A Somatic Exploration of Money, Scarcity, and Enoughness

Finding Ground is a five-session experience for femme-identifying people who want to explore their relationship with money through the body, community, creativity, and the energy of the moon.

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Hello! We are Dr. Lushanya Echeverria and Emily Rose Michaud—educators, artists, storytellers, facilitators, and community builders. Our experiences are different, yet our work meets in a shared belief: transformation happens through relationship—with ourselves, our bodies, one another, the land, and the lives we are creating.

Together, we bring ceremony and creativity, storytelling and ecological awareness, somatic reflection and practical wisdom. Finding Ground is not about mastering money. It is an invitation to explore what money touches: safety, worth, work, time, rest, belonging, pleasure, capacity, and possibility.

 

Lushanya: Leading Through Relationship

Dr. Lushanya Echeverria is an Indigenous educator, ceremonial leader, storyteller, and the Executive Director and Spiritual Leader of Kunsi Keya Tamakoce. She has studied with Indigenous leaders throughout North, Central, and South America, grounding her work in ceremony, ancestral connection, relationship, and responsibility.

Lushanya is a co-producer of Sisterhood, a documentary exploring how women coming together can change the world. She advises women of the global majority who are empowering women and strengthening communities, is a graduate of Think Again Training’s anti-racist training for BIPOC leaders, and served as Care Coordinator for the State of Vermont’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She brings to Finding Ground a gift for holding deep reflection, vulnerable sharing, and embodied transformation with warmth and care.

 

Emily Rose: Creating Through Relationship

Emily Rose Michaud is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the Algonquin territory of Western Quebec, Canada. Working at the crossroads of ecology, creativity, and community organization, she explores how people build relationships with the places they inhabit.

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Her land-based and studio practice includes installation, drawing, painting, writing, and ceramics. Her Roerich Garden Project in Montréal received international attention. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Ottawa.

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Emily Rose creates through curiosity, co-authorship, and interconnectedness. She brings an understanding of seasons, cycles, tending, capacity, and transformation—reminding us that meaningful change cannot always be hurried, measured, or forced.

 

Why Lushanya Chose This Work

In 2012, Lushanya was an unpaid Executive Director devoted to work she loved. Wanting greater freedom and more time with her retired partner, she invested $16,000 in a year-long coaching program designed to help her turn her gifts into income.

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She bought the right clothes, attended seminars in elegant hotels, learned what “opulent” meant, and filled binders with notes. But when it was time to bring her own vision into the world, fear and uncertainty took over. She returned to the security of teaching and spent five years paying off the program, carrying the experience as evidence that she had failed.

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Years later, Lushanya understood that she did not need to become the woman presented to her in those hotels. She needed to trust and become more fully the person she already was.

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Since leaving teaching in 2023, she has raised more than $200,000 for work she believes in while building a life centered in ceremony, community, and purpose. She chose Finding Ground because she knows that transformation does not begin with becoming more impressive—it begins when we stop abandoning ourselves and trust that our gifts are worthy of being supported.

 

Why Emily Rose Chose This Work

Emily Rose entered this work while asking what wealth truly means in her life. She longed for health, stability, creative freedom, meaningful relationships, a home and studio of her own, and continued connection to her beloved Gatineau River—Tenagadino-Zibi.

Through resourcefulness and community relationships, she found a home by the water, connected with ethical food producers, and created a life rich in friendship, nourishment, creativity, and belonging. Yet homeownership and the uncertainty of self-employed income revealed a gap between the life she had created and the financial structure needed to sustain it.

When uncertainty activates her nervous system, Emily Rose can feel pulled toward urgency, overwork, and the belief that there is no room for rest or play. She recognizes how easily creating security can become confused with continually doing more.

She chose Finding Ground to explore another possibility: building security through structure, discernment, community, and trust in her own capacity. She is learning that her needs matter, that not every opportunity deserves her energy, and that saying no can protect a deeper yes—to her values, creativity, well-being, and the life she is choosing to sustain.

 

What Brought Us Together

We came together through a shared understanding that it is possible to create a meaningful life and still feel uncertain about how to sustain it. Both of us have followed unconventional paths shaped by purpose, creativity, community, and service. Along the way, we have experienced the tension between trusting our gifts and believing we must work harder, become someone else, or carry everything alone to create security.

 

Finding Ground grew from our desire to examine these patterns within community, ceremony, and connection. We believe our relationships with money, time, work, rest, and worth are shaped by more than individual choices. They are carried in our bodies, influenced by inherited beliefs, and transformed through being witnessed in honest relationship with others.

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Together, we are learning that security does not have to be built through constant effort or self-abandonment. Sometimes saying no to urgency, overwork, or an old expectation protects a deeper yes—to our values, capacity, creativity, relationships, and the lives we genuinely want to sustain.

 

At the heart of our work is one central question: How can we create what we need while remaining in relationship with ourselves, our values, and the communities that sustain us?

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Why We Are Gathering

Finding Ground is an exploration, not a class on how to manage money. No financial expertise is needed, and nothing needs to be fixed or figured out before entering the circle.

We are gathering to become curious about the emotions, bodily sensations, behaviors, and energetic patterns that arise around money. For some, the word money may evoke stress, shame, anxiety, corruption, avoidance, scarcity, or poverty. For others, it may suggest luxury, freedom, possibility, security, or choice. There are no right or wrong responses—only information about the relationships we already carry.

Together, we will step through a door into a collective experience held across five gatherings and a three-month lunar cycle. We will witness ourselves and one another, recognizing that our relationships with money do not exist in isolation. They are shaped by our families, communities, bodies, histories, cultures, and lived circumstances.

We expect to change and grow along the way—not because anyone will tell us the “right” way to relate to money, but because honest reflection, embodied practice, and being witnessed in community can create room for new choices.

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Moving With the Moon

The moon offers a rhythm for this work—a reminder that growth includes intention, illumination, release, renewal, and return.

• September 27 | Near the Full Moon

• October 11 | Near the New Moon

• October 25 | Near the Full Moon

• November 8 | Near the New Moon

• November 22 | Waxing Moon: 

Five Sundays, 12:00–3:30 p.m.

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Join us for a Live Introductory Session - Sunday, September 6th or Tuesday, September 8, 7:30-8:30 PM/EST.  Register here