Stories from the village

This is the main neos·life site overview, introducing the village, farm, wellbeing offerings, and transformational retreats being built in Alentejo, Portugal. It covers ways to visit, transform, or live at neos, along with its guiding philosophy.

It's an invitation to visit Neos in 2026, describing the regenerative wellbeing sanctuary set on 1000 acres of Alentejo nature, 75 minutes from Lisbon's airport, and the different ways to experience it.

This issue introduces the 'Living' vision for Neos Village — a plan to reinvent how residents live well by combining nature, comfort, wellbeing amenities and community, without sacrificing modern conveniences. It covers lot pricing, founding member benefits, key village features, and how to apply.

It introduces neos center, the heart of the neos·life ecosystem, describing its location, philosophy, the five New Earth Ways, and its future vision including a ceremonial dome and wellbeing development plan.

It's an overview of the Self Mastery Level One program, a 9-week online course plus a 6-day retreat at neos village focused on activating your 'blueprint' - your innate authentic self - through coaching, energy clearing, ceremony and cacao initiations.

This issue is a biography of Karen Aiyana Birch, co-founder of neos·life, detailing her career journey from clinical addiction therapy and grief counselling to energy medicine, meditation facilitation, and eventually co-founding neos·life and its educational platform, neos·academy.

This issue introduces Neos' 'SHE' Gatherings—a series of women's retreats and events (Temple of Roses, White Lotus, and SHE Gathering) focused on sisterhood, sacred feminine energy, and healing. It also mentions that the neos·center venue can be booked for weddings, festivals, conferences, and large gatherings.

It's an announcement for Temple of Roses, a Ceremonial Day Retreat for women held in the Algarve, Portugal, hosted by Conscious Katalyst. The retreat offers sound healing, ecstatic dance, drumming, cacao, fire ceremony, rewilding, and shamanic journeying to help women reconnect with feminine life energy.

It announces a Day Immersion with Zach Bush MD at Neos Center on August 10, 2025, featuring a transmission and Q&A, integrative meditation, sound healing, and devotional music, all centered on embodying the 'New Human' through community, land, and consciousness expansion.

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 Neos's Unified Coherence Academy, a 9-month professional coach and facilitator training program aimed at unifying and balancing all aspects of the self to create genuine coherence and alignment for coaches, mentors, and leaders.

It introduces the Yutori Artists Retreat, a 6-day gathering at Neos Center themed around the Japanese concept of yutori (spaciousness and ease), combining creative practice, slow living, tea and cacao ceremonies, and somatic work, with pricing offered as a 'pay what feels good' exchange.

It introduces the New Earth Leadership Program, a 9-month evolutionary journey with one weeklong retreat that helps participants grow across three dimensions—Self, Relational, and Environmental—through immersion weekends, vision circles, deep dives, and expert masterclasses.

It introduces AuraTransformation, a one-off energetic healing treatment offered at Neos that upgrades the old aura structure, mobilising life force, intuition, and purpose, and unites spirit with body.

It announces the Yutori Artists Residency, a 10-day slow-living retreat for artists at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal, from 20-29 November 2026. It centers on spaciousness, presence, and creative flow rather than a packed program, with participants expected to bring their own art materials and tools.

It introduces Self Mastery II, a yearlong program and lifelong community built around the 'Mastery Keys' — archetypal feminine and masculine aspects of the Source Self. It combines an initiation ceremony, a guidebook (the Mastery Keys Codex), monthly deep-dive sessions, gendered SHE/HE circles, community connection circles, and 1-3 in-person retreats.

This page describes the 1:1 healing treatments and sacred medicine ceremonies offered at neos·center, including shamanic healing, AuraTransformation, soul and akashic readings, and bodywork therapies within 1000 acres of nature in Alentejo, Portugal.

It announces 'S H E - Spring Rebirth Gathering', an online gathering for women hosted by Conscious Katalyst (UK), running from 24th May to 19th July, weekly on Wednesdays 6-7.30pm UK/WET, featuring 9 sacred containers with different women facilitators offering transmissions, embodiment practices and cacao ceremony.

It announces 'S H E Gathering' Winter Womb, an online gathering for women running from mid-November to early February, centered on igniting feminine wisdom and creativity through dream-weaving sessions, self-love rituals, monthly temples, and 'Inner Wild' ceremonies aligned with the Winter Solstice.

It introduces neos·center, the transformational retreat venue at the Neos village in Alentejo, Portugal, describing its programs, retreats, and training offerings, and inviting facilitators to book events there starting in 2026.

This issue introduces the two Self Mastery Programs at neos·center: Level I (Blueprint Activation, a 10-week program) and Level II (the Mastery Keys, a yearlong program), both designed for people already on a path of consciousness expansion. It explains the origins of the teachings and who facilitates them.

It announces the ComYunity Gathering at Neos Life on November 1st, a day festival (with an optional full weekend retreat) featuring shamanic breathwork, a 111 blueprint activation, voice transmission, cacao ceremony, ecstatic dance, and an open bonfire jam.

It introduces energy healing services offered at Neos, explaining how the health of one's energy field affects overall wellbeing, and describing the different sessions available: Energy Detox, AuraTransformation, and Balance Sessions.

It introduces the growing circle of facilitators at Neos, both for in-house signature programs and a trusted community of guest retreat facilitators and practitioners, and invites aligned practitioners to get in touch.

It's a personal reflection by Vincent on his journey from chasing conventional success to seeking spiritual truth, culminating in the realization that we are all expressions of one consciousness. This understanding is the driving force behind Neos, whose core purpose is to help people remember who they truly are and create heaven on earth.

Vincent shares a personal experience of being emotionally triggered and how it led him to reflect on inner work, self-love, and releasing conditioned trauma as the path from suffering to bliss. He connects this practice to the mission of Neos: creating Heaven on Earth by doing this healing work in community.

It explains the one true entry requirement for joining Neos: a willingness to do inner, shadow work and take full responsibility for one's inner life, rather than any personality type, wealth, or spiritual résumé. It frames Neos as a 'crucible for transformation' aimed at cultivating the 'New Human.'

It explains the deeper 'why' behind Neos: that humanity has forgotten its true nature of oneness, and that Neos exists to help people wake up from the dream of separation rather than simply to offer rest or an eco-village lifestyle. It frames inner transformation as the real answer to the world's crises.

It explores how Neos is moving beyond the old belief that technology alone can solve humanity's problems, arguing instead that a lack of consciousness—not a lack of tools—is the real issue. It introduces the idea of a 'Third Way' that unites science and spirituality, and announces Neos's first retreat and upcoming opening.

It explores power as the hidden energetic force behind social dynamics, framing healing as the reclamation of one's rightful power (life force, authenticity, sovereignty). It also explains how neos·life aims to cultivate a community of self-responsible, healing-oriented leaders rather than passive followers or power-seekers.

Vincent reflects on the concept of a life 'blueprint' or mission that we're born with rather than choose, and how neos·life's mission is to help people remember and align with theirs. He connects this to the idea of symbolic death of the ego as the path to true freedom and rebirth.

Karen and Vincent reflect on how the prolonged, challenging journey of acquiring the land has been a catalyst for their personal consciousness transformation, teaching them to move from a victim mindset to that of a creator by seeing the world as a reflection of their inner state.

Vincent responds to WhatsApp community conversations about fundraising, alignment, and the deeper vision behind neoslife — emphasizing that the project must be built from a new way of being rather than just look like another village, and inviting aligned investors and supporters to join.

It's a personal reflection on how love, not being right, is the core challenge and answer to all conflicts within the neoslife community, sparked by challenging experiences after a retreat.

It's a philosophical reflection urging readers to snap out of the illusion that the man-made world can bring lasting happiness, and to instead find nourishment through nature, presence, community, and connection to one's divine essence.

It explains the 'waking up' concept through the metaphor of never taking off a VR headset, describing how our body/mind is just an interface for the eternal awareness we truly are, and why realizing this reduces suffering and enables a life of higher purpose. It also ties this philosophy to neoslife's mission and mentions the land being acquired and an upcoming investor retreat.

It explores the balance between masculine and feminine energies as a core principle of the New Earth and a 4th principle of neos·life, noting that only balanced consciousness can create balanced systems and solutions.

It's an inspirational message urging readers not to ignore the inner calling or 'flame' in their heart, even if they feel stuck, unworthy, or too comfortable to seek change.

It explores the idea of 'human 2.0' — a person who has experienced that they are not their mind, identity or body but a fragment of a universal 'I' or consciousness, contrasted with 'human 1.0' (unconscious, mind-driven living) and 'human 1.5' (doing inner work but still suffering).

Vincent reflects on the purpose of life, arguing that we are eternal consciousness temporarily experiencing life through a body, and that chasing external things like money, business or status can never bring true fulfillment. He connects this reflection to the upcoming 'Awaken to Self' event, which is designed to help people experientially realize who they truly are.

Vincent explores humanity's crossroads between an unconscious path of ego, control and separation versus a conscious path of awakening, unity and harmony. He discusses how family trauma, lack of individuation and birth trauma keep us as reactive victims, and how shifting to full responsibility as empowered creators transforms both self and world.

Yes, neos·life is currently taking bookings for events, retreats, programs, and stays, including monthly 'HALO' Weekends, the New Earth Leadership program, and customizable Regenerative Escapes.

Yes, you can join the '4 Day Neos Experience', a monthly light retreat starting March 2026 for those curious to explore the village, alongside other retreats, events and programs listed on the center website.

Yes, the program culminates in a 6-day Blueprint-Embodied Leader Retreat held in the neos village, with an Autumn 2025 cohort starting August 21 (retreat October 18-23) and a Spring 2026 cohort starting February 19 (retreat April 18-23).

Yes, Neos is planning several women's retreats and gatherings in Portugal, including the 'Temple of Roses' four-day retreat, the 'White Lotus' weeklong retreat for Mastery Keys Community members, and the four-day 'SHE Gathering' event for all women. Details for each are still to be announced ("DETAILS SOON").

Yes, this Temple of Roses retreat runs monthly as a Ceremonial Day Program from 1:30-9pm, with dates available by contacting the organizers directly. There is also a specific retreat listed for January 11-15th with registration open.

Yes, the Day Immersion with Zach Bush runs August 10, 2025 from 1pm-7pm at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal, with an option to also stay for dinner and 1+ night in the Neos Sanctuary.

Yes, Neos hosts a variety of retreats throughout 2026, including the 'Awaken' Retreat (Sept 9-13), the Deep Healing & Activation Retreat (May 21-24), a Sound Energy Medicine Teacher Training (June 25-July 4), the Kula Yoga Retreat (Oct 22-26), and the Yutori Artists Residency (Nov 20-29), among others like the Awakening Retreat, Beauty Way Retreat, and Silent Retreat.

Yes, the Yutori Artists Retreat is a 6-day immersion in artistic exploration, slow living, and eastern-inspired somatic practices at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal. Dates are still to be confirmed, but you can register your interest now or go to the booking platform for accommodation details.

Yes, the Yutori Artists Residency runs 20-29 November 2026 at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal, with a maximum of 15 places. Early bird pricing (until end of July 2026) is 2170 for a shared room or 2950 for a private room, secured with a 50% deposit.

Yes, new cohorts start twice a year, in April and October, and the program includes 1 to 3 in-person Sacred Mastery Retreats you can attend to receive the ceremonial initiation into the Mastery Keys.

Yes, the Hozho Retreat runs May 15-21, 2026 at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal, a 6-day ritual immersion into nature and the divine inspired by Navajo/Dine 'Beauty Way' teachings. Registration is open via the retreat's booking platform.

Sacred medicine ceremonies are offered throughout the year with a highly gifted team, held in nature with experienced space holding, but specific dates are not listed—visitors are asked to enquire about future dates by contacting the team.

Yes, the Yutori Artists Residency runs 20-29 November 2026 at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal, with a maximum of 15 places. You can secure your spot with a 50% deposit now and pay the remaining balance by the end of July 2026.

Yes, the Awaken to Beauty retreat runs for one week with upcoming dates: Summer 2025 (June 15-20), Autumn 2025 (September 13-18), and Spring 2026 (March 14-20) at neos.village.

Yes, this issue promotes the 'S H E - Spring Rebirth Gathering', an online series for women beginning with the May New Moon and running through 9 weekly sessions leading into the Summer Solstice; you can register via the link provided.

Yes, Neos hosts several recurring retreats including The Awakening Retreat, Mastery 1: Blueprint Embodiment Retreat, Yutori Artists Retreat, The Beauty Way Retreat, Moksha Yogic Immersion, and (In)Fluxo, with various dates through 2025-2027. Each retreat has its own theme, from ceremonial awakening work to artist immersions and yogic transformation.

Yes, this issue promotes the S H E Winter Gathering, a 12-week online journey (Nov 16 - Feb 1) with 10 sessions of ritual, dream-weaving, and ceremony, accompanied by cacao medicine, that women can register for now.

Yes, neos·center hosts retreats, workshops, and programs focused on self-mastery, healing, and New Earth leadership, with community events opening in the village from Spring 2025.

Yes, the Ecstatic Autumn Ritual runs October 17-19, 2025 at Neos Center, Alentejo, Portugal, offered either as a Day Festival (Saturday Oct 18) or a full Weekend Retreat with 2 nights accommodation and meals. Early bird pricing starts from €39 for the day festival and €295 for the weekend retreat, with a separate day ticket required for retreat participants.

Yes, the ComYunity Gathering takes place on November 1, 2025 at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal, with tickets starting from 33 euros for early birds; spaces are limited so booking in advance is recommended.

Yes, the Neos Experience is a 4-night 'retreat lite' happening next on September 9-13, 2026, at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal. It offers an immersion into the community's culture, land, and practices, touching on the three dimensions of the Neos framework: Self, Relational, and Environmental.

Yes, the next Neos Experience is a light retreat running June 11-14, offering a chance to get to know the land, the team, and the project.

Yes, the next Neos Experience runs June 11–14, and the issue includes a link to book it.

Yes, readers are invited to join the Neos Experience from April 9-12, with a sign-up link provided in the newsletter.

Yes, there's a 4-day 'Neos Experience' lite retreat March 5-8 (only 12 spots left, early bird extended) and an (In) Fluxo movement immersion weekend with Micaela Stuart on March 20-22 over the Spring Equinox.

Yes—this week Neos is hosting its first retreat group of 25 people at Herdade Batepé, and later this month they will officially open the doors for others to come stay and experience the land and community being built.

Yes, in April neoslife is holding a world-first transformation experience for up to eight potential investors to experience the estate and the waking-up process firsthand.

Yes, Vincent invites readers to come to Portugal 'next weekend' to have what he describes as the most profound experience of understanding who you are, why you are here, and what you want.

Yes, the issue references the 'Awaken to Self' event happening at the end of the month, designed to help participants viscerally experience their true nature beyond the mind and body.

You can expect to become alive and whole in who you truly are, show up authentically and powerfully with others, align with your true purpose, and create a life you love that flows and is abundant for you - moving through themes like 'From Victim to Love,' 'From Perpetrator to Power,' and 'From Fear to Play.'

These women's retreats offer sacred, ceremonial practices like meditation, cacao ceremonies, dance, drumming, and heart-sharing by the fire, aimed at reclaiming feminine energy, healing, and sisterhood. The intention is regeneration, self-reflection, blissful nature connection, and reigniting an inner 'golden flame' among women.

Participants can deepen self-love, learn to trust the body's intelligence and energy field, embody balanced masculine and feminine energy, and break cycles of nervous system dysregulation and burnout. The retreat also offers the '12 Blueprint Codes' as a lifelong practice and tools for manifesting life through inner-artist creativity.

Attendees can expect a 2-3 hour transmission and Q&A with Zach Bush, an integrative meditation and sound healing journey with Karen Birch and Efia, a devotional music journey with Arian Sarrafan and Javier Karua, plus the chance to connect with the Neos land and stars.

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.

Depending on the retreat, you can expect deep self-discovery and healing, embodiment of divine feminine/masculine energies, sound and vibrational healing practices, silent inner clarity through fasting and detox, or creative and artistic exploration inspired by slow living.

You'll get daily spaciousness to explore writing, painting, or any artistic form that calls to you, alongside journaling, deep listening, and inner exploration. The retreat also includes tea ceremonies, cacao and blue lotus rituals, eastern somatic practices, live devotional music, and access to 1000 acres of land and lakes for deep renewal.

Participants can expect increased confidence and resilience as a changemaker, new life-transforming skills, direct connection with experts, greater clarity on their purpose and gifts, and the ability to make a positive impact on people and the environment around them.

Yutori offers 10 uninterrupted days in a lightly-guided but self-directed creative container, with time for writing, painting, sound, or any art form that calls to you. Shared anchor points include medicine tea ceremonies, cacao and blue lotus rituals, eastern-inspired somatic practices, and moments of collective silence or deep listening, all set within 500 hectares of nature with lakes to explore.

Through the program's retreats you receive a ceremonial Initiation into the energetic blueprint of the Feminine & Masculine Source Consciousness, plus embodiment practices and sacred ceremonies honouring the empowered feminine and masculine within you. Retreat attendees can then continue with monthly sessions and community circles to integrate the healing and transformation over a full year.

The retreat facilitates opening into expansive bliss, harnessing awareness, nourishing body and soul, and dissolving into oneness with nature and the stars. It includes cacao and sound ceremonies, self-care and nature rituals, heart-sharing circles, and time for personal reflection and creative reconnection.

Yutori offers 10 uninterrupted days in a gently held container for self-directed creative practice—writing, painting, sound, or movement—supported by anchor points like medicine tea ceremonies, eastern-inspired somatic practices, and collective silence. Rather than a packed program, it provides spaciousness and presence so your own art and creative process can breathe and re-emerge.

The program promises true freedom through peace of mind, joy and love, along with an initiation experience where your sense of self dissolves and you merge with universal consciousness, gaining clarity and certainty to make profound life changes. It combines deep nature connection, ascension practices, and dharma alignment sessions over a week, followed by 8 weeks of online integration support.

Depending on the retreat chosen, offerings range from reawakening to your true nature through ceremony (The Awakening Retreat), embodying divine feminine/masculine co-creator empowerment (Mastery 1), exploring the artist & muse archetype through tea ceremony and creative practice (Yutori), profound beauty and bliss through Diné-inspired ceremonies (The Beauty Way), full-spectrum yogic transformation (Moksha), or a deep personal/collective journey through visual arts and movement (In)Fluxo).

Participants receive dream-weaving sessions for creative visioning, energetic self-love rituals using the five elements and cervix breathing, monthly temples exploring the Christos-Sophia Blueprint, and 'Inner Wild' ceremonies including the Winter Solstice, all woven together with sisterhood and cacao ceremony.

Programs are designed to support self-mastery, healing through sacred ceremonies, and New Earth leadership skills, helping participants reskill in self, relational, and environmental dimensions to become agents of regenerative change.

The retreat is designed to help you open into expansive bliss, nourish body and soul through sublime rituals, dissolve into oneness with nature, and reconnect with your authentic self and joy. Activities include an Ecstatic Dance Journey, Blueprint Activation, Voice Activation, Cacao Ceremony, Chi Kung & Meditation, and sharing circles.

The retreat is designed to help you open into expansive bliss, nourish body and soul through sublime rituals, dissolve into oneness with nature, and reconnect with your authentic self and joy through practices like breathwork, cacao ceremony, and ecstatic dance.

You'll experience daily transformative workshops covering relationship dynamics and self leadership, shared organic meals, and free time to rest, journal, or explore nature. Mornings and evenings offer nature experiences like yoga under an ancient olive tree, lake swims, and walks to sacred sites like dolmens and an obelisk.

Past participants describe it as a beautiful, peaceful experience with amazing food and heartfelt intention, offering deep connection with nature, life, and the spirit of the land.

The Neos Experience offers relaxed mornings connecting with nature, afternoon sessions on 'the new human' and a new way of being, deep nature connection practice, talks, organic meals, and a chance to feel the energy of Neos and explore whether it's the right path for you, especially if considering village membership.

During the life-changing weekend you'll experience neoslife and the estate directly, and understand for yourself what 'waking up' means and why it could change the world.

According to the issue, participants can gain clarity of who they are and why they're alive, freedom to be unconditionally themselves, courage to live fully, freedom from fear/doubt/anxiety, and a lifelong supportive community.

The promise is to understand who you are, why you are here, and what you truly want — a reunion with your true self ('I') that Vincent calls more beautiful than anything previously experienced.

The 'Awaken to Self' experience aims to help you know with more certainty than knowing your own name that you are pure consciousness, not just your mind and body. It also helps ground that realization into everyday life so you can live from love, presence and gratitude rather than fear, scarcity and ego.

The 'awaken to self' journey promises the chance to experience your higher self and have one of the most profound experiences of your life, helping you connect deeper with the truth that heaven surrounds us in every moment.

Karen Aiyana is co-founder of neos·life, bringing over 20 years of experience in clinical psychosocial therapy, energy medicine, meditation, and facilitation. She originated The New Earth School, which became neos·academy, and specializes in creating spaces for deep transformation and consciousness expansion.

Karen Aiyana Birch is a self-mastery and shamanic meditation guide, sacred ceremony holder, and advanced energy healer who co-facilitates this retreat. She is keeper of the Mastery Keys mystery school teachings and founder of a coaching and facilitation course for changemakers, focused on unifying whole-systems regeneration with human consciousness.

Karen Aiyana Birch is Neos Co-Founder, a transformational facilitator and sacred initiatory guide with over 20 years of experience, who will lead the integrative meditation and sound healing journey at this event.

Karen Aiyana Birch has fifteen years of therapeutic experience and twenty years of personal development practice, and is the founder of The New Earth School. She is one of the trainers in Neos's 9-month coaching and facilitator program.

Karen Aiyana Birch is a co-founder of neos life focused on New Culture & Consciousness; she is a self-mastery and meditation guide, ceremony holder, energy healer, and founder of a coaching/facilitation course, and she originated the New Earth School that became neos academy.

Karen Aiyana Birch is a leading UK Aura Mediator since 2012 who offers 1:1 AuraTransformation sessions, energy/shamanic/soul work, and an Energy Mastery Mentorship combining consciousness expansion, life coaching, and masculine-feminine balancing.

Karen Aiyana is a main facilitator of the Hozho Retreat, leading Medicine Cacao Journeys, Temple Sound Healing & Light Codes, Shamanic Meditation, Consciousness Expansion, and Blueprint Mastery sessions.

Karen is neos life's cofounder and an advanced practitioner in the healing arts, facilitating shamanic healing, aura and soul work, power retrieval, energy balancing, soul guidance, and AuraTransformation. Her availability is currently limited, with priority given to urgent cases or deeper mentorships.

Karen Aiyana Birch is the facilitator behind the Self Mastery Programs, bringing a background in psychotherapeutic approaches, ceremony, meditation, and energetic phenomena. She specializes in creating intentional spaces for deep realisation, helping people break out of old consciousness structures to build new reality frameworks aligned with their truth.

Karen is an energy healing practitioner at Neos who reads and treats people's energy fields, offering sessions to clear, realign, and upgrade the aura and chakras, plus life guidance and coaching.

Karen Aiyana Birch is co-founder of neos life, a meditation guide, ceremony holder, and energy healer who keeps the Mastery Keys mystery school teachings and founded a coaching course for changemakers, plus originated what became neos academy.

Karen is Vincent's partner in the Neos mission; together they found each other and the land for the project, and they've grown through the challenges of building it together.

Karen is the co-founder of neos·life. In this newsletter she shares a personal, intimate introduction to herself, her love of nature and the divine, and her devotion to spiritual union with Source.

Karen is a voice within the Neos community who writes reflective newsletter pieces encouraging inner transformation; this issue is signed 'In love and community spirit, Karen.'

Neos village is located in Alentejo, Portugal, just 75 minutes outside of Lisbon, on 410 ha (1,010 acres) of land. This is enough space to develop a village for 1,000 people centred around healing, well-being and awakening.

Neos center sits on 1000 acres in the rural Alentejo region of Portugal, about 75 minutes east of Lisbon and close to Evora's ancient standing stone circle.

The Neos center sits on 1000 acres of nature with a huge majestic lake, located just over an hour from Lisbon, Portugal.

Neos Center is in Alentejo, Portugal, offering heart-expanding views across 500 hectares (also described as 1000 acres) of nature, including lakes to swim in, only about a 75-minute car journey from Lisbon International Airport.

The retreat takes place at Neos Center in Alentejo, Portugal, on 500 hectares (1000 acres) of land with lakes to explore, and it's about a 75-minute car journey from Lisbon International Airport.

The venue sits on 1000 acres of secluded nature in Alentejo, Portugal, just 75 minutes east of Lisbon's international airport.

The neos·center estate is located in Alentejo, Portugal, about 75 minutes from Lisbon, and spans 1000 acres of nature including a large lake, with accommodation for 32–38 people.

Yes, the program offers deep connection and support through group coaching, enquiry, sharing, and between-session heart sharing, alongside group energy clearing, retrieval and transmissions to provide an energetic foundation for the work.

Yes, the program is explicitly designed as a supportive community: monthly deep-dive sessions, bimonthly SHE/HE gender circles, and bimonthly Community Connection Circles all provide spaces to share, heal, and grow together rather than doing the mastery work in isolation.

Yes, all packages include aftercare through group integration sessions and 1:1 coaching, plus an 8-week online integration program with weekly 1.5 hour group spaces with mentors and a private community app channel.

Yes, the programs emphasize that with dedication to a coherent path plus the support of a guide and community, participants can advance far faster than the default pace. Karen collaborates with various facilitators to bring a supportive, loving experience to participants.

Yes, Karen has coached people on masculine-feminine healing for 10 years and offers support through AuraTransformation treatments and her Blueprint Activation and Mastery Keys Programs.

Yes, Karen mentions she will soon offer the Blueprint Activation program again, and points to Anne-Chloe's masterclasses available in the neos·academy app.

The issue points to the 'awaken to self' journey/experience as a guided way to help you move from unconscious reactivity toward awakening and connecting with your higher self, referenced at the end of the article via a password-protected link.

She uses AuraTransformation ceremonies involving soul retrieval, energy clearing, aura healing, and magnetic field building, alongside psychic-intuitive guidance and ongoing energy mastery practices.

The programs center on the 'Mastery Keys,' a system of teachings transmitted to Karen in 2011-2012, including a Guided Mastery Keys Meditation, the Cosmology of Mastery, and work on embodying full masculine-feminine actualisation. Level I focuses on listening to the body's intelligence, heart, and energy field, while Level II works with 12 Archetypes/Rays to integrate Spirit into Matter.

Karen offers energy work sessions—Energy Detox, AuraTransformation, and Balance Sessions—that read, clear, unblock, and retrieve missing energy in one's energy field, along with coaching and intuitive guidance on life path.

This issue doesn't mention Karen, but Vincent recommends connected conscious breathing practice from The Presence Process by Michael Brown, and the book The Coming Times: A Pathway to Inner Peace by Helen Jane Rose.

Karen suggests a practice of sitting with oneself or another and compassionately asking questions like 'How have I given my power away here?', 'What is there to appreciate about why my consciousness has chosen this experience?', and 'What do I need to see within myself that causes this pattern to keep showing up?' This inquiry helps people reclaim power instead of blaming others or seeking it externally.

She points to AuraTransformation as a New Time Energy treatment that helps heal and rebalance inner masculine and feminine energy, alongside the Blueprint Activation and Mastery Keys Programs she runs, which will soon be available in neos·academy.

She suggests shamanic journeying, meditation, and energy transformation, and recommends getting assistance if needed, such as through the Blueprint Activation program or Anne-Chloe's masterclasses in the neos·academy app.

Because the world is visibly digressing—rising depression, loneliness, war, and inequality—while AI and robotics threaten to economically replace most humans under systems not designed with their freedom in mind. Vincent believes only a shift in consciousness, not political or technological fixes, can turn this around.

The issue notes that Vincent has invested huge sums into the project and is currently needing to contribute all he has left, with risks getting higher and higher as deadlines approach.

Because this first stage is unfolding rapidly, time itself is becoming a limiting factor that will dictate how capital and development decisions are made.

He believes the world only changes if he starts himself, without waiting for others to do the inner work first, since love and transformation cannot be conditional on others' behavior.

He believes technology (especially AI) is advancing exponentially while human consciousness has stagnated, and points to events like the WHO pandemic treaty as signs of a move toward totalitarian control; he estimates we have only a few years, possibly until 2027, before reaching a point of no return.

Vincent describes humanity as living in an 'age of ignorance,' stuck in ego, competition and disconnection, which is driving family breakdown, fear-based media, and canceling of dissenting voices. He believes raising consciousness, not technology, is the only way to move humanity out of this dystopian trajectory.

Vincent frames humanity as being at a crossroads between an old, unevolved path of ego, division and control, and a new path of awakening and unity — suggesting individual transformation is urgently needed since, as each person shifts from victim to creator, the world itself transforms from animosity to harmony.

You can register your interest directly through the page to book a session or mentorship with Karen.

You can go to bookings to arrange 1:1 healing sessions, see full details on Karen's offerings, or contact Neos directly to enquire about medicine ceremony dates or other treatments like breathwork, bodywork, and massage.

You can book a call or connect directly to arrange an Energy Detox Session, AuraTransformation, or Balance Session with Karen.

Karen and Vincent invite readers to engage via email, a comment, or an Instagram message to share who they are and what the journey has sparked for them, hoping to eventually meet in person on the land.

She invites readers to join the online community and learning app, or to meet in person at the village academy.

Karen invites readers to join the online community and learning app, or to meet in person at the village academy soon.

Karen's mission is to help people become free and enlivened agents of alignment and pioneers of a new world through the programs she designs. She aims to help individuals connect with their greatest vision and live that path, creating intentional spaces where people break free from old programming.

Karen and Vincent recognized immediately that they share the same 'blueprint' or life mission, which is why they co-founded neos·life together without needing to align or discuss it.

Karen shares that beyond the financial investment, she has dedicated her time and life force (often cycling through burnout) to the project, and sees her role as helping cultivate the inner capacity and serenity needed to hold the community's future conflicts and challenges gracefully.

She finds fulfillment in meaningful connection, creating beauty, and facilitating transformation with other passionate souls and change makers. She brings her energy through self-mastery programs, deep initiatory consciousness work, community building, sacred space, filmmaking, and regenerative education.

Karen focuses on guiding people to disentangle from worldly illusions and reconnect with their divine essence, nature, and community, while still showing up to contribute to reconfiguring the world rather than isolating from it.

The land already includes the beginnings of a self-sufficient sanctuary, from an organic farm to energy-efficient dwellings, with each element designed to nourish, inspire, and respect the earth as shown in the drone flyover.

The land already features accommodation designed as a cosy wellbeing space, a spacious restaurant and professional kitchen, indoor spaces for yoga and lounging by the fire, and a majestic lake with hilltop views for hiking, biking, swimming and paddle boarding.

The land already has an airstrip, which the village plans to eventually develop into its own small airport. Zoning work is underway, with residential areas being mapped on south-facing hills and plains to the south of the central lake.

The retreat description mentions the land includes 1000 acres (also cited as 500 hectares) with lakes to swim in and luxurious chill-out and practice spaces. It notes that through 2025-2027 the space will continue to upgrade, eventually offering a full spa and a unique ceremonial dome.

The village is designed as a whole ecosystem with two sides: a public, north-of-the-lake side offering internationally recognised educational and transformational experiences, and a residential, south-of-the-lake side that lives out those teachings through practices like harmony with nature, decentralised governance, a regenerative/circular economy, and biodiversity restoration.

The village is envisioned as part of a transformative ecosystem across 1000 acres, combining wellness and consciousness expansion, regenerative education, and nature-based living, with event spaces, gardens, and residential community areas.

The village aims for 500 residents in 200 homes, plus a global wellbeing hub serving up to 20,000 people/year with holistic medicine, therapies and retreats. It will also have its own school, organic farm, full water/energy independence, recreational facilities, and eventually a small airport using the land's existing airstrip.

The village will include homes for residents and guests, well-being and healing services, education and training programs, land regeneration work, an organic farm, and additional services extending beyond the physical village.

You can book a HALO Weekend, retreat, or program directly through the site, host your own event on the land, or follow along via their Substack and Instagram (@neos life) for deeper updates.

You can book the 4 Day Neos Experience, join a retreat or event from the center's program, or attend one of the open community days held throughout the year for outdoor activities, wellbeing sessions and al fresco dining.

You can RSVP for free to join the Zoom session on Tuesday, and to stay current with neos·life news you can join their active WhatsApp community.

Yes, the purchase contract for the land was signed on April 2nd two years prior to this issue, and Vincent and Karen have since spent ten months living and working on the land.

The issue doesn't confirm formal legal securing, but Vincent shares that the land found him almost magically — a stranger named Marie presented him with the property days after meeting him in a plane line, and it's the only land he ever looked at.

Not yet finalized—Vincent describes it as 'a beautiful piece of land' neoslife is acquiring, and he just returned from his sixth visit, sharing an unedited video of the estate including its ostriches, cows, sheep, and brown-tinted water from recent rains.

Neos is built around a dual structure of public and residential sides that work together as one ecosystem, combined with a location in Alentejo—a region rich in wine culture, community cooperatives, syntropic farms, and heritage from Neolithic, Arab, Roman and Phoenician civilisations—plus a strong commitment to zero waste, regenerative sustainability, and reusability.

Neoslife focuses on cultivating a 'new way of being'—an environment and culture that helps people experience the union of seemingly opposing principles like science and spirituality, heart and mind, and nature and technology, rather than just deploying technology to fix problems.

You can apply to become one of the 25 Founding Member families by joining the current round (open for June only), with lot reservations starting at 50K as a contribution toward total costs ranging from 175K for a tiny house lot up to 1.5M for a signature villa. Applying now locks in 2026 at-cost pricing before it rises significantly in 2027.

Vincent is seeking patient capital and investors who are fully aligned with the vision and competent to help it succeed, rather than just financially motivated backers. He describes it as a recognition process rather than active selling, trusting the right investor will 'light up' in resonance with the project.

The issue outlines the five New Earth Ways as the core cultural principles taught through neos center's programs: Deepen Awareness (Consciousness), Respect Life Energy (Sacredness), Embody your Blueprint (Embodiment), Wholeness & Balance (Balance), and Creation of Beauty (Elevation).

Self, Relational, and Environmental are the three interconnected content dimensions of transformation learning content in neos·academy.

The program is structured as an evolving spiral across three interconnected dimensions—Self, Relational, and Environmental—using experiential components like immersion weekends, vision circles, deep dives, and expert expeditions rather than traditional lecture-based learning.

Instead of a one-size-fits-all classroom approach focused on rules, exams, and conditioning, Neos emphasizes teaching people how to think as sovereign beings—covering mindfulness, non-violent communication, respect for nature, growing food, and self-love.

This issue doesn't explicitly define a shift from IQ to weQ; instead it frames life as remembering you are consciousness (God) playing a human game, and 'winning' means waking up while still playing, together with others in service of a collective awakening.

It refers to Simon Confino's masterclasses, part of The New Earth School collaboration, which focus on moving from individual intelligence (IQ) toward collective, relational intelligence (weQ).

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.

Yes, Neos is now taking venue reservations for 2027 for retreats, courses, or gatherings, offering 1000 acres of nature, accommodation for 38 people, and beautiful facilitation and community spaces just over an hour from Lisbon.

It combines six weekends of face-to-face training (one per month for five months plus a final month) covering topics like coherent coaching, group dynamics, and leadership energetics, followed by 4 months of supervised practice with 1:1 mentoring. It meets ICF ACTP requirements with 125+ student contact hours and 10 hours of mentor coaching.

The program is taught by Karen Aiyana Birch, founder of The New Earth School, and Simon Confino, an organisational psychologist and co-director of We-Q, who leads Month Three's business facilitation training.