Amber Lynn Vitale
Amber Lynn Vitale is a Certified Nutritionist, Ayurvedic Clinical Consultant, and is a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional™, Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition®.
She is the creator and instructor of Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine at Wild Rose College.
Amber is passionate about traditional foods, herbs, and regenerative farming, and incorporates these important lifestyle concepts into her nutrition education. She believes we all benefit most from utilizing the foods and herbs that thrive where we live, rather than importing herbs from other ecosystems, and her goal is to restore the human relationship with plants through caretaking and stewardship.
She now lives on a 25-acre farm in Montana where she puts theory into practice rejuvenating the soil, improving plant and animal health as well as that of her family and community, and discovering the herbs that the land offers for the people living in that ecosystem.
First Nations Medicinal Herbs of Alberta and Montana, their Ayurvedic energetics, and equivalents in Ayurvedic Medicine
We will identify the energetics and dosha classifications of herbs in this ecosystem, and explore classic Ayurvedic herbs with similar qualities. Possible examples include:
Wild Rose, Dandelion, Fireweed, Mugwort, Yarrow, Bearberry, White Sagebrush
Northern Sweetgrass, Goldenrod, Stinging Nettle, Wild or Field Mint, Bitterroot, Broadleaf Plantain, Sweet Vetch, Buffalo Berry, Saskatoon Berry, Yellow Cress, Self Heal, Wild Bergamot.
That’s Not a Weed! Herbal indicators for community and soil health and how to welcome herbs to prepare your garden
Herbs and “weeds” growing in your ecosystem and your soil can tell you what is present and what is missing, and what you might need. A plot of land that is new to you and needs regenerating may take a few years and cycles of volunteer plants to become good for gardening. Meanwhile, enjoy the medicinal offerings that may change every year! We will explore common “weeds” of the Western Ecosystems and how they can inform us on soil and human health…Farming and gardening are not the only purposes for our soil!
Intracellular Mineral Status—Herbal hot water infusions and decoctions with local plants
So many people drink filtered or bottled water today, devoid of minerals that we previously accessed every single day, in surface waters we drank from, as natural humans. Never before have we only consumed H and O in our water. Infusions and decoctions of mineral rich herbs can provide a bioavailable source of trace minerals from freshwater ecosystems to which we belong. These minerals will be in ratios nearly impossible to reproduce with synthetic mineral supplements, reflective of our long-time association with the plant world.