You’ve spent years studying and practicing but that sense of inner peace still seems to come and go with your mood or circumstances.
You feel an intuitive pull toward a path where joy is less about managing conditions and more about discovering what’s already here.
Every now and then you touch into a sense that this moment is more than enough, but you don’t know how to access it in a reliable way.
You've been on this path for a while. You practice. You study. You've sat with teachers, gone on retreat, and dedicated serious time to your spiritual growth.
But still, experiencing joy- quiet, consistent contentment -feels conditional, like it depends on things being a certain way. When practice is steady and life is going well, it's there. When life gets hard and old patterns are playing out, it seems to disappear entirely.
And when that happens, the natural conclusion is that you need to practice more. Study more. Work on your unhealed wounds.
But the Recognition Sūtras point in a different direction.
According to the Pratyabhijñā tradition, joy isn't the result of practice, study or even healing your deepest inner wounds. It is the very nature of Consciousness itself — already present, independent of circumstances.
Which means the issue isn't that you haven't done enough.
It's that joy has been treated as something to cultivate and maintain, rather than something already here to be recognized.
This workshop is an introduction to that recognition.
Inside this workshop you'll...
- Learn a clear, accessible introduction to the Recognition teachings on joy — and why they point to a contentment that has nothing to do with your circumstances
- Discover a new way of understanding joy — not as something to chase or hold onto, but as something already woven into the nature of awareness itself
- Explore a direct embodied experience of that quiet background contentment — recognizable even in the middle of ordinary thoughts, emotions, and sensations
- How to use ordinary present-moment experience as a doorway into recognition — no peak states required
Included With Your Registration:
Your registration also includes lifetime access to the replay, a companion guide with key notes, highlights, and takeaways from the workshop to support your ongoing practice.
Thursday, June 18th
4pm PT, 7pm ET
Replay Included
This will be a LIVE virtual workshop. The link will be sent to you after registration.
Can't make it live? No problem - every registrant gets access to the replay.
Recognition: The Tantric Path of Joy
For those who sense that what they're looking for is already here.
Early bird Price: Just $27 until 6/11/26
Meet your teacher..
Hi, I'm Kara-Leah. The Recognition Sūtras have been a central companion in my practice. I’ve taken them one by one, lived with them, and taught from them, and in that process I’ve seen how incredibly practical they are for modern life when you actually work with them.
This text changed the way I relate to seeking, to difficulty, and to my own sense of “something missing.” I’m teaching this workshop to offer you a direct experience of that shift —so you can feel how this view might change things for you too.