Discover the Spirit of Christmas Through Meditation

The Chicago Center of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) invites the community to embrace the spirit of the season with yoga meditation. Weekly sessions are held every Sunday at 9:30 a.m., culminating in a special all-day Christmas meditation from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m., December 14. Participants are encouraged to join for as long as they feel comfortable.

“At Christmastime, there are strong vibrations of Christ consciousness in the air,” said Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the key pioneers of yoga in the West and the founder of SRF, an international spiritual organization with a thriving meditation center in River Forest. “Those who are attuned by their devotion and by deep, scientific meditation will receive the divine vibrations. It is of the utmost spiritual importance to every man, whatever his religion, that he experience within himself this ‘birth’ of the universal Christ.”

SRF participates in an all-day Christmas meditation every year since Yogananda first introduced the tradition in 1931. Yogananda referenced the occasion in his classic book Autobiography of a Yogi, in which he illustrated the underlying unity between original yoga and original Christianity.