Develop calmness you can bring into daily life
November 6–8, 2026 · San Diego, CA
When your days are full and your mind keeps going, it can be difficult to feel settled—even when you have time to rest.
Babaji’s Kriya Yoga offers practical breathing, meditation, and physical practices to help you cultivate calmness, develop concentration, and become more aware of your habitual reactions. With regular practice, that calmness can deepen into stillness and a clearer awareness of yourself.
During this weekend, you’ll learn the techniques step by step, with time to practice and ask questions. You’ll leave with a clear structure for practicing at home and continued guidance from Dharmadas.
A path to action with awareness, self-transformation, self-empowerment, and Self-realization
- Support your physical health, mental clarity, and emotional well-being.
- Learn to consciously create your life by acting with awareness.
- Clarify your intentions and bring your actions into alignment with them.
- Recognize and transform habitual patterns that limit you.
- Deepen your experience of inner peace and your connection with your true Self.
- Deepen your existing spiritual or religious practice.
- Become more aware of the divine presence within you.
- Discover the wisdom within you through your own direct experience.
You’ll Receive
Six phases of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama
Learn a progressive breathing practice that works with the breath and life energy. In the Siddha tradition, this practice awakens the energy centers and your latent potential, supporting greater vitality, inner balance, and deeper awareness.
Seven meditation techniques
Learn a progressive series of meditations to develop concentration, mental clarity, intuition, and creativity. These practices help you recognize habitual patterns, quiet mental activity, and deepen your connection with your true Self.
Eighteen Hatha Yoga postures
Learn a sequence of eighteen postures that cultivates flexibility, physical ease, and deep relaxation. Practiced with awareness, these postures help release tension and prepare the body and mind for breathing practices and meditation.
A clear structure for your practice
You will receive a complete system with a practical daily and weekly practice schedule. Learn how to bring the techniques together, building consistency and structure in your practice to support your goals.
Ongoing support
You can message Dharmadas with questions as you practice at home. Ongoing guidance is available to help you work through difficulties with the techniques and develop a consistent practice. You are also welcome to join guided practice sessions on Zoom six days a week at no cost.
Babaji’s Kriya Yoga can complement your existing spiritual or religious practice. Its benefits are open to everyone, regardless of age, sex, cultural background, or previous experience.
During initiation, you’ll receive personal instruction from a teacher trained and authorized in the lineage, with space to begin or deepen your own experience of the practices. The techniques are taught in person for your personal practice. Through regular practice, you can gradually discover their deeper effects on your awareness and the way you experience daily life.
“The Goal of life is happiness, peace, love, enlightenment – The desire for perfection comes forth from the Self, the image of God, which seeks to express itself through all humanity”
-Yogi Ramaiah
The Program
Venue
Graffiti Gardens · 6785 Imperial Ave, San Diego, CA 92114
Schedule
Friday · November 6
7:00–8:30 p.m.
Saturday · November 7
8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Sunday · November 8
8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
All times are local to San Diego.
Suggested Contribution
$300
If you’ve attended this initiation before, contact Dharmadas about the reduced contribution.
Registration
Please register in advance by completing the online enrollment form and contacting Dharmadas by email or text.
Already enrolled? Pay your deposit
If you have questions about the weekend or would like to discuss whether it’s right for you, you’re welcome to get in touch.
Dharmadas (Dan Streeby)
Text: (208) 571-5105
Email: kyboise9@gmail.com
Please plan to attend the full weekend. Program details are subject to change.
Information
TESTIMONIALS
“I feel calmer, more focused, and more at peace within myself. I’ve learned to approach life with a better perspective and greater clarity, and I’m slowly discovering a beautiful sense of inner silence.” — Sindhu
“Life is increasingly becoming more peaceful, calm, harmonious and stable even in the midst of periodic challenges, obstacles or strife. Dharmadas teaches with clear and consistent guidance, grace and equanimity.” — Ernie Pavan, Toronto, Canada
“He guided me step by step through the asanas, pranayamas, and dhyanas, while also explaining how to approach the practice, how to integrate it into daily life, and what I might expect as I continue along this path.” — Prahitya Mahavir
“Dharmadas taught in an incremental way that was easy to absorb and let us practice each step before moving on. The classes offered wonderful explanations of each practice, along with context and motivation. I’m looking forward to practicing more and am incredibly grateful for his continued support!” — J
“One can only learn to appreciate its tremendous value if one practices it daily. That’s why coming to the Kriya Zoom Satsang led by Acharya Dharmadas is so helpful. His daily practice session is consistent, easy to follow, and very enjoyable.” — Melanie
“If you feel drawn, know that you will find a safe landing in the arms of grace. Dharmadas will show you, not just tell you—he embodies what he teaches.” — Stephen Annest, LCSW
Your Contribution
Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas strives to make initiation available to anyone with a sincere interest, worldwide.
Traditionally, initiation (diksha) itself is offered without charge. The suggested contribution helps cover the costs of organizing and offering the weekend, allowing the program to remain independent of outside sponsorship.
Suggested Reading
Kriya Yoga: Insights along the Path
By M. Govindan and J. Ahlund
Explore why we practice Kriya Yoga and the possibilities it offers for personal and spiritual growth.
Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition
By M. Govindan
Learn about Babaji, the Siddha lineage, and the practices of this tradition.
Kriya Yoga
Kriya Yoga is a holy, scientific art of inner alchemy for "God, Truth union", and for Self-realization. It was revived for today’s humanity by the perfected master and spiritual world teacher, Kriya Babaji Nagaraj. Kriya Yoga is now taught through various branches of his disciples.
It is a practical distillation of Siddhanta, a synthesis of the ancient teachings of the Siddhas—the perfected yogic masters of south India. These teachings are represented by Siddha Tirumular’s Tirumandiram, Siddha Boganathar’s yoga of inner alchemy, and Siddha Patanjali’s famous Yoga Sutras, and are reflected in the 18 Siddha tradition of southern India.
The Teacher
Dharmadas (Dan Streeby) teaches Babaji’s Kriya Yoga with patience, clear explanations, and time for students to practice and ask questions. He helps you understand the techniques, bring them into daily life, and develop a consistent personal practice. His guidance continues after the weekend as questions arise and your practice deepens.
He has practiced Babaji’s Kriya Yoga since 2013 and has served as an Acharya in Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas since 2019. His teaching draws on his own experience of greater ease, joy, and connection through regular practice.
Dharmadas lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife, Allison, and their four children. He has worked as a pediatric dentist since 1999.
The Teaching
Receive clear instruction and practical training in yogic techniques, called Kriyas, to awaken, circulate, and strengthen your life energy. These practices help purify and strengthen the body, mind, and intellect, enhance awareness, and unfold your inner potential.
Learn to recognize and release the habitual patterns associated with karma, discover your dharma—your purpose and right action—and bring greater awareness and intention into your life. Through regular practice, you become more receptive to the expression of Divine Consciousness within you.
Discover your own direct experience as a source of wisdom, knowledge, and self-empowerment. The practices are meant to be brought into daily life, so that awareness gradually informs how you act, work, and relate to others.
During this first initiation, you’ll learn Kriya Kundalini Pranayama in six phases, seven meditation techniques, and eighteen physical postures. A sacred ceremony includes an invocation mantra to connect with the grace of Kriya Babaji and your own Inner Guru.
The Lineage
Babaji’s Kriya Yoga is rooted in the teachings of Babaji and the 18 Siddhas of southern India. These teachers approached yoga as a complete path of transformation, encompassing the body, breath, mind, and spiritual life.
Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas was founded by M. Govindan Satchidananda, inspired by Babaji and his teacher, Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah. Its authorized teachers pass on the practices through personal instruction in three progressive levels of initiation.
This weekend introduces the first level and provides a foundation for regular practice at home. Further initiations offer additional practices and opportunities to deepen your experience.
By completing all three levels, you can learn the full system of 144 Kriyas and how to bring them together in a balanced practice that supports the body, life energy, mind, intellect, and spiritual development. Each level builds on the practice and experience developed in the previous one.
Students are welcome to repeat an initiation to clarify their understanding and renew their practice.