Ground-based · Private · Northern Utah
Remember what it feels like to be present.
Four hours with horses, just for your group. Learn real ground work, groom and lead a horse, then run barrels, poles and keyhole on foot against your own clock. No experience needed, and no riding. Built first for anyone who has loved someone through addiction — and open to any small group that wants to put the phone down and be here.
Your breath. Your thoughts. Nothing else fits in a round pen.
Set a plan and try it — the horse tells you, honestly, if it worked.
Try again, and again. No lecture, no judgment.
Achieve it, and celebrate — with yourself, and the horse.
Three ways to come
Same horses, same four hours, same price. What changes is who you bring and why.
Our flagship
For partners, parents, adult children, siblings and friends who have loved someone through addiction. An afternoon that is only about you.
For families →Friends · family · teams
A private morning or afternoon with horses for 2–6 people: old friends, siblings, a leadership team, or the anchor of an Ogden Valley weekend.
For groups →Give the day
For the person who takes care of everyone else, or who has always wanted to be around horses. They pick the date.
Give a Self Reunion →Like so many people, you may have loved someone through addiction — a partner, a child, a parent, a friend. You know what it is to be hypervigilant, to manage, to hold steady while someone else falls apart and tries to put themselves back together. A horse doesn't know any of that. It only asks what you're doing right now — and for an afternoon, that is where the weight gets set down.
This isn't about the person you love. It's a few hours built entirely around you — remembering what it feels like to be fully present, for yourself, maybe for the first time in a long while.
Read more about Self Reunion for families
How the day works
Basics, safety, grooming
Before anything else, you learn to be around a horse safely and well: safe approach, reading horse behavior, personal space, grooming, haltering, leading, stopping, turning, backing, and the basics of pressure and release. No horse experience required — this is where it starts for everyone.
Keyhole, poles, barrels
Once you're comfortable on the ground, you learn and run the same patterns used in a riding club — keyhole, poles, and barrels — on foot, leading your horse. Set a first run, adjust, then run again. The only competitor is you, and the clock shows the difference.
What you leave with
A few hours where the only job was to be here, focused on one horse and nothing else.
Practical, hands-on handling and the experience of successfully working with a horse.
Barrels, poles, and keyhole — first and final times, side by side. A record of what you accomplished in an afternoon.
A place near Ogden that's yours whenever you need a few hours away from everything else.
Format & pricing
Your private group
about $374 per person
Starting price: $1,495 for a private group of up to 4. Additional participants are $250 each, up to 6. Gift certificates available.This isn’t a support group, and the horse isn’t a metaphor for what you’re carrying.
Self Reunion is intentionally fun first and meaningful underneath. You learn legitimate horse-handling skills and complete real patterns. The value comes from being fully present — maybe for the first time in a while — stepping into something unfamiliar, and being met, honestly, by an animal that has no idea what's happening at home.
Who runs it
Sidney founded Self Reunion. She grew up riding, still rides with her club, The Wild Ones, and has spent more than a decade in human resources doing the conversations nobody wants to have. She teaches the ground work herself, runs the clock, and listens if you want to talk. She is not a therapist and will not act like one.
Questions
No. Self Reunion is designed for adults with no horse experience. You learn safe approach, grooming, haltering, leading, stopping, turning, backing, and basic pressure and release from the ground up.
No. The experience is entirely ground-based. You work with the horse on foot, including the riding-club patterns: keyhole, poles, and barrels.
Approximately four hours, for private groups of 2 to 6 adults. Every booking is private to your group.
$1,495 for a private group of up to 4 participants. Additional participants are $250 each, up to 6.
At a private barn near Ogden, Utah, within easy reach of Weber, Davis and Salt Lake Counties. Exact directions are sent with your booking confirmation.
No. Self Reunion is not equine-assisted therapy, riding lessons, or a support group, and it isn't a substitute for any of them. It is fun first and meaningful underneath.
Reserve a day
Tell us who is coming and when you would like to come. We reply by email to confirm a date and hold it for you.
Buying for someone else? Choose “It's a gift” below, or read how gift certificates work. Prefer email? Write to info@selfreunion.com.