Experience life at Neos

Living with projections and building coherence

Welcoming (In) Fluxo retreat to Neos Center

This newsletter:

• New video series ‘Building Neos’ on YouTube (50,000 views in its first week)

• Join us: A W A K E N - ‘Neos Experience’ lite retreat in March (12 spots left)

• (In) Fluxo Immersion Weekend - Spring Equinox

• The beginning of Neos Framework & creating coherence

The start of the journey: raw and real

Only 7 months in since we arrived on the neos land, we’ve recently started a video blog series on our new YouTube channel. With dramatic titles like ‘A village bigger than Monaco’ (something we cringed at but are trusting our media team!) — they are causing a stir.

Each episode shows the nascent day-to-day life of manifesting the vast vision of Neos into material form. To give people an honest insight into the journey at this very early stage, it’s down-to-earth, raw, and whilst not reflective of how things will be in 5 or even 2 years, it nonetheless honours this tender beginning of an enormous dream.

The views have skyrocketed, with more and more people being inspired and supportive towards the project, and — as is always the case, the comment section beautifully encapsulates the plethora of human projections about what we’re doing.

It is testament to the power of the vision how stirred people are about such a project. Even negative projections have their place — for the person projecting them, to feel alive about something.

Staying true to one’s purpose

Having a very public facing project is also excellent practice for the inner work of freeing ourselves from the opinion of ‘the other.’ One of the greatest sources of human pain in the relational dimension is the way we take things personally when our need for being seen, understood, and valued isn’t met. Yet all we ever do as humans is project onto reality; we never actually see anything non-subjectively.

One of the greatest lessons for inner freedom lies in the paradox of ‘it’s not about them’ — even though everything is for them. What I mean by this is that everything I do, and am, is a flow of life force energy coming through me from a higher / quantum source — it simply is, sufficient unto itself. It requires no fixed outcome or external understanding. And yet, paradoxically, it is in service to that which is outside of me, even if it’s not understood.

Intentional communities, and centres of educational and embodied practices whose mission is to serve positive change have always activated other people who similarly challenge the status quo.

With Neos the activists and new age folk project their fantasy of a spiritual commune, imagining anyone can just come and we’ll all build community together from the ground up. The idealogical analysts project a money-making agenda hidden behind conscious gloss. Some see modern colonialism, and some, an opportunity to escape lives that no longer makes sense and live in a peaceful bubble.

Simply, service to life

What we’re slowly building, one step at a time, is not any of these things. On the practical level, it comprises a professionally-run guest center for retreats and trainings, and a future community-led village. Yet its purpose is a heartfelt attempt to unite all polarities into a blueprint for the future of living. It’s an enquiry and profound calling to LIFE— which in nature is always about balance and wholeness.

The coherent thread is a deep calling towards health, sovereignty, self-actualisation, nature connection, as well as creating new socioeconomic systems, healing relationships and community dynamics, plus living in harmony with nature, restoring the land, growing one’s own food, and building homes that heal and work with the elements of one’s environment.

These things are core — to LIFE. To be complacent, accept the programming given to us by corrupt institutions, or not be interested in questioning, reimagining and reskilling ourselves in these things is to not choose, not serve, not be on the side of life.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a billionaire start up CEO or a 10+ year van lifer & environmentalist. It doesn’t matter if you’re a 50+ years hippy commune elder, or you’re a 20 year old influencer who’s never heard of Rudolf Steiner but wants to change the planet.

It is beyond any spiritual identity or lifestyle trend, and is rather about supporting all people to make incredibly challenging shifts in their lives in a way that is non-imposing.

The point of the mission is an invitation to transcend our differences and unite on what really matters: the inner work, learning to love and help one another, taking care of the living earth and ecosystems around us.

Each week, in our Heart Circle, it is this that is repeatedly felt — the profound beauty in the souls present, joining together in this enquiry.

Zach Bush’s talk at Neos Center last year is also must watch if you haven’t seen it. Deeply provocative, and emotional as it may be, he brings into perspective many great truths and startling realisations at the core of this extraordinary time.

Neos Experience Retreat - A w a k e n - March 5-8

In response to the huge volume of enquiries we receive, this Spring we begin hosting simple 4 day ‘lite’ retreats. They will run a few times per year, depending on demand.

The Neos Experience allows you to gently enquire and explore the topics that Neos stands for within yourself and own life, whilst also experiencing the land, the vision, and connecting with us. Perhaps you have a strong interest in becoming a member of the village, simple curiosity and an intuitive calling, or just a resonance that there something here for you and the path you are meant to walk in service to a similar mission.

With relaxed mornings to connect with nature and the project, it invites some gently focused transformational work during the afternoon around ‘the new human’ — who we are becoming, and what is our role in a rapidly shifting planet.

Enjoy Neos Center's beautiful spaces

You’ll enjoy:

Delicious organic meals (some from the land) • Sessions on ‘The new human’ and a new way of being • Deep Nature Connection Practice • Immersion into the raw and purifying beauty of this land • Exploration & Talks • Spontaneous Gifts.

• Are you feeling the next level of awakening, of levelling up - expanding your awareness, grounding your authenticity, clarifying your role in the great collective shift of our time?

• Do you crave more regeneration, lightness, simplicity, more gentle connection, and deep nature time in the wild places of rivers, lakes and forest?

• Are you curious to be part of Neos - the village vision we’re building, the land, the people, the mission - and want to feel the energy, to meet and explore with freedom and ease?

• Is there an intuitive calling to feel into what gifts and meaning this place and project has for you and where you’re at in your life right now?

• Are you feeling the need for a mini reset before Spring - something light and gentle, yet with a meaningful container and intention to inspire, lift and activate you into your next step or chapter?

This is what the Neos Experience is designed for, and the first edition begins March 5-8th… under warm sunny skies and the rise of Spring!

Please note that if you are very interested in becoming a village member, then this really is the best way of discovering what it’s about. We hope to meet many new members soon.

Only 12 spots remain. You can book a place for your Neos Experience directly here. We are extending the Early Bird pricing for 1 day (was going to end 31st Jan)!

(In) Fluxo movement with Micaela Stuart

We’re excited to partner with Micaela Stuart for her (In) Fluxo immersion weekend retreat later in March 20-22.

Micaela is a Portuguese psychotherapy-based movement practitioner, whose deeply immersive experiences blends multidimensional arts with embodiment work. Designed for all kinds of people rather than the typical ecstatic dance party crowd, we’re honoured to work with someone whose purpose runs deep and pure.

Full of integrity and creative innovation, Micaela caters for the Portuguese community first, and then welcoming expats — as her work is about unity, shared language, connection beyond labels or borders.

To join this experience, you can check out her work on instagram: mistu_artdance, or contact us for the full details.

Neos Framework & Creating Coherence

This year, we are gently beginning to intentionally curate facilitators and experiences at Neos Center that align with the core frequency of Neos, allowing coherence to deepen organically.

Our longer-term vision is to offer a constellation of programs and retreats that interweave three core dimensions: Self, Relational, and Environmental. These threads are first introduced through the four-day Neos Experience (Lite) retreat, and will be explored more deeply within the nine-month Leadership Program currently in development.

We are also committed to seeing this framework reflected across the retreats and courses hosted at Neos Center from this year onward. For example, (In) Flux by Micaela may not be as intensive as some of the relational skills trainings we plan, yet its exploration of personal and collective space is deeply aligned with this dimension — and forms an important part of the wider tapestry we are cultivating.

Building coherence generally underpins everything we’re up to here. Starting from scratch, we are working through every system and domain to build coherence with our values and mission, from the densest level, e.g. the cow management, to the most etheric level: the energetic field.

Thank you for following this journey. It is always our deep wish that you’ll find something to be inspired by in each newsletter or communication we share with the world outside this village plaza!

With our sincerest love,

And Imbolc blessings (midway point between Solstice and Equinox, marking the end of winter)

Karen and Vincent