Charlotte Church is about to launch a wellness retreat called The Dreaming, where guests can stay for £300 a night and attempt to heal a wide range of ailments.
The 36-year-old singer has invested her “life savings” into a £1.5 million mansion Rhydolodog House in Wales, the former home of designer, Laura Ashley.
Sixteen guests can make the most of the eight spacious rooms and sprawling gardens and come to “reduce their chance of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes”, so the retreat claims.
Each room has a different theme, including one called The Womb, a space that is a ‘celebration of womanhood’ with an “unusual-shaped vagina” inspired pink shower.
Food and drink are included in the £300 to £900 a night room fee, with a focus on plant-based and vegetarian meals and a strict no-alcohol policy.
Guests can stay for a minimum of three nights and make the most of the on-sight facilities including a Healing Room, and a Potting Shed and even a Japanese Tea House.
They can also enjoy a host of activities with spiritual and physical benefits such as yoga, star-gazing, painting, dreamwork, herbalism, as well as immersing themselves in cold water.
Charlotte will even run singing sessions at dawn with her guests.
Speaking about the retreat, she revealed on This Morning : “I'm going to be a practitioner there every week, I'm going to be singing and connecting to the land, it's about voice that's much more than just singing.”
Charlotte added about the retreat as a whole: “It's about listening to the land and bringing the outdoors in, being able to go there and to rest and be at one with nature.
“I think that in part it's about connecting to nature, in our busy lives we don't have time, our nervous systems are getting burnt out, it's about slowing down.”
Charlotte’s surprising career change came began in 2020 when she became “obsessed” with the landmark property, and restored it and filmed the process as part of her Really and Discovery+ series called Charlotte Church's Dream Build.
The mother-of-three details the full journey on her website and writes about how her “intuition” has guided her to invest into this retreat that encourages people to ‘slow down’ and reconnect with nature.
“My intuition has long told me that these two causes are intrinsically linked, one leading into the other,” the website reads.
“By honouring and connecting with nature we can regain our wildness, and awaken spiritually. By spending time in woodland spaces we lower our cortisol levels and blood pressure, improve our mental health, and even reduce the chances of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
“By slowing down and allowing ourselves to witness the rhythms and complexity of the natural world we can arrive at a peace that has become virtually impossible to achieve with the incessant and often exhausting pace of modern life.”
Charlotte has also emphasised that The Dreaming is meant to be affordable and accessible to everyone, not just celebrities.
She continued: “The Dreaming is a place for healing through experiencing beauty and wonder. It is a place for everyone: affordable and inclusive, where anyone can learn to heal and even become the healer that their community needs...
“The beauty we all are capable of creating is accessible. It is our birthright. It is within us as part of our ancestral memory. And our mission is to remind you of it.”
The Dreaming is now taking bookings for when the retreat opens to guests in January 2023.
