Welcome to The Yogologist. I am Shaura Hall, and you have landed on the website that holds my retreats and some of the training courses I offer. Please visit shaurahall.com to learn more about my work as a Psychotherapist, Yoga Therapist, Therapeutic Supervisor or Interfaith Minister. Go to spaceandsanctuary.com to learn more about the in-person events I occasionally hold at The Space, and visit our crystal shop The Sanctuary.
There are specialist training courses created and run by myself. I share information about therapeutic retreats and journeys to explore sacred lands or other exciting places.
I founded The Pilamaya Centre (for Integration Psychotherapy—PCIP) was founded in 2019. It is home to our NCIP-accredited professional Diploma in Integration Psychotherapy (IP), a training that is proving to be life-changing for those who study with us, alongside further specialist psychotherapy trainings developed to meet the challenges of these current times.
Integration Psychotherapy Services C.I.C. ((IPS) has been created to support our students in completing their training hours. This service also offers access to subsidised psychotherapy for those who need support. Reach out through the links above if you would like to know more.
I believe in humans. I believe in the power of transformation and I understand the freedom that comes with personal responsibility. I invite you to sit with me when you are ready to have an experience of your true nature.
How Psychedelic Assisted Integration Psychotherapy Came To Be …
I’d had some experience of therapeutic integration in the school I attended to learn about facilitating the process, but I knew we were learning from an outdated template.
On Supervision
The value of supervision is that it continues to drive us, and we continue to propel ourselves to see more of what is in the room and to hear more of what is not being said. To feel more of what cannot be felt for ourselves, supervisees and their clients.
Me and Plant Medicines
The story of why I stand behind the use of plant medicines for healing. I remember a time when life had not made much sense to me. I had gotten caught in the cycle of addiction, and I could not get out of it and the pain and suffering I had stacked up for myself and my family. It seemed beyond repair.
Podcast
The Pilamaya Podcast is a series of conversations from The Pilamaya Centre (UK) exploring the new model of Integration Psychotherapy and the lived work of healing. Hosted by Pilamaya founder and integration psychotherapist Shaura Hall and writer–psychotherapist Susan Clark, this podcast is for anyone drawn to Integration Psychotherapy and consciousness work — whether you’re considering training, seeking therapy, or simply curious about the journey back to yourself. You’ll love this behind scenes exploration of good therapy and why it works to change lives and bring us back to ourselves.
The Pilamaya Integration Psychotherapy (IP) training — like all the Pilmaya training offerings — has deep roots in prayer, and you can hear the story of how this offering emerged from that sacred space in episode one.
In this latest episode, we track that thread but move on to explore that specific part of the training that teaches student therapists (who wish to) how they can work with Spirit in the therapeutic space.
For those who've listened to Episode 3, you’ll already know the IP training is built from a unique multi- dimensional foundation called the Nine Dimensions and that one of these is the dimension of Innate Wisdom [D7]. Remembering this can perhaps better help us to understand how it is that Spirit, in this work, can bring more of that dimension into the therapy room.
But what do we really mean by Spirit? And how is that different from talking about Soul?
It’s a juicy topic and co-hosts, Shaura and Susan, waste no time diving deep into a way of working they both clearly relish and feel passionately about.
Inspired by her visits to the ancient temples of India, Susan tells Shaura how she now greets every new day honouring her own connection to Spirit (substitute the term you prefer here) by lighting incense to burn in the pot of geraniums on the doorstep making the gesture not only an offering, but an explicit message to the space — indoors and out — about what is important in her environment [D1] and home.
And Shaura says whilst she is never separated from Spirit, no matter what she is doing, if she too wants to be more explicit about that connection, especially in her therapy work, she will light a candle or use sound or some other scent as an invitation.
The duo touch on other rituals, including creating an altar in their homes, and agree that for many of us in this line of work, creating and relating daily to a scared space — and working with clients who are seeking more meaning in their lives by doing the same — is a privilege.
Shaura, who is also a trained Interfaith Minister, created not just a workshop but an entire module dedicated to Spiritual Counselling as part of the IP training and explains why it was important to hold back on this training until towards the end of the whole IP course.
Susan reminds her that in her own IP training this was the module that unleashed poetry (often a feature of our new podcast) into the training group’s dynamic, making it one of her favourite training elements, prompting Shaura to then share an insight into how and why poetry can quickly open the therapeutic space to more soulful work since the voice of the therapist becomes a ‘vehicle’ for the flow of life that was moving through the poet at the time of creating the poem.
There's an invitation to listeners to share what they think about the topic so don't be share, email us or share your comments on the various listening platforms. This is a topic we will be coming back to …
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Find out more:
The Pilamaya Centre: https://thepcip.org/
Contact the Hosts:
shaura@thepcip.org
susan@thepcip.org
Production credit
Sound Engineer: Tom Fox at Moorcroft Studios
Original artwork credit
The original artwork for the Pilamaya Podcast is by multi media artist & healer Hilary Calverley.
Inner & Outer Landscapes
(Charcoal, acrylic paint & water soluble oil pastels on watercolour paper.)
Instagram: hilary_calverley_
Multi media artist & Healer hilarycalverley@gmail.com
