Explore and deepen your connection to a broad spectrum of ancestors — from human kin to elemental forces — through rituals, sensory practices, and reflective exercises to transform trauma, repattern memories, provide foundational support, and reveal the blessings within your ancestral spiral.
Imagine feeling loved by your most luminous ancestors, which go beyond human ancestors to include the earth, sky, and sea.
If you welcome a connection with this extended family, you can deepen your sense of ancestral support and increase your experience of belonging and blessing.
When you understand the full spectrum of your ancestors, you begin to know yourself as a more multidimensional being with nurturing guides all around you.
Indeed, you can cultivate a profound sense of connection and belonging that transcends time and space, allowing you to draw on ancestral strength and wisdom to navigate your life with greater clarity, purpose, and spiritual fulfillment, shares Taya Mâ Shere, professor of multi-religious rituals and founder of the mystery school From The Deep.
Revered globally for her integration of ritual, chant, and spiritual wisdom, Taya Mâ brings a wealth of experience from her diverse background in multi-religious ritual arts and spiritual teaching. Her methods have inspired countless individuals to break free from life's constraints and embrace a fuller, more spiritually interconnected existence.
Taya explains that spiralizing your ancestral lineage — engaging in transformative healing through nonlinear exploration — includes beings of earth, sea, and sky, such as natural elements, creature teachers, and more-than-human kin.
Doing so adds a multidimensional layer that enables you to exist in what Taya Mâ calls the ancestral now — attuning to love that transcends linear time.
This ancestral paradigm shift enables you to access a lush field of possibility that exists beyond generational trauma or pain.
Join Taya Mâ for a brand new 7-week live video course where you’ll learn how to connect with a vast array of ancestors, who you can connect to across all realms through your seven body senses, for greater levels of healing and joy.
To do this, Taya will teach you potent rituals for rooting in positive resources, enhancing your ability to heal and connect deeply with your own body and the ancestral energies surrounding you. You’ll also receive practical strategies for overcoming generational trauma by connecting with more-than-human ancestors for repatterning your nervous system and enhancing your wellbeing.
In fact, your bodily senses are the simplest, most accessible languages by which you and the luminous ones can connect and communicate. You’ll learn how to use your sense of smell, touch, and even taste to establish and strengthen these connections, each sense opening a different door to the spiritual and ancestral world.
Taya Mâ will lead you through potent weekly rituals such as the Ritual of Roses for connecting with ancestral blessings, the Ritual of Flame for remembering and honoring, and the Ritual of Water for deepening ties with your elemental kin.
Each ritual is designed to fortify your bond with a diverse pantheon of ancestors and empower your spiritual journey with their inherited wisdom and support.
You’ll gain practical strategies for overcoming generational trauma by connecting with more-than-human ancestors, providing you with a fresh perspective and tools for repatterning your nervous system and enhancing your wellbeing.
What’s so special about Taya Mâ is the genuine depth of her loving presence and how she intuitively guides based on the collective ancestral energy — allowing what is most needed to emerge spontaneously. You’ll feel seen and supported on a profound level.
She’ll lead you on a journey beyond the confines of linear time and into the expansive realm of the ancestral now, where you can feel, with certainty, the support and guidance of the luminous ancestors...
... enriching your present connections with yourself, your community, and the natural world.
You’ll cultivate greater perception and trust in your direct knowing through exercises designed to enhance your intuition and validate your personal spiritual insights, helping you trust your innate abilities and to recognize the subtle, yet profound, ways in which your ancestors communicate and offer guidance.
As you sync with your shimmering web of supportive ancestral relationships across time, space, and dimensions, you can transform trauma, clearly remember who you are, and live a more authentic life, enriched with integrity, openness, possibility, and connection.
Without separation between you and your ancestors, your spirit can expand and fill with their presence, enhancing your capacity to connect deeply with the world around you, attune to states of flow and experiences of synchronicity, and shift from a mode of surviving to truly thriving.
During this soul-awakening course, you’ll:
- Discover how to use songs, prayers, and sensory rituals to repattern your memory and connect deeply with ancestral realms
- Expand your understanding of ancestors beyond human kin, learning how to draw support from elemental forces and creature teachers
- Learn practices of containment and boundary creation to safely navigate and transform intergenerational trauma
- Journey beyond linear time to interact with the luminous ones, gaining insights from thousands of years of your ancestors’ best dreams
- Engage with the ancestral spiral to uncover your unique gifts and callings influenced by your lineage
- Connect with ancestors of inspiration and plant kin, exploring spiritual vocations and the regenerative cycles of nature
- Chronicle your personal story of ancestral blessings, using sensory practices like anointing to embody and activate these insights
- Receive a comprehensive toolkit of sensory practices for ancestral connection
- And much more...
This course will emphasize that connecting with ancestors involves more than just honoring past relatives — it includes engaging with all forms of ancestral energies that surround and influence us.
You’ll shed the limiting belief that ancestry is solely about bloodlines, opening up to a broader understanding of how you’re supported by a vast constellation of ancestral forces.
Taya Mâ will encourage you to courageously explore these connections, helping you uncover your ancestral gifts and integrate them into your daily life to become a source of strength and inspiration.
You’ll recognize that you are a culmination of many lifetimes of hopes and dreams and discover that you already possess everything necessary for tapping into this ancient wisdom, fostering healing and guidance not just for yourself, but for your community and beyond.
Join Taya Mâ and discover how to enter an expansive spiral of support and blessing — a vibrant dimension where your essential truth and gifts are celebrated, and where liberatory self-love, deep belonging, and clarity of purpose await your discovery.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Taya Mâ will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully reconnect with your ancestors, utilizing rituals, sensory practices, and reflective exercises to heal, grow, and access your ancestral blessings.
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Weekly Sessions Wednesdays at 1:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Taya Mâ. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to deepen your connections across various ancestral realms, harnessing their collective wisdom to heal and enrich your life’s journey.
Module 1: Attune to Positive Resources Across All Realms for Healing & Blessings (September 4)
Experience song as a potent tool for re-patterning your memory and cells, as you bask in the warmth and possibility of this space of shared devotion of attention.
Be invited to consider the anchoring question of the course, “What is the best possible thing that could happen?”
Within this frame, learn how trauma heals through the lens of somatic experiencing, and come to understand both “sense” and “synchrony” as primary ancestral languages.
Experience a guided reflective practice to consider your best hopes and deepest dreams in ancestral realms, receive a sensory practice you can work with at home, and experience a ritual of roses as a pathway to ancestral connection and blessing.
In this module, you’ll:
- Encounter songs and sacred tools to support your course experience
- Understand the practice of attuning to positive resources as path for healing, whole-making, and transformation
- Learn how trauma heals through the framework of somatic experiencing
- Understand the sense of smell as a pathway for ancestral connection
- Experience a ritual of roses connection and receive an ancestral blessing
Module 2: Expand Your Constellation of Ancestors for Deeper Layers of Support & Care (September 11)
Explore many different categories and kinds of ancestors.
Build a foundation of deeper layers of support, beyond human ancestors of blood and lineage. Learn and experience practices of containment and boundary creation that can create buffer zones when working with or transmuting intergenerational trauma.
Recognize pathways to slipping beyond linear time and entering the ancestral now, a dimension outside of time where the luminous ones connect with us for insight and relationship.
Discover the power of working with rhythms of light and dark and your sense of sight as a portal for ancestral connection. Be guided in an energetic practice of perceiving through a kaleidoscope of ancestral connection and care.
In this module, you’ll:
- Decenter genetic human ancestors as our sole or primary path of blessing and experience a practice of perceiving a myriad of ancestral kin
- Learn how to create containment and boundaries and saturate yourself with your own presence as a form of protection
- Explore pathways for slipping beyond linear time to enter the ancestral now
- Learn how to deluminate — be at home in the dark — and engage with natural rhythms as a practice for coming into ancestral time
- Understand the sense of sight as a tool and portal for ancestral connection
- Experience a simple sensory ritual of delumination to support connection and receive an ancestral blessing
Module 3: Connecting With Kin of Sea, River & Rain for Belonging & Purpose (September 18)
Explore water ancestors and enter into an immersive practice attuning to the element of water as your ancestor, creatures of water that have shaped you, and human family lineage ancestors with affinities to waterways.
Through the elemental symbolism of the nautilus shell, explore the ancestral spiral, a magical dimension where support, love, and blessing are always available — and where your most essential truth is celebrated, and belonging, calling, and purpose await your discovery.
Taya Mâ will guide you to know water itself as an ancestor and a source of wisdom on the ancestral spiral. Experience the sense of sound as a distinctive pathway and portal to connect with the luminous ones in this primal realm outside time.
Engage on a facilitated journey to sense their presence and experience a water ritual to support connection and receive an ancestral blessing.
In this module, you’ll:
- Gain an understanding of the concept of the ancestral spiral as a continuous flow of blessing, insight, and belonging
- Experience a practice of connecting with the elemental kin of water realms
- Explore the sense of sound as a pathway and portal for ancestral connection
- Discover the connection between water and sound as elemental and sensory tools for building relationship with this realm
- Experience a water ritual to support connecting with an ancestral blessing
Module 4: Tend to Your Ancestral Terrain for Expanded Ancestral Blessings & Gifts (September 25)
Explore earth ancestors, the creatures of land that have shaped you, and human family lineage ancestors with affinities for earth-tending ways.
Acknowledge plant kin and receive their teachings on cycling time and seasons of regeneration, considering those for and from whom we are seeding, sprouting, flowering, and bearing fruit.
Taya Mâ will guide you to know luminous ones as “ones who dreamed us into being” and experience yourself as the expression of thousands of years of your ancestors’ most vibrant hopes and dreams.
Working with the earth and soil introduces questions of stewardship and belonging. Honor ancestors of place and learn how to acknowledge their presence, maintain a right relationship with them, and engage in reciprocity and reparation with them, where situations call for such work.
Explore the sense of touch as a means of connection with ancestors and work with stone as an elemental ally in creating rituals of relationship. Experience a ritual and deep practice with stones to support your work and receive an ancestral blessing.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn the arts of acknowledgement, right relationship, reciprocity, and reparation for ancestral relationship-building
- Understand ancestors as the ones who dreamed you into being
- Experience a practice of attuning to the elemental kin of earth
- Explore plantcestral rituals as a path for connecting with plantcestors
- Gain an understanding of the sense of touch as an anchor for ancestral connection
- Receive a ritual deepening practice of stones to support connection with an ancestral blessing
Module 5: Soar the Ancestral Skies to Access Your Ancestral Gifts (October 2)
Explore air ancestors, attuning to the sky, creatures of the air, and human lineage ancestors with affinities for breath, wind, and flight. Be invited to explore body movement as a sensory means for connecting with these luminous ones.
Understand the vestibular sense (balance and movement) as a pathway to ancestral connection. Learn a dancestral ritual, including gestures of gratitude and invitation, to move with and for ancestors as a blessing.
Taya Mâ will guide you to recognize yourself as the center of your own personal ancestral spiral, and explore how it impacts, supports, and shapes your unique gifts, affinities, and callings.
Take this opportunity to “color beyond the lines” of human lineage, deepening your connection with all the luminous ancestors you’ve met so far. Come to know them and the affinities, allies, blessings, and callings of their ancestral spirals.
In this module, you’ll:
- Gain an understanding of how ancestral spirals influence your personal gifts, affinities, and callings
- Come to understand yourself at the center of your ancestral spiral, with unique gifts, affinities, and callings
- Experience an immersive practice attuning to the sky, creatures of the air, and human lineage ancestors with affinities for breath, wind and flight.
- Explore the vestibular sense as a pathway for ancestral connection
- Learn a dancestral ritual and gestures of gratitude and invitation
Module 6: Tend the Ancestral Flame to Remember Your Deepest Calling & Inspiration (October 9)
Attune to the stars, creatures of fire, and human lineage ancestors with affinities to constellations and the cosmos as you explore ancestors of creativity and those who light the spark in your unique destiny.
Taya Mâ will guide you to immerse yourself in the blessing of ancestors of inspiration, including ones who are your ancestors of craft, spiritual path, vocation, and calling.
Experience a simple ritual of flame as a tool for connecting with these luminous ones and remembering your own deepest calling and inspiration.
By the light of this fire, learn about the power of taste as a sense for connection and experience a ritual of sacred foods, feasting with the luminous ones as a means and setting for greater ancestral relationship.
In this module, you’ll:
- Consider distinctions unique to ancestors of inspiration and the gifts they bring
- Learn ways to discern your own deepest calling and path
- Experience an immersive practice attuning to ancestors of inspiration, creativity, and sacred path
- Explore the sense of taste as a pathway for ancestral connection
- Experience a ritual of flame and feasting with your luminous ancestors as a tool for connecting with this ancestral realm
Module 7: Chronicle the Story of Your Abounding Ancestry to Activate & Embody Your Blessings (October 16)
Gather the gifts, blessings, and learnings of this course, with particular attention to chronicling the ancestrally attuned being you already are and are becoming.
Craft the story of your abounding ancestral blessings and receive a practice for the integration of your journey. Attune to proprioception (body awareness) and interoception (internal sensory awareness) as a way of ancestral connection.
Experience a ritual of anointing — a practice that supports sensory awareness and is also a culmination and activation of embodying blessings. Receive a closing blessing to continue your journey with the ones who came before.
In this module, you’ll:
- Receive practices to integrate the completion of this journey
- Chronicle your story of abounding ancestral blessing, the gifts and calling unique to you and your myriad luminous ancestral companions
- Gain an understanding of proprioception and interoception — awareness of the body in space and of its internal senses — as portals for ancestral tending and connection
- Experience a ceremony of oil anointing as a practice of culmination and an activation and invocation of ancestral blessing
- Enjoy a completion blessing as you continue your journey
The Working With Your Luminous Ancestors Bonus Offering
In addition to Taya Mâ’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Songs for Ancestral Exuberance
Video Teaching From Taya Mâ Shere and Friends
Join Taya Mâ and an exquisite circle of chantresses for a “prayerformance,” a steeping in sacred song for ancestral attunement with luminous ancestors of Earth, sea, and sky. Be serenaded with stellar song magic by radiant recording artists Taya Mâ, Lyndsey Scott, Te Martin, Sarah Salem, and Traci Marx, gaining a more intimate and personal way to connect with the blessings of sacred chants. This experience will further support the work and rituals you learn in the course.
Embodying Our Elemental Kin: Ancestral Teachings With Susan Harper
Video Dialogue With Taya Mâ Shere and Susan Harper
Witness this compelling conversation between Taya Mâ and Susan Harper, founder of Continuum Montage and inspired teacher of perceptual and movement inquiry, in which Susan shares the ways the elements and creatures are our embodied and ancestral kin. Susan is a moving storyteller and a dream weaver who shares potent invitations and practices of sound, breath, and movement to transmit a primal and spiritual fluidity. This offering is a direct invitation to embody the presence of your elemental ancestral kin.
What People Are Saying About Taya Mâ Shere...
— Sarah Donnell: “Taya Mâ Has Guided Me Into and Through Some of the Most Profound Spiritual Experiences I’ve Ever Known”
— Alayna Love: “Taya Mâ Is an Absolutely Magical Instructor”
— Aliza Rivka: “Taya Mâ Helps Us Get Into Right Relationship With Our Ancestors”
Working with and learning from Taya Mâ changed my life! I've found so much more depth, presence, and pleasure in myself and greater access to my embodied knowings. There is great potency and value in Taya Mâ's teachings, and just as much potency in simply receiving from her energetic transmission and the space that she holds. Taya Mâ's teachings on embodied ritual presence will be with me forever.
Songwriter and spiritual companion
Taya Mâ Shere has been a life-changing guide for me in both my journey to connect with my loving ancestors and my reclaiming of my Jewish culture. I have worked with Taya Mâ as an ancestral healing practitioner, a teacher of Jewish Ancestral Healing, and a mentor for my integration of all that I've learned from her into my teaching and creative work. I trust her implicitly and feel deep gratitude for the access she has opened for me to my roots and my direct contact with ancestors. Taya Mâ facilitates grounded, embodied magic!
Professor of dance and inclusive performance
Enter sacred space with Taya Mâ and your body and soul will be deeply fed! Through song, inquiry, and potent exercises, Taya Mâ curates a sensorily luxurious and impeccably held space that supports you to draw forth deep wisdom from within and from the ancestral realm. I am profoundly grateful for how her modeling of embodied devotion has informed and inspired my own ritual practice.
Founder of Earthkeeper Wisdom School
Join the Global Community
Working With Your Luminous Ancestors offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Taya Mâ Shere will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Taya Mâ Shere
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Taya Mâ Shere, ritualist of rewilding, chant artist, and founder of From The Deep — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to experience the power of ancestral blessings as you engage with songs, rituals, and sensory practices that link you to a diverse constellation of ancestors, enabling you to harness their wisdom for healing, personal growth, and spiritual fulfillment. Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The Working With Your Luminous Ancestors Bonus Offering
- Songs for Ancestral Exuberance
Video Teaching From Taya Mâ Shere and Friends - Embodying Our Elemental Kin: Ancestral Teachings With Susan Harper
Video Dialogue With Taya Mâ Shere and Susan Harper
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Working With Your Luminous Ancestors
We feel honored that Taya Mâ Shere has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a ritualist of rewilding, chant artist and founder, From The Deep whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about unlocking the profound blessings of your ancestry, learning to draw on the wisdom of diverse ancestors to heal past traumas and empower your personal growth, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
More Praise for Taya Mâ Shere...
Taya Mâ is an empowering and inspiring teacher and guide. I have taken three courses with Taya Mâ, and each one has been a transformative experience, opening new portals beyond my wildest dreams. Taya Mâ skillfully combines practical tools and profound wisdom, inviting new pathways for self-discovery, healing, and growth. Her mastery of embodied rituals fosters energetic connections with the ancestral realm, all while maintaining a focus on positivity and light. Thank you, Taya Mâ, for the abundant joy you have brought into my life!
Author of Leadership and the Art of Struggle
Taya Mâ is an anomaly. Anyone who has worked with her in any capacity has surely been touched by her unique ability to bridge the worlds of the seen and unseen. Taya Mâ's connection to the Original Pulse is palpable. She has a way of quickly, effortlessly, and dare I say, magically, bringing others into the felt, embodied experience of both the cosmic source and the primordial Earth energies simultaneously. She is both an academic and a true wild woman. She is professional, and yet completely authentic. Her teachings, transmissions, and music are sublime and yet also so simply true and in-the-moment. I would trust Taya Mâ to take me into any Labyrinth of the Spirit, anytime, in any way that she sees fit. Her students are blessed to gain access, through Taya Ma's wisdom and ways, to the sacred realms, devas, ancestors, and Goddesses that she serves so passionately and skillfully.
Founder of The Women's Grove
Taya Mã Shere is a joyously embodied teacher whose ancient wisdom helps us access the veils into our own deep knowing. I am proud to be her student and colleague in the mystic art of ancestral healing.
Jungian psychotherapist and award-winning author
Taya brings wisdom rooted in a depth and breadth of lived experience and warm compassion to all of her offerings. She always prioritizes a holistic approach, weaving together nourishing strands of medicine for mind, body, and spirit with song, movement, breath, spirit work, and inspiring intellectual resources. Taya is an incredibly engaging teacher, navigating the oftentimes fraught waters of ancestral reclamation in ways that allow for bountiful ease, laughter, and joy in the process.
Author and shamanic practitioner
About Taya Mâ Shere
Taya Mâ Shere is a ritual artist embracing embodied, earth-honoring devotion as a liberatory spiritual practice. She is a professor of Organic Multi-Religious Ritual at Starr King School for the Ministry, and 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. She teaches online courses such as Embodied Presence... Practice Makes Imperfect... Changing Your Life One Micro-Movement at a Time... Jewish Ancestral Healing... 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. Her five albums of sacred chant, including This Bliss... Wild Earth Shebrew... and Makam Shekhina have been heralded as “cutting-edge mystic medicine music” and “pulsing transmissions which tap into collective memory.”
