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About Emma

Do you feel as if you have no core strength?

That you no longer have ownership of your post pregnancy body (even if you had your babies’ years ago)?

Do you get asked when your baby’s due, but you’re not pregnant?

Do you have…lower back pain?  Incontinence (or leaking) when you sneeze, cough, laugh, run, jump or lift heavy things?  Diastasis recti (separation of the rectus abdominis aka six pack abs)?  Pelvic organ prolapse?  Pelvic floor weakness?  Pelvic floor pain or heaviness?

I’ve been there!  Several of these were real issues for me after giving birth to both of my daughters.

I was certain that this could not be my body’s destiny.  I believed in my own body’s power to heal itself and I was convinced that to have long term healing I needed to get to the root cause of my problems (not just look for a temporary sticking plaster), so I embarked on a journey of discovery to resolve my postnatal issues.

I am Emma Riedo and I am passionate about empowering women to take back control of their bodies whether they are planning to have a baby, are already pregnant, newly postnatal or long time postnatal.  Through my own postnatal journey, I have amassed a wealth of knowledge to teach others how to understand their own bodies and how their movement patterns affect how their body feels and functions in exercise and in every day actions.

I no longer see fixing my postnatal issues as a means to an end, but rather the start of a journey to move better for the rest of my life.  My body has almost healed (and I believe with time over the next few months it will have healed completely), I feel strong and move efficiently.  In time, I am pretty sure I will be updating this page to say that I am stronger than I ever was pre-pregnancy!

You can learn to help your body heal itself and to be strong and functional too!

I have always led an active life through a childhood of horse riding, living on a farm and later, whilst working as a lawyer, I took up running and completed the London Marathon in 2007.  Since then I have enjoyed hiking, skiing, gym classes (circuits, boxing), swimming and Pilates.  I was living and working in Switzerland when I met my husband and, after our marriage in 2012, had our first child the following year.  I fumbled my way through the postnatal period without ever feeling like I had truly recovered.   I returned to the UK with my husband and daughter where I had my second daughter here in November 2015.

My search for something or someone who could help me to resolve my postnatal issues led me (after a few false starts) to Katy Bowman (biomechanist and author of many books).  Whilst reading through Katy’s books, I had a number of lightbulb moments – it just all made so much sense.   However, I didn’t find it so easy with two young children to spend the time required to look in depth at each exercise and work out exactly what was going on in my body.

As the postnatal issues continued and worsened, I kept searching and discovered the amazing Restore Your Core (RYC™) program created by Lauren Ohayon.  Lauren has studied under Katy Bowman, as well as numerous renowned personalities in the anatomy and pelvic health world. She is also an  instructor in Pilates and yoga.  In creating RYC™, she has brought together all her knowledge and years of experience into a unique programme that works on many levels to restore function to one’s core.  RYC™ is a whole body approach designed for women who want to be strong, long, mobile and functional and to know how to exercise well and move efficiently.

In 2017 I was very proud to be part of the first group of teachers to train with Lauren in the RYC™ method.  There are currently only 6 certified RYC™ teachers in the UK and 22 in the World.

Other than marvelling in the imaginations and abilities of my children (particularly in their own ability to move well), I love to spend my spare time cooking and baking.  I love fresh home-prepared food and have recently started a course in postnatal nutrition to bolster my own understanding of food and its nutritional values and also to support postnatal mums in their recovery journey.  I also love the great outdoors, whether that be walking our energetic labrador in the English countryside or hiking and skiing (hoping to get back to that once the children get older!).

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Women Who Walk is back! This Friday 16 April at 1 Women Who Walk is back!

This Friday 16 April at 1pm from Green Tye, Much Hadham, SG10 6.  We'll go for a brisk one hour walk and chat. 

Who is going to join me and the other women who have already signed up?

Future walks will be on different days and times, so if this doesn't suit you, be sure to sign up to hear when the next walk is.

Link in bio to book.

#bishopstortford #muchhadham #womenshealth #womenwhowalk #thrivecollectiveclub #eastherts #bishopsstortfordbusiness #bishopsstortfordindependant
I love this from @mellow.doodles. We get more of I love this from @mellow.doodles.

We get more of our freedoms back tomorrow.  However you’re feeling about it, use this opportunity to intentionally design your life going forward. 

What part of lockdown (if any of it) suited you?  What part of your pre-lockdown life will stay there?  What are you desperate to get back to?

I’m leaving the rushing around as much as possible in the past.  I’m going straight back to the shops tomorrow.  And I’ll be in the hairdressers within a week! 

#bishopsstortford #muchhadham #eastherts #postnatalfitness #menopause #midlifewomen #intentionalliving #mumlife #personaltrainerlondon #diastasisrecti #pelvicfloorexercises
Happy Easter! 🐣 We’ve been baking hot cross Happy Easter! 🐣 

We’ve been baking hot cross buns and a hot cross loaf - a la @jamieoliver.  Eating eggs benedict royale pancakes from @bbcgoodfood and going on the local Hamlets Easter Egg trail where we saw a giant white bunny and the children came home clutching more eggs!  We’re taking advantage of gaining some of our freedoms back and meeting up with friends and family.  All in all a great long weekend, just a little chilly 🥶. Please sun come back!

What are you up to?

#fitover50 #fitover40 #womenshealth #mumlife #postpartumfitness #newmum #bishopsstortford #eastherts #sawbridgeworth #stansted #hertsmums #essexmums #hertslife #essexlife
Happy international women’s day! The theme thi Happy international women’s day! 

The theme this year of #choosetochallenge is particularly appropriate for those working in my industry as we challenge the outdated methods for and opinions on women’s health.  I encourage my clients to look inside themselves for the answers again, to trust that their bodies and their minds know what is right for them.  We’ve spent so long being told that someone else, a professional, a company, a government, an organisation knows more about us than we do and it’s time we started to take that power back.

I have had the honour to learn from, work with, be friends with, support and be supported by some truly inspirational women since I started my own business. Here are a few!

@thelaurenohayon who trained me as a Restore Your Core teacher and gave me the tools to heal my core and pelvic floor issues as well as changing my relationship to my body.

@heartandbonesyoga (Brea and Kat) who I completed my sustainable yoga teacher training with and continued to challenge my thoughts and my perceptions.

@thrivewithsamdixon who has provided me with so much marketing and business support plus created @thrivecollectiveclub which has connected me with an amazing mostly local support network of women in business.

@katenorthrup who is challenging the work harder, do more narrative in favour of working smarter and in collaboration with our energy, our cycles and the cyclical nature of life. 

And each of these women have connected me to many more amazing supportive women in their online communities.

I will choose to challenge for those who came before me and those who come after me, particularly for my daughters.

Here’s to strong women.  May we know them. May we be them.  May we raise them.

📷 another inspiring woman in business @hjbrandingstories 

#iwd2021 #iwd #internationalwomensday #internationalwomensday2021 #womensupportingwomen #lifteachotherup #womenshealth #communityovercompetition #thrivecollectiveclub
I love books 📚.... I would even go as far as to I love books 📚.... I would even go as far as to say that I’m a book addict.  The sense of joy I get from holding, reading, looking through and buying a book is pretty high up in my non-negotiables list!  I do not own and will never own a kindle or e-reader 😱.

I realised in my mid-twenties that I could no longer keep every fiction book that I bought and read because the already pretty big bookshelves in my one bedroom flat in London was seriously overloaded...but since then I have moved onto reading mostly non-fiction books and I find it seriously difficult to let go of these (you’ll rarely find me lending them out,  let alone selling or giving them away.  I make notes throughout the books as I read them, so i can easily flick through and find my favourite parts.  And I tend only to read books that have been recommended by people that I really trust on a subject or written by people who I have heard speak, so they tend all to be brilliant reads in my view!

In contrast with my love of books, for as long as I really took on board that world book day existed i have hated it 😬. I think I first really noticed it when my eldest started school and the dressing up (or the organising of dressing up things - the wasted (in my opinion) money, non-environmentally friendly fabrics/outfits and/or time) was not something I enjoyed.  One of the few benefits of lockdown is that this year we didn’t have to bother with the costumes (phew) and I got to see the video of my youngest daughter’s teacher dressed up as Granny Smoo from the Smeds and Smoos (love that book). Wow, what a brilliant effort she made.  I also learned this year that the reason the World Book Day charity was first set up was to make sure that no child grew up without owning a book.  In my own book rich life, it’s hard for me to imagine what is like to not own a book as a child and I can certainly celebrate any charity that seeks to rectify this. 

My library mostly consists of a huge library of cookbooks, movement books and wellbeing/self help/business books.

What fiction or non-fiction book(s) should I add to my must read list?
1st March - the daffodils 🌼 are out, the sun 🌞 is out.  Full-time school 🏫 at school starts again a week from today.  I definitely have a Spring in my step today!

I love all the seasons for their beauty and benefits, but after a lockdown in Winter, the arrival of Spring is definitely giving me feelings of hope for the future!

Oh and although we like to plan our years goals at the start of the calendar year, spring is the time to plan and initiate, so actually if you haven’t made any plans yet or set some goals and would like to set some, now would be a great time!

What’s your favourite season? 

#seasonalliving #yogauk #pilatesuk #postnatalfitness #postnatalyoga #postnatalpilates #perimenopause #womenshealth #spring2021 #bishopstortford #eastherts #cambridge #stansted
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