Jordanna Anawalt

We nurture a living relationship with our Oregon Tarpan herd who foster personal development and well-being in our global community. Every offering we bring forward is guided by the belief that restoring our connection to the natural world restores our connection to ourselves.

A fundraising campaign centered on horses for mental health allows us to deepen one of the most transformative relationships we can offer—the one between a human being and a horse. The Oregon Tarpans, a rare primitive-style breed and beloved members of our indigenous approaches to wellness program, are not therapy horses in the conventional sense. They are teachers and relatives. Their survival as a species has depended on curiosity, congruence, and the resilience of the herd. In their company, people naturally remember how to simply be.

When we return to the simple acts of being and experiencing on the land alongside our horse relatives, something essential is restored. The nervous system softens. The mind quiets. The body remembers it belongs to the earth. People leave with a renewed sense of self-trust, emotional steadiness, and clarity about what matters. They feel less alone—held by the herd, the land, the sage, and the sky. Here, humans rediscover wonder. Those carrying grief or disconnection find it met without words. Those who have forgotten their own strength find it mirrored back through the primal presence of the Oregon Tarpan.

Through movement, sound, creative expression, community circles, and nature walks on the land in Central Oregon, our participants are invited into genuine relationship with the Oregon Tarpan herd—restoring curiosity and remembering congruent connection with themselves, their plant, animal, and human relatives, and the land and cosmos they belong to.

Supporting this campaign keeps the conversation alive between horse and human, land and community, ancient knowing and modern life. Help sustain the medicine the Oregon Tarpan horses offer those in need; our campaign goal is $5,000.

For the individuals we serve, time spent with the Oregon Tarpans is more than an experience. It is a remembering—of who they are, the wisdom they already carry, and the ground that has always been beneath their feet.