Episode 12: Sacred Sound and Ritual on the Multireligious Journey with Taya Mâ Shere

Taya Mâ Shere is a ritual artist embracing embodied, earth-honoring devotion as liberatory spiritual practice. She is Assistant Professor of Organic Multi-Religious Ritual at Starr King School for the Ministry, Associate Director of their Center for Multi-Religious Studies and founder of From the Deep, an emergent mystery school of earth, sea and soma.  She is host of the acclaimed podcast Jewish Ancestral Healing as well as The Sarah and Hajar Series: Sacred Practice and Possibility at the Intersections of Judaism and Islam.

Taya Mâ teaches online courses in embodied spiritual practice, ritual arts and connecting with ancestral blessing including Luminous Ancestors of Earth, Sea and Sky, Embodied Presence, Practice Makes Imperfect: Changing Your Life One Micro-Movement at a Time, and Completion: Embracing the Alchemy of Endings.  Taya Mâ co-founded the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess movement, and co-authored The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership and Siddur haKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook. Her four albums of Hebrew Goddess chant, including This Bliss and Wild Earth Shebrew, have been heralded as "transmissions which tap into collective memory" and "cutting-edge mystic medicine music".  Her most recent album, Makam Shekhina, in cahoots with her beloved collaborator Pir Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajajé and friends, are pulsing, percussive Arabic & Hebrew chants of counter-oppressive devotion.