Meet the Founder

Hello! My name is Michelle Haerle, and I am so glad you are here!

My path to feather+bone began with a chronic illness diagnosis and major surgery at 19 years old. I have struggled against my body’s messages and resisted feeling the unbearable grief that screams to tear through me. And the rage!

I have always been sensitive, and could name feelings and experiences in others that they were frozen in time with a similar feeling of trauma to their nervous system.

I felt like I had more to give, other than just suffering. I wouldn’t have this awareness otherwise!

the beginning

Something was always missing, I just hadn’t found out what that was yet.

The turning point

My daughter changed everything.

When I realized the pattern I was living would become the pattern she inherited, something in me awoke & began to grumble.

I decided to reclaim myself. My identity. My voice. My boundaries. To become brave enough to stand up for her the way someone should have stood up for me.

This decision began a journey I am still walking, and it brought me here!

Reiki since 2007. Shamanic journeywork. Massage therapy. A BA in Psychology with Honours. Compassionate Inquiry with Dr Gabor Maté. Coaching. And in 2023, I met kundalini yoga and ecstatic dance. Those cracked open something that nothing else had reached.

the medicine bag

Every tool I carry was chosen because it worked on me first.

I am currently completing my Kundalini yoga teacher training. The medicine bag keeps growing because my practice of devotion allows others to do the same.

Chronic illness taught me how to slow down, soothe a dysregulated nervous system, and find safety in my own body. What began as survival became my greatest teacher.