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Emma Riedo Movement

Helping women reconnect to their bodies through every life phase. Core and pelvic floor specialist.

21/10/2024

I’m back in the UK!

I’m navigating life as a single mum (the move to Switzerland allowed me to know that I had done everything I could to save our marriage and allowed my husband to prove that getting a divorce was the right way forward).

Yes, I went through the shock, the tears, some screaming and shouting. A divorce was not what I thought would be the end result when we got married or had children, but yet here we are. As much as it’s not what I wanted for our marriage, I can’t help but feel now that it’s for the better. The relationship that was being modelled is not one that I would I would want for my girls.

I’m excited for the future. I didn’t realise how much I had been adjusting my wants, needs and desires to fit with someone else - it’s really hard to see when you’re in the relationship.

So many people have commented, “well, you seem really positive” and I am. I attribute that to , but that’s definitely to do with the journey of growth that I have been on since having children. And I am very grateful for all the therapy that I had in 2022 with Steph Grainger and by chance I had her “Steph in your pocket” service when all of the **** hit the fan earlier this year. What a gift it is to have someone like Steph helping you move through and process all the emotions. Shelley Bosworth and Marie Frost also gave me invaluable advice and space to offload in messages and voice notes before I wanted to share what was going on with friends and family. And since I’ve told family, friends and clients, I have been overwhelmed with all the support and love. My parents have been absolute champions. We arrived back in July (thankfully we hadn’t got as far as selling our old house) and since then it’s been a whirlwind of sorting schools, unpacking and general moving and life admin.

This is a new chapter for me and the girls and I’m ready for it.

I’ll be sharing more about what I’m doing work wise in the coming days!

21/04/2024

Well, life! My next Core + Floor 14 Day Reset never made it on my grid 🥴. I had women asking for it and signing up for it without me advertising!

Just in case you had been thinking about it last time, I thought I would share here!

Starting tomorrow - self paced, so you can do it when you want.

17/04/2024

Absolutely loved talking about the core and pelvic floor at last night. The plan was 20 minutes of talk and 10 minutes of questions. I told everyone at the start that they could interrupt with questions whenever they wanted and I think we went to 90 minutes! 😁 Nothing like an interested and engaged audience. We covered leaking, prolapse, diastasis recti and so much more. We practiced using our breath to get our diaphragm, core and pelvic floor working as a system again and I even tested Xanthe on her heavy lifting skills for everything she has to carry in the shop. Such a fun evening with plenty of laughs.

Big thank you to the wonderful Xanthe for hosting me.

22/01/2024

Are you ready?

To give your core and pelvic floor the love, attention, connection, and knowledge it desires this Valentine’s Day?

💕 Starting 1 February 2024, Core + Floor 14 Day Reset.

💕 14 exercises including a tutorial on the all important knowledge of why you’re doing it!

💕 2 x 10 minute workout videos incorporating the movements you have learned

💕 A WhatsApp group for questions, community and accountability

💕 introductory price of only £44

💕 lifetime access

Sound good? Click on the link in the comments for more info and to sign up!

Questions? 👇

25/12/2023

Merry Christmas and happy holidays! 15 years after meeting my Swiss husband, we finally spend Christmas Day on the slopes!

05/06/2023

If you’re Chelmsford/Danbury way the lovely Emmeline of Green Room Health has a great looking in person small group classes offering for June.

04/06/2023

Back at Akasha Wellness tomorrow evening for more pregnancy yoga and movement class

My aims for you are to reduce aches and pains in pregnancy, build strength but also pelvic floor yielding for birth and prepare you for a great postnatal recovery.

For more information and to book:

https://www.emmariedo.co.uk/pregnancy/

26/05/2023

Pregnant?

Join me for yoga and Movement at Akasha Wellness.

My focus is to help balance your body, so your baby can find a good position, reduce aches and pains in pregnancy and help you stack the odds in your favour of having the birth you would like. You will understand how your core and pelvic floor work both for everyday life, but also for birth and the postnatal period.

Any questions, just let me know.

https://www.emmariedo.co.uk/pregnancy/

30/04/2023

Did I answer your question? Got further questions? Comment below or send me a message!

Registration for this cohort ends tomorrow evening! https://www.emmariedo.co.uk/coreandfloorreconnect/

28/04/2023

Was Pilates making my prolapse worse?

After the birth of my second daughter, I went back to Pilates. I was mostly concerned about getting my core strong again - I knew I had a diastasis recti (when the connective tissue between the six pack thins so the muscles have an abnormal separation between them) and this was my main focus, but as I increased the intensity of the pilates exercises, I realised that my prolapse symptoms (and potentially prolapse) were getting worse each time I went.

Was it the Pilates exercises that were causing the symptoms to get worse?

Well, yes, in a way, but not so much the exercises, more the way I was doing them! These exercises required a lot of core coordination and pressure control and not only was my core not strong and reflexive, but it was leaking the pressure out and onto my pelvic floor! Every time I did many of the exercises in the class I was bearing down on my pelvic floor (and I was bulging out of my abs too).

As I began in earnest down the journey of healing my prolapse, I realised that not only was I bearing down in my pilates class, but I was also bearing down for many day to day tasks, squatting or bending down to get lower to the ground, every time I got into the car, every time I got out of a chair.

And in addition to the bearing down, I realised that I was alternating between gripping and bearing down. My pelvic floor was either gripped up high (better not let anything drop out) or pushing down like I was about to give birth again! No wonder it wasn’t happy and my prolapse symptoms were at their worse.

Should I have stopped doing Pilates or other exercises?

Sometimes it’s best to reduce the intensity or difficulty of an exercise until your body is strong enough to manage that pressure and not bear down, but rather than avoid those exercises altogether I would much rather that I learnt how to do those exercises well. How about you? Can you avoid lunges (walking is a form of lungeing), squats (sitting on a chair, toilet, picking stuff up from the floor), a split lunge/wide legged squat (every time you get into the car)?

You’ll get to know this about your body and much more in Core and Floor Reconnect. If you have a pattern of bearing down, we’ll build awareness of this pattern so you can use more optimal strategies for your pelvic floor.

More information and to book here -
https://www.emmariedo.co.uk/coreandfloorreconnect/

Send me a message if you’d like to chat more about how I might be able to help you!

27/04/2023

“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” Lao Tzu

We are a society of people looking for the quick fix, the magic pill. What I have seen and experienced both for myself and for my clients is that when we connect to our bodies and our minds, when we truly listen to them, when we take time to love and nourish them and when we have the knowledge and tools to help them to feel their best and fucntion their best, we get much better longstanding results.

I love myofascial release, massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, physiotherapy, osteopathy as much as the next person. I've been to many practitioners, I recommend many and I'm even training to provide myofascial release for my 1-2-1 clients. I teach self-release techniques during my classes and 1-2-1s.

But I believe that the most powerful gift for my clients is to empower them with the knowledge to understand their bodies so that they don't have to constantly rely on me or others to "fix" them. Instead, they have a toolbox of moves or "tricks" that they can use to help their own bodies feel and function better.

It doesn't mean that they will never want to see a hands-on therapist again, but they will use them for less frequent tune ups. From a place of collaboration rather than desperation.

The Core and Floor Reconnect 10-week group coaching course is all about reconnecting you to the whole of your body.

Building the brain-body connection.

Empowering you with knowledge about the way your body functions and moves.

Arming you with tools to help your body feel and function at its best.

25/04/2023

Is your pelvic floor like a trampoline?

No, not can it withstand a trampoline or even was it used like a trampoline by one or more babies pre-birth, but actually is it like a trampoline? Or is it more solid and not moving like concrete?

Our pelvic floor muscles should be able to move in accordance with the demands put on them reflexively - not because we have “engaged” or lifted them or worse squeezed them. Do yours move? Or are they stuck in an engaged position? It is very common for women to have too tight pelvic floor muscles which cannot move easily and this can lead to leaking, pelvic organ prolapse symptoms and pain.

Tight does not equal strong. A too tight muscle is a weak muscle.

Watch the video to see whether you can feel your pelvic floor moving with the breath.

Could you feel it? Don’t worry if you can’t. It can take some time to build the brain body connection and some other exercises can really help with that awareness and connection.

You’ll get to know this about your body and much more in Core and Floor Reconnect. If your pelvic floor is more like concrete than a trampoline, I will teach you how to connect with it and build awareness so it can move.

Click here for more information https://www.emmariedo.co.uk/coreandfloorreconnect/

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About Emma Riedo Movement

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 re**us 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!).