Swami's, Surfing spot in Encinitas, California, US.

Swami's is a surfing spot in Encinitas, California, where a right-hand point break forms over a reef near steep coastal cliffs. Waves consistently break in a predictable pattern due to the underwater rock formation, making it accessible to surfers of different skill levels.

In 1920 Paramahansa Yogananda founded the Self-Realization Fellowship, and its ashram and hermitage, built in 1937, overlook the reef point and gave the break its nickname. Surfers' unofficial name for the point break was later adopted officially, and the cliff-top park, once called Seacliff Roadside Park, took the same name.

The name comes from Swami Paramahansa Yogananda, whose Self-Realization Fellowship ashram, built in 1937, stands on the bluff above the reef. Yogananda arrived from India in 1920 as a delegate to an international congress of religions and founded the Fellowship that year. The cliff-top meditation garden, with ponds, koi and small waterfalls, runs to the beach cliffs.

The beach offers basic facilities including restrooms, drinking water, benches, and parking for visitors. Lifeguards are posted during summer months to monitor water safety.

Swami's Reef is a State Marine Conservation Area covering 12.71 square miles, the largest marine protected area in San Diego County. At low tide its rocky tidepools hold sea stars, urchins, anemones and octopus, and the level rocks expose fossils nearly 45 million years old.