Welcome to the Joyride.
Field notes for the embodied human experience.
Essays, somatic practices, and stories on what it means to stay human— in your body, your work, and the world.
Meet Megan
I’m Megan Noorman — a writer, somatic guide, and strategist translating the language of the body into everyday life.
Before this version of my work existed, I spent a decade running a marketing studio & consulting, leading more than 45 campaigns for brands, artists, and changemakers. That world taught me how stories move through people — and how stress, identity, and creativity live in the nervous system.
My path eventually led me beyond strategy and into the body itself. I trained in Somatic Experiencing and in the Sámi folk shamanic tradition, where I was initiated as a wisdom keeper. These teachings ground my work in both modern neuroscience and ancestral knowing — helping people remember what it feels like to be safe, alive, and attuned.
Today, I write and teach about embodied healing, trauma literacy, and what it means to stay human in chaotic times. My work lives at the crossroads of art, psychology, and ritual, always returning to one question:
How do we find belonging inside ourselves again?
You’ll find the answer unfolding through The Joyride — my publication and podcast exploring the somatics of being human — and through my 1:1 and group offerings for nervous system repair, integration, and creative embodiment.
I believe in work that’s smart but soulful, playful but grounded, scientific but never sterile. Because healing, at its core, is a creative rebellious act.
Work with Me
My work meets you where you are — whether that’s untangling a nervous system that’s running on fumes, integrating a life-changing experience, or bringing more humanity back into your business…we can figure it out together.
Everything I offer is rooted in somatic literacy and systemic awareness — understanding that your body and your life are one interconnected ecosystem. Whether we’re talking about trauma patterns or team dynamics, it’s all energy that wants to move and how we can witness it with more ease.
where body, business, and soul start talking again.
Kurt Reppart, Former City Commissioner and Consultant
“ I was drawn to her unique approach that uses language to honor the nervous system and communicate with an understanding of trauma and how language can create a sense of safety and belonging. She brought a thorough systemic understanding to this ‘political’ work and often coached me on how I could show up in new ways.”
I work with:
Individuals who want to feel safe, expressive, and alive in their bodies again.
Leaders & creators learning to build in ways that don’t burn them out.
Teams & organizations ready to operate from presence, not pressure.
Somatic Work
Somatics is the art of coming home to the body — the slow remembering that your biology already knows how to heal. Together, we listen for what the body’s been trying to say all along.
My space-holding blends polyvagal theory, breakthrough coaching, breathwork, somatic EMDR, Internal Family Systems, interpersonal neurobiology, trance work, and depth psychology to help you understand your unique nervous system and learn how to attune to it.
Consulting & Strategy
After ten years running campaigns and a creative studio, I now work with people who want to do business differently — with clarity, resonance, and nervous-system alignment.
My consulting blends brand strategy, organizational somatics, and psychology-based consumer behavior to build towards growth. We look at how energy moves through your system — where it leaks, where it hums, and where it wants to evolve- and what the best way to inspire others to connect with your business.
Get in loser- we are regulating…
The Joyride is part field guide, part love letter, part nervous-system pep talk. It’s where I write about the glorious mess of being human — the science, the soul, the sarcasm, the utter despair of it all.
You’ll find essays on embodied healing, collective burnout, trauma, grief, and that constant human urge to “get it together” (spoiler: no one has). I mix somatic psychology with mythology, neuroscience with meme-level honesty, and the occasional existential crisis with a side of hope. Sometimes I will be extra creative and throw a poem your way.
Think of it as a road trip through your inner landscape — you’re the driver, I’m the friend in the passenger seat handing you snacks and saying, “yeah, that’s normal.”
For the record: we don’t do toxic positivity here. We do real grounded feeling, radical honesty, and the occasional nervous-system love song or break down depending on the moment.