!
P.S. I will forever be grateful to my new found Avalon Fam keep up the good work the world is a better place with y’all in it!!
Sandi Brooks
I have never stepped foot in a more beautiful place to recover. Not only that, but I have never been apart of such an amazing, supportive team of people that all have the same vision of helping the next addict/alcoholic find their way to their own recovery journey. This place has by far exceeded any expectations that I had. I only wish that I would have had a chance to start my own recovery journey off here over 13 years ago. Top Notch!!
Robert Woody
Amazing leadership and a client centered mentality. They use Evidence based recovery techniques combined with 12 step programs. Brand new facility just opened a bit over a month ago. Has a gym, sauna, client recreation with old style stand up arcade games, air hockey, and TV. I wish this facility had been available when I started my recovery. Full inpatient treatment with medically assisted detox! They are even working on opening up the pool! This place is great!!
Andrew Richards
If anyone, and i mean ANYONE is seeking help with addiction, i highly, HIGHLY recommend Avalon. I started their program on June 27th, and im about to celebrate 30 days of recovery on the 19th, and i graduate on the 25th. My life is 100x better than it has been in the last 5 years, and its all thanks to Avalon!!
Avalon Wellness & Recovery
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