Heat trapped in Cathedral Ceiling-Options?

So I have cathedral ceilings on the main floor of my house. they slope from about 10ft to 16ft, and continue up to about 18ft on the 2nd level. House is a custom split level. It transitions from 16ft peak to a 18ft peak at a half stair(5 steps) in the middle of the main floor. Using an IR camera and ir thermometer I can see that a lot of heat is being trapped up between 2 sets of beams at the 14-16ft area, and then again at the peak itself around 18ft. The section above the stairs that goes to 18ish ft is where the bedrooms start and a hallway start, so essentially you have 18ft ceilings and a doorway on 2 sides, so getting heat into the bedrooms takes quite a while. But in general, the beams have not that much to do with it, and the high ceilings themselves are trapping a lot of heat.

I do not have ceiling fans anywhere on the cathedral ceiling, nor is it feasible to put them in easily.

I was thinking of getting one of those vortex tornado type fans to help circulate the hot air that is trapped up in the high ceilings. Has anyone used these? Would they be a good option in this situation?

Will post some pics here shortly

Excuse the mess, haha

bjkjoseph said:

Convection stoves are not good with cathedral ceilings..They are great if you have clearance issues..My sisters house has 30 foot cathedral ceilings we chose the jotul for that reason...I see that your getting the progress hybrid that should solve a lot of your problem.

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I was thinking the same thing actually, really curious to see how big a difference it will be when I get the PH installed