In Cartwheel Arts kids learn how to process heavy emotions in healthy ways, using nature-based art, movement, mindfulness, and play. It’s all about restoring carefree creativity, self-love, and confidence so that kids can live true to their divine design, thriving joyfully in life. 

The more children can love and accept themselves as divine creations, the healthier and more confident they will be as teens and adults. We teach kids that humans were designed to feel a full range of emotions and then let them go—it’s all just a part of this life experience. Emotions come and go, and if we pause to acknowledge them and feel them in healthy ways, they can move through us more easily. 

I’ve personally experienced what bottled up emotions can do to our physical bodies, and my goal as a practitioner is to help teach as many kids and adults as possible how to let go of heavy emotions so that they don’t have to suffer. When you turn to a Higher Power, you literally can give away any emotional burden, no matter how heavy. It’s a miraculous and awe-inspiring thing. And in Cartwheel Arts classes I teach kids how to do this.

Cartwheel Arts offers family assistance as well. Children need supportive adults also living true to their divine design—modeling this confidence and joy and honoring the innate gifts in the kids they care for. Through different aspects of Cartwheel Arts, adults can discover their unique design, learn how to live true to their gifts, and better understand how they can support their family members to live their design as well.

If you’re interested in learning about future classes, for either kids or parents, please go to the contact tab to be added to the email list.

Hi! I’m Katie Newbold Smith, founder of Cartwheel Arts. With my master’s in Human Development & Social Policy (emphasis in Child Life) and certifications in Intuitive Cranial Sacral Therapy and Quantum Human Design Family Coaching, I’ve developed methods to help individuals and families live with more self-love and harmony. My goal is to bring self-awareness to families by teaching fun and easy emotional processing tools so each person can better understand and honor their own innate gifts as well as those in everyone around them. 

The creation of Cartwheel Arts came together so organically, I know it was Divinely guided and something I'm called to do. It’s a good thing I love kids, painting, and playing in the dirt! I also love learning and sharing what I’ve learned, especially when it can help people rediscover themselves and live their purpose with more joy—it’s an incredibly spiritual experience. Our planet needs strong, loving people who know who they are, and it brings me so much joy that I get to be a part of teaching this to children, who naturally embody light and goodness!

I'm a mother to three spirited and creative daughters (11, 8, and 5), wife to a very supportive, funny, and handsome husband, and owner of the cutest Havanese puppy. You can often find me journaling near a stream, spontaneously following the creative flow, or digging deep into Human Design. I love it all!