A private retreat with Ken Honda, JAPAN's "Zen Millionaire"
Come into the mountains of Yatsugatake and leave a different person, step into a new level of abundance and purpose that await you.
October 4–7, 2026
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Yatsugatake, Japan
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Accommodation included
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As Seen On
Most people who find their way here are already doing well. It is something deeper that brings them. See if any of these feel like reading your own mind.
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You've built real success, and still there's a ceiling you keep bouncing off.
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The money comes. It just never quite feels like enough, and a small guilt comes with it.
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You're happy, on paper. And still, somehow, not yet fulfilled.
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You can feel a bigger life, your Ikigai, waiting just out of reach.
If even one of these is you, please keep reading.
The next four days were built exactly for you.
A few of the people who sat in this room, and walked out changed.
“I have all the skills and tactics to make millions. But I had this income cap I always bounced back off. Nothing tactical fixed it. Here, the heaviness is gone. It feels like a huge weight fell off my shoulders, and now everything is directed in one direction.”
Benjamin
Sweden
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I always believed I never had enough, so I kept wanting more and more. Ken walked me back to where that came from, and gave me clarity. Now I can spend freely, without guilt. I feel powerful, energized.
Victor
Penang, Malaysia
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I was happy, but not fulfilled. I came to find what was missing. Everybody's session, the advice they gave to others, applied to me. It feels like everyone here is guiding me, and Ken is guiding me through it all.
Tomoko
New York
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“Ken has a gift for gathering loving, caring people. I learned that wealth is so much more than money. After a few days, you feel like you've known everyone for ten years. Now I'm off to speaking and writing from here.”
Mark
United States
You could spend the next ten years pushing against the same ceiling on your own. Or you could spend four days in this room with me.
I retired at 29, and since then I have surveyed more than 12,000 self-made millionaires, listening for what actually lets someone build wealth and feel worthy of it. It is almost never a new tactic. It is the money story running underneath everything.
Over four days, we change that story, and rebuild it into abundance. Here is how each day unfolds.
You already know how to make money. What decides how much of it stays, and how it feels when it arrives, is the blueprint you inherited long before you could choose it.
On the first day, together, we begin to upgrade it. Slowly, the ceiling you have bounced off for years starts to move.
Together, we begin
Overcoming self-sabotage
Expanding your money container
Shifting your vibration
Attracting more synchronicities
Many of us carry a wound around money, a feeling absorbed in childhood that we were never quite allowed to have enough. On the second day we find it gently, and we let it go.
As the block softens, your own abundance stops feeling like something you have to chase, and starts feeling like something you can simply receive.
Together, we work on
Releasing the energy blocks that slow your abundance
Healing your emotional wealth wounds
Taking charge of your own money flow
By the third day the walls are down, and this is where we rise. Not by grinding harder, but by aligning everything, your gifts, your purpose, your relationship with money, so that prosperity can flow from your Ikigai with ease.
This is the day people describe as being truly seen, and as remembering the life they were actually made for.
Together, we move into
Creating prosperity with balance
Upleveling your Ikigai
Spiritual activations, led by Ken Honda
The last day is for making it real in your body, not just your mind. Through group work, ritual, and a great deal of joy, the new you stops being an idea and becomes the way you move.
You do not go home to start your dream life someday. You started it here, and everyone you meet next will feel the difference.
Together, we close with
Group integration and embodiment
Rituals to seal the shift
A joyful celebration, kimono and all
One at a time, people take the seat at the front and work with me directly. Bring the money block, the fear, or the pattern that has been weighing on you, and bring it straight to me.
We stay with it together until you can see it from somewhere new, and find a way forward that feels more aligned and more peaceful. And when it is someone else's turn, stay close: almost everyone finds a piece of their own story sitting in somebody else's.
Nowhere else do I sit this near you, for this long, in person. That is why the circle stays small, and why we speak with every single person before they join.
In a room this intimate, the experience each of you has depends on everyone else in it, and that matters more to me than growing the room. If you feel called, this is the moment to reach out.
High in the beautiful Yatsugatake mountains of Yamanashi, Japan, this is a thoughtfully designed space where breathtaking nature, high vibrational architecture, and revitalizing energy set the stage for real transformation.
Nothing outside of you has to change for everything to feel better.
You stop chasing, start receiving, and abundance begins to flow to you.
An income ceiling you keep bouncing off
Money that comes with guilt, and never feels like enough
The money wound handed to you as a child
Successful on paper, still unfulfilled
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A blueprint rebuilt for more, so the ceiling finally lifts.
Receiving freely, with ease and gratitude, no guilt attached.
A pattern that ends with you, instead of reaching your children.
Living your Ikigai, with true wealth flowing from it.
“It's not enough to build more systems or strategies. What changes everything is realizing what's actually been holding you back, and letting it go.”
Mindy
Mexico City
Four days. A small circle. Ken RIGHT beside you.
For years, you have learned from Ken Honda from afar. This is your rare chance to be in the same room and to be worked with in-person.
Early-bird rate
$5,555
USD
Only a limited number of spots at this rate. The price moves to the next tier very soon.
If this already feels like yours, hop on a quick alignment call with my team. No pressure either way.
This is what people actually carry home.
“I'm half Japanese, and coming here has been a pilgrimage, a feeling of coming home. Integrating Ken's work built this beautiful, abundant balance I'd been needing. I feel truly seen, and held in the space to grow.”
Sarah
Los Angeles
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The past four days have been beyond transformational. I'm coming away from this a different person. Uplifted. Transformed. More profitable, and living my life purpose in a more fulfilling way. That was the day that changed my life for the better.
David
United States
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It was very uplifting. Deep healing. We finally talked about the things you never get to touch in normal life. I'm still processing transformations deep enough to make me rethink my whole path.
Stella
Brussels
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There's an intense amount of fun, excitement, and learning here. Being here re-energized me to follow what I really believe in. I'd hesitated on my book for years, but now I have the confidence to move forward.
Ghary
Bangkok
Everything you might wonder about your trip to Japan, swipe through below.
We got you covered at the retreat center.
Accommodation · included
Your lodging and all meals are included. Pre-arranged group taxis carry you between the hotel and the retreat each day. Nothing to book, nothing extra to pay.
Getting there
Fly to either Haneda (HND) or Narita (NRT) airports. It will take 2~3 hours to Yatsugatake by express train. If you arrive in Japan on October 4, please land before 9 AM.
Visa
Travelers from 60+ countries, including the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia, enter visa-free for up to 90 days. Keep your passport valid for the trip.
Money
Cards are widely accepted; carry some cash for small shops and temples. There is no tipping in Japan.
Language
English isn't widely spoken by hotel or taxi staff. Download the Papago app before you travel and you'll be fine.
Electricity
Plugs match North America's. If you're coming from the EU, UK, or Australia, pack a simple travel adapter.
Weather · early October
Mountain weather changes quickly. Pack warm layers and a jacket for cool mornings and evenings.
What to pack
Warm layers, a jacket, and shoes that slip off easily (we're shoes-off indoors). Bring something nice for the celebration night, too.
When:
October 4–7, 2026
Where:
Yatsugatake, Japan
Included:
Lodging & all meals
Your host
Ken Honda is the living proof of the thing you came here for. A truly wealthy man who is at peace with money, and one of the world's gentlest teachers on the way we relate to it. He has helped hundreds of thousands of people make peace with money and create rich lives on their own terms.
With more than 9 million books sold, including his global bestseller Happy Money, Ken draws on decades of wisdom, his years beside Wahei Takeda, the beloved investor known as the “Warren Buffett of Japan,” and his study of 12,000 self-made millionaires.
His practical wisdom blends financial understanding with Money EQ, so your gifts, your money, and your purpose can finally sit in the same room, and abundance can flow toward you with ease.
Your co-host
A Chinese-Vietnamese-Canadian turned global citizen, Zen Qian is the Co-founder of Happy Ikigai with Ken Honda. As an international speaker, business healer, and community architect, he blends intuitive guidance with visionary leadership to everything he creates.
He has also generated eight figures of "happy revenue" for transformational brands, including Next Level Academy, LeapVista, and Mindvalley. And he now empowers leaders to step into greatness without losing their heart and purpose.
A personal note for you
Of everything I do, this is the only place I get to work with you this closely in person.
Once a year, I open my retreat center here in Japan, and I keep it small on purpose. Only once, and only in person, because healing this deep, the kind that ends a pattern for generations, is hard to reach through a screen.
It happens when we sit together, up close, for four days.
Maybe money still feels heavy, even when everything looks fine from the outside. Maybe you feel a little guilty when it comes to you, or it never quite feels like enough. Please hear me. There is nothing wrong with you. You learned this feeling when you were very small, long before you could choose it.
In this room, we set that old story down together, gently, until something softens. You begin to feel your own worth again, the kind that has nothing to do with a number. And your Ikigai, the life you were made for, stops feeling far away. If your heart feels the call, come. It would be my honor to sit with you.
