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integration in the school I attended to learn about facilitating the process, but I knew we were learning from an outdated template.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 deeply moving episode, co-hosts Susan and Shaura discuss the “gifted” values system that underpins Pilamaya and all its offerings — “gifted” because Shaura was given permission to teach and build upon them by the Lakota Elders who have been in her life for over two decades.
The values speak for themselves, and we offer (and explore) them here as they were offered to Shaura.
1. Live in Good Health
2. Remember the Generations
3. Walk in Quietness, Be Humble
4. Be Happy
5. Help One Another, Have Compassion
6. Live with the Power, Have Faith
7. Respect All of Creation
You will hear for yourself how the room changes to allow the values to be a part of this recording. And below, Shaura has a very personal message to share about their origins and her gratitude to the Lakota people.
Shaura writes:
I want to give thanks and recognition to the Lakota people who welcomed me into their spiritual community and allowed me to come close to these ways. They gave me a doorway in – to ways that would help me reconnect to myself, to nature and to life – and, at the same time, they showed me a doorway out of a world that was full of chaos, misery and destruction. Through these relationships I have also witnessed something of the enormous cost carried by Native people and their families across generations: the deliberate disruption of spirituality, ceremony, language, family and relationship with the land. I give thanks to those who, against extraordinary odds, held on to the songs, the ceremonies, the languages and the remnants of these spiritual ways, leaving something alive for the generations who come after them to return to.
I also send my prayers to the Indigenous men, women and children who have died through this new world reordering, and to the lineages that have been interrupted or dissolved through it. May there be grace, rest and peace for those who have travelled through these terrifying conditions, whether they are on this side of reality or the other. And I give thanks to the Great Spirit of All – the spirit moving through these ways, through the people and across this great Mother Earth – for whatever has given human beings the strength and tenacity to keep something sacred alive. What has been preserved now offers a doorway not only for Native people finding their way home, but, shared where it is appropriate – something that may also help a wider world suffering from the consequences of its own reordering.
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ
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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
