Wellness workshops & mind opening performances
We’re a brand new little start up
So we thank you for your patience
but watch this space for more interactive workshops
and touring performance information!
The aim of the game
is to Educate and Entertain
opening mind body and spirit
Making peace with our human brains!
Workshops
Workshops are tailored to each group depending on experience/ group size / budget / event style.
chose your own bespoke mix from a few hours to a whole day or a series of workshops.
Community workshops based in Newcastle are sporadically available and will be posted here as well as the home page
MIND
MENTAL HEALTH SURVIVAL SKILLS
A basic introduction to Neurodiversity, Therapy skills & Mindfulness.
DBT SKILLS
(dialectical behavioural therapy- based on CBT)
MINDFULLNESS
EMOTIONAL REGULATION
INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVNESS
DISTRESS TOLORANCE
BODY
Dance away your stress through a mixture of dance fitness / yoga / ti chi / ecstatic dance journey.
suitable for all ages and abilities - beginners , intermediate & advanced levels available
SPIRIT
MAGIC OR SCIENCE
Introduction to mindfulness / meditation /
law of attraction / holistic thinking
SELF EXPRESSION
Music, Dance & Drama Games
INNER CHILD WORKSHOP
The above but a bit more holistic
CONCIOUS SOULS
Tai chi / yoga / movement
guided meditation/ breathwork
Crystal singing bowl sound bath
Ecstatic Trance dance
HOLISTIC THERAPIES CHAKRA CLEANSE 30 minute one to one energy healing SOUND BATH Crystal Singing Bowls & Voice (accompanied by some Shruti box, drum & rattle) GUIDED MEDIATION /BREATHWORK visualisation exercises to manifest your goals
for more please visit the mothership www.highvibelivin.co.uk
Shows
The I’m not mad hatters DBTea ceremony
COMING SOON!!!
A mental health survival skills workshop using DBT (dialectical behavioural therapy) and introduction to Meditation / Spirituality through a musical tea ceremony.
Join us down the rabbit hole for this brand new immersive Alice in wonderland theatrical experience celebrating neurodiversity and what on earth it means to be human.
(All ages welcome at parent’s discretion as there may be adult topics discussed.)
Sex, Drugs & Conscious Souls
COMING 2025
A play with music about spiritually awakening from religious trauma and ill mental health. themes of neurodiversity, psychedelics, polyamory and sexual liberation.
(Based on true events - 16+)
Who Are We?
Ellerose Guillory
(Aka - starving artist who had a cool idea during lockdown)
Singer/Songwriter /Theatre Maker
Holistic Therapist / Children’s Entertainer
MY MENTAL HEALTH JOURNEY / SOB STORY
(aka how I became a qualified weirdo:)
In my final year of university, I was diagnosed with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia & ADHD followed by Depression and Anxiety 6 months later.
In 2017 I graduated with a BA & MA in Musical Theatre in the midst of a suicidal breakdown and couldn’t even sit in the audience of a theatre without having an anxiety attack, never mind attend an audition. I was only able to hold it together around young children so kids entertainment companies and immersive family theatre kept me going along with financial support from my family until I could get therapy.
However, as a self-employed freelancer on short term contracts in different locations, accessing NHS talking therapies was impossible as I was never anywhere long enough to make it through the waiting list.
After 2 years of going round in circles with the system I ended up losing jobs, friends and houses until I received help from BAPAM (British association of performing arts medicine) who helped me obtain a grant from Help Musicians UK.
Just as I started becoming comfortable as a teaching assistant in 2019, I was diagnosed with BPD (borderline personality disorder), PTSD & Hoarding Disorder. This made me realise I didn’t want to give up on musical theatre after all and that I’d regret taking a full-time salaried position in a school if something didn’t change.
I moved back to Newcastle and started a DBT skills group (dialectical behavioural therapy) a month before lockdown. After waiting 3 years for this I didn’t take a second for granted and soaked it all up.
Once I was more emotionally regulated and self -aware I started enjoying mindfulness and the toddler tantrums were no more. I became hyper focused on creative mental health solutions and bought the domain for Cognitive Behavioural Theatre.
The day I lost my grandma I suddenly developed vocal tics literally overnight!
(there’s a cool spiritual story/meaning to this but not important to this bio)
This was the last piece of the puzzle that was my misunderstood brain and the following year I was diagnosed with Autism.
Until then I had no idea I experienced the world differently and this realisation ultimately triggered a spiritual awakening! (I was totally agnostic up until then)
This kick started the crazy cliche journey of holistic energy healing, law of attraction and surrendering to a higher power. I wrote my debut album MIND FULL, started working as a performing arts teacher again to overcome my PTSD and started a psychology master’s degree.
After attending a life changing spiritual retreat in 2022, I came to the conclusion that I’m far too neurodivergent to pass such an academic course (I get a headache after reading one page never mind all these journal articles on screens.) I fell in love with energy and sound healing and felt the pull to holistic therapy instead.
Just over 2 years later I now work for the same spiritual retreats delivering sound baths as an energy healer and workshop facilitator.
Thanks to the hippie community antics and the mental health toolkit of DBT skills, I’m finally coming out of my 7 year hibernation to incorporate my niche talents, neurodiverse findings and general good vibes into this website of quirky offerings as I attempt to make a living on this strange planet.
Who are we?
Joshua Thomson
The last few years for me have been a beautiful rollercoaster of change.
After getting my Theology degree at Bible College, I was the lead pastor of a Pentecostal Church in Northern Ireland.
On paper, my middle class life was perfect. My wife and I owned a lovely house, had good jobs, nice cars. I ticked every box that society desires in a citizen.
Behind the scenes, however, was a deep change. After receiving a phone call to say that the former pastor who retired in his seventies is under an active police investigation for a wide range of historic abuse.
I saw first hand my denominations priority of self preservation and protecting its own interests instead of that of the victims.
I was ordered to not give any pastoral support to any of the victims, so as to not be seen as interfering with the PSNI investigation. I refused to honour this.
At the same time, my wife and I went through an amicable seperation.
In the space of a week, I had not only lost my marriage, but due to the dogmatic values of the denominations leadership, the seperation meant that I also lost my job and career.
This dark night of the soul shook the foundations and the very assumptions I had built my life upon.
I prayed to God saying that I am stepping back. Not just from church leadership, but maybe church in general. I don't know how far I'll go or how long I'll be, but I asked that He would always be with me. A prayer that He answers every day.
My spiritual transformation has been one of the hardest and beneficial processes of my life.
Never in a million years would I have guessed that I'd one day date a witchy Unicorn. Elle has majorly expanded my spiritual horizons and showed me that not everything outside of Christianity is demonic and evil.
My spirit is healthier now than it ever has been, thanks to the conscious community, holistic therapy and life changing psychedelic experiences.
I am very grateful for my story so far. Even through the pain of loss and the daunting thought of change, I am a firm believer that even when dealing with painful pasts, grace and freedom are available and accessible to all people
Once upon a time there was a little unicorn living amongst the humans. As in all good fairy tales, she was an orphan. Or at least she was half an orphan because her dad died when she was 6. Hidden in a solitary tower she tried to write a way out of her sadness with song and verse but she could never be tempted out of her isolation. Her mother searched the kingdom far and wide for healers and alchemists to fix the sadness afflicting her daughter, they called it ADHD, ASD or BPD but no matter how they tried they couldn't mend her mind.
One dark night, overcome with sadness, the little unicorn packed her bags to leave the tower for heaven but she was stopped in her tracks by the Grim Reaper. “Unless you speak your words in your own true voice to the Lords and Ladies of the land, you will never find happiness, I give to you the gift of self expression” he said.
Last year saw the release of debut album MIND FULL (a sort of self-help mental health journey) and next album ‘EG Phone Home’ (about spiritually awakening) is due for release next year. Ellerose the Unicorn’s infectious energy, captivating voice, emotive performances and soul-stirring storytelling is sprinkled with quirky humour sure to captivate a wide range of audiences.