"Warm Fuzzy Center," said the voice on the other end of the line.
Diana Siderides is serious--Warm Fuzzy Center is the name of the business in Emmett where she conducts seminars on animal communication.
Next week Ketchum resident Annie Williams will hold Camp Fideaux, and on Friday, Sept. 28, Siderides will meet with participants to teach them how to do animal communications themselves.
On Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30, she will be available for other sessions, at a cost of $100 for adults. The cost for kids will be $5 for 10 minutes on whatever pets they bring. Kids may bring their animals; however, she said, "it's a whole lot easier if I don't meet the animal."
"Kids are wonderful to work with," she said. "It's phenomenal how it works. Animals don't talk in English--they think in images. I'm generally 98 percent successful. Some animals won't work with me and I don't waste the owner's money or my time."
A Reiki master, Siderides has been in animal communications since the late 1960s. She moved to Idaho in 1979, and has worked with 4H clubs and their horses, for 20 years with wounded birds at Birds of Prey in Boise and as a bird of prey presenter in schools.
She created Flight to Freedom Rehabilitation Resource for Raptors Inc. and used animal communications and Reiki—a Japanese word meaning "universal life energy"--to give the birds of prey the ability to go back into the wild. She self-published a book in 2000 called "Flight to Freedom, How one woman defies the odds to assist injured and orphaned birds of prey." She will have it for sale while in the area.
"Animal communications comes in handy," she said. "I'm able to do medical profiles as well. I'm not a veterinarian. I use psychic brain waves. I learned as a child. I could always talk to the animals. My three-day seminar teaches you how to do what I do."
At various events such as the Pet Parade in Boise, she said she's seen all kinds of animals: "llamas and pigs, anything Idaho has the ability to give me." Even some she doesn't like, including snakes and spiders.
"I was able to develop my skills with communications when I rode my Appaloosa horse from New York to California after graduating from college in 1973; five and one half months on the road, averaging 30 miles a day, which equals at least 12 hours in the saddle."
People can call her in advance for appointments while she is in the valley, at (208) 365-8660, or e-mail her at empower@gscwireless.net. Her website is warmfuzzycenter.com.
Diane Siderides, with Nakota, will offer pet communication sessions this weekend. Courtesy photo
