Horses suffer because human beings suffer. If human beings were truly wise, loving, and beautiful, if human beings were genuinely happy and at peace, then horses would be free, and so would human beings. Horses can return to freedom when human beings more courageously walk a path of returning to freedom.

When we become free, we meet horses, all beings, and the whole world in a sacred space. We encounter each being, each moment, each situation in a totally new way. 

This learning path comes to you as a experience or a class experience conducted online or, for select groups and organizations, in a retreat setting. You will learn the most important teachings of the wisdom traditions that can have the greatest impact on your well-being and happiness and on your relationship with others, including horses. It will set you on the path of returning to freedom, a path to a greater sense of peace, purpose, well-being, and joy.

The idea of the life path is that we follow a way, a wisdom way. In the Chinese tradition, this is known as Dao (or Tao). If you have ever heard of or read the Tao of Equus, you may know about how Linda Kohanov found Daoist philosophy resonant with her deepening experience with horses. However, as wonderful as that book is, and with all due respect to Kohanov’s pioneering work, there is very little actual Daoist LoveWisdom in the book, and we can keep evolving our way with horses, just as Kohanov herself encourages. 

While you will receive teachings beyond the Daoist traditions, what you will learn does accord with them (the wisdom traditions all agree on the most central issues). The Daoist sages emphasized freedom and thriving, and they explicitly mention human relationships with horses as an indicator of human ignorance and ill-being. And they emphasized our need to return to our true nature, tapping into our hidden virtue and virtuosity.

You will also learn the Windhorse Mandala, a powerful matrix of practice for working with emotions, habits, and triggers, as well as a path for enhancing our skills in every domain and coming to profound spiritual realization.

Working with the mandala helps us relate to Horse as an archetypal figure. Horse is both a mirror for the soul and a vehicle for the soul, which means horses hold a mirror up to us (though, sadly, this helps very little if we cannot see clearly), and they can carry us onward in our spiritual/psychological development if we allow them (again, a key caveat there, because we have many unconscious blocks to allowing horses to help us truly evolve). 

In the Tibetan philosophical traditions, one archetypal image of the horse is the Windhorse (we could call it the Sky Horse or even the Space Horse as well, and these are all significant).

Windhorse appears as part of a mandala or image of our own psyche/soul. When we enter this mandala, we can begin to see ourselves more clearly, and begin to see more clearly in general. This allows horses to actually function as a mirror for us, and it opens us up to the real transformations we need to make in order to genuinely evolve. We’re talking about the places that still stick, not the façade we try to convey to others.

Learning this mandala will help you in countless ways, and it serves as an empowering framework for understanding yourself and others.

This path is about living better and loving better, and getting closer to the true nature of our own mind and reality itself. It can change your whole life. We’re not talking ordinary “better” here. The experience carries us to the essence of what we are, what horses are, and what the world is. It’s the optimal path for helping ourselves, horses, and the world.