Book Review: The Tao of Equus by Linda Kohanov

I just got done reading The Tao of Equus, by Linda Kohanov, and I am beyond impressed.

The book starts like this: she gets a horse. By the end of the book we’ve explored creation theories, morphogenic fields, energy medicine, cognition, trauma theories, the prey mindset, and ancient Amazonian horse tribes. This is not as big a leap as it may seem.

Linda Kohanov is an incredible storyteller and a great teacher. She knows how to teach in circles, weaving dreams into morphogenic fields and trauma theories into horse training and human therapy. While she explores the horse way of being (the tao of equus) and the pre-conquest mindset throughout the book she simultaneously demonstrates them in her writing, in the intuitive weaving together of things. This is a book that will introduce, or reacquaint, you with Rupert Sheldrakes’ morphogenic fields, the origins of civilization, the advantages of nomadism, the continuum concept, and a lot of other things that everyone should know. It will do all of this while telling you a story of the authors spiritual journey.

Even while re-capping all of those things, this book will introduce you to things that aren’t in other books. Things like socio-sensual awareness (a way of being in your tribe or herd where you are aware of what everyone else is experiencing in their bodies). She talks a lot about the ancient horse tribes, and how essential nomadism is for humans.

I want to read this book over and over and over again.

Click on the picture below to read the excerpt on Amazon: