You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Present
10 december 2025 

You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Present

The Wisdom in Quietness

Not every teaching needs to be loud.

Some of the most powerful insights arrive not through techniques, systems, or frameworksbut through the soft presence of someone who has lived the questions deeply.

In Episode 6 of our July Kundalini Yoga Summit, Sandesh sits down with Siri Sadhana, a long-time practitioner, guide, and teacher. What unfolds is not a conversation about goals or transformations  but about what happens when we stop trying to fix ourselves and simply allow life to move through us.

This episode is not about doing more.  It’s about being with what is.


Your inner teacher is always whispering. But it only speaks when you’re listening.

Early in the conversation, Siri Sadhana offers a gentle but piercing reminder: that healing is not something to be achieved it’s something we allow.

She speaks with disarming honesty about how easily we turn even healing into performance — trying to “do it right,” meet expectations, or push ourselves into feeling better.

“So many of us try to prove our presence,
 rather than simply 
return to it.”

There’s a quiet invitation in her words, to trust that your body already knows. That your soul is always speaking.
 And that you don’t need to be perfect to hear it.



A Teaching in Three Movements

Though unstructured in form, Siri Sadhana’s guidance gently unfolds in three subtle movements each one drawing us closer to that deep place within.

1. Letting Go of Performance

She begins by speaking about the cultural tendency to perform wellness  to treat yoga, meditation, and even self-care as another item on a list.

Instead, she invites us to ask:

“Can I be here without effort?”

This isn’t about abandoning discipline.
 It’s about removing the tightness, the grip, the idea that we're always “not quite there yet.”
 Sometimes, letting go 
is the practice.

2. Returning to Stillness

Stillness, in Siri Sadhana’s view, is not passive  it’s attentive.

She encourages us to slow down and allow the wisdom of the body to surface.

She describes how the breath, the mantras, and the gentle movement of Kundalini Yoga are not tools to “achieve” peace, but to reveal what is already steady beneath the surface noise.

“Presence isn’t something you earn.
 It’s something you remember.”

3. Staying with the Body

There is deep tenderness in how Siri Sadhana speaks about the body  not as a project to be fixed or reshaped, but as a wise, living guide.

She says:

“The body carries everything  your joy, your fear, your truth.
 It doesn’t lie. If you slow down, it will tell you exactly what it needs.”

She reminds us that the return to embodiment isn’t always comfortable  but it is real. And in that reality, healing becomes possible, not as an event, but as a rhythm.


A Session to Feel, Not Just Watch

If you're in a season of pressure…
 If your inner voice has gone quiet…
 Or if you're simply tired of the chase…

This episode is for you.

There are no loud takeaways. No three-step methods.
 Just a steady voice reminding you that 
your presence is already enough  and that there is strength in slowing down.

🎧 Click here to watch Episode 6 with Siri Sadhana

We encourage you not to multitask through this one.
 Make tea.
 Put your phone away.
 Sit with it.
 Let her voice land gently, like a pray

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