The Pilamaya Podcast
The Pilamaya Podcast is a monthly series from the Pilamaya Centre for Integration Psychotherapy in the UK, hosted by Shaura Hall and Pilamaya graduate Susan Clark. Each episode explores integration psychotherapy, consciousness, and personal transformation, weaving ancient wisdom together with contemporary therapeutic practice across themes of relational healing, emotional growth, and the deeper questions that shape our inner lives.
At its heart, this podcast reflects who we are as a community of learners, and why this work matters beyond the therapy room. At Pilamaya, we believe the therapeutic process is a vehicle for change in the world, and these conversations sit at that edge, where personal transformation meets collective responsibility.
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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 latest episode of the podcast, we revisit the origin story of Pilamaya and the themes of our first four episodes to offer a Summer Compilation and a pause for Integration. This is, after all, a podcast that is all about Integration Psychotherapy (IP) — the unique training course offered by the UK’s Pilamaya Centre. And so, a pause is an important part of the integration process.
The Call
We start by reminding ourselves of what we refer to as ‘The Call’ and after sounding the conch which is our signature opener and introducing your co-hosts, Shaura and Susan, Shaura goes on to explain how people find their way to Pilamaya and its training offerings and how her role is to respond to that same call by offering the best of her own specialist trainings to students on both the IP and the Transpersonal Yoga trainings, as well as the new CPD short courses.
The IP Training
The hosts revisit the IP training and discuss what makes it unique but also how it stands on the shoulders of giants of the psychotherapy world — including Jung and Erickson and Bowlby and Klein among so many others.
Timing & Presence
In episode 3, the duo talked about timings, reflecting on how someone might know that either the time has come to embark on therapy themselves, or the time has come to step into the IP training space themselves. They also share some insights into how they stay fully present for their clients in the therapeutic 50 minutes of a session.
The Nine Dimensions
The IP training offers a multi-dimensional framework which means IP therapists can draw on body and breathwork, as well as talk, to create a safe space for an exploration of the issues that may be preventing a client from living the life they had imagined for themselves. This means the word integration works in two ways — it allows the therapist to take an integrated approach to the work which itself is about supporting the client to integrate those parts of Self that may have been abandoned, lost, buried or given away.
Belonging
We conclude our summer compilation episode by revisiting the potent topic of Belonging and with an exploration of both the wound of not belonging and the anxiety that being welcomed to a new space can trigger. Pilamaya’s Community Liaison & Support staff member, Emily Wallace joins Shaura and Susan as the podcast’s first-ever guest and shares a thoughtful piece of writing about her experience of Belonging – to land, to place, to community and ultimately, to Self.
This episode then is an invitation to pause and savour the offerings we have now put into the podcast space for working therapists, clients and those considering our trainings.
We hope you enjoy this reminder of what we’ve been talking and thinking about and as ever, we are open to your suggestions for special themes so please feel free to contact Shaura or Susan with topics you’d like to hear them discuss.
We will be back with a brand-new episode exploring The Seven Sacred Values after the summer break. In the meantime, have a good summer, take care of you and yours and stay in touch with us by subscribing (free) to our various monthly newsletters.
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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
