Charlotte Church forced to close £3m wellness retreat

Charlotte Church’s luxurious wellness retreat which started from £300 per night has closed. The singer set up the healing centre in rural Wales after buying the designer Laura Ashley’s estate in Powys for £1.5 million, which is surrounded by 47 acres of land.After five years in business, The Dreaming announced last month that it would be taking a break. But the pause has turned into forever, when it was revealed today The Dreamers will be closing for good. The Dreaming offered nature-centred experiences, therapies like gong baths and forest bathing, as well as Druid ceremonies and silent discos. It also hosted free-to-attend retreats for activists and people working in the NHS.One of its last programmes before The Dreaming will shut for good was a five-day Witch retreat, which finished on Friday, November 13, The Sun reports.Co-led by Church, 40, the experience included “herbalism, dream-work, plant-spirit connection, meditation, sound and sacred art, moving through the five elements of earth, water, air, fire and spirit”.It could host up to 16 people across eight rooms. One room was named “The Womb” and was described as a “celebration of womanhood” that was designed to make visitors feel “swaddled”.In a statement on Instagram, The Dreaming initially said the pause was so the team could “reassess” what they should be offering, adding: “It is a different world than the one we started off in just a short half decade ago.”Yesterday, it was announced it would fully close “after five beautiful years”. The Dreaming stated: “Sadly, we’ve come to realise that this is not simply a time of hibernation, but the end of our journey with The Dreaming. What a beautiful, wild and wonderful few years it has been.“We’ve shared stories, made friendships, held space for one another and found moments of stillness in a world that so rarely allows us to slow down.“Thousands of you have found your way to this little corner of the Welsh hills, each bringing something of yourselves, and each leaving a little something behind. You have made The Dreaming what it is.”