Meet Pilamaya Founder, Shaura Hall
Shaura Hall on a recent trip to Cambodia in February 2026
“My work now is to stand at the edge of what is ready to emerge in the field, bring it through, shape it into teachings and share it with those who feel the call of Pilamaya.” - Shaura Hall
Welcome to Pilamaya People
In this, our first Pilamaya People newsletter, it makes sense to go back to the beginning and meet the woman without whom there would be no Pilamaya community or training offerings: Shaura Hall.
You can hear Shaura talk about the origin story of Pilamaya here, on the new Pilamaya Podcast:
🎧 Listen on Spotify: The Pilamaya Podcast: A Small and Mighty Constellation
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But first, let’s discover a little more about the sometimes shy woman behind the training organisation and why the work she does matters so deeply to her. For many of us, these trainings would not be offered elsewhere because our paths into yoga therapy or psychotherapy have been anything but conventional. And that, of course, is what makes the Pilamaya community so unique and rich.
Here then is Shaura Hall tackling the deceptively simple — but actually quite searching — Pilamaya People questions we will be putting to all our interviewees in this new series.
In her answers below, she reflects on her earliest memory of being here on earth, the work that nourishes her most deeply, and what she hopes people will remember about her when she is eighty.
The Pilamaya People Questionnaire
Tempting to say something about the peace pipe finding Shaura at an early age.. this was her Grandfather’s pipe
What is your first memory of being here on earth?
My earliest memory is of going with my mum to a house we lived in where the roof had fallen in. I remember picking up a little porcelain *turtle. I was probably about two years old.
*Editor’s note: In many cultures, the turtle represents Mother Earth, a thread that links directly to Shaura’s land work across the world today.
Shaura aged ?? already showing a strong relationship with colour, sound and consciousness!
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I had a passing fancy to be a singer or something glamorous like that but I never really had much direction in my early life and there were no words then in my mental or emotional vocabulary for what I have become which is an explorer of consciousness, neurosomatic psychotherapist and the founder of the Pilamaya centre. My work now is to stand at the edge of what is ready to emerge in the field, bring it through, shape it into teachings and share it with those who feel the call of Pilamaya.
3. What three words would you use to describe the woman you are now in your early 50s?
Driven. Serious. Connected.
4. What do you tell people who have never met you about yourself now?
So, not much really but if I do say anything about myself I say I am in the world of psychotherapy, I run a training organisation and I have a son. And if I like them I might add, “And I love to be with birds!” I actually find it very difficult to talk about myself with people but, happily, I do know there’s more that gets transferred in the listening than with words. I hope what people are left with is something that is much more about presence than words.
What truly nourishes you outside the Pilamaya constellation and its need of you?
Nature. The Sun. The birds (which I mentioned earlier). The sun is my great ally. And I think it is the bird song that connects me to the sun and its energy. Also, my family and friends of course. And the people who come and show up for the world, work for the field. Feeling myself part of something else, something greater, part of the cosmos, that’s nourishing for me. And then of course the beautiful crystal beings in my home who surround and support me.
Where is your energy most needed in 2026 (trainings/land work/your own inner work?). How does the call to new work penetrate through the layers of what you already offer and do?
Shaura’s own practice lies at the heart of everything she offers through Pilamaya and its sister CIC company, Integration Psychotherapy Services (IPS)
So my energy is needed both for the land work I do which is like the heart of my soul and the trainings Pilamaya offer which is my soul’s purpose. The call for me, always, is to have some kind of positive impact on our collective consciousness and in what I call consensus reality.
Pilamaya is built from a prayer of renewal and a prayer for humanity; a prayer for the earth and all these things are part of the same fractal so I can’t and don’t separate myself from them. For me, there is no separation. For me, there is no notion of ‘outside the Pilamaya constellation.’
Where do you want to wake up when you’re 80? What do you want people to remember about you?
I want to wake up in another house that I have made into an altar. And know that I am done, that I have completed my process and prayer for the earth. I want to be resting back in the community I have around me and I want to be remembered for my jokes, my sense of humour and the way I find humour in my own BS.
Mostly I want people to remember the prayer and to remember the way I have smiled at them!
In future editions of Pilamaya People, we’ll be asking the same questions of others in the constellation — trainees, practitioners and teachers whose work is unfolding through Pilamaya.
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