Michaela Himelfarb lives in the Mahicantuck Valley on Lenape land commonly referred to as High Falls with her husband, two children, and land mates. After 15 years of dreaming about this offering, she started ReStory Kinship Programs as a way to create more villaging around intimacy with the earth and care for the place so many of us call home. Michaela has a degree in Elementary and Special Education. She also trained for several years at the Wilderness Awareness School and Rites of Passage Journeys in Washington State as well as Wolf Tree Programs in Massachusetts.

She has worked for several nature connection schools over the last 14 years and is grateful to continue the work that has been passed on to her by many teachers. Michaela focuses on the relational and connective aspects of working with people in and amongst the natural world and she is passionate about creating opportunities for people of all ages to connect to themselves, each other, and the living earth. Some of Michaela’s many loves are her holy mama circle work, playing her fiddle, basketmaking, hide tanning, gardening, and time with her friends and family.