The SRF Encinitas Temple offers services and activities throughout the week to help truth seekers absorb the timeless teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and deepen their spiritual practice. Activities at the Temple include:
- inspirational services
- meditation
- kirtan (devotional chanting)
- scriptural study services
- Sunday school and teen classes.
The Encinitas Temple’s auxiliary chapel is open for individual meditation Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Locations
MAIN TEMPLE
939 Second St.
Encinitas, CA 92024-4411
AUXILIARY J ST CHAPEL
1105 Second St.
Encinitas, CA 92024-4411
Contact
(760) 436-7220
encinitastemple.org
Paramahansa Yogananda established the Self-Realization Fellowship Encinitas Ashram Center in 1937. Located on the site is the Hermitage, where Paramahansaji lived for many years and wrote his Autobiography of a Yogi, now widely regarded as a modern spiritual classic. The rooms the Guru used are preserved as a shrine.
And there are cliffside meditation gardens, which are open to the public throughout the year and offer a diversity of colorful plants, meditation nooks, koi ponds, and ocean vistas — providing an inspirational setting where one can sit quietly and enjoy the expression of God’s beauty in nature.
The Hermitage, meditation gardens, and nearby Books & Gifts store are located on the Pacific Coast two blocks south of Encinitas Temple.
Books & Gifts offers all the Self-Realization Fellowship publications as well as distinctive arts and crafts from India.
Locations and Hours
MEDITATION GARDENS & HERMITAGE
215 W. K St.
Encinitas, CA 92024
Meditation Gardens Hours
Tuesday – Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Closed on Mondays and holidays
Hermitage Visits
Reservations are required to enter the Hermitage.
BOOKS & GIFTS
1150 South Coast Hwy. 101
Encinitas, CA 92024
(760) 753-5353
Hours
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed on Mondays and holidays
The Encinitas personal retreat program offers a quiet and spiritual environment where individuals can take the time to focus on deepening their spiritual practices of meditation, reflection, and study of Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings.
The retreat program offers:
Accommodations adjacent to the Encinitas Ashram Center grounds;
A rich program of inspirational monastic-led services, daily group meditations, and study groups at the SRF Encinitas Temple and J-Street Chapel;
Retreatant access to the Encinitas Hermitage and the beautiful, cliff-side meditation gardens.
For more information or reservations, please visit the Encinitas Temple website.
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