The portland package
Come and enjoy a 4 or 7 day 'restoration' on the magical isle of Portland, connected to England's south coast in Dorset.
Come, just you, or with a partner or friend, and find your bearings, your feet, your self, and feel better.
This time can be a simple retreat around your daily sessions with me, but it can also be specific to a particular need, whether to your voice, an activity or skill, to your work, or a stuck trauma - it's your week and I build it around you. I have worked with people wanting to look at walking, running, painting at an easel, singers, instrumentalists (I have a piano), actors, presenters, and those wanting to work through a long-standing fear or trauma.
Choose your own accommodation, from camping, through Airbnb and B&B, to luxury hotel, and around your 60-180 minute lesson each day, choose your own timetable - from working if your job is remote, exploring the magnificent Jurassic coastline, the pretty Weymouth pub and cafe-lined harbour or staying on Portland with a fascinating history and delightful beachside bars and cafes, or walking (including the labyrinth on the island), sketching, bird-watching, fossil-finding, visiting the famous Portland Bill lighthouse, or sailing, kite-surfing, paddle-boarding*, or climbing, swimming, resting, or horizon-gazing. The list is endless in this lovely place.
* Portland, having been host to the Olympics, boasts one of one best water-sports centers in the UK where you can try almost anything! https://andrewsimpsoncentres.org/our-centres/portland/
A description of what you will experience is best said in words from past attendees:
* There are gifts you can give yourself and there are gifts you can give to your whole Self. The Portland Sessions accomplish both on many more levels that you could ever expect. Before any lessons begin your cells start to shift on a visceral level. With the clearest clifftop air around you and the ancient ground beneath you, your built-up stresses are already primed for change. Then, under the gentle guiding of Annie Davenport Turner, whose hands are charged with a current so precise they pinpoint the true source of your tensions, you spend the days unwinding the layers of burdens you have been carrying around for years. Maybe even decades. These tailor-made sessions are a perfect complement to all the hidden coves to explore around Portland and Weymouth, where your body lets the subtle integrations take place while you're focussed on something else entirely. During the Portland Sessions, you'll feel more than your muscles relax and your energy restored. You just might feel whole again. *
* I came away from my week with Annie a changed person on so many levels. You may not know what you need from your sessions, but Annie does. She'll uncover patterns that are holding you back which you would never find out by yourself, and she always shows you how to let a better option into your awareness so you have more choices going forward. There is so much support that you don't even realise how huge the shifts happening inside you are. *
* When Annie asked if I would write a summary of my week, of course I said yes. But then when I sat down to do it I couldn't boil it down into a short enough paragraph. So all I can say is a week of the 'Portland Package' is worth every minute. Annie goes to great lengths to make sure what you need from the one-on-one lessons is addressed and the rest of the time is yours to explore one of Britain's loveliest locations. From the lessons to the charming Airbnb's to the beauty of the island and the ocean everywhere you look, it is a totally personal way to give you the tools to transform your life. *
* I chose to camp when I came to experience my week with Annie on Portland. There was something magical about sleeping on the ancient earth under the vast sky which reinforced the spaciousness within me that Annie introduced during each lesson during the day, and being able to integrate all that out in nature gave me even more.
There is also the highly practical consideration of being able to use Annie's house as a place to charge your devices or leave any valuables as you go exploring. *
For more info and pricing, please email me, Annie, on info@thebodywonderful.com
Come, just you, or with a partner or friend, and find your bearings, your feet, your self, and feel better.
This time can be a simple retreat around your daily sessions with me, but it can also be specific to a particular need, whether to your voice, an activity or skill, to your work, or a stuck trauma - it's your week and I build it around you. I have worked with people wanting to look at walking, running, painting at an easel, singers, instrumentalists (I have a piano), actors, presenters, and those wanting to work through a long-standing fear or trauma.
Choose your own accommodation, from camping, through Airbnb and B&B, to luxury hotel, and around your 60-180 minute lesson each day, choose your own timetable - from working if your job is remote, exploring the magnificent Jurassic coastline, the pretty Weymouth pub and cafe-lined harbour or staying on Portland with a fascinating history and delightful beachside bars and cafes, or walking (including the labyrinth on the island), sketching, bird-watching, fossil-finding, visiting the famous Portland Bill lighthouse, or sailing, kite-surfing, paddle-boarding*, or climbing, swimming, resting, or horizon-gazing. The list is endless in this lovely place.
* Portland, having been host to the Olympics, boasts one of one best water-sports centers in the UK where you can try almost anything! https://andrewsimpsoncentres.org/our-centres/portland/
A description of what you will experience is best said in words from past attendees:
* There are gifts you can give yourself and there are gifts you can give to your whole Self. The Portland Sessions accomplish both on many more levels that you could ever expect. Before any lessons begin your cells start to shift on a visceral level. With the clearest clifftop air around you and the ancient ground beneath you, your built-up stresses are already primed for change. Then, under the gentle guiding of Annie Davenport Turner, whose hands are charged with a current so precise they pinpoint the true source of your tensions, you spend the days unwinding the layers of burdens you have been carrying around for years. Maybe even decades. These tailor-made sessions are a perfect complement to all the hidden coves to explore around Portland and Weymouth, where your body lets the subtle integrations take place while you're focussed on something else entirely. During the Portland Sessions, you'll feel more than your muscles relax and your energy restored. You just might feel whole again. *
* I came away from my week with Annie a changed person on so many levels. You may not know what you need from your sessions, but Annie does. She'll uncover patterns that are holding you back which you would never find out by yourself, and she always shows you how to let a better option into your awareness so you have more choices going forward. There is so much support that you don't even realise how huge the shifts happening inside you are. *
* When Annie asked if I would write a summary of my week, of course I said yes. But then when I sat down to do it I couldn't boil it down into a short enough paragraph. So all I can say is a week of the 'Portland Package' is worth every minute. Annie goes to great lengths to make sure what you need from the one-on-one lessons is addressed and the rest of the time is yours to explore one of Britain's loveliest locations. From the lessons to the charming Airbnb's to the beauty of the island and the ocean everywhere you look, it is a totally personal way to give you the tools to transform your life. *
* I chose to camp when I came to experience my week with Annie on Portland. There was something magical about sleeping on the ancient earth under the vast sky which reinforced the spaciousness within me that Annie introduced during each lesson during the day, and being able to integrate all that out in nature gave me even more.
There is also the highly practical consideration of being able to use Annie's house as a place to charge your devices or leave any valuables as you go exploring. *
For more info and pricing, please email me, Annie, on info@thebodywonderful.com
