About
Yael Hochenberg
With Myofascial Energetic Release (MER) growing and expanding here in the UK, it is a deep honour and privilege to offer this profound, life changing modality in the South West of England, to clients who feel drawn.
My work is rooted in a deep respect for the Body and Soma's innate intelligence and capacity to heal. With decades of experience in bodywork, breathwork, dance and a lifetime of inner enquiry, I love supporting clients to reconnect with themselves on physical, emotional, and energetic levels.
What I love most about MER is its depth and subtlety. Our bodies hold not only tension, but also lived experience, patterns, memories, and emotions that often sit beneath our conscious awareness.
Through slow, attentive touch and presence, MER offers a real unwinding of these layers, allowing the body to release, reorganise, and return to a greater sense of ease.
What is 'archived' within our bodies can be safely and gently brought forward into our consciousness, and dissolved/released in the safest possible way.
My journey into MER grew from a wider exploration of Embodied Integrative Healing Practices. From my first training module, I realised that MER was unlike any other modality that I had experienced. It has been a profound journey. There was no question for me, that the path to full certification was 100% aligned with my life's purpose and passion.
I am Trauma-Informed, and, in addition to MER sessions, I also facilitate Somatic Conscious Connected Breath sessions (group and 1:1), and Embodied Dance-Movement experiences. I was a concert pianist in my earlier adulthood, and continue to teach piano.
Each MER session is unique, and my role is listening, following, and holding a safe, grounded space where meaningful change can unfold. It is a deep privilege to witness the subtle transformations that emerge through this work, and to share a practice that continually inspires me with its depth, sensitivity, and potential for true integration.
I welcome your enquiry. Sessions vary in length from 90 minutes to 2 hours, and usually take place in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. I am also open to being invited to give sessions in your location (for a minimum of 4 clients), by arrangement.
Based in the Stroud area of Gloucestershire, I have been practising holistic and alternative therapies for over 30 years. In addition to being a certified MER practitioner, I also trained to Group Leader level with Founder of Transformational Breath®, Judith Kravitz. I hold an ITEC Diploma in Holistic Massage and Anatomy and Physiology, and am a Hanna Somatics Coach.
I first met Conscious Connected Breathwork via Rebirthing, back in my mid 20's, and practiced it for many years prior to having a family. Breathwork for me, has always been a key tool to navigate life's ebbs, flows and challenges, and I wouldn't be without it!
In addition to the above training and qualifications, I am also trained/qualified in coaching, sound healing and Reiki. I am trained to highest level with Nia (2nd Degree Black Belt) and have both a BMUS and post-graduate Concert Recital Diploma from GSMD . I was a trained dancer, a performing concert pianist, a choir leader, and also teach piano to students of all levels.
I currently teach my signature dance class 'DanceJOY' (inspired by a lifetime of dancing and training in many somatic dance modalities, as well as breathwork, vocalising sound healing and all the received musical trainings).
I firmly believe that what we give our attention to amplifies, and my mission/purpose as facilitator, is to help people remember who they are, why they're here, and to safely release all barriers that hold them back.
My raison d'etre
"I have always been drawn to the Sacred, to the mystical, to the mysterious, fuelled by several spiritual ‘awakening’ moments that have shown up and been gifted to me at key points throughout my life.
It is through this, and in the sharing of this, that I feel most in service, most immersed in the true purpose of my life.
All the beautiful work that I am so privileged to share, serves as a potent vehicle for the realisation of this purpose: raising consciousness and vibration, bringing in an increasingly revealed re-membrance and integration of who we are and why we are here.
I am a proud mother to 2 fabulous grown up sons, a grandmother, a daughter, sister, friend, dog-owner, transmitter and receiver."
