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It describes neos·life's mission as a holistic village and transformational ecosystem being built on 1000 acres around a lake in Alentejo, Portugal, combining retreats, regenerative education, wellness, a hotel, a residential community, and an organic farm.

This page invites people to become founding patrons of neoslife by making a monthly pledge, outlining three tiers of benefits ranging from event invitations and venue discounts to dedicated spaces and personalized project involvement.

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's a thank-you confirmation page for someone who has just made a donation/membership contribution, welcoming them into the inner community and pointing them toward upcoming retreats and gatherings at neos center.

This issue explains how Neos village is designed to support families and children, focusing on shared childcare, community responsibility, and a holistic, nature-based education system.

It outlines neos·life's mission to build physical villages centred on transformation, education, and responsible living, aiming to become a leading model for human empowerment and regenerative living.

It describes team and volunteer opportunities at Neos Center and Village, including live-in, local, and remote roles such as Business Admin, Event & Business Manager, Farm to Table Chef, Maintenance, Hospitality & Events, and Farm & Gardens.

This page is the Neos online store listing all available products, showing 13 items with prices ranging from about €7.50 to €590, including a 'Neos Experience' offering and various unnamed goods marked as Best Seller, New, or on Sale.

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 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 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.

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 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's the start of the Neos Village Reservation Program, a multi-step application process to reserve a unit in Neos Village in Portugal's Alentejo, covering the vision, land, community, houses, and registration.

It reflects on why building a visionary village like Neos is so difficult, sharing stories of founders who suffered heartbreak, burnout, or even suicide under the pressures of leadership, and explores why society's collective wounding makes such resistance almost inevitable, yet still worth pursuing.

It reflects on the accelerating pace of AI, robotics and societal upheaval, explains why Neos is preparing both a conventional and an independent/faster building path, and announces the opening of a second round of home reservations at Neos.

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 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.

It recaps the challenging first six months since permanently moving onto the land, previews the 2026 process for becoming a Neos Villager, lists current hiring and volunteering opportunities, and introduces the upcoming 'Neos Experience' retreat.

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 revisits Neos Village's core purpose, gives an update on the land acquisition and founder opportunity, explains how new members are attuned to the community mindset via the Social Agreement and Attunement questionnaire, and invites people to help fund the final €1M needed to secure the land, plus join a Sunday land tour.

It announces that Neos Village has raised over €2 million in pledges in two weeks, introduces the new Funding Codex document answering community questions, and invites people to become Founding Members before the 23 May 2025 funding deadline.

It's an urgent call to action following the 'Last Call' newsletter, updating the community that €2.2M has been pledged toward the €3.1M needed to secure the neos·village land, and outlining the next steps to finalize pledges, sign contracts, and transfer funds before the deed signing.

This is an urgent last-call appeal explaining that neos·life is about to lose its chosen land to a competing buyer unless the community can help raise a significant downpayment and show a clear path to completion within days, while the founders remain calm and open to whatever outcome is meant to be.

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 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.

Vincent reflects on his experience at the ChangeNOW sustainability conference in Paris, arguing that real change must start from within rather than external solutions. He explains neoslife's mission to help people remember their true nature as consciousness, and announces a special investor retreat and a podcast appearance.

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, after donating you're invited to join a retreat, course, or gathering at neos center soon, including options like Artists, Slow Living, Dark & Silence, Sound Healing, Blueprint Embodiment, Self Mastery, and Rewilding retreats.

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 Neos Experience retreat runs 9-13 September, now extended to four nights due to demand, with an early bird rate available until 31 July.

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

Yes, the next A W A K E N: Neos Experience runs April 9-12, 2026, and is open for booking now. It's especially recommended for prospective team members, future village residents, and anyone drawn to deep nature immersion and higher-purpose exploration.

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, the 'Neos Experience' is a light introductory 4-day retreat held a few times a year, with the first one starting in March 2026. It includes facilitated workshops on self-leadership, energetic awareness, and social dynamic skills for becoming the 'new human'.

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, from April 10-14 neoslife is inviting eight potential investors to a life-changing, unconditional experience (no monetary exchange required) designed to help them remember who they truly are beyond body, mind and personality.

You can become a founding member by making a monthly (or one-time) pledge, with suggested amounts like €222, €1,000, or €12,500, or a custom amount. All pledged amounts can later be used as credit toward future neoslife services or residential investment.

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.

Neos recently opened a new offering welcoming Pioneer Members to co-own land and choose their house; you can explore the village and get in touch via join.neos.life.

Neos is offering 16 Pioneer units at cost, priced from €175,000 to €1.5M, across five categories plus a signature villa near the healing center. Registration is open until 30 June via Join.Neos.Life, followed by an alignment process including a masterplan film, FAQ, live Zoom call, attunement form, codex, and contracts before final admission.

This month Neos is opening its second offering for a future home, releasing up to 15 homes across categories from a 25m2 tiny home to a 180m2 family house and one 250m2 signature villa; the full invitation details arrive in the next newsletter.

You can apply for hiring roles such as General Manager or Events Team member, or volunteer for a week helping with cooking, laundry, maintenance, or land work. Email connect@neos.life with the role you're interested in, your experience, and a social media link.

Neos is opening Round 2 for new village home-owners throughout July 2025, with plot reservations starting at €50K as a contribution toward the total plot and development cost (which can range from €100K+ for a tiny house plot up to a full villa plot). Interested people should read the Home-Owner Deck, complete the Attunement Doc, review the Funding Codex, and email connect@neos.life to register interest and book a call.

You can invest now for the best financial value and priority plot location, help shape the Village Masterplan, or offer a loan for the remaining €1M by contacting connect@neos.life; full details are in the Funding Codex.

You can become a Founding Member by reserving a lot, with contributions ranging from €50,000 for a tiny house site up to €500,000 for larger units. Funds need to clear by 23 May 2025 to be part of this Founding Member round, and over 25 of the 200 homesites have already been reserved.

You can pledge any amount (e.g. €20k, €150k, €1M) toward collective land co-ownership by sending a non-binding letter of intent via DM or email to connect@neos.life, after which you'll join a closed group conversation to help shape the collective terms; you can also join their 300-member WhatsApp group for casual conversation first.

Send a direct message to connect@neos.life confirming your pledge intention and amount, sign the Pledge Letter (docusign link to follow), join a WhatsApp group or 1:1 call to define a simple contract, and then transfer funds, ideally by Tuesday.

The team is asking community members to reach out ASAP (within the weekend) if they can contribute funds, invest, or partner in any way; they also suggest someone could acquire the land for the remaining €3M and allow 12-18 months of collaborative exploration, or contribute toward a future home secured by the land via the poll in this issue.

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.

You can apply to be one of eight potential investors invited to a special April 10-14 experience by filling out the form at ir.neolsife.com.

The page does not describe retreat content in detail; it simply lists a 'Neos Experience' product priced at €590.00 among the store's offerings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 sacred, healing experience offering deep connection with land and people, transformation, inspiration, and spaciousness for emergence to unfold, with beautiful memories and a sense of grateful belonging.

You'll enjoy organic meals, sessions on 'The New Human' and a 'New Way of Being', deep nature connection practices, village exploration and talks, and spontaneous gifts. It's designed as a gentle reset to expand awareness, ground authenticity, and clarify your role in the collective shift, while giving you a first-hand feel for the Neos land, people, and mission.

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.

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.

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.

It will include a transformational center for retreats, regenerative education and wellness, a hotel, a residential autonomous community, and an organic farm, all set within 1000 acres around a lake.

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.

For families, the village will include forest-style play areas built from the natural landscape, a rotating childcare circle so children are always watched over, and home clusters designed around shared gathering spaces like fire circles and dining areas.

The neos ecosystem consists of five parts: the Village itself, a Transformational Center for learning and healing, Residential Eco Living for permanent life, a Global Community network of change makers, and Regeneration efforts to restore the land.

The village is designed as three clusters with paths leading to fire circles and shared kitchens, natural rewilded play spaces instead of standard playgrounds, and a dedicated Sociocracy Circle managing shared childcare and educational sessions.

Neos will include architecturally designed units built with natural materials on 1,000 acres of Alentejo countryside with hills, valleys, a river and lake. It combines genuine self-sufficiency in water, energy, and food with a conscious community that has done deep inner work.

The upcoming second home release includes up to 15 homes in categories ranging from 25m2 tiny homes to 180m2 four-bedroom family houses, plus one 250m2 signature villa.

The full masterplan will show natural features, roads, community spaces, a kids project, wellbeing and educational/healing facilities, housing clusters, and an equestrian center. It will comprise 150-200 property units whose owners are selected based on alignment with the vision.

Once the land is bought, two parallel tracks begin: the Northern guest part called 'The Center for a New Humanity' (education, healing, wellbeing retreats stewarded by aligned leaders) and the Southern part, the Neos Village residential community, which will include housing, agriculture, rewilding, roads, and community infrastructure like schools and creative studios for about 200 homes.

The issue states that despite technological progress, humanity still operates from victim and survival consciousness, causing suffering to the planet and people, so there's a need to shift toward meaning, connection, and co-creation of a more beautiful life.

Only 15-16 Pioneer units remain after 22 units were sold last year to Founding Members, and once these are gone, prices will rise 30% next year. Registering early also secures first choice, Pioneer-member standing, and a role in shaping the village.

Vincent sees AI and robots becoming ubiquitous within a few years, alongside ecocide, food deformation and tightening governmental control, which could bring societal upheaval and restricted freedoms - making self-sufficient havens like Neos increasingly precious.

At the end of July, Neos has to pay back bridge loans to its lenders, so this month is the last chance to become a co-owner at the current value—after July, reservation prices will rise and the land area per plot will shrink.

The sellers' deadline has already passed, and with only about €1M of the ~€2.2M pledge target confirmed, the team needs to show concrete pledges coming in within a day or two to convince the sellers to extend their patience until Monday.

Karen and Vincent explain that the sellers have a competing buyer ready to finalize the sale if neos·life doesn't secure a downpayment and a clear road to completion within days — they literally only have that weekend to bring something concrete together.

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.

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.

Its offerings are curated around five core design principles—Nature, Consciousness, Beauty, Collaboration, and Whole-Systems—combined with a focus on zero waste, regenerative sustainability, and reusability to create a holistic, transformative ecosystem.

Neos life is guided by five Design & Experience Pillars—Nature, Whole-Systems, Consciousness, Community, and Beauty—connected to its New Earth Ways cultural principles, aiming for a holistic ecosystem rather than just an eco-village.

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.

Neos aims to unite 'sovereign individual' with 'unified community,' giving ample space for diverse paths—families, entrepreneurs, introverts, extroverts—rather than enforcing a single guru or ideology, while still cultivating shared healing, purpose, and consciousness through structures like the Community Social Agreement and Attunement.

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.

The land is located in Alentejo, Portugal, and spans 1000 acres around a beautiful lake.

Neos is located 75 minutes east of Lisbon in Alentejo, a rural, wild, and romantic region of Portugal, about 20 minutes from Montemor-o-Novo, an artistic centre with cooperative and alternative community culture. Further location details are shared once you've booked a visit via their booking platform.

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

Founding patrons receive tiered benefits based on monthly pledge amount: Tier 1 (≤222-1000/month) offers website recognition, event invitations, and family rates on workshops, retreats, and venue use; Tier 2 (2000-8000/month) adds priority booking, project updates, and an annual themed event hosting; Tier 3 (9000+/month) adds dedicated space, input on development projects, exclusive events with industry leaders, and personalized consultations for building on the land.

Pledging is not an investment with fixed ROI but a commitment toward co-ownership of the land and, where applicable, home development — the size of your land/home allocation scales with your contribution (e.g. a €200k pledge might cover a €100k land share plus €100k toward building a home), and founding members get discounted or free access to the Center.

Investors get a homesite as co-owner on the village land south of the lake, discounted or free lifetime access to the retreat and event center's offerings (spa, festivals, workshops, healing sessions), and recognition as a Founding Member of the project.

Founding investors will be at the forefront of neoslife's development, with the option to be among the first to build a house on the land, and they can benefit from neoslife's experiences and services for the rest of their life.

This issue doesn't cover Neos investment details; instead it notes that joining the gathering helps its facilitator, Karen, continue building The New Earth School, a not-for-profit educational organisation, with more info at www.thenewearthschool.org.

Full details are in the Home-Owner Deck, alongside the Attunement Doc (to check cultural alignment) and the Funding Codex created for May's first round, some of which still applies for July.

Full details are laid out in the Neos Village Funding Codex, which covers land ownership, development costs, the 'Neos Coin', legal aspects, residency, and more; you're encouraged to read it before joining a live Q&A call.

Interested potential investors can fill out the form at ir.neolsife.com to be considered for the April 10-14 experience.

Not yet — a few weeks ago the land was at risk of being lost, and the community raised €2M in response; as of this issue there is one week left to raise the final €1M to secure it.

Not yet — as of this issue, at least €2.2M of the €3.1M needed has been pledged by 23 people, but funds still need to be transferred to the sellers and the deed signed before the land is secured.

No — as of this issue, neos·life is on the verge of losing the land next week because a competing buyer is ready to close if a significant downpayment and clear completion plan aren't provided in time. Three independent valuations put the land's worth at least €4.4M, while the remaining amount needed is €3M (at €0.75/m2).

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.

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.

You can email connect@neos.life directly or use the contact form on the site; Karen and Vincent look forward to being in touch soon.

The best way to get started is via the AI chat agent on the site (bottom right corner), which answers most questions and redirects unresolved ideas or proposals to the team. You can also join their app, join a Neos Experience retreat, subscribe to their Substack, or follow them on Instagram to connect further.

The best way to connect at this stage is by joining a Neos Experience Retreat, which allows in-person time on the land to explore alignment as the project moves into its next chapter. Karen and Vincent note that many prior email enquiries didn't get the response they deserved while they stabilized operations, so the retreat is now the recommended path.

Education centers on three dimensions — self, relational, and environmental — drawing from Forest School, Montessori, and Steiner approaches, with hands-on learning, creative studios, and later rites of passage and practical skills training for teens.

Neos builds children's education around the same Self, Relational, and Environmental framework used for adults, blending forest-school, Montessori and Steiner-inspired hands-on learning with a thread of age-appropriate self-knowledge and consciousness work.

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.

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 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.

The app mentioned offers quality academy masterclasses with multiple experts, along with networking and community connection, and is currently free to join until programs begin later in 2025.

neos·academy, previously known as The New Earth School, is a self-funded not-for-profit Community Interest Company that proposes a new education system concept. It aims to make expertise on holistic, eco-regenerative living accessible to everyone, activating each individual's potential rather than conditioning them.

It covers the whole child's journey from earliest years through teenage rites of passage, with teenagers eventually training alongside adults at Neos Center through real internships in healing arts, facilitation, operations and land stewardship.

The initial approach targets adults, but the vision is to eventually embrace all age groups, passing knowledge from adults to teenagers and children through schooling, home education, and rites of passage.

Education operates under Portugal's home education framework: each child is registered with a host school, supported by a designated tutor, and assessed through national exams, with village learning mapped to Portugal's official curriculum goals.

No, Neos is still in the planning stage, so it's currently not possible to 'just live here for a while.' Those interested in becoming a future resident are directed to read the dedicated residency page.

Yes, volunteers can stay for varied periods in the retreat rooms in exchange for helping with tasks around the property, including roles in the kitchen, maintenance, hospitality, and farm & gardens.

They seek experienced, heart-intelligent, emotionally stable, self-leading people who are harmonious and subtle in their energetics rather than dominating personalities, and who align with the Neos culture and values as described in the 5 New Earth Ways and Community Attunement.

Applicants must meet the role descriptions, be able to work more or less full time, and be single or have a partner who can also be a team member, since live-in accommodation is limited to a 3-bedroom house.

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.

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