Messages for the Human Heart
A healing transmission through horse-human connection
Letters from the Herd is a living transmission encoded with the ancient frequencies of the horse medicine remembered, reawakened, and returned for this pivotal moment in human evolution.
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Welcome
Letters from the Herd is a cinematic journey that captures the raw, honest connection between humans and horses. Filmed at Starr Horse Retreats in the high-desert basin of Northern Nevada, the story follows four courageous participants through a month-long immersion in heart-led partnership with a herd of 17 rescue horses.
Stepping beyond dominance-based paradigms, they engage in holistic clicker training, energy work, intuitive communication, and shared vulnerability, guided not by human agendas but by the sentient wisdom of the herd.
As ancient horse medicine reawakens, so too does a deeper remembering in the human heart.
✨ Ancient Horse Medicine is Reawakened ✨ A Film That Touches The Soul ✨ To Heal the Heart of Humanity ✨
The Film’s Mission
We are living in a time of collective transformation, emotionally, spiritually, and ecologically. Letters from the Herd captures this pivotal moment through the lens of interspecies connection and animal kinship. As traditional mental health models strain to meet today’s rising needs, and equine practices evolve beyond outdated training methods, a new paradigm is emerging, one where horses are honored not as tools, but as sovereign, sentient partners in healing.
This film is a response to the growing call for reconnection: with the Earth, with our own bodies, and with the sacred intelligence of the animal world.
A Transmission, Not Just a Film
More than a story, Letters from the Herd is a transmission. Through natural light, grounded pacing, and emotionally intimate compositions, the film invites viewers into a visceral experience of stillness, presence, and subtle emotional awareness.
Every breath, hoof fall, and moment of eye contact is treated as sacred. The land itself, 30 acres of wild Nevada desert, emerges as a co-protagonist, holding space for transformation.
Horses are deeply somatic beings. Our cinematography honors this by guiding the viewer out of the analytical mind and into the body, nervous system, and breath. The visual tone reflects the healing frequencies of the horses and the Earth, designed not only to reveal transformation, but to generate it.
Why Horses? Why Now?
For millennia, horses have shaped the course of human civilization, carrying our burdens, sharing our labor, and walking beside us in war, agriculture, and migration. Now, in a time of great planetary upheaval, they are reclaiming an ancient role: as mirrors, co-regulators, and catalysts for healing.
This project honors that sacred shift. Letters from the Herd is timely, urgent, and quietly revolutionary. It offers a visionary response to the crises of disconnection and imbalance that define our era.
As four participants surrender into a relationship with the herd, old patterns of trauma, power, and control begin to unravel, giving way to presence, reciprocity, and soul-level remembering.
Letters from the Herd Intro
Letters from the Herd Intro
A Cinematic Journey of Horse and Human Connection
Get Involved
Getting involved is legacy work, an invitation into a new story of healing, partnership, and possibility, one
hoofbeat at a time.
Your contribution now goes even further: all donations are tax-deductible through our nonprofit fiscal sponsor,
From the Heart Productions. Your support helps complete the final stages of post-production, including editing, sound design, and distribution, so that this story can reach audiences worldwide. Your contribution helps
complete the final stages of post-production, including editing, sound design, and distribution, so that this story
can reach audiences worldwide.
Whether you are a private donor, investor, healer, horse lover, or spiritual philanthropist, your support helps bring forth a film whose impact will ripple far beyond the screen. This is a living transmission meant to plant seeds of
light in the collective field and awaken a deeper relationship with all beings.
All contributions are tax-deductible through our nonprofit fiscal sponsor, From the Heart Productions.
Help fund the completion of Letters from the Herd and become part of a growing movement to restore harmony between humans and the natural world.
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Quote from the Film
“Horses are healers,
and they’ve been waiting for humanity to wake up and get it.
They reflect back our wounds,
our suppressed power,
and our lost divine connection.
In their moments of suffering,
they have planted seeds of remembrance.
One day,
humanity will see them
not as beasts of burden,
but as sacred healers.
They have waited
for humanity to remember—
to rise from its slumber
and walk beside them,
not as masters,
but as kin.”
Our Team
Chihiro Wimbush – Producer / Director / Editor
Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Sundance Creative Producing Fellow Chihiro is known for Dogtown Redemption (PBS/Independent Lens), Changing Season (PBS), and Ricochet, an award-winning documentary he co-directed and completed after the passing of Jeff Adachi. His work centers on social justice, healing, and human resilience through powerful vérité storytelling.
Lane Power – Director of Photography
A cinematographer with a gift for natural light and emotional intimacy, Lane brings a poetic, grounded aesthetic to Letters from the Herd. His past work includes Silver & Light, Donner Partying, and projects for Jamie Anderson and Ian Ruhter, all marked by a reverence for beauty, movement, and truth.
Curren t Status
We have completed principal filming during a live healing retreat, capturing over 50 hours of raw footage. Emmy-nominated director Chihiro Wimbush has edited a possible opening of 12 minutes of the film.
Pending funding, we plan to complete a rough cut by early 2026 and deliver a final 60-minute version by Spring 2026.
Fundraising Strategy
Our funding approach combines private investment, grants, and philanthropic partnerships that align with healing, interspecies connection, and conscious media.
We’ve secured $30,000 in seed funding and generous in-kind support from New Logic Inc.
Led by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Chihiro Wimbush, our team is actively pursuing grant opportunities, strategic alliances, and values-aligned donors. Associate Producer Richard Johnson supports outreach to holistic and equine communities.
Together, we are committed to financing this film with integrity, transparency, and a shared dedication to its healing mission.
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