Collected Item: “Taya Mâ Shere Oral History, 2022/07/27”
Title
Taya Ma Shere
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Taya Ma Shere
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#gratitude, #groceries, #holidays, #interconnectedness, #Jewish, #Kohenet, #love, #masking, #optimism, #prayer, #Priestess, #selflove, #sexuality, #Shabbat, #somatics, #spirituality, #travel, #vaccination
What is the format of your recording?
Audio
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Private
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
she/her
What is the age of the interviewee?
45 to 54
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
Jewish
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed include:
- Founding a school for the ordaining of earth-based models of feminist Jewish spiritual leadership/Priestesshood.
- Having taught spiritual leadership online and in-person pre-pandemic.
- Counter-oppressive devotion and spirituality.
- Having traveled to teach just before lockdown and having those plans canceled; planning to stay somewhere for briefly days and ending up staying for a year and a half; quarantining when you know few people locally.
- Connecting with nature.
- Safety precautions in spiritual gatherings.
- Online Shabbat; the importance of gathering and maintaining community; Jewish High Holidays rituals online.
- Creating a series called “Priestessing in the Time of Unravel”.
- Considering people’s different needs as things open up; different community members’ comfort with safety precautions.
- Reflecting on early-pandemic writing, “Sex in an Era of Physical Distancing”: https://centerpost.rowecenter.org/sex-in-an-era-of-physical-distancing-taya-ma/.
- How safer sex practices and boundaries resonate with COVID safety practices and boundaries: regular STI/COVID testing, mask/barrier methods, exposure risk behavior with other people.
- Having conversations about safety and needs without judgment; different risk thresholds and different vulnerabilities.
- New conversations about safety and boundaries opening up with vaccination.
- First trip out to a grocery store since the pandemic.
- Experiencing harassment for wearing a mask.
- Finding safety within oneself, self-love.
- The impact of the pandemic on the collective nervous system, trauma-feedback loop.
- Coping with the unknown.
- The Podcast Jewish Ancestral Healing’s growing listenership: https://www.jewishancestralhealing.com/.
- The balance between sovereignty and interconnection.
Other cultural references: Zoom, YA (Yocheved Angelique), Ari Felix, Spoon Theory, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993).
See also:
https://kohenet.org
http://taya.ma
https://www.sksm.edu/people/taya-shere/
https://wildernesstorah.org/wilderness-torah/2020/05/20/you-are-more-than-enough-chants-for-rooting-wellness-with-taya-ma-shere/
- Founding a school for the ordaining of earth-based models of feminist Jewish spiritual leadership/Priestesshood.
- Having taught spiritual leadership online and in-person pre-pandemic.
- Counter-oppressive devotion and spirituality.
- Having traveled to teach just before lockdown and having those plans canceled; planning to stay somewhere for briefly days and ending up staying for a year and a half; quarantining when you know few people locally.
- Connecting with nature.
- Safety precautions in spiritual gatherings.
- Online Shabbat; the importance of gathering and maintaining community; Jewish High Holidays rituals online.
- Creating a series called “Priestessing in the Time of Unravel”.
- Considering people’s different needs as things open up; different community members’ comfort with safety precautions.
- Reflecting on early-pandemic writing, “Sex in an Era of Physical Distancing”: https://centerpost.rowecenter.org/sex-in-an-era-of-physical-distancing-taya-ma/.
- How safer sex practices and boundaries resonate with COVID safety practices and boundaries: regular STI/COVID testing, mask/barrier methods, exposure risk behavior with other people.
- Having conversations about safety and needs without judgment; different risk thresholds and different vulnerabilities.
- New conversations about safety and boundaries opening up with vaccination.
- First trip out to a grocery store since the pandemic.
- Experiencing harassment for wearing a mask.
- Finding safety within oneself, self-love.
- The impact of the pandemic on the collective nervous system, trauma-feedback loop.
- Coping with the unknown.
- The Podcast Jewish Ancestral Healing’s growing listenership: https://www.jewishancestralhealing.com/.
- The balance between sovereignty and interconnection.
Other cultural references: Zoom, YA (Yocheved Angelique), Ari Felix, Spoon Theory, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993).
See also:
https://kohenet.org
http://taya.ma
https://www.sksm.edu/people/taya-shere/
https://wildernesstorah.org/wilderness-torah/2020/05/20/you-are-more-than-enough-chants-for-rooting-wellness-with-taya-ma-shere/
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-07-27