Program & Replays
Welcome Message From Your Summit Hosts
With James F. Twyman & Taya Mâ Shere
James Twyman
James Twyman is an Episcopal priest and The New York Times bestselling author of 20 books, including The Moses Code and Emissary of Light. He's known around the world as the Peace Troubadour, having traveled to many countries at war to share prayers of peace from the world’s 12 major religions, which he put to music in 1994.
James has recorded more than 15 albums, and has produced or directed six films, including Redwood Highway and Indigo. He's also a Franciscan brother with the Community of Francis and Clare, and lives in Ajijic, Mexico where he founded Namaste Village, an interfaith peace community.
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.”