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.
SRF World Convocation
In-Person and Online
June 22 – 28, 2025
We are very pleased to announce that registration is now open for this year’s Self-Realization Fellowship World Convocation.
Join us — in Los Angeles or online — 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, 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 significant, 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
Hotel Rates and Reservations
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites and the Millennium Biltmore Hotel are offering reduced rates for those attending the 2025 SRF World Convocation in person.
Dive Deep Into Paramahansa Yogananda’s Teachings
Each year thousands of 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. This immersive program on the “how-to-live” teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda is offered both online and in person. We hope you can join us this year!
An Immersive Program of Meditations and Classes Offered Free of Charge
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 fellowship events)
- And more!
View sample events from the 2024 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.
Benefits 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 Monks and Nuns
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.
Join in an Ongoing Legacy of Inspiration
The first Self-Realization Fellowship 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
2025 SRF World Convocation Registration
Registration for the 2025 World Convocation will open in spring of 2025. To get notified when registration opens, please subscribe to our email newsletter.
Content From Past Online Convocations
Check out our Convocation playlists on YouTube, which present many classes, kirtans,
and daily meditations from the events.
