Leila Centner | Reimagining Wellness, Education, and Regenerative Living
At the center of Miami’s wellness and education revolution is Leila Centner, a visionary entrepreneur, biohacking advocate, and regenerative wellness pioneer.
Founder of Centner Wellness, Centner Academy, and Regener8 Farm and Retreat, Leila Centner has transformed personal adversity into a dynamic mission: to empower individuals to optimize vitality, reconnect with nature, and enhance their mind-body connection through state-of-the-art experiences.
Keep reading to discover how her journey from finance to wellness is redefining longevity, education, and conscious living across South Florida and beyond.
Getting to Know Leila Centner:
From Adversity to Biohacking Wellness Visionary
Born in December 1976, Leila Centner grew up in a challenging neighborhood outside of Los Angeles, surrounded by domestic abuse, teenage pregnancies, and gang violence.
She witnessed her mother endure abuse from her stepfather, unable to leave due to financial dependence. These early experiences shaped Leila’s deep resolve to break generational cycles and build a life rooted in self-sufficiency, resilience, and empowerment.
She poured her energy into education, earning scholarships and graduating magna cum laude from the University of Southern California’s School of Accounting, followed by an MBA from the University of California.
Her success in academia launched a high-achieving career in finance, with senior roles at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte & Touche, eventually becoming CFO of Highway Toll Administration (HTA), where she helped lead the company through a successful sale in 2018.
Yet life had other plans.
A series of personal health challenges (including relentless fatigue, brain fog, Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and parasitic infections) forced Leila Centner to rethink everything…
“My turning point was after facing relentless fatigue, brain fog, and a series of chronic infections (including mold toxicity, Lyme disease, and parasites) I embarked on a global healing journey that ranged from meditation and breathwork retreats in India to cutting-edge ozone, frequency, and light therapies in Spain and Mexico”.
Her global pursuit of recovery led her to meditation retreats in India, ozone and light therapies in Spain, and biohacking clinics in Mexico.
Through this deeply personal and transformative chapter, she embraced regenerative wellness, optimized her cellular health, and discovered the profound power of frequency therapies, advanced detoxification, and energy recalibration.
These experiences didn’t just restore her health; they redefined her purpose and sparked the beginning of a new wellness era in health, education, and conscious nutrition.
Leila Centner’s Vision
Making Advanced Wellness Accessible to All
Driven by her personal experience, Leila Centner saw a bigger picture:
“Not everyone can afford to travel the world seeking advanced therapies. I wanted to reimagine wellness; to create a sanctuary where all these powerful tools come together under one roof, accessible and empowering.”
Thus, Centner Wellness was born: a tech-driven hub blending ancient self-care rituals like breathwork and grounding with state-of-the-art biohacking modalities including:
- EBO2/EBOO Ozonated Blood Filtration
- Root-Cause Wellness Assessments
- Cellular Membrane Rejuvenation Therapies
- Frequency-Based Regenerative Therapies
- Longevity-Focused Protocols
- Medical Solutions That Challenge Big Pharma
- Deep Detoxification from Heavy Metals, Molds, and Parasites
- Beauty-Enhancing Wellness Solutions
- And more!
Today, Leila Centner’s vision is not only expanding. It is redefining the future of well-being.
Through innovation, purpose, and unshakable conviction, she is inspiring a new generation to reclaim their vitality, optimize their energy, and pursue a life of limitless possibility.
Leila Centner’s Personal Philosophy
Reimagining Wellness, Education and Regenerative Living
For Leila Centner, real wellness goes beyond a session. It is a lifestyle rooted in daily intention, powerful tools, and a commitment to self-care.
“I like to share about a variety of self-care routines that I personally take part in, such as meditation, breathwork, and coffee enemas… These are ancient practices that help me stay grounded, keep me level-headed and focused, and allow my body to heal and help me to manage stress.”
Leila Centner
At Centner Wellness, her Vitality Blueprint program customizes each individual’s journey through:
- Comprehensive assessments and lab work
- Foundational repair and detoxification strategies
- Energy, recovery, and regenerative optimization protocols
From lymphatic support to mitochondrial rejuvenation, every element is designed to enhance mind-body function and promote sustainable vitality.
A Pioneer in Innovative Education
The Bold idea to Create Centner Academy
When Leila Centner couldn’t find a school that aligned with her values for her daughters, she chose to build one herself. In 2019, she co-founded Centner Academy with his husband David Centner, a revolutionary educational institution in Miami that places mindfulness, happiness, and entrepreneurial thinking at the core of its philosophy.
The academy’s unique approach includes:
- Language immersion from early childhood
- Emotional intelligence training
- Project-based learning and problem-solving skills
- Personalized learning journeys tailored to optimize brain development
Leila’s and David’s Centner Academy aims to help raise future leaders who are emotionally intelligent, resilient, and conscious about their impact.
The Essential Foundation of Regener8 Farm
A Visionary Transition to Fully Organic Nutrition
In 2021, Leila Centner expanded her mission by launching Regener8 Farm and Retreat, a 34-acre regenerative farm in South Miami. This space merges sustainable agriculture, mindful living, and wellness education into a transformative experience.
Regener8 includes:
- Organic market gardens
- Hydroponics and aquaponics innovation
- Bee sanctuaries and diversified orchards
- Future plans for retreats, glamping, a healing spa, and wellness programs
Regener8 Farm reconnects us to what nourishes us. Not just physically, but spiritually. It’s a place to heal in nature.
A Commitment to Community
Making Wellness, Education, and Regenerative Living Accessible
Accessibility remains core to Leila Centner’s mission. Through extensive employee wellness programs at Centner Academy, Centner Wellness, and Regener8, her staff and their families receive discounted access to cutting-edge modalities.
This approach empowers them to thrive both personally and professionally.
Community education is also a priority, with frequent workshops, seminars, and open houses offered to help demystify regenerative therapies and support personal health journeys.
Leadership, Innovation, and the Future of Wellness
Transitioning from the rigid structures of corporate finance to the dynamic world of regenerative wellness taught Leila Centner a powerful lesson: wellness is not static. It evolves. You must stay open, fluid, always listening, and always learning. That is how we grow as leaders and as healers.
Leila Centner’s focus remains steady. Her commitment is to maintaining excellence, personalization, and transformative impact at every Centner Wellness location.
Every initiative she leads is anchored in a singular vision: to empower human potential, to rejuvenate, to optimize, and to reimagine what is possible when healing meets intention.
“I offer an extremely generous discount plan for all my Centner employees. This includes at my wellness center, school, farm, and all our other businesses. This is a step towards making these practices more accessible for our immediate community. I’ve witnessed my employees recover from chronic health issues, their children heal chronic allergies, frequent sickness, and many other transformative health stories. It’s a gift to be able to extend this to all my staff who I treat like family. They can’t give their very best to their students if they’re not feeling well themselves.”
Leila Centner
Summary:
Founded in 2019, Centner Academy is a progressive, independent school that offers world-class education from preschool through high school. Centner Academy combines a deep commitment to emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and happiness with a challenging curriculum featuring language immersion, entrepreneurial thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration.
In the spring of 2023, Leila channeled her passion for holistic health and wellness into her latest business venture and launched Centner Wellness, a 15,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art wellness facility that seamlessly merges ancient healing wisdom with cutting-edge technology and services. Distinguished by its unrivaled range and quality of treatment offerings, the facility empowers health-conscious guests to restore balance and attain optimal well-being for their mind, body, and soul. Centner Wellness now operates in two Miami, Florida locations.
Following the establishment of Centner Wellness, Leila welcomed valued business partner, Next Wave Health + Beauty, which provides on-site functional medicine and holistic health practitioners, complemented by cutting-edge aesthetics, exclusively for Centner Wellness guests. This integrated approach allows guests to receive personalized and customized health plans, plus convenient access to supplements and Vitamin IV therapy.
Previously, Leila was the Chief Financial Officer of Highway Toll Administration (HTA) until it was sold in March 2018. She also held several high-level financial roles with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte & Touche, overseeing engagements with multi-billion dollar accounting clients.
Leila and her husband David are proud parents of two daughters. The Centners thrive on giving back to the community and helping those in need and take great pride in co-managing humanitarian organizations such as Convoy of Hope and the Centner Foundation. Leila graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California’sSchool of Accounting and received her MBA from the University of California.