She’s a former nail salon owner turned 500-hour registered yoga teacher, and has spent the past eight years guiding clients through private sessions, group workshops, and transformative retreats. Her work focuses on nervous system regulation and helping people embody inner peace, hope, joy, and confidence while stepping fully into their authentic selves.
Connect with Meryl-
Meryl shares her remarkable journey from growing up in a business-oriented family where everyone worked in corporate America to following her creative calling by opening a nail salon at age 21 against her family’s doubts. After 30 years in the beauty industry and feeling burnt out from the repetitive, stressful nature of salon work, she became a yoga teacher in 2012 to focus on inner beauty and self-love rather than just external appearance. In 2017, she decided to transition into coaching and discovered EFT tapping through Dr. Kim D’Eramo’s mind-body medicine program at the Kripalu Center.
Although initially skeptical of tapping, she had a profound healing experience one night when she used it to completely dismantle ruminating thoughts that were keeping her awake, which led her to dive deeply into EFT certification and trauma healing training.
Life Made Her Decision for Her
She closed her salon in 2018, and after breaking her wrist a month later (which she saw as a sign from the universe to fully commit to her new path), she spent years doing her own healing work while building her coaching practice. Today, she works with clients who have often done decades of talk therapy with limited results, helping them transform their lives in just 3-6 months by addressing trauma stored in the nervous system rather than just processing it mentally.
Meryl emphasizes that her work goes incredibly deep into rewiring subconscious programming and releasing unresolved emotions stored in the body’s tissues and nervous system. She explains that while she gives away substantial free resources—including YouTube videos, a 23-page workbook, and a 7-day tapping video series—these are just scratching the surface of the transformation possible through her private work and retreat programs.
Trauma Stored in Your Tissues Can Be Cleared
Her message to potential clients is that issues stored in tissues can absolutely be changed, and that the physical symptoms of anxiety, tension, digestive problems, and sleepless nights are often connected to emotional trauma that can be released through her methods, allowing people to love themselves unconditionally and feel incredibly confident.
You can find Meryl Hayton at her website where all her programs, events, and retreats are listed on the “Work With Me” page.
Get her free 7-day tapping series and 23-page workbook on her website, and explore her YouTube channel which features numerous EFT tapping videos addressing anxiety, fear, sadness, overwhelm, and other emotions.
Takeaways
EFT tapping deactivates the amygdala (stress response center), dismantles emotional attachments from memories by targeting the hippocampus, and can reduce cortisol levels by up to 40% in a single session. Trauma and unresolved emotions are stored in the body’s tissues and nervous system, not just in the mind, which is why talk therapy often keeps people activated in their feelings without providing lasting relief.
Most of Meryl’s clients have done decades of therapy before working with her, yet she helps them completely transform their lives in just 3-6 months by addressing where trauma is actually stuck in the body. Anxiety is not an emotion but a physical symptom and stress response that manifests differently for everyone—underneath it are the actual emotions like worry, fear, and irritation that need to be addressed. Building a successful holistic health business often requires years of personal healing work first, and setbacks like Meryl’s broken wrist that forced her to stop doing nails can actually be divine guidance pushing you toward your true calling.
Chapters
00:00 – Introduction to Meryl Hayton and the Emotional Clearing Method
01:01 – Growing Up in a Business-Oriented Family
01:52 – Choosing Nail School Over College Against Family Expectations
02:36 – Building a Successful Nail Salon Business for 30 Years
03:10 – Becoming a Yoga Teacher in 2012 to Combat Burnout
03:52 – Training to Become a 500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher
04:30 – The Call to Transition from Beauty to Inner Work and Coaching
05:09 – Introduction to EFT Tapping Through Mind-Body Medicine Program
06:23 – Initial Skepticism About the “Weird Tapping Thing”
06:40 – Teaching at Kripalu Seven Years After Learning EFT There
07:12 – Closing the Salon and Breaking Her Wrist as a Universal Sign
07:51 – Nervous System Regulation and Feminine Energy Work
08:04 – The Profound Healing Moment That Changed Everything with EFT
08:52 – Eight Years of Teaching Workshops and Leading Retreats
09:11 – Transitioning from the Grind of Salon Work to Nurturing Through Yoga
10:10 – The Moment of Commitment to Fully Embrace EFT Tapping
11:01 – Family Reactions to Moving Away from Corporate Life
12:14 – Being the Only Entrepreneur in a Corporate Family
12:55 – Father’s Influence: Transcendental Meditation and Acupuncture in the 1980s
13:53 – Living Out Her Father’s Progressive Legacy Through Alternative Healing
15:34 – Incorporating Yoga into Group Programs and Retreats
16:26 – Teaching Chair Yoga to 70 Seniors on the Beach Boardwalk
16:55 – Who Attends Meryl’s Retreats: Ages 30 to 80 Seeking Connection
17:48 – The Value of Intergenerational Connections in Healing Spaces
18:17 – Working on Nervous System Regulation and Releasing Stored Emotions
19:12 – Finding When and How Trauma Created Protective Stress Responses
19:52 – Divine Guidance Leading Clients Back to Past Traumatic Events
20:25 – Former Client’s Transformation and Life Changes
21:08 – Learning What You Value and How It Changes Relationship Dynamics
21:38 – Ways to Connect with Meryl: YouTube, Workbooks, and Free Resources
22:13 – The 7-Day Video Tapping Series for Reaching Your Fullest Potential
22:41 – How Deep Meryl’s Work Goes Beyond the Free Surface-Level Content
23:41 – Anxiety as the Main Issue Clients Come With
24:24 – Understanding That Anxiety Is a Physical Symptom, Not an Emotion
25:05 – Transforming Lives in 3-6 Months After Decades of Talk Therapy
25:24 – Why Talk Therapy Keeps People Activated in Their Feelings
26:25 – Talk Therapy as a Temporary Band-Aid That Doesn’t Address Root Causes
27:19 – How EFT Tapping Deactivates the Amygdala and Reduces Cortisol
28:16 – Finding Meryl on All Social Platforms Under Her Name
28:48 – Retreat Locations: Florida, New York Catskills, and Future Expansion
29:16 – Bringing in Massage Therapists, Chefs, Sound Healers, and Specialists
29:49 – Closing Thoughts and Thanks
Keywords
EFT tapping, emotional clearing method, trauma healing, nervous system regulation, yoga teacher, energy healing, mindset coaching, anxiety relief, women’s empowerment, holistic health coaching
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