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    Convocation 2024

    2024 SRF World Convocation
    Online and In-Person

    July 14 – 20

    We are very pleased to announce that registration is now open for this year’s Self-Realization Fellowship World Convocation.

    Join us — online or in person at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles — for this weeklong program of classes on Paramahansa Yogananda’s “how-to-live” teachings and meditation techniques, guided group meditations and kirtans (devotional chanting), pilgrimage tours to the ashrams where the great Guru lived and communed with the Divine, and more. During the week of Convocation, SRF monastics will also be visiting SRF centers and groups in Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America, and South America.

    Convocation offered free of charge — donations welcome!

    We will be offering attendance at this year’s Convocation free of charge to ensure that all who wish to participate can do so.

    While the costs associated with hosting Convocation are not insignificant, we are confident that, through the generosity of those SRF members and friends who are able to help, there will be sufficient support to make this possible. We welcome and are deeply grateful for all donations, which can be made at the time of registration and during the event.

    Hotel Reservations

    Several hotels in Downtown Los Angeles are offering reduced rates for those attending the 2024 SRF Convocation.

    Learn more about Convocation hotel reservations

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    What You Will Experience

    What You Will Experience at Convocation

    Each year thousands of SRF/YSS members and spiritual seekers from countries around the world, ranging from Australia to Zambia, gather for a powerful week of spiritual renewal and rejuvenation at Self-Realization Fellowship's World Convocation. We hope that you can join us this year.

    A Full Program of Meditations and Classes on Paramahansa Yogananda's Teachings

    For all who attend — in person or online — the SRF World Convocation will include:

    • A satsanga with SRF/YSS President Brother Chidananda
    • Classes on the “How-to-Live” teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda
    • Classes on the SRF meditation techniques, open to all current and graduate students of the SRF Lessons as well as to those who enroll in the Lessons anytime before or during Convocation
    • Group meditations and kirtans (devotional chanting)
    • Special video presentations
    • Pilgrimage tours to SRF locations made sacred by the Guru (including virtual pilgrimage tours for online participants)
    • Opportunities to meet and get to know SRF monastics and other Convocation attendees in a spirit of divine friendship (online participants can join virtual fellowships)
    • And more!

    View sample events from the 2023 Convocation...

    Access Classes on the SRF Techniques

    Become a Student of the SRF Lessons

    The SRF World Convocation is open to all. However, the three classes on the SRF Energization Exercises, Hong-Sau Technique of Concentration, and the Aum Technique of Meditation are available only to those who are current or past students of the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons (or the Yogoda Satsanga Lessons).

    If you are not a current or past student, we invite you to apply now for the SRF Lessons so that you may participate in the classes on these powerful techniques, which are integral to the science of Kriya Yoga taught by Paramahansa Yogananda.

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    Benefits of Convocation

    Sense of Community

    Join others — from all around the world — as we come together to dive deep into Paramahansa Yogananda’s life-transforming teachings and the tangible feeling of Divine Presence — blessings that are the hallmark of Convocation.

    Group Meditations

    Strengthen your ability to meditate more deeply by joining with thousands of seekers as SRF monastics lead all gathered in practicing this universal science of the soul.

    Inspiration From SRF Monastics

    Our monks and nuns will offer talks on Paramahansa Yogananda’s Kriya Yoga teachings, giving his helpful counsel on how to navigate life’s challenges, as they share their own heartwarming anecdotes about journeying on the spiritual path.

    Program Offered Free of Charge

    We are pleased to share that we will again be offering attendance at this year’s Convocation free of charge to ensure that all who wish to participate can do so.

    While the costs associated with hosting Convocation are not insignificant, we are confident that, through the generosity of those SRF members and friends who are able to help, there will be sufficient support to make this possible. We welcome and are deeply grateful for all donations.

    If you would like to make a gift in support of Convocation and the other spiritual and humanitarian services offered by Self-Realization Fellowship, please use the link below. You also will have the opportunity to donate at registration and during the event.

    Join in an Ongoing Legacy of Inspiration

    The first Self-Realization Fellowship World Convocation was held by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1950 at the SRF headquarters (Mother Center) atop Mt. Washington in Los Angeles. Foreseeing the ever-increasing number of truth-seekers who would participate in this uplifting spiritual event as the years passed, he predicted to those who were present at that occasion:

    They shall come from all parts of the world, thousands and thousands of them, just as you have, for Self-Realization is bringing the original Christianity of Christ and the original Yoga of India's Krishna so that all people of all religions can follow one highway to the Infinite.

    Paramahansa Yogananda

    Registration Coming This Spring

    Registration for the 2024 World Convocation will open in the spring. To get notified when registration opens, please subscribe to our email newsletter.

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    Past Online Convocations Still Available

    Content From Past Online Convocations

    Check out our Convocation playlists on YouTube, which present many classes, kirtans, and daily meditations from the events.

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