Taya Mâ Shere is the co-founder of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, co-author of "The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2015), and "Siddur HaKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook" and a senior teacher and practitioner of Ancestral Lineage Healing. She is Assistant Professor of Organic Multireligious Ritual at Starr King School for the Ministry, where she trains emergent clergy across faith traditions. She is a senior teacher and practitioner of Ancestral Lineage Healing, a practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, and for over twenty years, Shere has led workshops on conscious menstruation. Her article, 'Your Blood is a Blessing,' was published in "God In Your Body" (Jay Michaelson, Jewish Lights, 2006) and "The Hebrew Priestess". Taya has tended menstrual-honoring spaces at music festivals and large spiritual events, and has supported many hundreds of bleeding ones in reclaiming menstruation as a sacred practice. She has been bleeding for over thirty years, and distinctly remembers feeling mortified when her parents took her out for dinner to celebrate her first period. Conscious menstruation is at the heart of her spiritual practice.