A live, two-month cohort for designing the adaptive time systems your life actually needs. Lines and Portals launches September 2026, on the Fall Equinox.
Early bird enrollment opens on the Summer Solstice (June 21, 2026)
What's your relationship to productivity and time?
Does it feel like you're trying to adapt to a system built for someone trained to advocate for his own exhaustion?
Or – you started writing the moon phases in your calendar and bad mouthing the Gregorian calendar. How's that working out for you?
You've hit the targets. Carried your people. Done the work.
But the pace is still eating you. Why?
Because the calendars, manuals and productivity systems were designed for the idea of a someone else’s optimal life not yours. Most systems were built by studying one kind of person: neurotypical, able-bodied, severed from place, cycle, ancestors, and dreams. Then they required everyone else to perform as if they were that person too. Whether you've lost those connections or you hold them close, the demand is the same. Leave what you carry at the door.
What if you didn't have to?
Time is designed. Every register is. The question isn't which one is true. It's which ones serve what you're actually living.
There’s another way. I call it Lines & Portals
Lines are the time you walk along. They hold what you've lived — the patterns you carry, the ones you're ready to break. Lines are where you make decisions from your own ground.
Portals are the openings. Dreams. Signs. Thresholds. Grief. Wonder. Portals are where you listen for synchronicity, take the chance, and co-create what's coming next.
You need both.
Lines you can walk. Portals you can enter.
By the end…
Move through your days as their author, not their employee.
01. Know, plainly, what your current relationship to time is — and where someone else is still holding your clock.
02. Design adaptive time systems of your own — daily, weekly, seasonal — that hold the rituals your life is asking for.
03. Recognize portals when they open in your life — dreams, signs, thresholds, grief, wonder — and know how to enter them on purpose.
04. Hold your own rhythm in conversation with family, work, and community without apology or collapse.
05. Locate your practice within a wider human tradition — the Kaulana Mahina, global timekeeping lineages, and the living knowledge your guest speakers carry — so that what you're building isn't invented from scratch. It's remembered.
By the end, you'll know what your own time wants.
The Container
Two lunations. Twelve sessions. Twenty seats.
Two full Kaulana Mahina cycles — roughly two months. Twelve live sessions, two hours each. Six core sessions held twice — once for prototyping in your own life, once for refining what held and what broke. Every session has live discussion, writing, breakout, and a take-home practice you actually run.
One anahulu at a time. Each anahulu holds two sessions, about five days apart. The first is the teaching session — new material, new practice assigned. The second is the integration session — you bring back what the practice revealed. Both are recorded.
What's included:
Twelve live two-hour sessions on Zoom
The Temporal Wayfinding Workbook (digital; print available upon request)
Four guest-speaker sessions across the two lunations — dream work, the body, living ritual, and the story of your life
One 1:1 session with Naia during the course
A signed art print (Lines/Portals theme), delivered at the close of the course
Session recordings held for six months
Twenty seats, hard cap
Tentative Schedule
Sessions follow the Kaulana Mahina — the Hawaiian lunar calendar. Dates are set by the moon, announced in full at enrollment. [Body, italic or regular]
Lunation 1 — Prototype (New Moon: Oct 10)
Oct 12 · Monday · pō 3 · Kū Kahi — teaching
Oct 17 · Saturday · pō 8 · Huna — integration
Oct 21 · Wednesday · pō 12 · Hoku — teaching
Oct 26 · Monday · pō 17 · Lāʻau Pau — integration / Full Moon
Nov 1 · Sunday · pō 23 · Lono — teaching
Nov 5 · Thursday · pō 27 · late Emi — integration
Lunation 2 — Refine (New Moon: Nov 8)
Nov 10 · Tuesday · pō 3 · Kū Kahi — teaching
Nov 15 · Sunday · pō 8 · Huna — integration
Nov 19 · Thursday · pō 12 · Hoku — teaching
Nov 24 · Tuesday · pō 17 · Lāʻau Pau — integration · Beaver Supermoon
Nov 30 · Monday · pō 23 · Lono — teaching
Dec 4 · Friday · pō 27 · late Emi — integration · closing ceremony
Session times confirmed and announced at enrollment. All sessions are recorded.
By the end, you'll know what your own time wants.
Enrollment & Pricing session three: hmm, boop
The first cohort begins on the fall equinox.
Enrollment opens on the Summer Solstice (June 21, 2026).
$ 1,800 – Standard
$ 1,500 – Early bird
$ 1,200 – Dharma Artist Collective active members
$ 1,000 – DEVA School Alumni
When enrollment opens: pay in full or in four. Buy Now / Pay Later through Affirm, Klarna, or Afterpay available at checkout. In future years the course price may increase.
Will you be one of the first to walk the line and enter the portal?