Today, I’m joined by functional nutritional therapist, clinical herbalist, and yoga teacher China Rose Zamora. She has almost 25 years of experience in the holistic health field and knew from a very young age that she was called to plant medicine. We discuss her mission to help women discover ways to nourish themselves deeply and feel connected with that process. She shares details about some of her apothecary best-sellers and simple strategies to incorporate plant medicine into daily life. We also get into her herbal recommendations that offer support to women as they age.
Today, I’m joined by functional nutritional therapist, clinical herbalist, and yoga teacher China Rose Zamora. She has almost 25 years of experience in the holistic health field and knew from a very young age that she was called to plant medicine. China Rose is on a mission to help women discover ways to nourish themselves deeply and feel connected with that process. She’s an advocate for wellness as a fun and rich journey, as opposed to another trendy thing to check off the list.
China Rose and her partner AJ run an award-winning apothecary that was originally a brick-and-mortar store in Napa, but they’ve transitioned to the online space. She shares details about some of her best-selling products and her vision for the future of the store. She dives into simple strategies for how to incorporate plant medicine into daily life and her herbal recommendations that offer support to women as they age.
Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of China Rose’s story is that she and AJ travel around the country with their tiny house trailer. She explains how they travel with their plants and connect with communities all over the US. Listen in to hear more of China Rose’s wisdom on boosting your wellness routine with humanity’s original medicine.
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[00:00:00] Dana Frost: Welcome to Vitally You, a podcast created to introduce you to the tools that will be your roadmap for feeling younger while growing older. I'm your host, Dana Frost, a wellness expert, life coach and energy medicine practitioner. Here's what you can expect: conversations about vitality from the inside out with guests experts in the field of health, culture, and spirituality.
And solo episodes along the way from me, where I do deep dives into the topics of aging, heart intelligence, energy medicine, and your innate capacity to heal. If you want to feel younger while growing older, this is the place for you.
Hello, everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of the vital, the ups. If you were enjoying this podcast, please do me a big favor. Hit subscribe, rate, and review. Consider forwarding your favorite episode to a friend. Don't forget to download my vitality guide. The link will be in the show notes. Okay. And this week's episode, we are taking a baby step into the rich world of plant medicine.
You do know that plant medicine is humanity's original medicine. The pharmaceutical industry is only a few hundred years old and as we know it today only about a hundred years. Traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, era, Vedic medicine have thousands of years of history in the Western world. We have become more and more dependent on pharmaceuticals for treatment.
And yet as a people, we are sicker and sicker as a whole. Humanity is not well. The people I see whose life force is a vital and vibrant are following a holistic well care model that is rooted in nature. It is my belief that we have hit a tipping point in how we do healthcare. And one by one, we need to educate ourselves.
We need to decide, do we follow the sick care Western model? Or do we take a deep dive into the healing power of nature? You know, where I stand solidly under the trees feet and living water or on the ground, plants are my medicine of choice. I would say plants and all of the elements of nature. I'm excited to have an introductory conversation about the healing power of herbs with China, Rose Zamora.
Doesn't she have a beautiful name? China Rose Zamora is a functional nutrition therapist, clinical herbalist and yoga teacher who has worked in the holistic health field since 1998. This woman she's got chops. She has proudly served her community as China rose wellness since 2009, when she's not supporting women in rising to the health potential, practicing herbal alchemy, traveling the country via mobile, tiny.
Teaching inspirational workshops to de-mystify wellness or co-facilitating transformational retreats with her AAJ, her eco warrior partner and adventure. You can find her meandering on the nearest hiking trail or jamming at a local live music venue. China rose is a firm believer that wellness encompasses everything that nourishes us body and soul.
Well, China rose, thank you so much for being our guests this week. I'm really honored to
[00:03:45] China Rose Zamora: have you. It's a joy to be here. I could talk about wellness all day long. Yeah. You
[00:03:51] Dana Frost: have, you've been working in the wellness industry since 1998.
[00:03:56] China Rose Zamora: Yes. Yes. I knew from a very young age that I wanted to do this work and it kind of came out of both.
Uh, developing love for nature and just this deep respect for nature. And then also a deep desire to find a way that I could help people as, as a profession. So I, you know, when I learned about urbalism initially I was, I was overjoyed to see both of those worlds kind of come together in a way that I could serve my community.
Well, that's
[00:04:31] Dana Frost: really incredible. So for you listeners, I met China rose the end of February at a women's event in Southern Florida. We'll actually in Miami called health freedom for humanity and China rose and her partner AIJ were there. And one of our events, they set up their booth and they had their elixirs, their adaptogenic elixirs available for us.
I am all about those things that come for our healing from nature. And I tasted it and I really enjoyed it. And I bought some and then I've since bought more and it is called free. What I purchased is free spirit elixir and China rose is going to tell us about that. And I'll tell you why. I really like it at the event, they were presenting it as an option for an alcohol-free cocktail, which I think is always lovely to have some, something that feels celebratory.
That is alcohol-free. I love the taste of it and how I've been using it is in the evening. I always have tea before I go to bed and I've been having it as a warm tea. I feel like there's just so many ways to. Bring forth this beautiful free spirit elixir, and I'm super excited to share with
[00:05:53] China Rose Zamora: everybody.
Awesome. Yes. So maybe where I could start is just by explaining where. Free spirit elixir came from, you know, I both AIG and I have been working with, uh, with women, empowering women in their health care for over 20 years. And so, you know, both as, um, you know, I'm a functional nutritional therapist, so of course.
Supporting women and finding ways to, uh, nourish themselves deeply and feeling connected with that, you know, the joy of, of nourishing ourselves and both of us in, in our work realized that one of the most challenging areas, uh, for women, especially. Finding other tools for relieving stress, right? We are all under some form of stress, especially these days.
We've gone through a lot in the last couple of years, all of us, and to recognize too, that stress is multifaceted, right? We always think of stress as this emotional component, which so much of it is right. It's the handling of the day to day and juggling all of our roles as women in our lives. But it's also physical, like maybe the physical stress of being in chronic pain or having a chronic illness or even nutritional imbalances can be a physical stress, right.
Or that stress can also be biochemical and having hormonal imbalances, uh, could be environmental. It could be exposure to. Say environmental toxins or the toxins women find so often in their skincare and body care products. So knowing that as healthcare practitioners, that that stress is really one of those things that initiates health imbalances, right?
It's at the forefront. We knew the most. Important thing that we can do, um, it would be to provide another option when it comes to stress relief techniques. You know, some of us were fortunate enough to learn how to balance and acknowledged stress from an early age, but I'd say most of us were not right.
We didn't, we weren't necessarily given those tools early in life. And so I, you know, in addition to things like food and other. Daily distractions. Alcohol is just such a socially acceptable tool to help self-sooth ourselves, right? Reduce tension and stress. And we just realized with our, with our community of women that we were supporting, it's natural to want to self-soothe we, we want to look outside to, you know, what our tools are, what our options are and how wonderful would it be to have a tool.
That provides some of those same actions as alcohol, maybe the grounding component that, you know, muscle relaxation component of the nervous system, soothing component without some of the negative effects. And you know, so that's, that's where free spirit elixir was born is initially just in us formulating for individual women's like what herbs could we incorporate in place of an alcoholic beverage?
Maybe on some occasions. That would be easier to use maybe during the week where, you know, we don't want to have, you know, the, the downsides of that glass of wine or to the next morning when we're trying to be efficient in our game. So that's, that's where the free spirit of elixir originally came from is this idea that why don't we provide an, an additional option so that we can decide, you know, what's going to work for us in those times of stress intention.
I
[00:09:29] Dana Frost: really love that. I like having an alternative as a coach. If we're going to take something out of someone's life. We need to have a substitute, something to put in. That's going to satisfy on a nervous system level as well. So, you know, I think that that's true across the board. It doesn't matter if it's alcohol or food or, you know, whatever it is that is soothing to someone and that can be shopping.
It can be sex. It can be exercise. You know, there are so many different things that we hold onto for self-soothing and when, when that thing becomes destructive, none of those things are bad in and of themselves, but if they become destructive because of, you know, emotional component, whether destructive to the body, the soul, the mind.
And so then there needs to be an essence, of course, correction. Right. Then we really want to be a, I at least. And obviously you're the same way. I want to be able to provide some sort of a cradle of support. Yes. You know, if you take a step still from a person you've needed to put something underneath them for support.
And I really appreciate what you've created in this, because. It has, well, you are going to be able to tell us about the adaptogens that it has and, and, you know, I've never talked about urbalism with my community. I haven't, maybe I've done a few Instagram posts about adaptogens, but they're really nature's gift.
So could you speak into adaptogens and some of the ingredients in the free spirit
[00:11:17] China Rose Zamora: elixir? Definitely. Yes. So yeah. The idea behind the elixir was not just to provide, say an herbal blend that tasted good, that you would drink in place of say alcohol here and there it is to provide a functional option that actually provides the feelings you're looking for, maybe with that glass of wine or, or cocktail.
So, so with. You know, we have many different herbs have different functions in the body. And I'd say two of the big ways we might classify them initially is that some that have very acute benefits so that, you know, have an action that takes place right away. Maybe you can feel it right away. Maybe it, it sues a symptom right away.
And then we have a whole other classification of herbs that are used more as tonics. And what we mean by that is that we use the. Consistently and regularly in our daily life to build the health of different body systems to make bigger shifts in our health over time. And so with free spirit elixir, we've kind of combined both of those ideas.
We have herbs that like, for example, like skullcap, that is a nervine herbs and what that means. It's an herb that helps to support the health and actually the physical function of the nervous system. So you feel it usually right away when you take it and you know, in this free spirit elixir, it's in a glycerin extracts, we're using vegetable glycerin to extract the components or the campus.
Constituents of these herbs. Of course you might also use herbs as tea or in a capsule form, but basically, you know, when we take free spirit elixir, we're feeling those immediate benefits of say the skullcap that helps to Sue our nerves, help us feel a little more grounded, kind of take the edge off of nervous tension and overstimulation.
And even within an ERV, like skullcap, it also has these long-term benefits that are accumulative the longer that you take it. So you're helping to, re-establish the health of the nervous system itself. You know, the myelin sheaths of the nerves, you can actually help reduce things like nerve damage and pain with herbs, like skull cab.
So that gives you an initial taste of, you know, we're thinking of. In the immediate moment, we want to feel, we want to take the edge off of things, right? That's a lot of people look for in alcohol, but we're going to get this kind of a cumulative benefit over time. The more we incorporate something like free spirit elixir.
So that's. It's a nice initial way of, of looking at it, but adaptogenic herbs. Gosh, when I learned about this classification of herbs, I was sold. I needed to be an herbalist that said still one of my favorite groups of herbs and basically what an adaptogenic herb does is help our bodies to adapt to the stress that we're under.
And if that sounds amazing, you know, to you, it's an unbelievable almost it's. Yeah. Miraculous, right. It sounds almost impossible, but we look at the mechanisms by which these herbs do this. It's helping to regulate things like hormonal production. So stress hormones, you know, that's one of the main ways it works is helping to curtail and, and modulator balance the production of stress hormones.
By doing that, it's also helping kind of, you know, as, as a waterfall or cascade effect, then helping to balance other hormones, say like female sex hormones, because when stress hormones go out of balance, it causes that domino effect where estrogen progesterone testosterone can then easily go out of balance.
So it's having that added benefit. Adaptogens also helped to balance both the nervous and immune systems as well. So. We're basically by taking these herbs on a regular basis, having this, this kind of cushioning to the way that stress affects our physical bodies and our emotional selves as well. So, There are multiple different adaptogens.
You know, we have many that, uh, have become, you know, not only popular recently, but used in traditional Chinese medicine, Indian Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. Um, so this is by no means a brand new thing, but I love to see that their popularity is, is continuing to grow in the, in, you know, in recent years with more scientific study of their individual actions.
Right. I
[00:16:04] Dana Frost: was introduced to the idea of adaptogenic herbs. When I had my health crisis and discovered I had adrenal fatigue and my doctor who happened to be Chinese, but she was a integrative internist. We decided to go, she gave me different options. We decided to go acupuncture with adaptogenic herbs, and then traditional Chinese medicine herbs that the acupuncturist prescribed.
But I was really just so. Amazed. When I learned that these are plants that grow in very difficult conditions, under difficult conditions. And that is really the foundation of how they support our system under difficult conditions. They come in, they're able to arrive. And then when we invite them, this.
They help our system to repair and thrive and heal. And you know, there is nothing I'm I believe this. And I'm thinking you probably do too. China rose nature has provided everything we need to heal. And our body, our nature recognizes what comes from nature and responds to.
[00:17:25] China Rose Zamora: Yes. Yes. I feel like starting with food, right?
With real whole fresh foods. Like our body has adapted and was designed really to be able to utilize the nutrients from those foods in a way that just is, is symbiotic. Right. We have this, this living relationship with, with the foods that we eat and, you know, as any nutritionist or. You know, a person who's had experience with real whole fresh foods, you realize the more you move towards those things and away from same more processed or manmade chemicals that infiltrate our food system.
You feel more vital, you feel more alive, right? You feel this, this rightness about that relationship with these foods. And I feel like herbs are just an extension of that, right? It's um, a lot of them also have nutrient value. Like I, I make myself an herbal tea blend every day. That is a combination of herbs that are high in vitamins and minerals.
And so it's, uh, you know, just another way to get my nutrition through, through plant medicine. Oh, that's
[00:18:37] Dana Frost: so interesting. Could you share, like, maybe just give us, you probably adopted every day. I'm thinking that you're probably like, but give us an example. I would, I'm
[00:18:47] China Rose Zamora: super curious. Sure. Yeah. So some of my, my staples that I'll use a lot are alfalfa and nettles and oat straw, all of which are.
Very high in minerals. Um, overall nettles is especially good as you might've heard during what we might call the allergy season, when more people have issues with histamine response. And so it has that additional benefit. So oftentimes in the spring, Three years or the foundation of, of our tea that I make.
Sometimes I'll throw in something like red Clover, which is also a source of nutrients, but it's also very cleansing to the blood cleansing to the lymphatic system, especially in a tea form. It does that in a very gentle way. So that's. Positive to add in on a regular basis. I might also add in something like rose hips, which is a natural source of vitamin C and bioflavonoids, and it has a nice turret flavors.
You're getting that just benefit for, you know, the amount of enjoyment you get from your medicine as well. Right. I love
[00:19:54] Dana Frost: rose hips. I own just toss that in there. So do you, okay, so I want, I want our listeners to know that you live in a tiny.
[00:20:03] China Rose Zamora: I do
[00:20:04] Dana Frost: your tiny house. You travel in your tiny house. So when I met you, you were in your tiny house and you had come, you were, I don't know how long, but you're from California and you were.
Here in Southern Florida. And so I'm really curious, how do you travel with all of your herbs in your tiny
[00:20:22] China Rose Zamora: house? Very strategically. So you can imagine. So our tiny house is a custom travel trailers, so it's 24 feet long. It's 175 square feet. And we designed it, my wife, Aja and I to meet all of them. Daily needs.
So, you know, the kitchen is like half of the whole house, basically because we cook all the time. We're constantly formulating. So that is our lab. If you will. And then the other half is clothing storage. I have my workspace, of course. Um, cause I, I support clients the whole time we travel through remote coaching and at the end towards the tongue is, is the bathroom.
We have a bathtub, we have a washer dryer. I mean, Everything we need no joke. So our herbs are just kind of in our kitchen. We they're a part of our daily life. So in our pantry, you know, we have all of our jars of, of bulk dry herbs that I have to choose from. We have our. You know, our own personal apothecary of, uh, herbal tinctures or liquid extracts that are quite small, so that we travel easily with those.
And we also have even an earth wall, which is living culinary herbs that we hang outside the house when we're parked. It's just, it's a felt wall with pockets in it where you can plant plants in each pocket. And so it hangs outside when we're parked and it comes and sits in the bathtub. When we. So we can pull from that to add to our, you know, our dinner, you know, to add nutrition and flavor to our food as well.
So it's just a part of our daily life.
[00:22:03] Dana Frost: So is that felt wall, are those dry or wet, like growing or,
[00:22:09] China Rose Zamora: or dry? They're they're growing. So basically you, you know, you get plant starts, you know, say for example, Rosemary, we always have Rosemary and the herb walls. So you take the little plants start, usually they're about four inches higher.
So I take it out of the pot and you wrap it almost like in a felt diaper, like the whole root ball. And you've stopped that. In one of these pockets, and then you can, when it's hanging outside, you can water it and then you just would want to wait till it dries out too, before you bring it inside. But it's, it's a fantastic way to travel with plants.
I
[00:22:44] Dana Frost: am fascinated right now. You're blowing my mind. Because I have had this fantasy of having a little traveling. I think they're called teacups. That's what my was my obsession for a long time.
[00:22:55] China Rose Zamora: The teardrop. Yeah. At your job, tear down their teardrops. They're awesome. So
[00:23:01] Dana Frost: I'm trying to visualize your 125 square feet.
And, and you have, because I know I travel with essential oils and I also anywhere I, I always travel with my own tea is organic teas. So I'm just kind of fascinated sometime. I would love to see photos of your tiny house, if you ever want to share with me and this the felt because growing the herbs and felt, I really believe.
We have so much more capacity to grow things like this for ourselves that can be nourishing and we just need more simple ways to
[00:23:37] China Rose Zamora: do it. I agree. And that's part of what AIG and I do, and we support women and in making healthy shifts in their lifestyle, right. It's not all about overhauling, everything we do all at once.
Right. And you know that as a coach, it's not sustainable. It's not realistic. So. As we talk through just what daily life looks like, maybe adding in opportunities or different ways of looking at things, or like, for example, with, um, with herbs, a good example is like our first aid kit. We all have a first aid kit at home.
Right. But if we slowly start to switch out, maybe say, bring a tea tree oil into the first aid kit and, and, um, we have herbal products that we've formulated for. You know, that take the place of something like Pepto-Bismol something we call neutralizing. Cordial is an herbal blend that has a lot of those same actions for any type of digestive upset.
Uh, we have, uh, a product called headache for headaches. So ultimately our first aid kit is mostly herbs. Yeah. There's band-aids in there and, you know, tweezers and all the other tools you might need, but. Just slowly encouraging people to look to more natural options for things that we kind of just take for granted is a great way to welcome herbs into our lives and just start to experiment and play with them.
Cause it really is about getting to know them. Right. That's one of the joys of.
[00:25:11] Dana Frost: I really love that for my whole adult life. I've actually ate whole foods. I started juicing in the 90, early nineties, soon after I got married. And so, you know, I lived even up until my health crisis, I lived or, you know, food wise a really healthy life, although it's always a baker, so I always had sugar, but homemade things.
And in this health crisis, That's where I really started thinking about my exposure to toxins. When it comes to skincare, you mentioned that earlier skincare, Amani products, cleaning products, and I just made this slow transition and cleaned all of those things out. The last thing I did was a couple of years ago, I did the.
And I finally, you know, check that off the list and it really makes such a difference. And I really love this idea of the, this is very practical, just to think about your first aid kit, how easy it would it be? To create a holistic first aid kit. And I gave at the beginning of this flu or cold season, I gave all my family members a kit for exposure to viruses and stuff like that.
So I really love that idea. And, you know, what's what it's, this is a really good time to bring up China rose that you do have an online apothecary. You used to have a store in Napa and I'm get your newsletters. And I was just so excited for you to read that you won an award for your apothecary and what was the award again?
[00:26:47] China Rose Zamora: Best holistic herbal shop in Napa county. It was pretty amazing to be recognized for that. Yeah.
[00:26:56] Dana Frost: Congratulations. And so this is, what's so exciting for all of us. We can go online and we can order from this award-winning apothecary. And so I think it's just so exciting. I've already, you know, reordered your elixirs.
So what are some of the things in your apothecary?
[00:27:13] China Rose Zamora: So I would say our, yeah, our top seller right now is definitely the free spirit elixir. It's it's brand new as of this year, but it's grown in popularity ever since we launched it. And then, yeah. So exciting to see just how well people are responding to it, especially because.
Aja is our resident mixologist. So she's presenting, you know, all over our Instagram page and, you know, you know, in live events and pop-ups, you know, ways to make herbal medicine fun and interesting and creative by, you know, creating herbal mocktails with nutritious ingredients and delicious ingredients.
So it's, I really feel like helping to provide this perspective that wellness. Can be fun and can feel very rich and exciting as opposed to a chore or something else we have to add to the to-do list. I feel like that shifts everything. So, yeah, definitely. That's that's going to be the highlight of what you'll find in the apothecary.
We have just launched our herbal first aid kit. So that's something that I'd been dreaming about for years. You actually have a first. It's going to be on the website within the next week or so. So that's, that's going to be another highlight for sure. It's kind of brings together a lot of the different products we already offer, but you know, in this way you have, you have this kid just immediately accessible, you know, in your, as you travel, we have a lot of travelers who use these products and just, you know, they're great.
Go-tos in the moment. And then we also carry something called, um, relaxed a F so it's alcohol free. It's a combination of herbs to help us, uh, ease into sleep more easily. So I feel. That's been one of the main, uh, I'd say challenges for a lot of our clients these last couple of years, in addition to just the stress level being high during the day, oftentimes that does equate to trouble sleeping.
And so I think we all know when we sleep good, everything is better, right? Everything about our body functions, better, we, our brains function more optimally. So that's going to be a foundation to any wellness program or, you know, set people up to achieve their wellness goals. Yeah, so much more efficiently.
And I'd say to the things like the neutralizing cordial, like things that have an immediate effect, like I've, I've traveled with that for years. And the moment I might have something like gastric upset or a little nausea for any reason, or, um, you know, even something as serious. Like food poisoning symptoms that formula takes care of any of those things pretty immediately.
It's, it's amazing how quickly it works. So you'll find a lot of little gems like that on, on the website.
[00:30:02] Dana Frost: Yeah. Well, that's super exciting. I need to go do some more shopping on your way on at the apothecary. Apparently, you know, this idea of vitally you this podcast, really? I created it because I've really had a vision.
I wanted to grow older differently than I saw my ancestors, who I loved so much. The way that they grew older with diabetes and adult onset obesity, their spirits were so alive and vibrant, but the body just couldn't, you know, didn't really support that. And they ended up leaving sooner than I would have liked them to leave.
You know? So as you think about. Particularly, let's just say women and growing older, and we have like, I'm six years menopausal. I've had some hormonal challenges related to that. And we think about stress and just, I guess this is a big question that totality of the female, as she ages, what are some herbs that come top of mind to you that are super like offer a cradle of support?
[00:31:11] China Rose Zamora: Um, I love that question and it is a deep question. I feel like ultimately I support women in connecting to a sense of their true authenticity, right. That, that I feel like the older I got and I'll just speak from my experience. I feel like I settled deeper into who it is that I truly am and that. I don't feel like there need to be any apologies for who I am in the world.
Right. I, I come as I am. I share, you know, my thoughts, my opinions, my gifts, my offerings. And so when I think of herbs that help us to do that. I do. Definitely honor, the adaptogenic herbs. I feel like, you know, choosing an adaptogen for each woman that makes sense in her situation. And what's going on in her body is kind of a starting point with herbs and, and helping us create that relationship with herbs.
And the ones that I highlight in three spirit elixir are some that I end up using quite often because I find they're applicable to most women. So are. GotU Kola in the formula. It's not only adaptogenic, so it's not only helping to. Reduce the physical impacts of stress and the mental impacts and emotional impacts of stress.
It's actually bolstering mental function. And I feel like that's one of the concerns I hear often from women as, as we all age, is this, this desire to maintain good, you know, brain function, memory, focus, uh, mental clarity. Our feelings of, of feeling inspired and motivated and creative, our connection with, with our creativity and go to Cola is one of those herbs that supports all of those functions.
And so. That's one of the reasons it had to be in this formula is because I just saw a vital need for it with in a lot of different situations. So
[00:33:16] Dana Frost: let me just say something quickly here, because I saw that in the ingredient list, I have no experience with it. I had never heard of it. So it's really interesting to hear you talk about
[00:33:26] China Rose Zamora: it.
Yeah. It has a long. History of use in India and I are Vedic medicine. So hundreds, if not thousands of years. And it's, it's not only is it adaptogenic. And we talked about. Supporting brain and mental functioning, but it's, it's a nerve tonic. It promotes healing, it reduces inflammation. So when you think about the roots to many of our health concerns, as we age they're related to all of those things, usually.
So I love that herbs are multitaskers either at the Grande multitaskers at call them. And so. It's lovely to have an herb like that can be our ally in this part of our lives. And the other two adaptogens. I was going to mention that I incorporated there Rhodiola and eleuthero both of which also have a very long history of, of use.
The way that many herbalists would describe these herbs are that they help to bolster our physical and our mental stamina. And we think about, you know, the last, especially the last couple of years and how. Much stamina. It has taken to stay rooted and feel grounded in our mission in life. Whether that's, you know, supporting ourselves, our family, our community, it takes a lot of stamina and a lot of us are, are running low on that.
So to have. It's amazing medicinal herbs that can help bolster that and help you feel less depleted. I feel like there are going to be cornerstones in this time when, when our bodies are changing and are asking for more support, basically
[00:35:11] Dana Frost: beautifully said, and they're here to support us. Exactly. And to be that cradle of support.
So I think that's. Hopefully people will be able to find, you know, they'll find you and your apothecary and what you do is formulate individually too for people. And depending upon when you were talking about the adaptogens for each woman that, you know, depending upon their unique constitution, One adaptogen might be more supportive over another.
And so I would just encourage people find an herbalist or better yet find China
[00:35:49] China Rose Zamora: rose. Yeah. I love that our travels allow us to not only meet people all over the country through live events and workshops and pop-ups, but. Yeah. It's enabled me to work with women all over the country. And, and we, we love that our, our community is growing by leaps and bounds every day.
So, yeah,
[00:36:11] Dana Frost: that's wonderful. So China rose in closing, I would love to know what feeling younger while growing older means to you.
[00:36:19] China Rose Zamora: I have to come back to that idea of authenticity. I feel like it's like, it's the root of everything for me these days. It's, it's being completely present in my life with both how my body's communicating with me and giving me messages as to what my needs are and, and honoring what my body's telling me and supporting it in the way it's asking to be supported.
It's being present with. With my loved ones and my community, and, and also being present in, in nature, I feel like nature is revitalizing in so many ways and that's. I sometimes forget how old I am, because I feel like, you know, nothing has really changed in, in, in a lot of ways in my experience, except that I'm just continue to add to my toolbox, to my, you know, what I have not only to offer, but my, my resources as well.
So yeah, I'd have to say that's, that's the ticket for me. Okay. I love it.
[00:37:20] Dana Frost: That's really beautiful. Well, thank you so much for being our guests, China rose this week, it's been a pleasure having.
[00:37:27] China Rose Zamora: Thank you. It was a joy.
[00:37:30] Dana Frost: Thank you for joining me on the vital you podcast. If you are enjoying these conversations, please you've heard me say this.
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