Stories from the village

It explains how Neos translates its Vision and 5 New Earth Ways into concrete Practices, describing the three interconnected dimensions of transformation — Self, Relational, and Environmental — and the twelve categories within them that shape retreats, courses, and daily life at the Center.

It introduces Halo, Neos's monthly open day and community weekend, where friends, neighbours, and future collaborators are invited to experience neos·life, enjoy an alfresco family meal, take nature walks, join free-flow sessions, and gather around the fire for live music.

It explores the relational and inner-work dimension of building Neos, introducing the five New Earth Ways cultural principles, and shares updates on upcoming retreats/trainings and the emerging food forest gardens on the land.

Retreats and experiences at Neos weave together all twelve categories across the Self, Relational, and Environmental dimensions rather than focusing on just one aspect like spirituality or permaculture, offering practices in holistic health, relational dynamics, food systems, and more.

At Halo you can relax at your own pace, share a family-style meal, take a nature walk, join free-flow sessions like movement classes, tea ceremonies or talks on regeneration, and unwind in the evening with live music and fire—all while connecting deeply with the Neos community.

The Awaken: Neos Experience Retreat explores the five New Earth Ways principles—Consciousness, Sacredness, Embodiment, Balance, and Creation—through self-enquiry and supportive practices, offering a path toward wholeness and joy; only a few places are left for the upcoming session.

Neos serves tasty, nourishing, seasonal food including home-made ferments, organic greens, quality proteins, foraged herbs, and local produce, and advocates intermittent fasting (an 18-hour window) as a recommended, non-obligatory practice for cellular healing through autophagy.

Neos practices disarming tension through actions of peace such as loving silence and space, working from the understanding that the outer world reflects one's inner landscape, encouraging people to focus on themselves rather than take things personally in conflict.

You can register interest for Halo weekends and book your spot as a day visitor for the family al-fresco meal or as a weekend guest for a full stay, via the registration and booking links on the page.

This issue does not mention Skai; it focuses solely on the Halo monthly community weekend event.

The April 18-19th weekend covers connective communication skills such as distinguishing observations from evaluations, identifying real feelings vs. thoughts disguised as feelings, understanding needs/strategies/requests, self-empathy, and speaking authentic truth while balancing transparency and care.

The vegetable garden is thriving, and plans are underway for a sensorial meditation fruit garden with species like goji berry, apricot, mango and passionfruit, plus a river-side edible forest starting with willow and poplar cuttings gifted by a syntropic farming friend.

Rather than a bloody revolution, Neos believes in creating a peaceful, parallel system — its own economy, community, food, energy, environment, and school — that makes the old paradigm obsolete, inspired by Buckminster Fuller's philosophy of building new models.

The issue invites investors, builders, social media experts, videographers, regeneration experts, teachers, hospitality and retreat organizers to reply to the email, fill out a form, call, or join their private community.

At its core, neos·life is described as a peaceful revolution — a quantum shift toward a new way of being, not just a village, community, or ecosystem project.

It suggests that a coming 'next Covid' could be a food shortage, so growing your own food is presented as an important form of self-sufficiency and resilience.