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We are Pamela & Dwayne Siekman, and we built Vespr after a life that looked complete from the outside and felt fractured underneath it.
Through searching and learning, what we eventually found was not another practice to add to a pile, it was a way of tending to the wholeness at once. Every practice you will meet at Vespr, we tried ourselves first, in the years we needed them most and they are what we share now with every guest that arrives at our sanctuary.
Read Our Founder Story
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A love story between two people, told through the four bodies it took to heal — and the light that guided them home.
We fell in love fifteen years ago, in the world of public policy, where our days were built from strategy sessions, late-night negotiations, and the electric pull of influence, we found each other before we fully found ourselves. Ours was a partnership forged in intensity — a marriage built alongside a career, both demanding constant devotion. We thrived on it together: the wins that felt like victories, the doors that only opened for two, the sense of standing in the room where it happened, side by side. But beneath the surface, something was slipping out of rhythm — not just in us, but between us. The pace, the compromises, the endless churn of stress left us disconnected from our bodies, our minds racing, our emotions swinging between the high of influence and the low of burnout, our spirits quietly suffocating. We had built something admired by every outside measure. And yet the love at the center of it all was profoundly imbalanced.
So we started reaching for each other differently. Meditation on hard mornings. Sound baths on Sunday nights. Spiritual books read alongside each other in bed. Workouts to burn off what the day had left behind. Small offerings, given to one another, in search of relief. They helped, in moments — but they were fragments, not a framework. A calmer body after meditation couldn't hold a racing mind for long. The tenderness of a sound bath faded once old patterns crept back in. We were tending to each other's symptoms, not the root imbalance running beneath the life we had built.
Curiosity carried us to Jackson, Wyoming, and to the ancient wisdom of the Medicine Wheel — known across cultures by many names: the Sacred Hoop to many Indigenous peoples of North America, the Solar Wheel in Nordic tradition, the Wheel of Taranis to the Celts. The Medicine Wheel teachings shift from community to community, and even the direction a person begins the Wheel changes with the tradition that holds it. But a foundational thread runs through nearly all of them: that everything comes in fours — four seasons, four stages of life, four cardinal directions, four bodies — and that the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical only find wellness as one interconnected whole. Love, we realized, holds by that same law: all four bodies moving in harmony, the hoop unbroken. Neglect one, and the whole relationship feels it. It wasn't philosophy to us; it was a map — one we still walk alongside those who walked it before us, those who walk it with us now, and those who will walk it long after we're gone. We followed it further, to a Medicine Wheel retreat in Bali, where we knelt beside each other in ceremony and felt, for the first time in years, in rhythm — not just as individuals healing, but as two people falling back in love with the life they were building.
For more than a decade before that, we had already been students together — following Dave Asprey's longevity work, tracking our biomarkers, experimenting with nootropics and the latest tech, chasing sharper focus and steadier energy side by side. Those results opened the door to deeper teachers: Michael Singer's invitation to stop resisting life and return to the present moment; Peter Crone's work dissolving the limiting beliefs we had carried into our marriage as much as our careers; Dr. Joe Dispenza's science of rewiring the body through intention and elevated emotion. Together, their teachings gave our love a foundation it had never had — surrender, clarity, and the willingness to keep choosing each other, differently.
Then the practices became ritual, and the ritual became intimacy. Breathwork became something we did side by side, conscious breath calming two overstimulated nervous systems at once, releasing years of tension stored from deadlines and debates we had fought through as a team. Sound baths became a shared surrender — crystal bowls, gongs, drumming, and chimes moving stuck energy between us, quieting two minds instead of one, inviting the kind of emotional release that only happens when someone else is holding space beside you. These weren't self-care. They were oneness. And the more we practiced, the more we recognized what we were really building: not just a healthier marriage, but a shared calling.
We named it Vespr — an old name for Venus, the planet the ancients also called the day star and the night star, because it is one of the only lights that can be seen at both dawn and dusk. To Native and Indigenous skywatchers, Venus was constancy itself: the light that opens the day and the light that closes it, present through every phase, visible in both brightness and dark. That is what our love had become to us, and what we wanted Vespr to become for others — a light that holds steady through every season of a life, guiding the four bodies back into rhythm with one another. Vespr draws directly from the medicine wheel’s four-body framework, offering ritual-based healing and modern tools inside a wellness framework that never asks you to choose between the spiritual and the scientific.
We believe optimal wellbeing isn't the absence of illness — it's the full expression of vitality over time, held inside a love, a partnership, a place, designed to bring your four bodies back into balance within a sacred, nature-rooted setting.
Today, Vespr isn't just a business we co-founded. It's the truest expression of the love story that built it. Leaving the lobbying world didn't feel like defeat — it felt like fulfillment, carrying forward the discipline and drive that served us there into a life devoted to guiding others toward the same wholeness we found in each other. Walking away meant releasing a proven identity, a lucrative career, and thirty years of hard-earned respect. It was terrifying. It took real bravery — the kind you can only find when you trust someone enough to leap together. We sold our home in Ohio, packed up a life, and drove toward Colorado with no guaranteed path, following the same pull westward that had first brought us to the medicine wheel. We landed in the foothills of southwest Denver, in a canyon that would become the physical home of our love story — and of Vespr.
The medicine wheel reminds us that life moves in circles: every ending births a new beginning. Venus reminds us that the same light can open a day and close it, that devotion doesn't dim — it just changes position in the sky.
If you're feeling the pull toward greater alignment — in your body, your relationships, or a quiet knowing that there's more — Vespr is here. The Wheel is always turning, the light is always rising somewhere. The invitation is to step into it, breathe deeply, and come home to yourself, and to each other.
Abracadabra (I create as I speak)! Let's fall in love with life again.
— Pamela and Dwayne Siekman, Founders of Vespr
