ETHOS

Temple STK is a community owned, community stewarded, and community supported through our donations received by you.

We are a Temple space based in the hills of Oakland, CA on Ohlone territory and have been in service to the land, heart, and community since 2016.

We believe in empowering people through self agency and wisdom through the connection and strength of nature and land based practices.

Through having a symbiotic relationship to nature can we then connect to the divine and find gratitude for all living beings. In finding this connection to all living beings we can then source patience, humility, and forgiveness.

Once we find this acceptance and love from within can we be of service to our greater communities through the heart and our actions.

Temple STK values wisdom from all walks of life. Within this we can all learn from and collaborate with one another through different felt experiences and support one another through the journey of life with reciprocal support and community care.

We are deeply connected to Amazonian indigenous wisdom keepers and give back to our Amazonian communities and families with the donations we receive through our Temple. These donations support our local communities who also live this prayer.

Nai Kaya

Nai Kaya is the lead steward of Temple STK and cosmotropes through the earthly realms with inspiration, dedication, training, and love from the Amazonian Shipibo tradition of plant teachers through the Lopez lineage. Her strongest connection and soulful songs hail from the sacred bioluminescent tree Noya Rao in the Amazon jungle. She has been a student of Noya Rao for 10 years, and holds 18 years of master plant diets which holds her wisdom teachings through Dieta for the community.

Nai's connection to her own healing and self-discovery with plants and began 31 years ago with the last 20 years dedicated to Amazonian plant wisdom. She is a dedicated Vegitalista of the plants and has been facilitating a safe space for others to connect to plant divinity for their wisdom, inspiration, and self-agency for over 10 years. She has founded and created a community Temple in the Oakland hills based on the principals of activism, social change, and prayer.

Nai Kaya is a witness, a weaver, and an artist of sound and visuals. She is a certified sound healer and stitches sound and energy work into her meditations. Nai is trauma informed and holds a deep space for realignment to occur. She believes in the wisdom and intelligence of the plants and the natural world and celebrates her alternative lifestyle identity with nature through her songs.

Nai holds space with laughter and humility. When she is not at the Temple, she spends her time advising influential leaders in the movement, advocating for community policy, supporting grassroots community, making plant potions of heart and magic, studying new modalities, gardening, and flirting with the divine.

*References are available upon request.