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Circle is a monthly reflective retreat — a shared space where conditioning loosens, perception opens, and habitual patterns begin to soften.
This April edition continues the exploration of Live on Land as an Aspect within the 5×5 framework, focusing on The Sun and Natural Supplements, through guided exposure led by Hari Nair and two Leela Life specialists.
The Circle creates a shared environment where fixed ideas around the body’s relationship with the natural world begin to loosen, allowing greater sensitivity to land, rhythm, and nature’s intelligence to emerge more naturally in everyday life.
To Live on Land is to re-enter relationship with the natural world as a living source of support, rhythm, and intelligence. In Indic traditions, the sun, earth, animals, and natural materials are approached as companions in life, shaping how the body finds grounding, vitality, and alignment through direct engagement.
Hari Nair is the creator of the Leela Life Method, a structured approach rooted in Indic knowledge that helps modern lives hold both success and joy. His session introduces Live on Land through the lenses of The Sun and Natural Supplements, exploring how nature functions not as background, but as a regulating intelligence in daily life, shaping rhythm, vitality, and the body’s relationship with support.
Dr. Shubhankar Kulkarni brings a fresh perspective to a lineage of deep Ayurvedic practice, shaped by the same tradition through which Dr. Sanjay Kulkarni has spent over 35 years observing how alignment with natural rhythms, especially the sun’s cycle, supports genuine physiological resilience. Dr. Sanjay has also served as an Ayurvedic consultant to His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, reflecting the depth and continuity of this lineage. With a deep personal interest in health & wellbeing, Dr. Shubhankar brings this wisdom forward in a more contemporary form, and will lead this session on The Sun.
Vaidya Irfan Poilan is a fifth-generation Ayurvedic doctor with a keen interest in herbalism and holistic medicine. He focuses on modifying the practitioner's lifestyle with therapeutic foods and herbs to aid in resilience and immunity building. Irfan has completed his master's degree in Medicine, specializing in Pharmacognosy, and has presented papers at international and national seminars. He has conducted over 1,000 training sessions both online and offline and has created many training programs for self-care and health management, aesthetic science in Ayurveda, and short-term therapy and herbalism workshops. He believes in the importance of art, spirituality, and science in life.
Beth Giersch is an executive operator and strategist with over 20 years of experience in fitness, wellness, and personal growth. She has led transformative initiatives at Equinox and WeightWatchers and now guides Circle & Path as host, creating an environment of warm connection and collective reflection.
Arrive, breathe, and gently loosen from the speed of the week.
An orientation to Live on Land as a way of restoring relationship with the natural world, introducing the premise that the sun, the earth, and natural substances are part of how the body finds rhythm, grounding, and support.
A short break to reset attention and prepare for the first specialist session.
An exposure to the sun as a daily source of vitality and orientation, opening the premise that direct relationship with light helps the body return to clarity, steadiness, and natural rhythm.
A short reflection to help participants connect the exposure back to daily life, translating the session into lived relevance.
A short break and transition into the second specialist session.
A guided exposure to natural supplements as concentrated expressions of nature’s intelligence, offering a more grounded understanding of how they support balance and strength when approached with care.
A short reflection to help participants make sense of the session in the context of their own life and daily rhythms.
Reflection, clarification, and shared sense-making to identify one opening to carry into the month ahead.
This February’s Circle & Path is a paid gathering. The contribution of $100 includes:
This contribution is a gesture of respect for the time and presence of our specialists and guides, and helps sustain this shared rhythm of reflection, learning, and living well.