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This page introduces the neos·life team, led by co-founders Vincent Daranyi (Business Lead) and Karen Aiyana Birch (Creative Lead), along with key partners like Inphinity Design, Ekogaio, Zach Bush MD, Lisa Marguiles, Biotonomy, and Smarthoods. It also notes they are actively recruiting more visionary team members and partners.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 announces a new short film, 'The Essence of Neos,' made by filmmaker Nik Tenney to convey the energetic and felt truth of the project beyond words. It also opens an invitation to reserve one of 15 units or the signature villa in 2026, and highlights the final Neos Experience retreat before autumn.

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's a reflective piece marking the successful land acquisition for Neos, sharing the emotional 'Hero's Journey' behind it and the key lessons learned over the past year of fundraising and negotiations.

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 announces he is committing his entire net worth of €600,000 to bring neoslife to life, laying out his vision for a self-sufficient village in Portugal, the structure of a Swiss foundation with for-profit entities beneath it, and an invitation for investors and collaborators to join.

Karen Aiyana Birch is Co-Founder and Creative Lead of neos·life, embodying the 'yin' counterpart to Vincent's 'yang.' She and Vincent independently developed complementary halves of the neos·life vision over a decade before meeting and uniting forces.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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 third and only Neos Experience retreat before autumn runs June 11-14, with three places left. It includes a village Q&A, full land tour, sessions on sacred nature connection and energetic awareness, plus space for rest and shared meals overlooking the land.

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, there were two spots left for a retreat happening the following week, open to investors, supporters, influencers, or future residents via ir.neoslife.com.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

On June 10th at 10AM Portugal time, Neos opens its next and only 2026 opportunity to reserve a unit, with 15 units across different sizes plus one signature villa available. Newsletter subscribers will get an email with pricing, designs, and an application to apply for a place, with priority given to those aligned with building a true, supportive community.

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.

Vincent invites seed investors to help acquire the land and also welcomes people passionate about the vision — visionaries, architects, farmers, hospitality experts, marketers, and more — to reply to the email or join the Telegram channel to get involved.

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 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.

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.

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.

It's envisioned as a fully self-sufficient village hosting around 1,000 people at once (guests, day visitors, patients, staff and residents), providing everything needed to live well, heal, evolve and thrive, and even includes an airstrip for small planes.

Yes — a week before this newsletter, Karen and Vincent signed the deed and moved onto the Neos land, marking the completion of Phase 0 of the project.

Yes, on 2/4/24 the promissory purchase contract was signed to acquire the estate that is becoming neoslife, five months after first finding the land.

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.

He sees the world crumbling through war, polarisation, and moral decay, while AI and robotics threaten to make most people commercially useless, and warns that consolidated wealth and power could lead to a totalitarian, CBDC-controlled one-world government unless people wake up and build a new model now.

Yes, neos·life is looking for experienced, visionary, and committed team members and partners willing to roll up their sleeves and contribute, similar to their lead nature guide, Neo. Interested people can check the latest available team positions listed on the 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.

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.

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.

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.

The page profiles Karen Aiyana Birch (sacred facilitation and co-founder of neos life), Efia Vibe (sound and voice work), Fouad Sabet (medicine integration), Dr John D (medicine experience), Ariana Sergia (holistic bodywork), and Vincent Daranyi (empowerment coaching and co-founder of neos life).

Neos is currently growing its circle of facilitators and encourages people who feel aligned with their values and the kind of retreats and programs they offer to get in touch via the contact link on the page.

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.

This issue does not mention Skai; it instead introduces filmmaker Nik Tenney, who created the film 'The Essence of Neos' after meeting Karen and Vincent on the Earth One Atlantic Crossing.

They learned to trust and act on what's core to the vision without being held hostage by perceived limitations, to follow intuition even against advice, to be radically honest and vulnerable (like writing a heartfelt letter to sellers), to ignore unhelpful critics, and to surround themselves with a small, deeply aligned team rather than a large one.