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 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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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
