Taya Mâ Shere is a ritual artist embracing embodied, earth-honoring devotion as liberatory spiritual practice.
She serves as a professor of Organic Multi-Religious Ritual at Starr King School for the Ministry, where she also co-convenes The House of Dates. She is founder of From the Deep, an emergent mystery school of earth, sea and soma.
Taya Mâ hosts the acclaimed Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast and The Sarah & Hajar Series: Sacred Practice and Possibility at the Intersections of Judaism and Islam and co-hosted Shift’s Mystics Summit.
Taya Mâ’s online courses include new offerings: The Primordial Sacred and Luminous Ancestors of Earth, Sea and Sky as well as longtime favorites: 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.
She co-founded Makam Shekhina multi-religious Jewish and Sufi Muslim community committed to counter-oppressive devotion with her beloved collaborator Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajaje.
Taya Mâ’s many albums of sacred chant have been heralded as "cutting-edge mystic medicine music" and "transmissions which tap into collective memory."