Amy Carmody Yoga

Amy Carmody Yoga Amy Carmody Yoga offers online daily yoga classes in the comfort of your very own home.

My mission is to deliver a smarter and more sustainable yoga practice through intelligent alignment based teaching.

12/06/2026

You are definitely not alone in this.

Many women feel nauseous, uncomfortable and experience a full-body ‘ick’ response at the thought of touching their c-section incision.

Let alone massaging it.

I cannot tell you how many women reach out to me saying they feel so sick by the look or feeling of their scar.

If that’s you too, 1) you’re not alone and 2) let’s try this tip:

For the next couple of weeks, when you find yourself in a moment of relaxation (it’s important you feel safe and comfortable) — for example, when you’re watching a show in bed or reading your book...

Simply place your hand over your incision, and just leave it there.
No massage.
No scar sensitivity work.

Just a still, warm and comforting hand.

We want our nervous system’s response to touch to be either neutral or, better yet, positive.

Not sick, nauseous, or uncomfortable.

This is common after a traumatic birth or even just touching a post-surgical area of our bodies.

But this is where our beautiful babies were born! We deserve to have a better relationship with our incision.

Let me know if this helps or if you’re up for giving it a go!

Tomorrow I’ll be sharing my favourite c-section massage variations ❤️‍🩹

09/06/2026

These 4 exercises have truly humbled me after my latest c-section 👇🏻

1. PUSH-UPS
2. BENT OVER ROWS
3. RDL’s
4. COPENHAGEN PLANK

Yes, we can do things like use our knees in a push-up or just opt for lighter weights if something isn’t feeling right.

But slightly modifying the movement or choosing a similar alternative for a while, especially if we can keep that modification heavier, sometimes works better!

MODIFICATIONS OR ALTERNATIVES:

1. Heavy Chest Press: this allows the movement to stay very challenging load wise, because if you’re like me, I can do a lot of knee push-ups before they start to get hard!

2. Bench Support: again, it allows me to keep my rows heavier, but utilise the bench to support my low back on days it’s feeling to fatigued.

3. Kneeling RDL: this shortens ROM but allows me to keep decent weight, this can be a saviour for postpartum mums.

4. Block Supported Copenhagen’s: I can’t even begin to articulate how hard these are after pregnancy & birth, stay on the blocks for as long as necessary until you’ve built up your strength here again!

Are there any other exercises you struggled with after pregnancy, birth or your cesareans?

Hit follow & save if these tips helped, and drop a comment if you want me to share other alternatives 😮‍💨

05/06/2026

Initially, I feel great in postpartum.

I lose my fluid quickly. I’m still retaining muscle mass from pregnancy. People are helping with the cooking, cleaning and the baby is napping a lot.

Come 9 months postpartum though? I feel AWFUL.

Now just because I share my pregnancies & postpartum on the internet doesn’t mean my experience represents all women.

I have friends who find early postpartum really hard, then, start to feel a sense of routine, ease & progress after six months.

But it can be so confusing, especially for first time mums, when we get to a certain point and are BAFFLED as to why we feel worse, weaker, we’re struggling to recover from exercise AND our clothes are feeling TIGHTER?!

I think the internet *can* portray a linear or onward & upward timeline after we’ve given birth. That we will only improve as the months go on.

But for me personally, three times over now, that has not been the case at all. And I’ve not been quiet about that.

0-4.5 months after birth, I am always positively optimistic about my recovery. My pain gets better, I drop a bit of weight, my core recovers well and my lifts progressively get stronger!

6-12 months I am in the utter trenches. I truly feel my worst here. I’m feeding more than ever, am so sleep deprived and I just feel like looking after myself is so much harder. Third time round I was also dealing with so much lower back/SIJ pain too 💔 This is also when the external help tends to drop off as well.

At 18 months I really start to notice a shift. It just feels like my body is coping better, I’m seeing positive changes and feeling little glimpses of myself coming back 🥹

Postpartum healing isn’t just about how we look. How we are feeling and coping is so important.

The first year postpartum is a wild roller coaster. I wish we were a little more gracious with our healing and knowing it’s so normal for our healing to take a solid two years!

How was your first 1-2 years after giving birth?

04/06/2026

She’s going to hate me for this, isn’t she? 😂 But I saw these matching ‘mum & mini’ tops and couldn’t resist 🥹🫶🏻😭

02/06/2026

My first public ‘before & after photos’ post 🫣

I’ve been a personal trainer for 16 years.

One of the easiest ‘marketing’ tools we can use, especially via social media, is sharing our clients’ ‘before & after’ photos.

Now don’t get me wrong, when clients share them with me, my jaw drops. It’s so amazing and really rewarding for both of us to see how much their hard work has changed their entire body composition. Well, their entire lives, too.

But the problem with ‘before & after’ photos is they reduce everything to how someone looks. As if aesthetics is the only reason people strength train or exercise. 

Yet, this particular set of pictures from my member really stood out to me. She’s incredibly early postpartum in both photos. And I would never want my clients to be concerned about what their body ‘looks like’ so soon after birth.

But I am so glad she took these pictures.

Yes, her body has changed a lot in four weeks, but the most visible change is:

Her posture.
Diastastis-recti difference.
Swelling changes.
Centre of gravity.
Even how she holds herself in space!

This is not the only reason I’m sharing them (with permission, of course)

She said to me, “I can’t believe how much progress I’ve made BEFORE my six-week clearance”.

Telling a woman, post-birth, to do nothing for the first six weeks is really outdated advice. I had my 3rd baby last year, and a pelvic floor physiotherapist visited my hospital room on day 2 to guide me through pelvic floor exercises and ‘at-home’ movements to start as soon as my pain allowed.

Rest is absolutely crucial. But going from 6 weeks of ‘nothing’ to ‘regular’ programming after one postnatal clearance check is not good enough. 

A man recovering from knee surgery gets better rehab advice than we do 🙄

This is why my postnatal program *can* be started from 2-weeks post birth.

I’d love to know, did you combine rest with gentle rehab early on?

01/06/2026

Time to bust some c-section scar massage myths 😏

Scar massage CAN help with:

•Improving tissue mobility, movement, and function
•Reducing numbness, hypersensitivity, and that feeling of “it doesn’t feel like mine”
•Building a more neutral or positive connection with your incision
•Restoring the normal pliability and movement of the fascia
•Reducing tissue and muscle restrictions that may impact core function
•Softening a tight or puckered “shelf” around the scar
•Supporting diastasis recti rehabilitation by improving tissue function and movement

Scar massage DOES NOT:

•Break up or stop collagen production
•Completely remove the scar
•Dramatically change the appearance of the scar (although improved tissue mobility can positively influence aesthetics)
•Prevent or treat pelvic floor dysfunction independently.
•Stop a scar from becoming keloid or hypertrophic
•Rebuild abdominal strength

While scar massage can influence how a scar looks, the external scar is only one small part of the picture.

A scar can look beautifully healed on the outside while the deeper layers still benefit from attention, movement, and rehabilitation.

Your c-section involved 6 OTHER layers of tissue!

Nerve stimulation, silicone therapy, scar massage, optimal breathing mechanics, pelvic floor rehabilitation, and deep core retraining can all play a role in supporting both the internal and external healing process after a caesarean birth.

Healing isn’t just about how our scar looks. It’s about how it moves, functions and feels. 

We all deserve to heal as best as we can after any type of birth, and scar massage can positively impact how a woman not only feels toward her scar, but about her entire birth!

May was steady, very snotty, super cute and filled with beautiful news 🥹🫶🏻
01/06/2026

May was steady, very snotty, super cute and filled with beautiful news 🥹🫶🏻

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