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Private Room · Just Two of These

The Cloud Room

Room Description

Enjoy soft light from first morning to last evening in this private room, with French doors that open onto a balcony of your own above the gardens. One king bed made for sleeping in, and a marble spa bath kept for the two private rooms alone, just down the hall.

Room Amenities

  • One king bed, a private room for one
  • Private balcony over the gardens, through French doors
  • Marble spa bath down the hall, shared only with the Ruby Room
  • Light-filled, garden views
  • Complimentary WiFi
  • Individual climate control
  • Flat-screen TV
  • Free parking on the estate
About the bath: Cloud and Ruby are the two private rooms, and they share one marble spa bath a few steps down the hall. It is never far, and it is only ever the two of you.

Book your bed

Every bed includes the full retreat, October 22–25, 2026. When a bed is taken, it is taken.

King bed · private room

One woman · private room · shared spa bath

$7,500

Or pay over time: $1,050 deposit, then $2,150/mo × 3

Deposit & Cancellation

A deposit reserves your bed the moment your booking goes through. You can pay in full, or choose the payment plan: a deposit today, then three monthly payments.

Because each circle is small and held with care, reservations are final. Deposits are non-refundable, and the retreat is non-refundable in full, for any reason.

Travel insurance is warmly encouraged, so you are covered if life asks you to change your plans.

Join the retreat waitlist

Not ready to reserve a bed? The waitlist is first to hear when a bed opens or a new circle forms. Or ask Angela a question.

Picture Yourself Here

Close your eyes for a moment. This is where you land.

Before you choose, let the place come to you. Press play, and imagine your days here, between the sessions and the horses, in a house made for resting.

A film of the Malibu retreat estate

The Malibu estate at twilight: a white Italian villa with a bell tower, terraced gardens, palms, a lit pool, and the Santa Monica Mountains behind

The Setting

A restored Italian villa in the Malibu hills

Our Malibu circle gathers at a private estate above the coast. An Italian villa on 51 secluded acres, with the Pacific on one side and the Santa Monica Mountains on the other. Grief asks for a place that can hold it, somewhere beautiful and quiet and entirely your own, and this is that place.

51
Acres of privacy
360°
Ocean & mountain views
8
Bedrooms across the villa
Pool & spa
Jacuzzi, gym, gardens, koi ponds

Everything on the estate

  • Pool
  • Jacuzzi
  • Spa
  • Fitness gym
  • Tennis court
  • Zen garden
  • Koi ponds
  • Pizza oven
  • Lighthouse
  • Gardens & grounds
  • Coffee in the kitchen
  • Estate-wide WiFi

The story of this place

For a long time this was ranchland, a wild stretch of the Malibu hills once known as Rancho Del Sol Pacifico. In 1997 a family took it on and poured decades of care into it, planting award-winning Cabernet vineyards and raising more than a hundred Andalusian horses in its stables, until the whole hillside was a working estate humming with life.

In November 2018, the Malibu Canyon fires swept through and took much of it. The winery and many of the horses were among the losses. What stands here now is what came after: new stewards who spent years, and more than a million dollars, coaxing the gardens back and rebuilding the villa into the place you see today.

There is something quietly fitting about grieving here, in a place that was lost and lovingly remade. It is where our very first retreat was held, and it is where this circle gathers again.

The other rooms

Seven bedrooms, thirteen beds, one circle of women. Find the one that feels like yours.