Costa Rica 2024-Angels & Miracles by Andy

Karena Virginia (third from left, bottom row), Andy (second from right, back row)

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I recently returned from a  one-week Kundalini yoga retreat with Karena Virginia in Costa Rica.

The last retreat “Attracting Miracles” I did with her in August 2023 was only three days. Those three days had an enormous impact on me, and yes, a miracle happened: I'd been in severe pain in my arm for months. Compressed disc and pinched nerve. I was scheduled for an epidural when I returned home. I woke up the morning after the retreat and the pain was gone!

Miracle?

The Costa Rica retreat was a weeklong, and the theme was “From Fear to Flow To Miracles.” After my last experience, I anticipated great things and I wasn't disappointed.

We were a small intimate group, only 13 people. Spending a week with people who offer unconditional love and support filled my heart with joy. I met people who will be my friends forever.

I met my soulmate there. We shared our stories of addiction and recovery, and they were identical! Different in some ways, but we both went down the same path of darkness, and we both found the light. We are both doing well and now have each other to talk to when things get tough.  I am blessed to have this friendship. Help from the angels? Miracle?

Something happened on the second day. Karena was staying in a bungalow about a mile from the main hotel. As she was walking to the hotel, a car pulled up and the woman driving asked Karena if she wanted a ride. She got in the car and looked at the driver and realized it was Deva Premal, a very famous spiritual musician. I love her songs! 

Did an Angel send her?  

As the week went on, we all got to know each other and quickly bonded. There was a woman, Debbie, not her real name, who has stage 4 terminal ovarian cancer. The week before she came she had surgery to remove a blood clot in her lungs. Her doctors advised her not to fly. She came with her three grown daughters who had to drain her lungs daily.

She had trouble breathing and could only speak one or two words without having to pause and take a few breaths. One day she decided she needed to go to the beach. The beach was down a steep hill. I didn’t even go fearing the walk back up. My asthma was my concern.

Debbie went anyway. We all were worried about how she would get up the hill. The hotel could not send a golf cart. She made it down ok. When she was ready to go back up the hill, out of nowhere a man showed up on a horse and gave her a ride back to the main hotel.

Angels? Miracles? I believe both.

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On Friday morning Debbie came to the breakfast table where we were all enjoying our meal. She announced that she woke up at 4 am and felt something shift. She could breathe and she felt life in her body!

Miracle? Absolutely.
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All of us were in tears and were so happy for her! It was a moment that I will never forget.

We had a closing ceremony that afternoon, and there was so much love and joy. We hugged, we cried, but mostly all of us came away with a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Karena is having a similar retreat at Omega in New York in September for a week. I cannot wait to go, I already signed up.

Yes, I believe in Angels, yes, I believe in miracles.

I saw both.

Who are your angels? What are your miracles?