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integration in the school I attended to learn about facilitating the process, but I knew we were learning from an outdated template.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.
In this episode on the theme of Belonging and, by association, the deep wound of feeling you don’t belong, co-hosts Susan and Shaura are joined by Pilamaya's newly appointed Community Liaison Administrator and Pilamaya-trained fellow Integration Psychotherapist, Emily Wallace.
Emily shares how, for her, Belonging feels like it sits at the centre of being human — whether that be belonging to place within community, on land, within family systems, in time, or to the self.
Susan shares how in her life, the wound of Not Belonging opened the pathway back to Belonging to Self, (what Carl Jung would have called Individuation).
And all three acknowledge how, for those for whom when Belonging has not been modelled in earlier life stages, any invitation to truly Belong can feel threatening, and for a system has no understanding of what it might mean to belong securely to anything or anyone and perhaps confrontational.
Shaura concludes, “Essentially where we get to in the therapeutic space is around the question of belonging to Self. And at the end, if we can open ourselves to the infinite possibilities that are available for self-understanding and self-expression, then we begin to belong to the realm of possibility and therefore to life itself.”
This is a heartfelt and ultimately uplifting discussion on the ways Integration Psychotherapy invites us to find and even create new ways to Belong.
To ourselves.
To our soul community.
To the new wave of consciousness that waits for those who hear the call.
To those new frameworks of Belonging that are making their way through the noise.
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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
