The Ascent
Within
Three days to remember who you are beneath everything you've learned to carry.
Three days. Real liberation. A breakthrough you can trust.
You have done the work alone long enough, and some part of you already knows there is still something that has not shifted.
I am inviting you into three days at an extraordinary retreat, built to give you the breakthrough you are ready for, and practices you can keep for the rest of your life.
This is for the spiritual seeker who has done the work. Read the books. Tried the approaches. And is ready to go past all of it, to the place inside where change actually happens, not the place where you talk about change.
Three days. 30 people. One weekend that can change the direction of everything that comes after it. If any part of this is speaking to you, that is not an accident, and it is worth trusting.
This retreat is for you if...
You have done years of real work, therapy, meditation, retreats, personal growth, and something essential has never moved.
You carry emotions in your body that do not entirely feel like yours, inherited grief, ancestral weight, patterns that started long before you were born.
You are the sensitive one, the black sheep, the one who sees what everyone else is carefully not saying, and you are tired of carrying that gift without real support.
Your nervous system lives on alert, and you are bone tired of managing it instead of healing it.
You understand liberation intellectually, but the gap between understanding it and living it is wearing you down.
You have been to retreats that promised transformation and gave you a nice weekend instead, and you are ready for something that actually goes underneath.
You feel separate, like you do not quite belong anywhere, and some part of you suspects that is not a character flaw. It is an unresolved wound, and wounds can close.
You are standing at a turning point, in your life, your relationships, your path, and you want to walk through it in full presence rather than manage your way around it.
You are a healer, an intuitive, a sensitive soul who gives endlessly to others and has been quietly running on empty.
The people who come to this work are extraordinary - and they leave transformed
What We'll Do Together
Transformation doesn't happen through more thinking. It happens through direct experience.
Most of us live from the neck up, running life through the mind's endless commentary. But the body holds truth the mind cannot reach. We are going to listen to what your body has been trying to tell you for years, and finally let it speak.
Over these three days we'll create the conditions for something real to move.
Separate yourself from the stories you've mistaken for yourself
One of the most powerful processes I teach is Inner Critic Work. Together we'll uncover the voice that's quietly shaped your life for years - and discover it isn't who you are. People consistently tell me this is the most powerful work they've ever experienced. It is precise, deeply compassionate, and only possible within the safety of the retreat.
Let your body release what your mind has been carrying
The body holds truth the mind cannot access. Through somatic practices, breathwork and sacred sound, we'll learn to listen to what your body has been trying to tell you - and finally let it speak.
Breathe beyond the thinking mind
Through conscious breathwork and vocal toning, we'll work directly with the body's energy. You don't need to understand everything you're releasing. You only need to be willing to let it go.
Let your spirit carry you to where your mind cannot
Meditation, chanting, sacred ceremony and timeless spiritual practices invite us beyond understanding and into direct experience - where real transformation begins.
Be seen as you truly are
Real transformation requires real witnessing. Not the version of you that manages the room - but the person underneath. No performance. No spiritual résumé. Just you. Every retreat unfolds according to the people who are there and what is ready to be seen, understood and released.
Play as liberation
Transformation isn't only found in silence. Through movement, improvisation and playful expression, we step outside the roles we've been protecting for years. Some of the deepest healing I've witnessed happened when someone finally let themselves be loud, wrong, ridiculous... and completely free.
Your Sunday Morning, Your Choice
Sunday morning offers a choice: an optional Garden of the Gods hike with fellow retreatants, or Satsang and spiritual training with Paul. Paul leads Satsang, not the hike. You are welcome to rest instead.
Full Rate $1,497
Crossing the Threshold
Transformation isn't measured by time.
Sometimes we spend years understanding ourselves.
Then, in a single moment, something shifts.
Not because we've waited long enough.
Because we've finally created the conditions for what is ready to emerge.
That's what these three days are for.
Be Seen In A New Way
One of the greatest gifts we can receive is to be truly seen. Beyond the roles we play. Beyond the masks we've learned to wear. Beyond who we've been trying to become.
For more than 35 years I've worked as a clairvoyant healer, helping people see what they cannot yet see for themselves.
Sometimes it's an old belief quietly shaping an entire life. Sometimes it's a gift that's been hidden beneath years of fear or responsibility. Sometimes it's simply recognizing the extraordinary person that has been there all along.
I never teach the same retreat twice. Every retreat is shaped by the people who come. I guide the work according to what I see unfolding in the room - responding to what is ready to be seen, understood and released.
What Becomes Possible
Imagine trusting yourself without second-guessing.
Imagine waking up feeling lighter.
Imagine no longer carrying responsibility for everyone else's emotions.
Imagine feeling at home in your own body.
Imagine laughing more easily.
Imagine feeling excited about your life again.
Not because your life became perfect.
Because something within you became free.
The Retreat Flow
A detailed look at how each day unfolds - designed for depth, not density
Day One - Fri, Oct 23
Arriving
Settling into The Broadmoor and meeting the group. Opening with love & play.
Day Two - Sat, Oct 24
Descending
A full day of spiritual practice, ancient rituals, and ceremony. This is where you deepen - and the real shifts begin.
Day Three - Sun, Oct 25
Rising
Cacao, a choice of hiking or spiritual training, and integration. Ancient blessing ceremony and practices to take home. If you are hiking, consider checking out of your hotel beforehand - there are plenty of places to rest at The Broadmoor between sessions.
What to Expect Emotionally
The question most people don't ask but everyone wonders: "What if I fall apart?"
You'll leave feeling lighter than you have in years.
Something shifts when you step out of your routine and into a sacred container with people who actually see you. Most attendees describe a feeling of deep renewal - like a weight they forgot they were carrying has quietly lifted. You'll breathe deeper. Sleep better. Laugh easier. The mountain air and the work together create something your body has been waiting for.
You might cry. That's the point.
Not because we push you to break down, but because when the armor finally comes off in a safe container, the body releases what it's been holding. Tears at this retreat are not a sign of weakness. They're a sign that something real is finally moving.
You might feel raw. We've got you.
Paul has held space for over 10,000 people. You will not be left alone with what surfaces. Every exercise has a landing. Every opening has a closing. The container is built to hold whatever comes through.
You might surprise yourself.
Most people arrive thinking they know what they need to work on. By Saturday afternoon, something entirely different has surfaced - something deeper, more real, and more ready to shift than whatever brought you here. Trust the process. It knows where to go.
What People Experience
From workshops, retreats, and private sessions
"The retreat in Sedona was the most transformative week of my life. Paul creates experiences that change you at the cellular level."
Diane P.
Retreat attendee
"I've been to dozens of workshops and retreats. This was the first time something actually shifted in my body - not just my understanding."
Sarah M.
Workshop attendee
"Three sessions with Paul did more than two years of therapy. Not because therapy failed - because Paul reaches places therapy can't."
Rebecca W.
Private client
"I walked in carrying years of heaviness and walked out feeling lighter than I have in a decade."
Maria T.
Event attendee
Real moments from Paul's workshops and events
Your Space Is Waiting
Three Days That Matter
This retreat is deliberately intimate because the work requires it. Every person in the room is held, seen, and met exactly where they are.
Between sessions, The Broadmoor's world-class spa and mountain trails await
The Broadmoor
A Forbes 5-star resort since 1918. Nestled at the base of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, The Broadmoor is one of the most iconic luxury destinations in the world - 5,000 acres of mountain grandeur, a shimmering lake, championship golf, world-class spa, and over 20 restaurants and lounges. This is where ancient landscape meets sacred practice.
Prefer something more affordable? There are excellent hotels and vacation rentals within 2 miles of The Broadmoor at a fraction of the cost. You'll still have full access to every retreat session.
The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs
Forbes 5-Star · Since 1918 · 1 Lake Avenue
5-Star Luxury
World-class spa, dining, and mountain trails
What's Included in Your Retreat
Hotel accommodations, other meals, and travel are booked separately and not included in the retreat price.
Included With Your Registration
Your Retreat Guidebook
On Day One of the retreat, you will receive a beautifully printed 90-page spiral-bound guidebook as our gift to you - featuring ancient teachings, Native American rituals, sacred mantras, breathwork practices, and inspiring divine guidance for liberation.
Created with love by Paul Wagner (Krishna Kalesh), this is your sacred companion for three transformative days and for the journey that continues long after you leave. Inside you will find teachings on sovereignty, ancestral healing, forgiveness, breathwork, sacred ceremony, and the deep inquiry that returns you to yourself.
May every page remind you of who you truly are.
Also Included - Yours the Moment You Register
The Music & Digital Library
Your retreat begins long before you arrive at The Broadmoor. The moment you register, you receive over 20 spiritual songs and mantra songs produced by Paul - healing music from the Vehicles of Light album and beyond, created to soften the heart, quiet the mind, and prepare you for the deep work ahead. Listen on the drive up the mountain. Let them carry you through the weeks before we gather.
You'll also receive over 24 ebooks and worksheets - Paul's complete library of teachings on emotional release, forgiveness, boundaries, intuition, sacred practice, and self-inquiry. A lifetime of wisdom, waiting in your inbox before you ever check in.
Arrive already humming. Arrive already healing.
Your Guide
Paul Wagner
Mystic · Clairvoyant · Intuitive Reader
"You are unlimited in every direction, loved for all time, and more resilient than you know. You were built to heal and grow. It's in your DNA."~ Paul (Paul Wagner)
I once screamed profanity at a 400-pound black bear standing over a fresh kill in the Pecos wilderness until he backed down and let me pass. That is not a metaphor. It happened. And what I learned from that bear - about presence, about fear, about what happens in your body when you stop flinching and simply meet what's in front of you - became the foundation of everything I teach.
I have been walking this path for over 35 years. Not as a philosophy. Not as a brand. As the central organizing fact of my life. I have sat at Amma's feet and felt grace arrive uninvited at 3 in the morning when I had nothing left to give. I have trained with Native American elder shamans and sat in ceremony until everything that wasn't true burned away. I have done more than 10,000 intuitive readings. I created The Shankara Oracle. I walked away from Hollywood and five Emmy Awards because nothing - nothing in 35 years - has ever mattered as much as watching someone finally put down what they've been carrying.
I don't teach from theory. I teach from the scars, from the years of releasing lifetimes of grief before I understood what was moving through me, from the dark nights and the mornings when grace showed up anyway. I am a former comedian who can hold the weight of your deepest pain and make you laugh in the same breath - because both are sacred, and both are part of the work.
My gift is cutting through what isn't real - the bypassing dressed as healing, the performance dressed as transformation, the New Age comfort dressed as depth - to get to what is actually true for you, in this body, at this moment of your life.
What keeps me doing this work after 35 years is the moment when someone finally lets go of what they've been carrying - and something clear and free shows up in its place. That's what this retreat is built for. I'll be in those mountains in October, and I hope you'll join us.
The work is real. The connection is real. The transformation is real.
Amma - the hugging saint, the one who has held more than 40 million human beings in her arms without condition or agenda or price - is the heartbeat behind everything I do. I have been her devotee for more than 35 years. She asked me to open for her at many of her public events. I have wept at her feet, been cracked open in her presence, and been remade more times than I can count by the force of a love that does not require you to be anything other than what you already are.
When I tell you that unconditional love is the actual mechanism of liberation - not a concept, not a value, but the living force by which karma dissolves and the soul remembers itself - I am telling you something I have experienced in my bones, not read in a book.
Every practice in this retreat is rooted in that lineage. When you come to The Broadmoor in October - beneath Cheyenne Mountain, surrounded by ancient red rock formations - you're stepping into something with real depth and real roots.
While You're Here
Colorado Springs isn't just a backdrop. It's part of the medicine.
Garden of the Gods
15 minutes from The Broadmoor
Just fifteen minutes from The Broadmoor, 300-million-year-old red sandstone towers rise from the earth like ancient sentinels. Garden of the Gods is a National Natural Landmark - a place where the Ute people held sacred ceremony long before anyone called it a park. The formations are staggering. Pikes Peak watches from behind. The energy is unmistakable.
Optional Sunday outing, 7:00 - 10:00 AM. Explore with fellow retreatants, or stay for Satsang and spiritual training with Paul. Paul will lead Satsang and will not accompany the hike. Choose what supports you; resting is welcome, too.
300 Million Years Old
Ancient red sandstone formations shaped by time itself
Sacred Ute Land
Ceremonial grounds for indigenous peoples for millennia
Free to Visit
Open year-round with stunning trails and panoramic views
A Personal Note
If you're still reading this, something in you already knows.
You know the feeling I'm describing. The weight that doesn't lift no matter how many books you read, podcasts you listen to, or affirmations you repeat. The sense that you're carrying something that isn't entirely yours - and that the tools you've been given aren't quite reaching it.
I've been doing this work for 35 years. I've sat with thousands of people in that exact place. And what I can tell you is this: the shift you're looking for doesn't happen through more information. It happens through experience. Through being in a room with people who are ready. Through practices old enough and precise enough to reach what modern approaches can't.
This retreat isn't a vacation with a spiritual theme. It's three days of real work - playful, theatrical, ancient, and deeply personal. You will laugh. You will probably cry. You will meet parts of yourself you've been managing instead of healing. And you will leave with tools that actually work, not because I say so, but because they've been working for thousands of years.
The Broadmoor is extraordinary. The mountains are extraordinary. But the real reason to come is simpler than that: you're ready. And readiness, in my experience, doesn't wait around forever.
I'd be honored to have you there.
With love,
Paul
Reserve Your Space
Limited to 30 participants.
Your Retreat
Your three-day retreat · 1 person
$1,497
- All sessions, ceremonies & practices
- Personal guidance from Paul
- Materials, beverages & Saturday breakfast
- Forbes 5-star resort setting
Hotel not included. See below.
Plus One
Bring a loved one (partner/friend)
$697
$1,497
Save $800 on second ticket
Hotel not included. See below.
Includes all sessions, ceremonies, practices, a printed Retreat Companion guide, personal guidance from Paul, coffee/tea/beverages, healthy snacks, and lavish Saturday breakfast.
Hotel is not included and booked separately. Choose the Broadmoor for the full 5-star experience (with special code on the post-purchase Thank You page), or choose from dozens of hotels and Airbnbs at every price point within 3 miles. You do not need to stay at The Broadmoor to attend. Other meals and travel not included.
No RefundsAll sales are final. Retreat tickets are non-refundable but transferable to another person with prior confirmation. See Terms & Conditions.
The Broadmoor
1 Lake Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO
Oct 23 - 25, 2026
Friday 2 PM through Sunday 5 PM
Optional Retreat Enhancements
If you'd like to deepen your retreat experience, you can add these optional experiences during checkout or after you've reserved your place.
Private sessions, personalized reports and sacred ceremonial experiences are optional. A $75 Shankara ceremony-only option is also available at checkout; the Oracle System is not included.
Private Intuitive Session
75 minutes - Private video call Oct 20–21 mid-morning or Oct 28–29 mornings before 11 AM only
A 75-minute private video call with Paul mid-morning on October 20 or 21, or in the morning on October 28 or 29 before 11:00 AM only. Receive clairvoyant reading, somatic guidance, and personal spiritual direction tailored to you. These private sessions are not held during the retreat.
Soul Dharma & Vedic Astrology Blueprint
Delivered before you arrive
Your personal 200+ page Astrology & Human Design Report woven from nine ancient traditions - Western, Vedic, Human Design, BaZi, Numerology, Ayurveda, and more. Delivered before the retreat so Paul can reference your exact karmic patterns, planetary cycles, and soul design throughout the weekend. Not a generic horoscope - a precision map of who you are.
Shankara Oracle Sunrise Ceremony + Shankara Oracle Complete System
Sacred sunrise ceremony · Take home a Shankara Oracle System
A sacred sunrise reading with Paul using The Shankara Oracle - his channeled divination system with 4 oracle decks and 18 sacred gemstones. You'll receive a deeply personal reading in the mountain dawn, and you take home a complete Shankara Oracle System of your own.
These enhancements are available after you reserve your place. Private sessions are first-come, first-served.
Questions You Might Have
The honest ones - not the polished FAQ version
Something Brought You Here
Let me be straightforward with you.
The fact that you've read this far means something. A part of you is responding to what's here - and that part tends to know what it needs.
Trust that response.
The work we do together at The Broadmoor - the embodied exercises, the inner critic work, the Native American rituals at the mountain lodge - is grounded, practical, and real. It's the practice of releasing what isn't serving you, so you can finally live with the clarity and freedom that's been waiting underneath.
30 people. Three days. A Forbes 5-star resort beneath Cheyenne Mountain. I'll be there, and I'd be honored to have you in the room.
Limited to 30 participants.
Questions? Reach out to Paul or email directly.
A Glimpse of What Awaits
Sacred ceremony, mountain sunrises, fireside connection, and the quiet moments between - this is what three days at The Broadmoor looks like.
Sacred Circle Ceremony
A Full Room at a Recent Awaken Workshop
Real Teachings, Real Rooms, Real People
The Broadmoor at Golden Hour
Sunrise Meditation
Optional Garden of the Gods Hike
Evening Sharing Circle
Mountain Trail Walk
Fireside Connection
Sunday Tea Ceremony
The Mountain Lodge
Under the Colorado Sky
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