Subject: May 2016 & Center Visit Update

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May 2016 Events
Plus Center Visit Update


Swami Sri Yukteswar

Human life is beset with sorrow until we know how to tune in with the Divine Will, whose 'right course' is often baffling to the egoistic intelligence.
Swami Sri Yukteswar  in    
Autobiography of a Yogi     
Sri Yukteswar Birthday Commemoration Service
Tuesday, May 10th, at 8:00 pm

We will hold a Birthday Commemoration Service for Sri Yukteswar on Tuesday May 10th, at 8:00 pm. Please bring a flower and a devotional offering for our paramguru. Remember to save the scent of the flower as an offering for the master being honored.

Doors will be open at 7:30 pm. Please join us for this sacred ceremony.
Day of Service

We will be holding a Day of Service to get the Chapel and India Hall sparkling for the monastic visit after services on Sunday, May 22nd, at 12:00 pm.

Pizza and drinks will be served. Everyone is invited to stay and have some "fellowship and fun" as we do some deep detail cleaning to get our facility ready for the monastic visit the following weekend.
May Center Department Monastic Visit in DFW

The DFW Meditation Group will be having a Center Department Visit the weekend of May 27th-30th, 2016. Everyone is invited to all events including a workshop on Saturday that will focus on group activities. The two Brahmacharis that are visiting us are Br. Wolfgang and Br. Lynn. They will arrive on Thursday, May 26 and activities will begin on Friday, May 27th. 

Please join us for this weekend of fellowship with inspirational services, socials, and a workshop.
The monastics will be giving our Sunday services on Sunday, May 29th.

*Please note updated information*

Friday Event #1
Outing at the Fort Worth Botanic and Japanese Gardens has earlier start time of 10:00am through 1:00pm.

After this event participants are invited to Krishna Polasani's home for a vegetarian lunch. Krishna's address will be provided before the outing. The location is near Union Church Road and Davis Blvd, Keller, TX. You can also contact Jack Welch at coordinator@srfdallasfortworth.org for directions and to place yourself on our signup sheet to better plan for food preparation. Thank you for you help.

October SRF Regional Youth Retreats in North Texas

Our DFW area will be honored to host a boy’s and girl’s Youth Retreat at the home of Ms. Lynn Meyer at Lake Texoma. This beautiful setting has captured the attention and interest of Mother Center and has been the site of the DFW group's Spring and Fall retreats for many years. We have a map to the location on our website.

The dates for these one day SRF Youth Retreats are:

Girls: Saturday, October, 8th, Youth and Teen Day, given by SRF Nuns

Boys: Saturday, October 15th,Youth and Teen Day, given by SRF Monks.

The links on the SRF Teen Programs page will be active in the near future for more information and registration. Contact information for Youth Services is also available here.

~~Our DFW group will host the monastics from one of the Saturday Youth and Teen Day Retreats for our Sunday services.

SRF Youth Programs in California

The dates for this year's SRF How-to-Live Youth Summer Day Programs
in Encinitas are:

Girls: June 27th to July 1st           Boys: July 4th to 8th

We have flyers in the Front Room describing the program and you can visit yogananda-srf.org for complete information and registration. 
Dallas Fort Worth Meditation Group Services

Please join us for our services at any of these times:

Wednesday evening meditation service at 7:00-8:00 pm

Saturday morning 3 hour meditation service starting at 9:00-12:00 pm

Sunday morning meditation service at 10:00-10:45 am
Sunday morning Reading Service at 11:00-12:00 am

Sunday School for children 5 to 13 from 11:00am-12:00pm on Sundays.

More information about our services is on the DFW Meditation Group Website.

As the official branch of SRF in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, our meditation group has been meeting continuously since 1972. Our History.

For those who are new to Self-Realization Fellowship

Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) has more than 500 temples, retreats, ashrams and meditation centers around the world offering all interested seekers the opportunity to come together to experience the power of group meditations.
Additional information about meditation with videos and the world wide work of SRF can be found on the international web site; Self-Realization Fellowship
Dallas-Fort Worth Meditation Group of Self-Realization Fellowship

Dallas-Fort Worth Meditation Group, 2011 N. Britain Rd., Irving, Texas 75061, United States
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