Healing Waves Reiki

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt trapped in a cycle of anxiety, worry, or panic? In this episode of Healing Waves Reiki, Cathy Scarpitto shares her personal experience with anxiety and panic attacks, including a frightening experience while driving that left her feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Together, we'll explore the difference between anxiety and panic attacks, what's hap...

Send us Fan Mail Healing isn't something we simply learn about. It's something we experience. In this special bonus episode, I'm introducing the Healing Waves Companion Journal Collection —beautiful guided workbooks created to help you move beyond listening and begin experiencing your own healing journey. Inside, you'll find gentle reflections, journaling prompts, and simple pr...

Send us Fan Mail 🌊 Continue the Journey If today's episode resonated with you, I invite you to continue your healing journey with the free companion workbook: The Autonomic Nervous System: Regulate + Restore Inside you'll discover guided reflections, nervous system practices, body awareness exercises, and calming tools designed to help you move from protection toward healing. Pair it wi...

Send us Fan Mail 🌊 Continue the Journey If this meditation helped you experience a greater sense of calm and safety, I invite you to continue your healing journey with the free companion workbook: The Autonomic Nervous System: Regulate + Restore Inside you'll find guided reflections, body awareness exercises, a nervous system check-in, a personal safety plan, and practical tools to help you...

Send us Fan Mail Fertility can be one of life's most emotional and deeply personal journeys. In this episode of Healing Waves Reiki, Cathy Scarpitto sits down with Dr. Sandra Ustaris, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Reiki Master, and fertility practitioner, to explore how healing unfolds when we begin to support the whole person—body, mind, emotions, and energy. Drawing from more than 21 years of...

Send us Fan Mail In this special bonus episode of Healing Waves Reiki, Dr. Sandra Ustaris guides a gentle fertility meditation designed to help you release limiting beliefs and reconnect with a sense of calm, trust, and inner safety within your body. This meditation invites you to slow down, soften your thoughts, and create space for healing on a physical, emotional, and energetic level. Whether y...

Send us Fan Mail In this special bonus episode of Healing Waves Reiki, we explore the energy of the Summer Solstice—the longest day of the year and a powerful seasonal threshold of light, growth, and reflection. This guided meditation is offered in the days leading up to June 21st, inviting you to gently attune to the energy of expansion and awareness as it builds around us. You can listen in prep...

Send us Fan Mail The Real Reasons People Come to Reiki (And It's Not What You Think) When most people think about Reiki, they often imagine energy healing, spirituality, or a mystical experience. But in my experience as both a physical therapist and Reiki practitioner, that's usually not what brings people through the door. Most people come because they want to feel better. They're...

Send us Fan Mail What does Reiki actually look like inside a physical therapy session? In this episode of Healing Waves , Cathy explores how Reiki can be integrated into physical therapy and healthcare settings in a grounded, ethical, and clinically relevant way. This conversation breaks down common misconceptions about Reiki in healthcare and explains how nervous system regulation, therapeutic pr...

Send us Fan Mail n this bonus episode, I share why I created Reiki I for the Physical Therapist and Healthcare Professional — a hybrid CEU course designed to teach healthcare professionals how Reiki can complement clinical practice, support nervous system regulation, and enhance patient-centered care. Learn what’s included in the training, Reiki practitioner certification, integrating Reiki into h...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when therapy, yoga, mindfulness, and Reiki come together? In this episode of Healing Waves Reiki, I sit down with my friend and Reiki Master, Elaine Schardien, to explore what healing looks like when we stop separating mind, body, and energy. Elaine is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey who works with children and families in a mental health clinic. She i...

Send us Fan Mail In this short episode, Elaine Schardien guides you through Diaphragmatic (Yogic) Breath that has been shown to calm and balance the nervous system, maximize lung capacity, and activate your body’s relaxation response (parasympathetic nervous system) in order to allow your body to be in best state to rest, relax, digest and heal.  https://healingwaves-reiki.com/

Send us Fan Mail In this short episode, Elaine Schardien guides you through a special breathing technique that she utilizes in her practice to stimulate the vagus nerve and activate the parasympathetic nervous system to shift your body onto a regulated relaxed state.  https://healingwaves-reiki.com/

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Elaine Schardien guides you through 4-7-8 Breathing which has been found to be helpful  for relaxation, anxiety relief, and falling asleep . The prolonged exhale naturally slows your heart rate and activates your parasympathetic nervous system (your body's 'rest and digest' mode).  https://healingwaves-reiki.com/

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore what a simple frequency hearing test can reveal about perception, awareness, and the limits of human senses. As the frequency rises beyond what we can hear, we’re faced with a powerful question: if we can’t perceive something, does that mean it isn’t there? Using real-world examples and a water analogy (ice, liquid, steam), we look at how the same “subs...

Send us Fan Mail What if human beings perceive far more than we realize? In this deeply reflective experiential episode, we explore how the body and nervous system respond to environments, emotions, human presence, and even the lingering feeling of loved ones who have passed. Through guided awareness exercises and gentle storytelling, this episode invites you to notice the subtle ways your body pe...

Send us Fan Mail What does it really mean to be human—and how does that shape the way we heal? In this episode of Healing Waves Reiki , we explore the human experience through both a scientific and energetic lens: as physical beings shaped by biology, and energetic beings guided by intuition. We’ll look at the body as more than just structure and chemistry—and begin to understand healing through t...

Send us Fan Mail In this opening episode of Healing Waves Reiki, Cathy Scarpitto shares the heart behind the podcast—why it was created, who it’s for, and what listeners can expect. Blending her background as a physical therapist, Reiki Master Teacher, and intuitive mentor, Cathy introduces the deeper intention behind this space: to explore healing in a more connected, grounded, and whole-person w...

Send us Fan Mail What is Reiki, really—and what is it not? In this episode of Healing Waves Reiki, Cathy Scarpitto offers a clear, grounded introduction to Reiki as both a spiritual practice and a gentle, supportive approach to healing. She explores the origins of Usui Reiki, the meaning of Reiki as universal life force energy, how Reiki is experienced in both in-person and distance sessions, and...

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal episode of Healing Waves Reiki, Cathy Scarpitto shares the story of how Reiki found her—through grief, curiosity, and an unexpected unfolding that would ultimately change both her life and her work. What began as a career grounded in science, physical therapy, and the mechanics of the body slowly opened into something deeper: an understanding that healing i...

Send us Fan Mail In this bonus episode of Healing Waves Reiki , we pause to define some of the core language woven throughout the podcast. What does "Healing becomes more human" mean? What does it really mean to be regulated? What does “safe enough to soften” actually mean in the body? What is relational healing?                                                                           ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Healing Waves Reiki —a podcast exploring Reiki, energy, and the science and spirit of healing. In this short trailer, host Cathy Scarpitto—Reiki Master Teacher, spiritual mentor, intuitive and physical therapist—introduces the heart of the show: how Reiki supports healing on every level—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—and how bringing the spirit of healing in...