Tao of Equus

I’ve started reading a new book by Linda Kohanov called The Tao of Equus (see Web site). The author relates her own spiritual journey through her relationship with her horses. It’s a very mystical/shamanistic journey that she goes through. She uses her own experience and her professional training as a psychotherapist to combine the experiences into a therapy program, which she calls “The Epona Method.” I’m not very far into the book (first ~30 pages) but already there have been times when her writing echoes some of my own experiences. It will be interesting to journal what I find here.

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