A new wellness center is now open for business in the Paradise Landing upscale community surrounding Hurricane Hole Superyacht Marina.
Located in Sterling Commons, Anachronist Wellness joins a growing slate of select vendors offering upscale services and experiences that make Paradise Landing and all of Paradise Island a better place to live, work, and stay.
The Paradise Island wellness center offers a unique mix of sports therapies, rehab treatments, and wellness services, including Active Release Techniques and soft tissue injury therapy — making it the first institution to do so in The Bahamas and the Caribbean.
The company’s mission is to enhance the lives of all individuals efficiently and ethically through innovative, safe, and non-invasive wellness treatments, raising the bar for medical tourism services in the region.
While Anachronist Wellness will offer help for sports injuries and performance improvements, the work of Thompson and Anachronist’s co-founder, licensed clinical aesthetician Lakera Thompson, RPT, goes far beyond these areas, including treatments focusing on various injuries and conditions, lifestyle and work activities, injury care, women’s and men’s health issues, pain care, movement disorders, wellness, IV nutritional hydration therapy, and anti-aging skincare.
Locals got a sneak peek of Anachronist Wellness’s work in early April during the CARIFTA Games in Nassau, when co-founder and therapist Edwardo Thompson, NMT, ART, hosted a free hamstring injury prevention clinic for coaches and athletes. During the clinics, the therapist of 23 years who specializes in sports performance, soft tissue injuries, rehabilitative therapy, and injury prevention discussed how to prevent hamstring injuries and recover if this injury happens.
The team at Hurricane Hole Superyacht Marina and Paradise Landing is proud to celebrate the opening of Anachronist Wellness.
Discover a world of specialized services elevating the standard of wellness in The Bahamas.
Anachronist Wellness Center at Paradise Landing offers Active Release Techniques (ART) for soft tissue injury and musculoskeletal conditions, sports rehabilitation, movement disorder treatment, pain care, IV nutritional hydration therapy, anti-aging skincare, and wellness programs addressing lifestyle and occupational health issues, women's and men's health, and chronic pain management. The center is the first institution in The Bahamas and the Caribbean to provide ART, placing it at the frontier of available soft tissue therapy in the region. All treatments are described as non-invasive and ethically delivered in accordance with the center's mission.
Active Release Techniques (ART) is a patented manual therapy system developed in the United States that is certified through a rigorous training and examination process. The small number of ART-certified practitioners globally means that many regions, including the Caribbean, had no certified provider before Anachronist opened at Paradise Landing. The center's opening made it the first institution in both The Bahamas and the wider Caribbean to offer this recognized therapeutic approach. This genuinely novel availability makes Anachronist a medical tourism draw for patients who have previously needed to travel to North America or Europe for ART treatment.
Anachronist Wellness was co-founded by Lakera Thompson, a licensed clinical aesthetician who brings expertise in skincare, anti-aging treatments, and aesthetic wellness to complement the center's rehabilitation and physical therapy offerings. The co-founder's background spans both clinical aesthetics and wellness practice, providing a dual focus on physical rehabilitation and appearance-related wellness that addresses the complete wellness spectrum the center offers. This combination of rehabilitation, movement therapy, and aesthetic wellness is unusual for a single facility and reflects the center's mission of comprehensive, ethical, and efficient wellness care.
Yacht crew members face a range of physical health challenges from the demands of seamanship, including repetitive strain injuries, back and shoulder problems from mooring and handling work, sleep disruption, sun exposure effects, and the cumulative fatigue of extended programs. Anachronist's ART capability directly addresses the soft tissue and musculoskeletal issues most common in working crew. IV hydration therapy is relevant for crews returning from long passages who may be dehydrated. Anti-aging skincare programs address the chronic UV exposure of outdoor maritime work. The center's location at Paradise Landing, steps from Hurricane Hole's berths, makes these services accessible without requiring crew to arrange transportation off the island.
Anachronist Wellness Center at Sterling Commons is open to all residents of Paradise Island, visitors from Nassau and elsewhere, and marina guests at Hurricane Hole without restriction. Like the other Paradise Landing retail and service tenants, the wellness center is designed to serve the entire island community rather than exclusively the marina's boating guests. Visitors specifically seeking ART treatment or other Anachronist services who are not staying at Hurricane Hole can access the center by bridge or taxi from Nassau. The center encourages advance booking given the appointment-based nature of most of its services.
Movement disorders encompass a range of conditions that affect the quality and control of voluntary movement, including issues arising from neurological conditions, repetitive strain, post-injury compensation patterns, and chronic pain. Anachronist Wellness addresses movement disorders through hands-on therapeutic techniques, including ART, that target the soft tissue restrictions and neuromuscular patterns contributing to dysfunctional movement. The center's non-invasive approach contrasts with surgical or pharmaceutical interventions and focuses on restoring natural movement patterns through manual therapy and guided rehabilitation. This approach is aligned with the center's broader commitment to safe, ethical wellness treatment.
Anachronist Wellness Center is located in Sterling Commons at Paradise Landing on Paradise Island, Nassau, The Bahamas. Sterling Commons is the retail precinct within the Paradise Landing development and is directly adjacent to Hurricane Hole Superyacht Marina. The center is walkable from the marina docks and accessible to all of Paradise Island without requiring a bridge crossing to Nassau. It shares the Sterling Commons address with Quality Care Pharmacy, which is also within the same retail complex.
Anachronist Wellness Center's status as the Caribbean's first ART provider creates a genuine medical tourism draw that brings patients to Paradise Island specifically for treatment unavailable elsewhere in the region. Combined with the Hurricane Hole Medical Center's concierge medical offering and Quality Care Pharmacy's holistic approach, the Paradise Landing health cluster positions Paradise Island as a destination where high-net-worth visitors can access first-world medical and wellness care in a luxury tropical environment. This combination is rare globally and positions Paradise Landing competitively against other luxury destinations that lack comparable on-site health infrastructure.
The types of injuries most commonly sustained aboard yachts are well aligned with Anachronist's clinical capabilities. Shoulder, back, and neck injuries from winch and mooring work, knee and ankle strain from movement on an unstable surface, and repetitive stress conditions from navigating and handling tasks are all appropriate candidates for ART and soft tissue therapy. The center's movement disorder expertise is also relevant to the postural and gait adaptations that crew members develop over extended time aboard. For yacht guests who sustain injuries during their stay in The Bahamas, the proximity of a specialized rehabilitation facility at the marina provides an important safety net.
IV nutritional hydration therapy delivers a formulated solution of fluids, electrolytes, vitamins, and minerals directly into the bloodstream, bypassing the digestive system to achieve faster and more complete uptake than oral supplementation. It is commonly recommended for recovery from physical exertion, dehydration, jet lag, illness, or extended periods of suboptimal nutrition. For yacht crew returning from demanding passages where diet and hydration may have been compromised, or for charter guests who have had an active day of water sports and sun exposure, IV hydration offers a rapid recovery pathway. Anachronist offers IV nutritional hydration as part of its wellness service menu at Paradise Landing.
