Medicine of the Herd
An 80-Minute Feature Documentary
Four strangers.
Four weeks.
One herd.
What begins as a training program with seventeen rescued horses becomes a journey into healing, connection, and the ways humans relate to the natural world.
What If the Horses Have Been Teaching Us All Along?
A cinematic feature documentary exploring healing, consciousness, and the profound relationship between humans, horses, and the natural world.
Four participants arrive at a month-long horse retreat in Northern Nevada to learn from seventeen rescued horses. As relationships built on trust, choice, and mutual respect begin to unfold, each is challenged in ways they never expected.
Through relationships built on trust, choice, and mutual respect, Medicine of the Herd explores what becomes possible when humans begin listening to the natural world.
About the Film
Medicine of the Herd is an 80-minute feature documentary directed, edited, and produced by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Chihiro Wimbush
Filmed in Northern Nevada, the film follows four participants through a month-long horse retreat where relationships with seventeen rescued horses begin to transform how they see themselves and the world around them.
Through intimate storytelling and immersive cinematography, Medicine of the Herd explores what becomes possible when humans begin listening to the natural world.
The Herd
Seventeen rescued horses.
No bits.
No whips.
No dominance.
Only relationship.
Through positive reinforcement and relationships built on trust, choice, and mutual respect, the horses are free to express their own voices, preferences, and personalities.
In Medicine of the Herd, they are not tools or therapy devices. They are partners.
Why Horses? Why Now?
For thousands of years, horses have shaped human civilization. They have carried us through exploration, agriculture, war, and daily life. Yet despite our long history together, we may have only begun to understand what they have to teach us.
Medicine of the Herd explores a different model of the horse-human relationship, one built on trust, choice, communication, and mutual respect rather than control and dominance.
At a time when many people feel increasingly disconnected from themselves, each other, and the natural world, the film invites us to consider whether a different relationship with horses might also inspire a different relationship with life.
Medicine of the Herd
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