One Life is a free biweekly publication written personally by Lisa Leyva — founder of The Lifestyle Artist®, creator of the Enlignment™ philosophy, and the woman who spent twenty years watching other people perform their lives before she decided to actually live hers.
Every issue is written in the voice you will hear at the retreat, at the table, in the room. It is not a content strategy. It is not a marketing channel. It is the ongoing practice of writing the life she has built — and sharing what she has learned along the way.
One Life is also a preview of something larger — a memoir in progress titled One Life, built around the same philosophy that runs through every retreat, every journey, and every issue of this publication.
"For more than eleven years I have been writing letters to myself. I have not stopped."
One Life began as a letter to myself. It became a publication. It is still, first, a letter.
Every issue belongs to one of four pillars. Each issue is short enough to read with your morning coffee. Long enough to stay with you through the day.
The Enlignment™ framework, the valYOUs™ system, and the philosophy behind twenty years of intentional living — explored one idea at a time.
The origin story. The grandfather's garden and the pink rose. Grandmother Julia's kitchen. The gypsy spirit that built this brand and the woman behind it.
The valYOUs™ in daily life. The Enlignment™ Planner method. Holistic health as a daily practice — functional medicine as a lifestyle, not a treatment.
Travel and place as alignment. Mexico. Puerto Vallarta. Esencia Gitana — the vineyard estate and wellness destination being born in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California.
What this publication is, who it is for, and what it promises to every woman who reads it. The introduction to a conversation that has no end date.
Read on Substack →Twenty years of building a philosophy before it had a name. One conviction that never changed. The origin of everything at The Lifestyle Artist® — told for the first time in full.
Read the full issue →One Life began as a publication and is becoming something more. The writing Lisa does here — honest, unhurried, rooted in the actual events of one actual life — is the foundation of a memoir in development.
Subscribers to One Life will be the first to read chapters as they are completed. The first eight chapters are written. The book is real. Subscribe to follow it as it is built.
"What is meant for you does not run — it aligns."
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I started in 2015 — privately, without an audience, without a plan. I was not trying to build anything. I was trying to find my way back to myself, and the page was the only place quiet enough to hear it. What began as an act of self-preservation became a practice. What became a practice became a philosophy. What became a philosophy became Enlignment™.
For most of my life, I held the spotlight on other people — I directed, produced, and shone it on others so they could realize their gifts. One Life is the practice that finally turned it around. Not out of ego, but because I learned, on these pages, that you cannot pour from a life you are not living. Every issue is a letter. Every letter is honest. None of them have a recipe.
I am the founder of The Lifestyle Artist®, a holistic health Alignist™, and a Lifestyle Curator, and I lead Enlignment™ retreats in Puerto Vallarta and Baja California. But here, on this page, I am simply the woman still writing the letters — and finally letting them be read.
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