Riding, who has been an actor and voice-over artist, trained at WAAPA and also with the Roy Hart Theatre in Paris. She taught at NIDA for six years, and also at the Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University and Northern Rivers Conservatorium. She has lived in Byron Bay, NSW, and has taught yoga and sound healing, as well as teaching at writing retreats. Riding also wrote Yoga for Body, Mind, Breath and Baby (2001).