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integration in the school I attended to learn about facilitating the process, but I knew we were learning from an outdated template.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.
What if the place where we are most fully ourselves is also the most ordinary?
In this episode, Susan and Shaura explore The Ordinary Place — a state of being where we are neither above nor below anyone else, where the need to perform, explain or prove ourselves begins to fall away.
Through charming stories of family, animals, creativity, the natural world (including one very particular crab apple) the hosts explore all the ways in which we might begin to find or recognise our own Ordinary Place:
1. Be yourself
The Ordinary Place asks nothing more extraordinary of us than to be who we are.
It can be found in moments of truth, stillness and ease — those times when we stop feeling the need to explain or perform and can simply inhabit ourselves.
2. Notice the noise
Family conditioning, social expectations and the constant noise of modern life can pull us away from ourselves, and thus, the Ordinary Place, leaving us caught between feeling not enough and trying to become something more.
What remains when some of that noise falls away?
3. Follow what brings you home
Your Ordinary Place may already be present in the things that quietly bring you joy — creativity, nature, relationships, work, ritual or the places where you simply feel most naturally ourselves.
What if the Ordinary Place isn’t somewhere we need to reach for or travel to at all.
What of it’s simply somewhere we learn to recognise.
Enjoy this episode and let us know: Where is your Ordinary Place?
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Find out more about Pilamaya:
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
