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Dimly lit Santa Monica Proper guestroom at night with an arched headboard and woven pendant light

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The pace of modern life has made deep, restorative sleep much harder to achieve.

Artificial light after dark, screens in bed, warm rooms, late meals, alcohol, caffeine, travel and always-on stress have pulled the body out of its natural recovery rhythm. Poor sleep is what you feel, but the cause sits upstream. Sleep Week is the world's first Precision Sleep Design Intensive, built to find the specific modern inputs disrupting your recovery and design them out, night by measured night.

4

Days

3

Measured nights

7

Recovery systems

Recover deeper. Restore balance. Perform longer. You leave with measured results, a physician-reviewed recovery blueprint and a Coherence Recovery Kit™.

Not a sleep retreat. This is a sleep design intensive that reduces biological noise and rebuilds the conditions for quality rest and recovery.

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Program design and clinical operations

Johns Hopkins Sleep Medicine

Proposed medical partner

Santa Monica Proper Hotel

Proposed prototype location

A proposed collaboration with Johns Hopkins Sleep Medicine and Santa Monica Proper Hotel. No formal approval, endorsement, license or launch is stated or implied.

A new category

Not a sleep amenity. A design discipline.

Most hotel sleep programs improve one night. Sleep Week measures how your systems currently function together, isolates the sources of biological noise, and designs the conditions that let restorative sleep emerge on its own.
Sleep design room at Santa Monica Proper: an arched backlit headboard, Johns Hopkins Medicine pillows and coastal night window, annotated with circadian lighting, acoustic balance, thermal precision and a medical-grade mattress

Hotel sleep package

Sleep Design™

Duration

One comfortable night

Three instrumented nights

Night one records your biological baseline; nights two and three calibrate one system layer at a time.

Method

Curated amenities

Seven recovery systems calibrated in sequence

Circadian, thermal, acoustic, atmospheric, behavioral, nutritional and cognitive variables are moved separately so a response can be attributed.

Evidence base

Wellness sourcing

Recovery science and systems physiology

Protocols and expert review informed by Johns Hopkins Sleep Medicine, with claims graded and cited.

Screening

No intake

Validated instruments and apnea risk screening

Completed before arrival. Findings that suggest a disorder are referred to clinical care.

Surface

Pillow menu

Three-surface thermal and support comparison

Judged on your own recorded nights rather than ten minutes in a showroom.

Attribution

Generic advice

Ranked sources of biological noise

Nine factors assessed together, then ordered by how strongly each appeared in your own data.

Scope

Body only

Whole-system coherence

Stress, rumination and mood are treated as recovery variables, not side issues.

Oversight

App-generated tips

Recovery Intelligence drafts, a clinician decides

Every recovery blueprint is reviewed and signed by a physician before release.

Afterwards

Ends at checkout

Personal recovery system and 90-day protocol

Success is measured at home, where recovery capacity is actually built or lost.

Others sell a better night. Sleep Week designs a body that recovers.

Definition

What is biological coherence?

Coherence means balance. It is the synchronized functioning of the body's major systems.
COHERENCEBALANCE

When your nervous system, circadian rhythm, respiration, temperature regulation, metabolism, hormones and recovery mechanisms work together, the body enters a highly restorative state.

Sleep quality improves naturally because your systems are functioning together, not because you forced yourself to sleep longer. The goal is not to manufacture sleep. The goal is to restore human biological coherence.

    01

    Nervous system

    Autonomic balance

    02

    Circadian rhythm

    Internal clock timing

    03

    Respiration

    Airway and breathing pattern

    04

    Temperature regulation

    Core and surface

    05

    Metabolism

    Fuel and glucose timing

    06

    Hormones

    Cortisol and melatonin phase

    07

    Recovery mechanisms

    Clearance and repair

    RESULT

    Restorative sleep emerges

    Sleep is the most measurable expression of recovery, not the target itself.

The two questions Sleep Design answers

Every measurement, session and night exists to answer two questions.

Annotated Coherence Recovery Suite at Santa Monica Proper at dusk showing scent, sound, circadian light, clinical instrumentation, temperature, humidity, designed sleep surface and overnight monitoring

01

Where is my biological coherence breaking down?

Nine sources of biological noise assessed together, then ranked by how strongly each appeared across your own three measured nights.

02

What must be designed differently at home?

Each finding becomes one ordered protocol in a physician-reviewed recovery blueprint, with a Coherence Recovery Kit matched to measured need.

The four-day intensive

Baseline. Noise. Design. System.

Each day builds on the night before. Select a day to see the sequence, the provider and the anticipated outcome.

Day 1

Measure Your Biological Baseline

Arrival, intake, physician review, first measured night

Nothing is designed on the first night. Before any calibration, the program measures how your systems currently function together, in a default environment.

Coherence Recovery Suite at dusk with a Johns Hopkins Medicine recovery specialist on a live telehealth session on the in-room screen
Live telehealth session with a Johns Hopkins recovery specialist
  1. Provider
    Recovery Concierge
    Anticipated recovery outcome
    Personal goals recorded; Coherence Recovery Suite™ controls understood.
    • No front-desk process
    • Introduction to the suite's Seven Recovery Systems™ controls
    • Walkthrough of the four-day sequence
    • Personal goals and definition of recovery success recorded
Guest resting on the sunlit steps of the rooftop pool at Santa Monica Proper
Daytime light exposure and rooftop recovery blocks are designed inputs, not amenities. Morning and afternoon light anchor circadian alignment each day.

Human Coherence Dashboard™

Responses are measured, including the ones that do not improve.

Night One records your biological baseline. Nights Two and Three test designed change. Improvement, deterioration and uncertainty are all reported.

Three measured nights, compared with your own coherence baseline

Night 1 is the undesigned baseline. Night 2 tests the calibrated recovery environment. Night 3 tests the complete personalized recovery sequence.

Illustrative guest data, not a medical recordBetter is higher for duration (h)

Night 1

Baseline

72°F · 1180 ppm CO₂ · 38 dB · 6 awakenings

Night 2

Calibrated environment

67°F · 780 ppm CO₂ · 30 dB · 4 awakenings

Night 3

Full protocol

66°F · 690 ppm CO₂ · 29 dB · 2 awakenings

Source: Illustrative Sleep Week sample dataset, 2026, not a medical record

Improvement, regression and uncertainty are all shown. A three-night comparison indicates the direction your systems are moving; it does not establish a diagnosis.

Prototype output

Personal Biological Noise Ranking

Human Recovery Intelligence ranks candidate sources of biological noise by the strength of the relationship it observed across your three nights, and states its confidence. Items needing clinical judgment are flagged for physician review rather than answered by the system.

Illustrative guest data, not a medical record
  • Awakenings clustered in the first half of the night at 72°F and fell sharply at 66–67°F.

AI-assisted. Clinician reviewed. Screening indicators are never presented as a diagnosis.

Deliverable

Recovery Blueprint, preview

Recovery window

Sleep opportunity 10:45 PM – 6:15 AM; fixed wake time 6:15 AM, including weekends

Recovery surface finding

Medium-firm hybrid with active cooling layer (Surface B), fewest awakenings and highest efficiency

Follow-up

90-day tracking with review at day 30 and day 90. Breathing indicators re-checked; formal evaluation if symptoms progress.

Ranked protocols

  1. 01Set sleep-surface temperature to the cool profile for the first three hours of the night
  2. 02Open the bedroom to fresh air for 10 minutes before bed; verify CO₂ below 900 ppm
  3. 03Complete the four-step wind-down sequence starting at 9:45 PM
  4. 04Caffeine cutoff at 11:00 AM
  5. 05No alcohol within four hours of bed for the first 30 days
  6. 06Amber lighting only after 8:30 PM
  7. 0715 minutes of outdoor light within 45 minutes of waking

Physician reviewed before release. Subject to clinical review.

The Seven Recovery Systems™

The suite is not a room. It is the instrument.

Seven design disciplines are controlled together inside the Coherence Recovery Suite™, then moved deliberately so the response of each can be attributed.

Recovery system 1 of 7

Circadian Design

The strongest available lever on your internal clock.

  • Circadian-aligned morning light
  • Tunable white lighting
  • Amber evening setting
  • Near-total blackout
  • Reduced device light

Observed recovery response

Earlier, better-timed light exposure is associated with earlier sleep onset the following night.

Illustrative response curve, direction only, not a predicted result.

01

Circadian Design

Synchronization of internal clocks through spectral content, intensity and timing of light exposure across the full day.

02

Thermal Design

Core temperature descent, surface temperature, humidity and an active cooling strategy matched to your own thermoregulation.

03

Acoustic Design

Noise masking, frequency control and acoustic isolation, verified against measured overnight sound in the suite.

04

Atmospheric Design

CO₂ accumulation, VOC load, HEPA filtration, humidity and air movement, logged continuously through the night.

05

Behavioral Design

Daily sequence, habit structure, wind-down and morning activation, designed as a repeatable protocol.

06

Nutritional Design

Meal timing, blood glucose stability, alcohol timing, hydration and caffeine clearance relative to your sleep window.

07

Cognitive Recovery Design

Stress unloading, rumination control, executive shutdown, breathing and mental decompression before the sleep window.

SUM

Coherence

Calibrated together, the seven systems reduce biological noise until restorative sleep emerges without being forced.

Circadian DesignThermal DesignAcoustic DesignAtmospheric DesignSensory CalibrationNutritional DesignBehavioral Design

Manifesto

The philosophy of Sleep Design™

Modern life has become exceptionally good at creating biological noise.

Sources of biological noise

    Artificial light

    Constant stimulation

    Travel

    Stress

    Irregular schedules

    Poor air

    Poor thermal environments

    Information overload

The body was never designed for this.

Sleep Design is the practice of intentionally shaping environments, behaviors and physiological conditions that restore biological coherence.

Because when the body functions together, recovery improves.

When recovery improves, sleep follows.

Measure

How your systems currently function together

Design

Calibrate every controllable variable, then verify

Restore

Recreate the conditions at home as a standing protocol

Sleep Week screens for possible concerns and designs the conditions for recovery. It does not replace a full diagnostic sleep study or continuing medical care.

Human Recovery Intelligence™

It finds the relationships people cannot see.

Not an assistant. Not a chatbot. A recovery intelligence layer that reads temperature, light, behavior, nutrition, stress, respiration, HRV, movement, environment, circadian timing and sleep architecture as one system, and hands every clinical conclusion to a physician.

Identifies patterns. Does not diagnose.

It also anticipates connected consumer health. OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT on July 23, 2026, letting U.S. users connect Apple Health and supported medical records so sleep, activity and lab data can be read in context. Sleep Week is designed so your recovery blueprint and measured data can travel into that kind of connected system, under the same rule, a clinician reviews every clinical conclusion.

Read the OpenAI announcement

Autonomic and physiological

10 signals

  • Duration
  • Architecture
  • Latency
  • WASO
  • HRV
  • Respiration
  • Apnea signals

Environmental

9 signals

  • Light
  • Spectrum
  • Temperature
  • Noise
  • CO₂
  • Humidity
  • Scent

Behavioral and nutritional

9 signals

  • Sleep window
  • Daylight
  • Movement
  • Caffeine
  • Alcohol
  • Screens

Clinical and cognitive

5 signals

  • Intake
  • Physician notes
  • Session findings
  • Medication
  • History

Clinical foundation

Design grounded in clinical sleep medicine.

Proposed protocol design and expert review informed by Johns Hopkins Sleep Medicine, a clinical sleep program with roots in the mid-1970s.
  • Insomnia and CBT-I
  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • Circadian rhythm disorders
  • Hypersomnia and narcolepsy
  • Parasomnias and movement disorders

Reference capabilities

  • Polysomnography
  • PAP titration
  • Sleepiness testing
  • Portable monitoring
  • Behavioral sleep medicine

Sleep Week screens and designs. It does not diagnose, replace a diagnostic sleep study or replace ongoing medical care.

Rooftop barrel sauna and cold plunge overlooking palm trees at Santa Monica Proper

Santa Monica Proper Hotel · 700 Wilshire Boulevard

A property with the physics already in its favour.

Coastal light, stable temperature and existing recovery infrastructure. Sleep Week installs the clinical and design layer inside it.

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Rooms & suites

1920s

Landmark building

3 min

To the shoreline

  • Kelly Wearstler interiors
  • Surya Spa
  • Rooftop pool
  • Coherence Recovery Suites
  • Sauna and cold plunge
  • Coastal light and air

The Coherence Recovery Kit™

The stay ends. The designed system comes home.

Not a gift bag. Eleven components, each mapped to one of the Seven Recovery Systems and issued only where your data shows a measured need.
  • Recovery blueprint
  • Home instrumentation
  • Light control
  • Acoustic masking
  • Circadian activation
  • Air quality
  • Thermal regulation
  • Cognitive wind-down
  • Sleep surface spec
  • Nutrition timing
  • Respiratory follow-up
Coherence Recovery Kit components arranged on a travertine surface: light-blocking mask, acoustic device, circadian lamp, air purifier, linen and a printed recovery blueprint

The scale of biological noise

We are exhausted. The cause is systemic, not personal.

The problem is not simply too few hours. Modern conditions desynchronize the systems that produce recovery, and generic advice never explains which system failed.

30.5%

of U.S. adults averaged fewer than seven hours of sleep

CDC NHIS, 2024

15.4%

of U.S. adults had trouble falling asleep most days or every day

CDC NHIS, 2024

18.1%

of U.S. adults had trouble staying asleep most days or every day

CDC NHIS, 2024

12.9%

of U.S. adults used a sleep aid most days or every day

CDC NHIS, 2024

Daytime recovery research

Twenty minutes restores. Forty-five can cost you the night.

Daytime sleep is the most misapplied recovery protocol in circulation. Four charts show precisely where the line sits.
  • Dose curve
  • Stage architecture
  • The afternoon window
  • Brain schematic: before / after

Short nap

20 min

Alertness, almost no grogginess

The avoid band

30–60

Deep sleep begins, inertia peaks

Cycle nap

90 min

Full cycle: learning, emotion, motor skill

Timing rule

8 hrs

Minimum buffer before target bedtime

Daytime recovery protocols are individual. For chronic insomnia, standard behavioral medicine usually restricts daytime sleep rather than adding it.

Personal instrumentation

Your ring, your watch, your phone, read as one signal.

Each device measures something the others cannot. Recovery Intelligence reads them together and validates them against clinical-grade measurement taken inside the suite.
A matte black smart ring resting on a travertine surface in warm low light

Overnight physiology

The ring

  • Resting HR
  • HRV
  • Temperature trend
  • Respiration
A smartwatch with a dark screen lying on travertine in warm low light

Daytime load and timing

The watch

  • Activity
  • Daytime HR
  • Wake consistency
  • Blood-oxygen trend
A smartphone with a dark screen lying face up on travertine in warm low light

Behavior and environment

The phone

  • Light timing
  • Screen use
  • Room sound
  • Daily check-ins

Who the intensive is designed for

A good fit when advice has run out.

  • Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or waking recovered
  • Sleep that has not improved with mattresses, supplements or generic sleep hygiene
  • High-demand schedules where daytime performance is affected
  • Frequent travel, jet lag or shift-related disruption
  • Stress-related biological noise and bedtime hyperarousal
  • A desire for objective measurement rather than more recommendations

Who may need a different level of care

Some situations need formal medical care first.

  • Symptoms suggesting untreated moderate or severe sleep apnea requiring formal diagnosis
  • Severe daytime sleepiness that affects driving or safety-sensitive work
  • Suspected narcolepsy or another condition requiring formal in-lab testing
  • An active mental-health crisis, or thoughts of self-harm
  • Unstable cardiopulmonary conditions or recent major surgery
  • A need for ongoing psychiatric or medical treatment rather than a four-day intensive

If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911. In the U.S., call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

Frequently asked

Questions guests ask first.

Stop adjusting variables one at a time.

A mattress, a supplement, a colder room. Isolated changes never reveal which system is producing the biological noise.

Recover more completely. Restore biological balance. Design the conditions that make it repeatable.

Medical, partnership and privacy disclosures

Screens and designs. Does not diagnose or replace medical care.

A proposed collaboration. No approval or endorsement implied.

Health data is stored separately from analytics. See the privacy notice, medical disclaimer and accessibility statement.

Full disclosure text

Sleep Week screens for possible concerns and designs the conditions that support recovery. It does not diagnose sleep disorders, does not replace a full diagnostic sleep study, and does not replace continuing medical care. Findings are physician reviewed and subject to clinical review. Sleep Week is a proposed collaboration with Johns Hopkins Sleep Medicine and Santa Monica Proper Hotel; nothing here states or implies formal approval, endorsement, licensing or launch by either organization. Health information submitted through the request-access flow is stored separately from marketing analytics.

Rooftop cedar barrel sauna and cold plunge overlooking palm trees in Santa Monica
Rooftop sauna and cold plunge at Santa Monica Proper, contrast therapy sits inside the afternoon recovery block, not as a spa add-on.