http://www.thepinkschool.co.uk/

The Pink Room Leeds, Leeds (2025)

19/07/2025

I'm hiring 🌞

I’m a neurodivergent, disabled yoga teacher, community facilitator, and mum of two, living with ME/CFS and AuDHD. I’ve been granted Access to Work support to help make both my home life and small business more manageable and sustainable.

I'm looking for a compassionate, reliable, and proactive **Personal Support Assistant** to work alongside me in a very varied and flexible role.

You’ll be supporting me across practical daily tasks, business admin, emotional load, and physical logistics — helping me stay nourished, rested, and organised so I can continue showing up for my work and my family.

This is my first time working with a support assistant, so the role will evolve as we figure out what works best. I’m looking for someone who’s flexible, values-driven, and open to working collaboratively.

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Core Values:

You must be:

- Trans-inclusive and LGBTQIA+ affirming (**non-negotiable**)
-Disability-aware and neurodivergent-friendly
-Comfortable around children (you’ll occasionally spend time with them)
-Emotionally intelligent, calm in chaos, and aligned with a culture of consent
-Open-minded and kind, with strong communication and boundaries
-Non-judgmental and able to be confidential

The full job description and person specification is in the links in my bio.

There's the potential for this to be a job share.

Any Qs feel free to drop me a DM.

Ella

19/07/2025

The Rising ✨

Reverse scan the QR code and you'll be taken to all the info.

Our first session is this Monday and we're offering it at a community rate of £4.

It's at Shine in Harehills, at 6pm and the link is in my bio.

I hope you like the sound of these gorgeous, gorgeous workshops we've created.

04/02/2025

Choosing to medicate is really personal. I am six months into my first ever experience of medicating for my mental health, even tho I have struggled with chronic depression and anxiety for as long as I can remember. I have some issues around control and lack of trust around pharmaceuticals. As a holistic therapist I (foolishly) thought if I can't figure this out myself then there is no hope. Turns out, medicating (for me) has been an absolute game changer.

I was in MH crisis more and more, I was passivley suicidal and honestly just exhausted from trying to just get up every morning and living in pain. I was 5 years into motherhood and had felt like I hadn't been present for most of it. I was overwhelmed, absent and sad. The postnatal psychiatric team that I was in the care of prescribed me Escitalopram which I reluctantly started to take.

The first two weeks I felt like I was on the edge of panic, my brain felt weird and throbby, I felt sick and honestly had the absolute WORST trumps. It felt a bit like being at sea. I stuck it out knowing this was normal.

One day, maybe three weeks in I woke up, got up and out of bed, got myself and the girls ready and suddenly realised - this must me how it feels to be "normal". For the first time in maybe 20 years I got up and out of bed without first fighting an elephant off my chest.

A few days later I was driving along and noticed a little girl skipping down the road with her mum and I felt actual joy. Not the manic kind, but just a regular amount of joy. I have stopped crying at every small sad thing. I notice the way the light shines in the kitchen and how it turns the highlights of my daughters hair copper. I feel more able to enjoy the small things, I know it sounds cliche but it is true. I am less angry. I regret not starting 5 years ago so I could have been a joyful part of my girls childhood. That brings me pain, but ya know - a normal amount!

The negatives are few. When I forget to take them I get panicky and low/unstable, my stomach is still untrustworthy and I am a bit emotionally constipated. I've gained a lot of weight, but I am tackling it and trying to be kind to myself.

23/06/2024

My next is a series of workshops for women and q***r folk with ADHD/Autism, diagnosed and undiagnosed.

It makes me do a lil lol that I've called it the unmasking circle because who the f*ck knows how to actually unmask after all this time. I think for me that looks like hosting a circle and looking NON of you in the eye and you knowing I still care and have compassion and am thrilled you're there.

Anyway. This is the second of these circles, the first was a learning curve and I've changed the format quite significantly because what I observed was everyone *really* wanted to connect and engage with each other about their experiences and do less of the movement and mindfulness.

So now it is 2 hours, an hour of deep relaxation and tension release through still, supported yin postures working with the meridians which soothe the nervous system and ADHD appropriate mindfulness. Followed by an hour of tea and cake and community building chats following the theme "superpowers".

I hope you will join me.

£25, at and I'll be hosting 🌞

More info on the events page, link in bio.

18/06/2024

Mum + Baby Circle - 90 minutes for your well-being, your development and for you to feel nurtured.

Babies up to 15/16 months, or at whatever age you feel like you can no longer benefit from the group.

Link in bio to book.

11/06/2024

C L A S S S C H E D U L E

These are my weekly classes for matrescence classes, usually there's availability on BYOB yoga as the space is huge but book ahead for the circles.

Link in bio to book 🌞

Taster sessions get a cheeky discount with code TASTERSESSION.

11/06/2024

C L A S S S C H E D U L E

These are my weekly classes for matrescence classes, usually there's availability on BYOB yoga as the space is huge but book ahead for the circles.

Link in bio to book 🌞

Taster sessions get a cheeky discount with code TASTERSESSION.

25/05/2024

I've written two posts and deleted them because honestly I don't know what to say anymore on here. I'm feeling so uninspired and burnt out and just honestly so over Instagram. I dunno how to promote my work anymore, I get nowhere and it takes so much emotional energy to put myself and my work out there over and over. I love what I do but this side of it feels toxic and not worth it.

Anyway, decided to post this instead because I thought it might feel relevant or resonate with a few of my colleagues.

If you like what I do please let word of mouth prevail and tell someone 🩷🧡

04/05/2024

✨ Coming up ✨

Things with places available to book - all info on the website.

Xoxo

04/05/2024

H I Y A ✨🔮🪻

It's been a while since I put my face in the grid and shared a lil bit about the person behind the business. Hi 👋 I'm Ella!

I never know what to say about myself and where to even begin to explain why I opened The Pink Room and now run The Pink School or why I'm passionate about empowering women. I've always found it easy to know what's right and wrong and then feel absurdly passionate about it, often to the detriment of my social skills and friend making abilities 🫣.

The Pink School is born out of my desire to do my bit, it's a good little platform to talk about equality and use my own skills to help women feel safe and empowered.

I think a big part of why I do what I do is because for a lot of my life I've not felt safe, or like I belong - like so many of us I have my own catalogue of trauma. I do this work because I want to empower women and help them feel safe, heard, important and like they've found a space that they can belong.

I'm not into the BS that often pairs wellness, I don't expect anything or anyone apart from turning up if you feel able and being kind.

Photos:

1. Me doing what I do best, bringing a group of women together with a little bit of magic and relaxation.

2. Way back when celebrating gaining my very first qualification in this industry as a Holistic Massage Therapist.

3. Many moons and CPFs later qualifying as a Yoga Teacher, which changed everything ✨.

4. Cutting the ribbon on The Pink Room with my best pal - my beautiful shop + studio in The Corn Ex that was entirely dedicated to women.

5. As a baby graduate in Sociology from Durham Uni - who knew I'm such a clever clogs.

6. Ella in Ella wearing my fave trousers RIP, Sri Lanka. I was really lucky to spend a lot of my 20s hard core backpacking around the world

7. Some total cuties at my The Mum and Baby Circle.

8. Working during COVID with my massage pal

9. In my happy place practicing some energy healing in The Pink Room 🔮

10. Family 🩷💖🧡

That's me - in a nutshell.

26/04/2024

A Moment For Fatigue | New Monthly On-Demand / Online Workshop.

This monthly online workshop is designed for people who struggle with mental and/or physical fatigue although anyone is welcome. It would be particularly nice to incorporate around your period, if you bleed.

The session aims to ease the aches and pains which often come hand in hand with limited mobility and living with any condition which creates fatigue and sooth the nervous system to gently calm the mind. The journalling element in this first session aims to help you reconnect with your body and discover how it responds to stress, overwhelm and anxiety. Next time we will explore shifting your mindset away from things you can't do and curating a list of things you CAN do.

One of the biggest challenges I face in accessing wellness is finding a class which aligns at the same time as I feel able. I have spent so much money on things I have booked on to and then been unable to attend. With this in mind, I will record the class at the time listed and then make it available on-demand for one week for you to access when you feel able. I hope this enables you to work the session around your own energy.

The first session is Thursday 30th May, and then every four weeks from then on.

I hope you can make it.

24/04/2024

The Unmasking Circle

As we all now know, women are often missed when it comes to diagnosis of ADHD and Autism which in many cases leads to a lifetime of anxiety and depression, sometimes a misdiagnosis of C-PTSD. As an undiagnosed neaurodivergent woman (with a diagnosis of C-PTSD and a personaility disorder), awaiting an Autism and ADHD diagnosis (why is it taking forever), I know how important it is to have wellness spaces where we can just BE, in the knowledge we are surrounded by other people with similar lived expereinces of masking and struggling, without judhgement and in a space curated (to the best of it's ability) for my mind.

Existing in a neuro-typical world is exhausting, absolutely exhausting. The most simple things can spike a fight or flight response meaning we are often in a state of overwhelm and anxiety - which is where I think these circles become invaluable.

Read more about why I think this is in my most recent blog post, see highlights.

Of course I am not expcting us all to just simply unmask, like we haven't spent our whole lives moulding our foundations to the wrong blueprint, but I encourage you to do what makes you feel more comfortable without the need to conform.

Essentially I want to carve out three hours of your day where you don't have to make excuses for who you are and to know that you are enough.

This is a monthly circle, the first is 12th May 10 - pm at in Headingley. Accessibility info on the booking page.

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