Join us for a magical Ma’arivah evening chant exploration ~ percussive, playful devotion, Hebrew Priestess style, with one of the co-founders of Kohenet (kohenet.com). Will revel in ritual, traverse places of depths and levity with equal care, and root in positive resource as a way to pray. The evening will be participatory, with chants sprinkled with teachings on presence, possibilities, and radical reverence. Chants will be in Hebrew & English, no experience necessary, all are welcome! 

Taya Mâ Shere plays passionately in realms of transformative ritual, embodied vocalization and ancestral reverence. She is co-founder and Rav Kohenet of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, co-author of The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership, and is on faculty at Starr King School for the Ministry, training emergent clergy across faith traditions. Taya Mâ teaches Ancestral Lineage Healing, offering sessions virtually and workshops world-wide. She co-leads a multireligious Jewish & Sufi Muslim community and co-founded Al Kahina Journeys, guiding Jewish, Sufi & Berber sacred pilgrimages in Morocco ~ upcoming journey in October 2020. Taya Mâ is a Somatic Experiencing practitioner and offers online courses including Embodied Presence, Jewish Ancestral Healing and Pleasure as Prayer through Kohenet Virtual Temple, an online school open to all. Taya Mâ’s Hebrew Goddess chant albums — This Bliss, Wild Earth Shebrew, Halluyah All Night and Torah Tantrika — have been heralded as “cutting-edge mystic medicine music.” Her forthcoming album is pulsing Hebrew-Arabic prayer in cahoots with her beloved collaborator Shaykh Ibrahim Baba z’’l. www.taya.ma @ravkohenet