Way of the Horse : Equine Archetypes for Self-Discovery: A Book of Exploration
 Written by: Linda Kohanov
Illustrated by: Kim McElroy
Publisher: New World Library
Published Date: September 2007
ISBN-13: 9781577315131
292 pages
This wisdom-filled book-and-card kit brings Linda Kohanov's groundbreaking teachings about human-horse connections and equine archetypes to readers interested in tarot and animal divination cards. Useful as both a divination deck and as a book for straight reading, Way of the Horse offers profound insight into the powerful relationship between horses and humans. The book consists of 40 chapters, each describing one card. Each chapter begins with the card title, key phrases conveying the card's concepts, and a discussion of the image, its meaning for the reader, and its mythical/archetypal history.
In every culture, horses are known for their ability to take riders between this world and the otherworld, suggesting that the species has a gift for helping people move between multiple states of consciousness. Way of the Horse allows people to enjoy this remarkable experience even when not in the presence of these amazing creatures.
My Horses, My Healers
 Written by: Shelley R. Rosenberg
Foreward by: Linda Kohanov
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published Date: October 2006
ISBN-13: 9781425966386
220 pages
My Horses, My Healers begins as a childhood drama of sexual abuse in the life of the author, and through the healing power of interacting with horses, Shelley Rosenberg transforms her experience into a protocol for self-healing through the willingness to be with the horse. For riders of all ages, for anyone who has experienced alienation from their own human kind in their days, for anyone who loves horses-this book resonates with the good that can come from watching horses and humans interact and teach one another about the language of direct communication, feelings, and healing through truthful speaking of our emotions.
 Written by: Linda Kohanov
Publisher: New World Library
Published Date: October 2003
ISBN-13: 9781577314165
252 pages
Two years ago author and horse trainer Linda Kohanov wrote The Tao of Equus - a daring multidisciplinary exploration of the powerful spiritual, emotional, and psychological connections between people and horses. Its provocative narrative, blending her story of prescient dreams and ancestral communication with a wide-ranging exploration of equine-facilitated therapy practices, created a worldwide demand for her workshops and lectures. She also received more than 1,000 letters from readers around the world describing their own strange and wonderful experiences with horses. In Riding Between the Worlds, Kohanov continues sharing the story of her own journey of healing and transformation and further develops the ideas introduced in The Tao of Equus, bolstering her groundbreaking theories with anecdotal evidence. Where her previous book laid the theoretical groundwork for expanding our emotional, mental, and spiritual view of horses, Riding Between the Worlds concentrates on the extraordinary stories that support this view.
 Written by: Linda Kohanov
Publisher: New World Library
Published Date: September 2001
ISBN-13: 9781577311829
384 pages
The Tao of Equus considers the mystical nature of horses and the magical connection between them and humans. Equine therapist Linda Kohanov tells of an extraordinary spiritual awakening she experienced with her black mare, Rasa. This incident led her to investigate both the metaphysical and the scientific aspects of the human-horse bond. Her findings - especially regarding how the equine mind compares with the human mind, and what horses can teach humanity - are surprising. Using neurological research, cultural history, mythology, and firsthand anecdotes from years of teaching and facilitating equine therapy, Kohanov does justice to the profound communion that people - women in particular - often experience with horses.
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About the Authors
Linda Kohanov
Linda is an author, speaker, riding instructor, and horse trainer who specializes in Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy. In 1997, she founded Epona Equestrian Services, a Tucson-based collective of riding instructors and counselors exploring the healing potential of working with horses. In addition to formal equine-facilitated psychotherapy sessions, Epona offers equine-facilitated experiential learning programs in stress reduction, parenting skills, leadership techniques, consensus-building relationship models, mindfulness, intuition, creativity, sensory awareness, and women's empowerment.
Shelley Rosenberg
In nearly 30 years of work with horses, Shelley Rosenberg's experience has spanned the worlds of professional dressage trainer and competitor (long-list rider candidate for the U.S. Olympic equestrian team, Grand Prix-level United States Dressage Federation competitor with bronze and silver medals), USDF 'L' judge, breeder, and horse rehabilitator. As a survivor of sexual abuse who owes much of her recovery to her work with and through horses, Shelley believes in the strength of the horse to assist the human in his or her emotional work to a place of clarity and truth. At Sierra Tucson in the late 1980s with Wyatt Webb and Barbara Rector, Shelley helped initiate the Adolescent Care Program for troubled and abused teens to work with horses and find a way back to emotional balance.
Her rehabilitative work with rescued and abused horses at her own facility in Oro Valley, Arizona brought her to the attention of Linda Kohanov, whose Epona Center for equine-experiential therapies grows in world reknown. Shelley now resides in Sonoita, Arizona where as Ranch Manager for Epona, and an Epona Approved Instructor, she tends to the emotional and physical well-being of the therapy horses, and collaborates closely with the apprentices, therapists, and Ms. Kohanov on the center's programs. A gifted story-teller and animal handler, Shelley uses her own background, experience, and skill to assist her clients--on or off the horse--in finding the way to their own emotional healing through interactions with the horse as a being that is true to its own emotions and responses.
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