Horse experience FAQ.

A private, approximately four-hour horse experience near Ogden, Utah. You learn ground work — safe approach, grooming, haltering, leading, pressure and release — then run barrels, poles and keyhole on foot with your horse, with a first and final run on the clock.

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. Why we start on the ground.

Yes. Everything starts with how to approach a horse safely and read what it's telling you, and you move at your own pace.

You'll be on your feet for most of the four hours, walking and sometimes jogging on arena footing beside your horse. If you have mobility limits or health concerns, tell us when you book and we'll talk through what works.

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: you learn legitimate ground-work and horsemanship skills, run real riding-club patterns, and leave having been fully present for a few hours.

Sidney Bruce, the founder. She grew up riding, is a member of The Wild Ones riding club, and teaches the ground work and patterns herself. She is also an HR consultant and facilitator by trade, not a therapist. Meet Sidney.

Hank, a 22-year-old retired dressage gelding who reads the smallest signal, or Tig, a 21-year-old ranch and trail mare who is patient with nervous first-timers. Meet Hank and Tig.

Practical horsemanship skills and a Self Reunion Event Timesheet showing your first and final arena runs — plus the memory of what it felt like to focus on nothing but yourself for an afternoon.

It was built first for anyone who has loved someone through addiction — partners, parents, adult children, siblings and close friends. It's also open to friends, adult families and small teams who want a private day with horses. For families · For groups.

No. Nobody will ask about the person in your life, and there is no group share. The day is about you.

Self Reunion is for adults 18 and over.

Each session is capped at six so that everyone gets real time with a horse. For a larger group, ask us about booking back-to-back sessions.

Approximately four hours, for private groups of 2 to 6 participants. 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 — about 40 minutes from Salt Lake City. Exact directions are sent with your booking confirmation. Getting here.

Closed-toe shoes or boots, long pants, and layers for the weather — you will be outdoors and in the barn. Everything else, including the horses and tack, is provided.

If weather makes the day unsafe for people or horses, we'll work with you to move it to another date.

We don't photograph participants without asking first, and we never publish a participant's photo, name or Event Timesheet without written permission.

Send a booking request with your group size and preferred dates. We reply by email within one business day with available dates, and confirm everything before any payment. Request a date.

Yes. Choose “It's a gift for someone else” on the booking form. We'll arrange payment with you and send a printable gift certificate; the recipient picks their own date. How gift certificates work.

Let us know as soon as you can and we'll work with you to find a new date.