HLife | Healthy Living Redefined

About HLife – HLife is an online holistic health lifestyle publication. Its purpose is to redefine the concept of health, to inform human beings about what it truly means to lead a healthy lifestyle, and to empower them to take responsibility for their wellness and their lives. Its founders believe that health is not about being functional, it’s about being optimal, and about understanding and maintaining your best physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state. At HLifeMedia.com, you will find information on the mind and emotions, nutrition, recipes focused on a plant-based diet, green living, universal knowledge, science and spirituality, health reports, opinions, interviews, relationships, empowerment, and inspiration, all with a commitment to spreading awareness about the relationship between internal and external realities.

Q: How does HLife redefine health?
A: To HLifers, health is not about being functional. It’s about being optimal. Health begins in your mind first and then it effects your body and the planet. True health redefined is about living the BEST, most positive, thriving and empowered version of your whole self – mind, body and spirit. It’s about being in the most productive mind set, high immunity, conscious awareness, clarity of purpose, enjoyment of life. Health is the real luxury. It’s the real wealth. Health is about self-discovery, self-knowledge and understanding of the internal reality that then generates the external reality that we call life.

Q: What does holistic mean?
A: Holism refers to the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. A holistic approach to health means that the well-being and harmony of the mind, body and spirit together as a whole, create a better state of health than if we only focused on one part. You are a compendium of all of your parts mind, body, emotions, spirit, and you should constantly view yourself as such.

Q: What is healthy living?
A: Healthy living involves taking responsibility of your own life. This includes focusing on positive thoughts, eating for nutrition and knowing what you as an individual need for nourishment, being in harmony, achieving fulfillment, teaching and learning something each day, surrounding yourself with like-minded people who support your growth, and not allowing harmful things into your . It also entails being proactive about getting and staying informed on what it takes to be holistically healthy, and applying all of the knowledge that you need to lead and create the best version of your life with inner peace, balance, harmony, order and love.

Silvie Celiz, CoFounder / Executive Producer / Holistic Health Consultant - Silvie considers herself a self-experimenting scientist. She has walked-the-walk with many nutritional lifestyles, such as raw, macrobiotic, vegetarianism and veganism, and has counseled others on the importance of eating the right things as a powerful tool for living the path to optimal health. As a bilingual Holistic Health and Nutrition Consultant, she emphasizes the importance of prevention as an approach to health and self-healing as a lifestyle because she believes people have the power and responsibility to create their own reality.

As a holistic alternative practitioner, she believes that the mind is where all illness starts and that working on the mind/emotions and complementing that with good nutrition is the way to health. Her desire is for people to see themselves from the inside out instead of the outside in, with thoughts and cells as the main creators of individual well-being.

Silvie lives in Los Angeles with her husband, and is currently writing her first book.

Maryl Celiz, CoFounder / Executive Editor / Journalist Born in Peru and bred in the United States, Maryl is a bilingual/bicultural journalist with a passion for helping others through useful information for everyday living and personal growth. She studied Print Journalism and Mass Communications at Florida International University in Miami, Florida and is a recipient of the California Endowment for Health Journalism Fellowship. She has written, reported, edited and produced for print, broadcast and web media, including The Sun-Sentinel, The Miami Herald, Telemundo and Azteca America. As Features Editor of Hoy, a Los Angeles Times Media Group Spanish language newspaper, she launched the health section of the national publication, has covered major awards like the Oscars, Golden Globes and Grammys, and interviewed influential people in both science and the arts.

Maryl gravitates toward things that express the natural connection between spirituality and science, and she considers herself a student of the Universe. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she consults for media and public relations, and collaborates with various publications.

Born in California and raised in Colorado, Jesse has always been a highly motivated, passionate explorer of life. He studied art and psychology in college, but it was a love for composing music that brought him back to California in early 2000. Spreading his creative wings further and applying his artistic skills and talent, Jesse found himself quickly climbing the ladder behind the scenes in the film industry as a set decorator and art director in commercial advertising productions, TV shows, and small feature films. With an extremely meticulous eye for detail, design and aesthetics, as well as a keen business mind, Jesse brings 10 years of experience in film and multimedia to HLife Media, where he oversees the day-to-day operations, marketing, and conceptual design as the Executive Producer and Creative Director.

Jesse believes that this world is on the brink of major positive change, including a move toward clean and eco-friendly developments in various aspects of living, as well as to more individual health awareness. He supports a plant-based diet and a more modern, holistic approach to caring for the body and mind. Jesse currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife.

Mery Paz, En Español Editor/ Managing Editor – Mery is a homemaker whose occupation her daughters always describe as “professional mom”. In lieu of university titles, Mery, like many women of her generation and culture, dedicated her life to her home, and, in particular, to raising her children. It is for the love for her kids and with the desire to raise them to the best of her ability that Mery began an auto-didactic path of knowledge and study. All of this has led her to form various study groups with the intent to help people on a path of self-understanding and love. Mery lives in Los Angeles, always close to her daughters, and is working on a children’s book, “The Adventures of Peter”.

Mery es una ama de casa cuya ocupación sus hijas suelen describir como “madre profesional”. En vez de títulos universitarios y al igual que muchas mujeres de su cultura y generación, Mery le dedicó la vida a su hogar y, en particular, a la crianza de sus hijas. Es por este amor a sus hijas y con el deseo de criarlas lo mejor posible que Mery inició un camino autodidacta de conocimiento y profundo estudio, lo cual la ha llevado a formar grupos de estudio con la intención de ayudar a la gente que se encuentra en una jornada de auto entendimiento y amor. Mery vive en Los Ángeles, siempre cerca a sus hijas, donde escribe su primer libro infantil, “Las Aventuras de Peter”.

Dustin Wight, Director of Technology and Web Development
From free sketching and painting to photography and the digital arts, Dustin is a well-versed and highly regarded multimedia artist and designer whose work is the result of cultivated taste and honed technical skills. He was raised in Boulder, CO, and relocated to Eugene, OR to attend the University of Oregon, where he completed a double major in Multimedia Design and Japanese. During his time in college, he traveled abroad to Japan, where he spent a year refining his language skills and immersing himself in the eastern arts, culture and way of life – all of which are evident in the process and aesthetics of his current profession.

In addition to creating a number of websites for music groups, professional photographers and other creatives, Dustin has been a key designer in various university-level, web curriculum tutorials in the fields of human science and anatomy, as well as websites for major publications like Elephant Magazine.  He currently runs the web technology and development department at HLife Media, where he enjoys applying both his innovative and specialized talents and expertise.