Experience Joy Through Yoga Meditation

The Chicago Center of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), in River Forest, invites all to participate in weekly yoga meditation sessions held at 9:30 a.m. every Sunday.

Rooted in ancient Indian spiritual traditions, yoga meditation offers more than physical exercise. “Yoga meditation is the process of cultivating and stabilizing the awareness of one’s real nature through definite spiritual and psychophysical methods and laws by which the narrow ego, the flawed hereditary human consciousness, is displaced by the consciousness of the soul,” said Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of SRF.

According to Vedic philosophy, our innate nature as souls is joy, forgotten through our identification with ego and the material world, but directly experienced again through deep meditation.                                                 

Yogananda first brought his Kriya Yoga teachings to Chicago in 1925 during a month-long series of classes at the historic Morrison Hotel, focusing on themes like living fearlessly and achieving spiritual balance. Today, the Chicago Center of SRF continues his legacy as part of a global spiritual community.

Location: 946 N. Harlem Ave., River Forest. For more information, visit ChicagoMeditationCenter.org To explore Yogananda’s teachings, visit SRFLessons.org.