The Right Royal Weekender is just a couple of weeks away — and we’re so excited. We’ve spoken to some of the awesome acts and creative talent in the lineup, including Ella Norman, owner of The Pink Room.
Ella’s hosting some really great events as part of Queens of Leeds day on Friday, 3rd of June. We gave her a call to chat all about it!
Hey Ella! Can you tell us a bit about The Pink Room?
The Pink Room is a safe space offering modern wellness for all women based in the Corn Exchange. We’re a LGBTQ+, feminist space — made up of some of the best holistic practitioners in the city; we’re passionate about empowering women through better mental, spiritual and physical health!
You also host regular yoga sessions at Left Bank!
I started coming to Left Bank with my daughter; it really felt like it was a space that was at the heart of the community. I started teaching Body Positivity because I'm passionate about making yoga accessible for bigger bods and people who don't feel like they "fit in" to the yoga aesthetic — empowering yoga classes at Left Bank that are more affordable than your average yoga class. It’s accessible, and the whole point of it is it allows all people to come back into their bodies, appreciate their bodies and try to move away from this narrative that they’re not good enough.
It’s a gorgeous space to teach in. No matter what time of day it is, it’s a wonderful space to enjoy yoga!
We’re looking forward to having you join us for Queens of Leeds. Can you tell us a bit about what you’re offering?
As The Pink Room is both a shop as well as being a therapy space. We’re bringing The Pink Room to Left Bank as a pop up shop, with a curated selection of mostly Leeds-based products; things that we see as being useful and empowering from a health perspective, or vibrant and beautiful from an aesthetic perspective. We’ll also be offering some pop-up treatments that can help reset peoples’ nervous systems and help them to feel more grounded. We've got energy healing, massage and tarot readings on our Queens Day Treatment menu - it's gonna be a riot!
And there’s yoga too!
I’ll be teaching Empowerment Yoga which features a playlist of empowering female musicians. Artists like Wet Leg and Lizzo; it’s going to be really fun! And then for pancakes - happy days.
To find out more about Queens of Leeds day, click here; and check out The Right Royal Weekender line-up here!