Camping
Fourteen acres under the stars. Bring your own tent; showers and the pool are yours.
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Cábala: Luna Nueva
A small festival
we built ourselves.
At a 350-year-old ranch in the desert: house music after dark, slow mornings by day. Rancho de la Osa · Sasabe, Arizona
Filmed on the ranch · Rancho de la Osa
By night a festival · by day a retreat
We built the weekend we wanted to go to.
Three hundred spots, nineteen adobe rooms and one old ranch, about ninety minutes southwest of Tucson. House music after dark, slow mornings by day, and your own room in between. We're a group from the community doing this ourselves, and we're not in it for the money. By the last night, everyone knows each other. Come build it with us.
- Spots
- 300
- Adobe rooms
- 19
- Years of ranch history
- 350
- Nights
- 3
☾ Nights · Music
The desert turns electric
House music at the heart, and everything from cumbia to strings around it, across several stages. The fire's lit, the cantina's open, and there's no city out here to dim the sky. No wristbands. No crowd crush. Three hundred of us and a ranch.
- House
- Cumbia
- Afrobeat
- Jazz
- Classical
- Experimental
☀ Days · Wellness
Slow mornings, warm light
Days are the other half of the weekend, and we take them just as seriously. Sunrise yoga on the lawn, breathwork, sound healing, a swim, then coffee in the shade of the mesquite. The desert is rugged. Your morning doesn't have to be.
- Sunrise yoga on the lawn
- Sound healing & breathwork
- Movement classes & the pool
- Bodywork, craft coffee & desert quiet
The place
A 350-year-old ranch at the end of the road
Rancho de la Osa sits in the high Sonoran desert outside Sasabe, Arizona, about ninety minutes southwest of Tucson, with three and a half centuries of stories in its walls: Pancho Villa's cannonballs, John Wayne in the cantina, presidents and novelists. A Jesuit mission outpost stood on this ground in 1722; it's the cantina now, and it's where we pour the drinks. The adobe rooms opened to guests on Thanksgiving 1924.
Cell service is patchy. We consider this a feature. Come with a full tank, a warm layer for the nights and anything you need for a few days off the grid. Directions and a packing list come in your pre-arrival email.
Where you'll sleep
Sleep on the ranch
Nineteen rooms in the historic adobe, each taking up to five (its beds, plus floor space for sleeping bags), or a spot under the stars on fourteen acres of camping. Split a room and you only pay your own share. Rooms and camping open to the list first.
Hacienda rooms
A queen or two twins, fireplace in most. Two in the beds, up to five with sleeping bags on the floor.
6 rooms
Kings, suites & group rooms
A king, a suite, or two to three beds and a sitting room. Up to five: the beds, plus floor space for sleeping bags.
13 rooms
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The list
You'll always hear first
Rooms, camping and tickets open to the list before they open to everyone, and the list hears the dates and the lineup first.
We'll write when there's something worth your time, like the dates and when your early booking opens. Book with this same email address. Unsubscribe any time. Or follow @cabala.retreat.
The debut · October 2025 & Primavera · March 2026
What it looks like out here
Night photography by @Amogaiaa
Good to know
Before you book
Do I need a ticket if I book a room?
Yes. A room or campsite is where you sleep; the ticket is how you get in. Everyone needs one.
Can we split a room?
Yes, up to five of you: the beds, plus floor space for sleeping bags. Book the room, add your people, and everyone pays their own share from their own link, in full or weekly or monthly. Nobody has to front it.
What if my plans change?
Rooms and camping are refundable until two weeks before. Tickets can't be refunded, but you can pass yours to a friend at face value.
Who can come?
Anyone 21 and over. Everyone registers once (account, waiver, ID check) and shows a QR at the gate. It scans with no signal.
How remote is it?
Remote. Sasabe is near the border, ninety minutes from Tucson, with no city glow. Cell service is patchy. We consider this a feature.
Is this like the big festivals?
We're a small one: three hundred spots, built by a few of us from Arizona. Come see.