Spiritual Leadership
Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute
Taya Mâ co-founded and co-directed the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, a clergy training program, sibling-hood and movement dedicated to reclaiming and innovating embodied and earth-honoring models of Jewish feminist spiritual leadership. While Kohenet Institute closed its doors in 2023, Taya Mâ currently supports emerging and advanced priestexxes in an evolving mystery-school context, and is working with kohanot toward creating pathways for a living legacy of counter-oppressive and embodied Kohenet, including concentric circles of liberatory community and training.
Makam Shekhina
Makam Shekhina is a community of Hebrew Priestess and Sufi Dervishes praying and playing together in embodied, multi-gender, ecstatic counter-oppressive devotion. Makam Shekhina is convened by Taya Mâ and Sheikh Ibrahim Baba and now co-led with Rev. Dr. Matta Ghaly.
Starr-King School for the Ministry
Taya Mâ is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Organic Multi-Religious Ritual at Starr-King School for the Ministry. She regularly teaches Ritual Craft as Transformative Practice & the MultiReligious Intensive: Amidst the Blessing of the Ancestors, is on faculty at The Center for Multi-Religious Studies and co-convenes the Bayt Tamar / al-Tamar House of Dates series on Muslim and Jewish multi-religious weaving.
The Chaplaincy Institute
Taya Mâ served as Faculty of Embodied Ministry and Embodied Leadership at The Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley, CA and returns often as guest faculty, where she trains emergent Interfaith Ministers and Spiritual Directors in ritual practice and spiritual care.