U R HERD - Non Profit

05/06/2025

This is the international model of therapy that we practice at U R Herd.

🧠 Mental Health Awareness Month Begins 🧠
As May kicks off, we’re proud to honor Mental Health Awareness Month by shining a light on the transformative power of equine-assisted therapy.

At Eagala, we’re committed to supporting mental wellness and celebrating the healing journeys happening through the Eagala Model. This month is about raising awareness, encouraging connection, and promoting healing — one session at a time. 💚🐴

05/05/2025

Let s make a difference together Please like this post to help our message reach out .

GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to one or more of 700+ participating nonprofit organizations.

04/28/2025

Fundamentally, we’re all just trying to survive and to find a sense of safety from which to live our lives.

And, we all more or less need the same fundamental things:

- To feel SAFE: physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually
- To feel seen
- To be heard
- To be understood
- To be accepted just as we are
- To be valued for who we are
- To be witnessed
- To be treated with kindness, compassion and respect
- To be encouraged to reveal our incredible authentic self and soul
- To feel we belong somewhere and to others
- And, to be loved.

None of us can learn, grow or heal if these basic human conditions are missing from our interactions.

None us will feel safe enough to be able to take-in information, process it, or our own thoughts, feelings or bodily sensations, or indeed feel able to genuinely engage with a person/people if these key ingredients are absent.

And most assuredly, healing absolutely cannot take place when any of these essential pieces are missing.

If we can remember this in all of our interactions and relationships with people, then we can start to create really safe and healing, authentic spaces.

Whether we’re engaging with colleagues, clients or students, if we keep this fundamental wisdom and understanding front and centre in all that we do, then we’re contributing to true healing for all involved.

And maybe then, we’ll each of us, feel safe enough to soften our defences, open our hearts and move gently beyond survival mode, a little more each time, as we begin to dip our toes into the beautiful wellspring of thriving and wholeness.

Angela Dunning
The Horse’s Truth
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04/28/2025

Good morning world
Just breathe 🌺

04/28/2025

Help Us Build a Classroom at the Barn! 🐴💛

At U R Herd, we offer free Equine-Assisted Mental Health programs in New Orleans — powered by rescued horses and community love.

But the weather doesn't always cooperate ⛈️. We urgently need a weatherproof classroom so healing can happen rain or shine.

Do you believe in healing through horses?
Every dollar helps us build a space for growth, learning, and hope.

Please share this and click on the link below to see what we do and donate if you can, or come and volunteer!💖🦋

GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to one or more of 700+ participating nonprofit organizations.

04/28/2025

15 Fascinating Facts About the Horse's Heart and Its Emotional Connection with Humans:

The heart of an average adult horse weighs about 4–5 kg — nearly 10 times heavier than a human heart.

A horse's resting heart rate is around 28–40 beats per minute, but it can rise up to 240 during stress or intense activity.

The horse's heart is incredibly powerful — it can pump over 60 liters of blood per minute during running.

Human emotions can affect a horse's heart rate. Studies show that horses "read" human moods and mirror them.

During calm interaction, the heart rates of the human and horse can synchronize — a phenomenon known as bioelectrical resonance.

Horses sense a person's presence even before physical contact — their heart reacts to energy changes nearby.

A horse's heart generates a strong electromagnetic field, capable of transmitting emotional signals to other horses and even people.

Horses have a highly developed parasympathetic system, allowing them to calm down quickly in a safe environment.

A handler’s anxiety or fear can trigger stress in the horse — even if no real threat is present.

During cuddling or quiet companionship, a horse’s heartbeat slows down — a clear sign of trust.

Young horses experience emotional “storms” more frequently — much like humans, their hearts and nervous systems are still developing.

Trauma can leave an "emotional imprint" on a horse's heartbeat, even long after physical recovery.

Horses have the ability for emotional healing — kind and caring human contact can stabilize their heartbeat.

The horse’s heart is often seen as a symbol of deep intuition — horses can "feel" intentions before a word is spoken.

Scientific studies confirm that the emotional bond between human and horse is not a myth — it's a real physiological interaction of hearts, which can even have healing effects.

04/11/2025

Make friends with horses.

03/03/2025

“If every single person who has liked you in your lifetime were to light up on a map, it would create the most glittering, beautiful network you could imagine.

Throw in the strangers you’ve been kind to, the people you’ve made laugh, or inspired along the way, and that star-bright network of you would be an impressive sight to behold.

You’re so much more than you think you are.

You have done so much more than you realise.

You’re trailing a bright pathway that you don’t even know about. What a thing. What a thing indeed.”

- Donna Ashworth

Image by Tetiana Babinich, licensed via Shutterstock.

02/09/2025

"One day, the mountain that is in front of you will be so far behind you, it will barely be visible in the distance.

But the person you become in learning to get over it?

That will stay with you forever.

And that is the point of the mountain."

~ Brianna Wiest, 'The Mountain is You'.

Art by Jody Bergsma

08/21/2024

A nice example of Equine Assisted therapy, from across the pond where I am from. We are now offering this same therapy right here in New Orleans

Hundreds of teenagers battling mental health issues are using a novel method to learn to cope - by working with horses.The charity Strength and Learning Thro...

05/07/2024

Horses invite us to be heard and seen as our authentic selves. May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
Today is Give Nola Day. Please share this post about our mental health and education services and consider donating on this day through the Give Nola link.
We appreciate your support!