Hold Your Horses
Moving lives forward from trauma and disability with the help of a horseHold Your Horses offers equine assisted services in a private farm setting. We are dedicated to providing effective interventions that help clients achieve wellness and increase quality of life. Year round services are available with heated indoor and scenic outdoor facilities. A professional therapy team and trained equine partners provide opportunities for skill development both on and off the horse. Individuals with physical, cognitive or sensory impairments can benefit from the engaging treatment strategy of hippotherapy or equine facilitated psychotherapy.
Therapy Services
Hold Your Horses offers equine assisted therapy services to help improve the lives of people with disabilities. We have clinicians trained in Hippotherapy and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy that help create life changing outcomes for children and young adults.
Restorative workshops
Hold Your Horses hosts Farm Day workshops throughout the year. These workshops are for caregivers and professionals looking to restore, reflect and return to their work with new awareness of the effects of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma.
MEET OUR PEOPLE
Our team of clinicians and staff at Hold Your Horses are leaders in the field of equine assisted services.
Meet our Herd
Hold Your Horses maintains a herd of therapy horses who work alongside our therapy team members
HELP US GROW ROOTS
Please consider making a donation to Hold Your Horses. All donations help us grow roots in our forever home.
HYH Video Library
Therapy Horse Retiring After More Than A Decade of Service
Please watch a recent TV interview about Lily and her service.
About Hold Your Horses
Please watch to learn more about Hold Your Horses.
Jenny's Story
Jenny served on the board of Hold Your Horses for 5 years and made an incredible impact on our organization. Before she joined the board she experienced the work of Hold Your Horses first hand. Watch her story.
With Gratitude from HYH
The story on finding our permanent home.
Thinking Out of the Barn
Equine therapy for sexually exploited youth.
HYH Blog
Therapeutic benefits of joy & humor
Joy and humor aid healing on a neurological and physiological level. Laughter increases oxygen to our organs and muscles, and releases ... read more
Director’s Note-Nearly Fall
It feels like a storm with no water this summer. Challenging conditions rain down yet the grass stays crunchy beneath our feet. The ... read more
Director’s Note- Summer 2021
Are We There Yet? Riding out this last stretch (we hope) of the pandemic certainly feels similar to the common child call out from the read more
Director’s Note- Winter 2021
“Magic happens behind those barn doors” When a parent writes something like this I can honestly say that I read it more than once and ... read more
Natalie’s Journey
Natalie has been riding with Janet at Hold Your Horses since she was four years old. Today was another amazing day at the barn as she ... read more
COVID-19 Update
HYH is seeing Phase 2 clients who require minimal supervision for in-person sessions and also providing mental health and occupational therapy through telehealth. read more
The HYH Store is Now Open!
HYH has a brand new store full of fun items featuring every member of our herd (and maybe a cat or two). read more
Board Members Wielding Chain Saws
It’s not your average board member gig. We have awesome board members that show up on the farm wielding chain saws! Not only do ... read more
Psychotherapy with a Horse?
Children, teens and adults who have experienced trauma in their life or struggle with depression, anxiety, PTSD, attachment disorder, ... read more
Therapy on a Horse?
Therapy on a Horse? It sounds unusual but in fact a variety of impairments can be addressed through movement and positioning on ... read more
Repurposing with Purpose
Robotics team Captains Harley, from Chicken Bot Pie (Minnetonka HS) and Alex, from Stan (Break HS) combined efforts to construct this sensory garden at Hold Your Horses. read more
Education and Research at HYH
Hold Your Horses supports best practices in the field of equine assisted therapy. We have collaborated on research with the Wilder read more
How to find us.
(763) 498-0007
5265 Woodland Trail
Greenfield, MN 55357
Hours: 7am - 7pm
Hold Your Horses is a Minnesota nonprofit dedicated to moving lives forward from trauma and disability with the help of a horse.
Hold Your Horses
5265 Woodland Trail, Loretto, MN 55357, USA