Self-Realization Fellowship to Host World Convocation
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Self-Realization Fellowship’s annual World Convocation will take place August 2 to 8 online and in person at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, in Los Angeles. The free gathering welcomes spiritual seekers from around the world for an immersive experience in the yoga meditation teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF).
Led by SRF monks and nuns, the World Convocation offers daily guided meditations, kirtan, inspirational talks on spiritual living and opportunities for meaningful connection. Topics include The Art of Joyful Living: Yoga’s Path to Happiness, Becoming an Instrument of Divine Love and Inner Security Through Divine Connection. Satsangs (gatherings for questions and answers regarding spiritual truths) are also offered.
Yogananda established the annual Convocation in 1950 to help aspiring yogis more deeply focus on what he considered the purpose of life: “… to bring out the buried soul immortality within us,” says Yogananda.
Yogananda arrived in America in 1920 from India as a delegate to the International Congress of Religious Liberals, in Boston, where he delivered a speech on the science of religion. He founded the Self-Realization Fellowship that same year to share his Kriya Yoga teachings, which continue to inspire people to live with greater peace, joy and purpose. In-person attendees also may tour the temples and meditation gardens Yogananda established throughout the area.
Location: 404 S. Figueroa St. For more information, visit Convocation.Yogananda.org.
