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meet karen aiyana birch

Three weeks ago, Karen and I met over a Zoom call.

There was something distinctly different about this call.

The conversation was easy, felt safe, open and vulnerable.

It was not about what was said but what didn't need to be said.

There was an instant recognition of each other, who we are being.

It’s hard to capture in words. It has to be experienced, that way of being.

a new way of being

I believe that this very experience captures what neoslife is about.

Yes, neoslife is a village project.

Yes, there will be a healing and well-being center.

Yes, it is about land regeneration, organic farming and autonomy.

Yes, there will be lots of personal development modalities, retreats and workshops.

But really what will differentiate neoslife from any other project that I am aware of is our way of being.

For neoslife to have the impact we are aspiring to, Karen’s and my responsibility is to embody this way of being.

This is the reason why until now I have not had a co-founder for this massive project, because it needed to be someone who truly understands what we are creating - not because I am explaining it or there’s a mental resonance, but because she has been embodying this same truth.

We share the recognition of what we believe is the next step in human evolution.

When I read her New Culture Eco-Village narrative ‘Experience Paradise’ I thought to myself, she is describing neoslife. You can read it here.

upholding the highest principle

I was about to be spending time on the land with a potential partner and investor.

I spontaneously invited Karen to join and she agreed.

Our time together further sharpened my understanding of the mission of neoslife and that for us to succeed, we cannot compromise on this very essence of ‘a new way of being’ which is at the core of neoslife’s vision.

Experiencing for the first time true alignment with another human being, in juxtaposition with experiencing friction and incomplete alignment with the investor-partner, brought clarity to me.

The New Earth that many of us are working towards and that I believe many more are yearning for needs ‘a new way of being’.

It is not enough to create an eco-village.

It is not enough to build an independent settlement.

It is not enough to regenerate the soil and grow our own food.

The change we need to bring forward is a fundamentally different way of being with each other because

unless we shift our state of being, everything we do will perpetuate the imbalances, conflicts and polarisation of the current paradigm.

This is what neoslife is meant to empower in us, through experiencing it.

All the other pieces are part of the vehicle to make it happen, but they are not the essence of it.

crystal clarity

Over the past months, I had a number of investors approaching me to bring neoslife to form.

None of them was a fit and I had to reject them in order to stay true to the mission.

This was not easy because without money this project will not see the light of day and all the work, sweat, and money that has been put into it over the last eight months will be lost.

Worse, it means the impact that neoslife is meant to have will not materialise.

However, I have full faith because just the way the land found me without looking for it, and Karen came to neoslife without me looking for someone, so will the right investor appear at the perfect moment.

divine perfect timing

Karen and I first connected on May 23rd at 2pm.

I met Marie who brought the land to me at the airport on October 23, 2023 at 2pm.

That’s exactly seven months apart to the hour.

Coincidence? I’ll let you be the judge of it.

Seven is a special number in spirituality.

Our week has seven days, we have seven chakras and our lives move in seven year cycles.

The ‘random’ encounter with Marie at an airport marked the kick-off of neoslife.

I will share this incredible story another time.

so who is karen?

Karen’s bio reads:

My work is about reuniting heaven and earth and thus creating paradise, within and without. This is not creating anything but what is inherently natural to us. It is a returning to our natural divine blueprint. It is our natural state to be a Master. It is our natural way of being to use consciousness, intention, energy, sound, voice, song, movement, dance, and sacred space to maintain balance, to heal, to create – to live this way. …

You can read her full bio here.

Karen has been on a profound spiritual journey, including a period of twelve years of daily meditation practice in devotion to awakening which lead to letting go of her marriage, home, work and social life in order to surrender completely.

At the same time, she’s a serial entrepreneur and founder of the The New Earth School, an educational community platform to facilitate the shifts we need to make in order to create a more beautiful world.

She also

• founded the Unified Coherence Coaching Academy
• was regional director of a European branch within the Global Ecovillage Network
• coordinated the holistic services at a London addiction clinic for four years
• co-produced the award-wining eco-village feature film, ‘The Blueprint’

Both The New Earth School and the Unified Coherence Coaching Academy will be merged into neoslife, as the starting point for our online offering and part of a wider family of ecosystem services.

With much love

Vincent

(and Karen says hi)