Charlotte Church’s retreat, known as The Dreaming, will ‘hibernate’ from December 2026, as the business decides “with candour and courage” what it should be offering to be in service.

Five years ago, The Dreaming opened in Rhydoldog House, near Rhayader, which once belonged to Welsh fashion designer Laura Ashley. Singer-songwriter Ms Church spent her life savings, £1.5 million to buy the house.

The property, set among the rolling landscape of mid Wales, had fallen into disrepair. Ms Church documented the renovation on Discovery+ channel’s My Dream Build.

Now, a decision has been made to pause The Dreaming, with communication from The Dreaming citing a “different world” than when they first started business.

In a newsletter update, also shared on their website, a spokesperson for The Dreaming said: “After five years of unfaltering practice, tending with diligence to the dreams of the land and our guests, we announce with hearts-a-brim that The Dreaming will be pausing its work at Rhydoldog from December 2026.

“Through the harvest season, it is important to discern what requires attention from that which is falling away, what needs to be put to compost. We need the chance to compost, mulch, go fallow, listen deeply to the earth, so that we can germinate new dreams for the future.

“After all, we would be nowhere had we not first had a dream that was given time to sprout and blossom.”

Over three thousand people have visited the retreat since it opened, including free to attend retreats for NHS staff and activists, as well as a ‘pay-what-you-can’ scheme.

The Dreaming said: “Our free-to-attend retreats for NHS workers and activists respectively remain amongst our proudest achievements, along with pioneering retreats for Muslim women, melanated women of African and Caribbean descent, and the queer community.

“And then there are the hundreds of amazing people who have joined us as part of our work-exchange and artist-in-residence programmes, each of whom, in offering their own gorgeousness to the land, found themselves in receipt of deep teachings that the valley had for them, and them alone. This collaboration: these glorious humans living in reciprocity, will forever be the beating heart of the story that has been The Dreaming.”

The Dreaming offers retreats, which include weekly signature retreats, a specialist retreat titled ‘witch’, and Charlotte Church’s signature retreat, known as Song of the Soul. However, they are looking at what they should offer in the future.

“It is a different world today than the one we started off in just a short half decade ago. As we stare clear-eyed at the exponentially complexifying crises that have been spreading out ahead of us all like cracking ice, we at The Dreaming need to reassess, with candour and courage what it is we should be offering to be in service.

“And so we must dream. And to do so we must hibernate.”

The Dreaming’s spokesperson has said they will return. “We cannot say when exactly we will be returning from the dream realm, but return we shall.”

Spaces are still left for their scheduled retreats this year, described as “a place for healing through experiencing beauty and wonder.”