Threads of Becoming

The curriculum is a practice of becoming emotionally literate enough to live in integrity. It is designed to help children feel clearly, communicate honestly, and navigate the world with a grounded sense of self-trust. It draws from developmental psychology, trauma-informed care, somatic awareness, storytelling, and a deep belief in children’s natural intelligence. It is gentle in tone but fierce in intention.

Here’s what lives at the heart of it…

Discernment-Based Emotional Literacy

Children are taught to feel more clearly. We use real emotional vocabulary, beyond happy, mad, and sad to name the subtleties between frustration, grief, and shame.

We ask: Where do you feel that in your body? What does it want you to know? What’s underneath it?

We teach children how to distinguish between emotions and reactions. This is emotional education rooted in inner truth.

Somatic Awareness & Nervous System Tools

Feelings aren’t just thoughts; they’re sensations. And children know that until it’s trained out of them. We bring the body back online through movement, breath, stillness, and play.

Children learn to recognize the signals of safety and stress within their own systems without shame. This isn’t only about “calming down.” It’s about building a relationship with the body as oracle, ally, and compass.

Authentic Expression & Relational Integrity

We don’t tell children to be nice. We teach them to be true and kind within that truth. We model boundaries that are firm and loving. We role-play emotional honesty: “I feel angry and I’m not ready to talk yet,” or “That crossed my line.”

We explore how to repair when rupture happens without force, guilt, or scripts. This is not life as an emotional performance. This is practice for honest, authentic living.

Creative Integration & Storytelling

Children learn through story, symbol, and play. We use myth, art, movement, music, and imagination to help emotions move and integrate.

Feelings don’t just get talked about. They get danced, painted, whispered, drummed. Art becomes language. Movement becomes medicine, and silence becomes sacred.

Discernment as Compass

Above all, children are invited to listen inward.

What feels true to you?

What do you know in your bones?

What’s your “yes” and what’s your “no”?

Can you feel when something’s off, even if everyone else says it’s fine?

This is where freedom begins, not in doing what’s right, but in knowing what’s true.

This curriculum is designed for parents, educators, therapists, and anyone who believes that children are not fragile, but rather ferociously wise. They don’t need us to fix them, but they do need us to remember ourselves beside them.

A home for those guiding children with presence.

Whether you're a parent walking alongside your child or an educator holding space in the classroom or studio, Threads of Becoming offers a soulful path through childhood. This branch of Infinite Threads honors the sacred unfolding of the young soul through rhythm, movement, and imagination.

Here you’ll find two woven offerings:

• Enchanted Threads – a seasonal, story-rich curriculum of movement and art for young children

• Embodied Threads – a developmentally aligned approach to ballet and private coaching for young dancers

Both are rooted in reverence for children's inner lives and the deep work of those who guide them.