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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: A Small and Mighty Constellation

The Pilamaya Podcast is a series from the Pilamaya Centre (UK) featuring conversations about integration psychotherapy, consciousness, and personal transformation. Hosted by Shaura Hall, it explores merging ancient wisdom with modern therapy, focusing on themes like relational healing and emotional growth.

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