The Soulful Herd

The Soulful Herd Credentialed Mental Health Nurse
Equine-assisted & nature-based practice
Trauma-informed, nervous system focused
📍 Otways, VIC

Wadawurrung Country. 🖤💛❤️
26/01/2026

Wadawurrung Country.

🖤💛❤️

An invitation to pause.If this feels okay for you, you might notice your shoulders.Are they up near your ears, or able t...
24/01/2026

An invitation to pause.

If this feels okay for you, you might notice your shoulders.
Are they up near your ears, or able to soften just a little?

Nothing to change.
Nothing to get right.

You’re welcome to stay with this moment, or simply scroll on.

There was a time when I stopped listening to my own body.Working closely with others in distress,I learned to push throu...
24/01/2026

There was a time when I stopped listening to my own body.

Working closely with others in distress,
I learned to push through, override, keep going.

Over time, my nervous system adapted to that pace
always alert, always responding, rarely resting.

Coming back to myself meant learning to listen again.
To slow down.
To notice what my body was asking for.

That listening changed the direction of my life.
It led me here
to this work, this place, this way of being.

This is where healing began.

Listening.Following.Trusting the pull.
24/01/2026

Listening.
Following.
Trusting the pull.

The fairies visited again last night ✨ Honey’s mane, kissed by wind and quiet magic.
23/01/2026

The fairies visited again last night ✨

Honey’s mane, kissed by wind and quiet magic.


Relational practice is grounded in connection, choice, and mutual respect.It’s less about doing to, and more about being...
23/01/2026

Relational practice is grounded in connection, choice, and mutual respect.

It’s less about doing to, and more about being with.

Hello, I’m Danielle.I’m a credentialed mental health nurse and equine-assisted mental health practitioner, with 20 years...
23/01/2026

Hello, I’m Danielle.

I’m a credentialed mental health nurse and equine-assisted mental health practitioner, with 20 years’ experience across mental health, wellbeing, and education settings.

The Soulful Herd is the heart where this work comes together. Shaped by curiosity, relationship, and connection, it offers a different pace and a different way of being supported, grounded in being with rather than fixing.

Care, consent, and the wellbeing of both people and animals sit at the centre of this work.

There is room for you here.the soulful herd
23/01/2026

There is room for you here.

the soulful herd

Meet Neptune 🐾 One of the affectionate hearts of The Soulful Herd.As a rescue, Neptune found his pack out here at 10 mon...
16/01/2026

Meet Neptune 🐾

One of the affectionate hearts of The Soulful Herd.
As a rescue, Neptune found his pack out here at 10 months old, bringing with him a playful spirit and a deeply loving nature.
He’s happiest when he’s sitting on someone’s feet (as you can see), he’s drawn to closeness and connection.
He reminds us that grounding can be playful. Sometimes it looks like warmth, weight, and a gentle insistence on staying right here in the moment.
A quiet reminder that belonging can grow through safety, time, and care.

As an equine assisted mental health practitioner, care, consent, and respect guide how I work with people and animals.
16/01/2026

As an equine assisted mental health practitioner, care, consent, and respect guide how I work with people and animals.

One of the guardian hearts of The Soulful Herd.A gentle giant with an even larger sense of responsibility, Falkor is loy...
15/12/2025

One of the guardian hearts of The Soulful Herd.

A gentle giant with an even larger sense of responsibility, Falkor is loyal, watchful, and deeply committed to keeping his people safe, even if that sometimes means announcing it loudly.

He reminds us that protection and vigilance often come from a place of care, shaped by instinct and experience.

In trauma-informed spaces, we know that safety doesn’t always arrive quietly sometimes it arrives big, expressive, and standing (or sleeping) very close by.

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Winchelsea, VIC
3241

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

Website

https://www.halaxy.com/book/nurse/danielle-meenks/1609831/1241061

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