Massage in Menopause - Finding a Safe Space with Rosemarie Rotenberger (Episode 80)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Your muscles and connective tissues can get “stickier” and feel stiffer during the menopause transition, and you can find yourself with more aches and pains and niggles than you had before. Massage therapy can help with that. But the benefits don’t end with your muscles. Massage is also good for the menopausal mind. It activates your parasympathetic nervous system to lower cortisol and anxiety. It also can provide a safe space for you to release past trauma, reconnect your physical and emotional self, and let your body rest in a totally safe environment. We talk all that and more this week with massage therapist Rosemarie Rotenberger.

Rosemarie is a Licensed Massage Therapist for 22 years. Her Olympic and World Champion clients span several continents and have competed in every summer Olympics since 2004. She has crewed for the Race Across America (RAAM) record holding team twice. Her work engages both the physical and emotional challenges of higher level sport. She has taught in both entry level and advanced orthopedic massage programs and served on national advisory boards.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.3	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:34.0	So this week's show is a conversation that I have wanted to have since I started this thing.
0:39.4	It's with my longtime massage therapist, Rose Marie Rotenberger.
0:43.9	Rose is a healer.
0:46.0	Full stop.
0:47.2	That sounds hyperbolic, but it is 100% true.
0:50.8	I found Rose when I was training for Iron Man.
0:53.8	I was having some knee issues that nobody could
0:55.9	figure out. I went to two different physical therapists. I had my bike fit dialed in at the Olympic
1:00.8	training center. I had gotten body work done by various people and it was still nagging at me.
1:06.5	A track racer friend of mine said, and I quote, you've got to go see Rose. She'll set your shit straight.
1:13.8	And truer words have never been spoken. I wasn't on her table more than 10 minutes when she was like,
1:19.4	your left knee, that's totally fine. Your right hip, that's pretty jacked up. She got in there,
1:24.9	manipulated the muscles, and the knee pain went away as quickly as it came.
1:29.3	I saw her regularly all through my mountain bike stage racing career and continue to see her today, but honestly for other reasons.
1:37.4	Because I'm not running marathons or training on my mountain bike 17 hours a week, I need her a little less for my hips and knees these days, but I need
1:45.7	her a whole lot more for my head and general health. Because massage therapy is really good for your
1:52.4	central nervous system, as well as for your muscles and connective tissues. And as you'll hear in this
1:57.8	discussion, women in menopause can benefit from bodywork in some serious and unexpected ways.
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