Wellness at Valiant · Colorado
Recovery was never just about stopping a behavior. It's about rebuilding your relationship with yourself, and building a life where all of you gets healthy. Here, that work happens every single day, and a lot of it happens outside.
Not an add on
Anyone can take a yoga class once in a while. At Valiant, wellness is woven into the fabric of the program: every man is introduced to the Five Pillars framework from the moment he arrives, and his treatment plan runs through them for as long as he's here. The goal isn't a fit stay in treatment. It's a toolbox for a connected, purposeful life, one he carries home.
Ask our alumni where the deepest work happened and you'll hear about trails, rivers, and summit mornings at least as often as the group room. That's by design.
The framework
Created by our Director of Wellness, Malissa Fantanarosa, the Five Pillars give every man a map for the whole of his life, and a weekly practice simple enough to actually keep.
Movement is the first thing addiction takes and the first thing we give back: morning walks in the first sunlight, strength work, yoga, and trail miles that remind a man what his body can do.
Not religion, unless it is for you. Connection to nature, to purpose, to your values, to something bigger than ego and fear. It's the pillar men most often rediscover on a hard climb.
Clarity and focus, rebuilt on purpose: mindfulness, meditation, journaling, and the discipline of one small goal at a time instead of the noise of everything at once.
Feelings that got shoved down for years learn to move again, in breath work, in process groups, and in the honest conversations that happen easier on a trail than across a table.
Addiction isolates; recovery connects. Brotherhood, accountability, and the practice of being truly known are built into every week here, because connection is the antidote.
How it works
Monday
A 75 minute process group where every man sets one small, achievable goal in each of the five pillars. Specific, not sweeping. Small enough to actually happen this week.
Midweek
Goals get checked on the move. How's the gym goal coming? What happened with the hard conversation at home? Men learn to hold each other accountable, not just be held.
Thursday & Saturday
Out of the group room and into the Colorado wild: trails, rivers, cold water, sound baths, sweat lodge. Built around the week’s theme, with deep process time on purpose.
Throughout
Guided breath work and meditation run through every week. It’s somatic: when the body reaches a heightened state while knowing it’s safe, what was pushed down can finally surface.
Malissa's word for it
The group room is a powerful place for connection. But some of the most powerful breakthroughs our men experience don't happen in a therapy chair. They happen on trails, waist deep in cold water, in the sweat lodge, in a sound bath. There's something about being in nature that lets a man feel less inhibited, less guarded, more free, and every experiential day is built with deep process time so what surfaces has somewhere to go.
The multi day trips have a name that fits what they actually are: experiential immersions, not camping trips. Three or four days off the grid, planned around real therapeutic work, with a therapist on every trip. What happens out there is sacred space for the man who's healing; he shares it when he's home, if he chooses to. Ski trips carry the same work through the winter.
The toolbox
Our partner in wellness
Steps from our Greenwood Village campus, Club Greenwood gives our clients a full athletic club throughout treatment: weight rooms, swimming, pickleball, tennis, basketball, group fitness, and more. Malissa works directly with their staff and trainers so a man's time there is an extension of his treatment plan, not a break from it.
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A word from Malissa
Director of Wellness · Creator of the Five Pillars
Our outdoor experiential activities are more than just exercises; they are transformative experiences designed to reconnect you with your inner strength and the healing power of nature. Together, we will explore activities that not only challenge but also inspire. My team and I are committed to making each moment of your journey with us a step towards a healthier, more balanced life.
In health and spirit, Malissa
Malissa brings three decades of teaching yoga and leading teacher trainings to Valiant. Her approach is practical and unintimidating: small steps, done consistently, that add up to real change.
Hear it from Malissa
Malissa joined the Valiant Living Podcast to unpack the whole framework: experiential healing, the weekly practice, and the couples check in. The episode comes with a free Five Pillars guide, with reflection questions and weekly check in pages you can start using this week, on your own or with your spouse.
Listen and get the free guideSmall steps. Consistently. For you.
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