Today we’d like to introduce you to Scott Moore.
Scott, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I grew up in Utah—Eagle Scout, saxophone player, twin brother, the whole bit. On paper it looked pretty conventional. But I always had this restless pull toward something deeper, something I couldn’t quite name yet.
After high school I spent two years in Southern France on an LDS mission. That experience cracked something open. Not just learning French and falling in love with the culture, but realizing that spiritual truth was bigger than any single tradition. When I came home, I started questioning everything I’d been taught—and eventually left the church. That was terrifying. In a religion that teaches eternal consequences for leaving, walking away required the most honest conversations I’d ever had with my family.
Around that same time, I discovered yoga and meditation. Then I spent nearly a year in Korea studying an ancient blend of meditation, Eastern medicine, and Buddhism called Kouk Son Do. Something clicked. I realized I didn’t just want to practice—I wanted to teach.
I started teaching yoga full-time in 2003 and never looked back. I co-founded two yoga studios in Salt Lake City, spent nine years as a professor of Yoga for Wellness at Westminster College, and led retreats everywhere from Tuscany to Hawaii. I wrote my first book, Practical Yoga Nidra, which became one of the foundational texts in the field. Eventually my wife Seneca and I moved our family to Southern France for over three years, where I taught internationally and proved the business could work from anywhere.
When we returned to Salt Lake City, I rebuilt with more clarity than ever. Today I run a six-figure business with two sides: I’m an internationally recognized Yoga Nidra expert with students across six continents, and I’m a business mentor who helps yoga teachers, therapists, coaches, and other conscious entrepreneurs build sustainable, profitable businesses around their gifts. I also have a comprehensive book on Yoga Nidra and consciousness publishing later this year—something I’ve been working toward for a long time.
The thread through all of it has been the same question: How do you live an awakened life and make a good living? I spent twenty years figuring that out the hard way. Now I help other people do it faster.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Not even close. I’ve had seasons that nearly broke me.
When I co-owned yoga studios, I learned firsthand how quickly a business can drain you—financially and spiritually—when the structure isn’t right. I closed those studios carrying debt and hard lessons about partnerships, liability, and protecting yourself.
For years I was the sole income for my family. Money came in and went right back out. I learned resourcefulness, but I also internalized a story that I could never get ahead—that the universe was generous with everything except financial stability for people like me.
Moving to France was extraordinary, and taught me how I can truly be independent of location to have a thriving business. Though it took some ups and downs to understand that. It wasn’t a straight road to success.
The biggest lesson through all of it: the spiritual path and the business path aren’t separate. For years I treated them like they were—as if making good money somehow contradicted being a devoted practitioner. That false separation cost me years of growth. The moment I stopped apologizing for wanting both depth and prosperity, everything shifted. That’s actually what I teach now.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Scott Moore Yoga?
I’m Scott Moore—Yoga Nidra expert, published author, international retreat leader, and business mentor for conscious entrepreneurs.
What makes my work different is that I live in a space most people think is contradictory: I bridge ancient spiritual practice and modern business strategy. I’ve spent 30+ years in meditation and yoga, including profound experiences of awakening that inform everything I teach. And I’ve also built a thriving six-figure business, written multiple books, and trained hundreds of teachers across six continents.
Most yoga teachers struggle to build sustainable businesses. Most business coaches have no spiritual depth. I integrate both—because I believe your business can be a vehicle for the same transformation you facilitate in your clients.
I work with people in two ways. On the Yoga Nidra side, I offer teacher trainings, classes, retreats in places like Tuscany, and I’m publishing a comprehensive book on the practice later this year. On the business side, I create what I call Business Blueprints—deep strategic roadmaps that help practitioners, coaches, therapists, and healers get clear on their positioning, pricing, and path forward. Many of those clients continue into longer mentorship programs.
The common thread is helping people stop separating who they are from how they make a living. When those two things align, everything changes.
I believe three sets me apart.
First, I speak from direct experience—not borrowed wisdom. I’ve practiced and taught for over 30 years. I’ve studied in India, Korea, and France. I’ve had my own profound experiences of awakening that give my teaching a depth I can’t manufacture and wouldn’t want to.
Second, I hold what I call a “both/and” philosophy. Where most people see a contradiction between spirituality and profit, or between ancient wisdom and modern strategy, I see integration. You don’t have to choose between awakening and abundance. They’re meant to coexist. That’s not just a tagline for me—it’s how I’ve built my life and my business.
Third, I actually understand the business side at a strategic level. I’ve built and lost businesses. I’ve been a professor, a studio owner, an author, an international retreat leader, and now a mentor to dozens of entrepreneurs. When I sit down with someone to create their Blueprint, I’m not guessing. I’ve made the mistakes, learned the lessons, and figured out how to help people skip the decade of confusion I went through.
Before we go, is there anything else you can share with us?
My greatest values.
If my closest friends were being honest, they’d probably say two things matter to me above everything else: my family and helping people stop playing small.
My wife Seneca and our son Elio and my step son Liam are the center of my life. Every business decision runs through a simple filter—does this protect my time with them, or does it steal from it?
Beyond family, I care deeply about people claiming their gifts. I work with yoga teachers, therapists, coaches, artists—people who do genuinely transformative work but can’t figure out how to make a living from it. That gap breaks my heart, because if practitioners can’t afford their time to share their gifts, the people who need those gifts won’t receive them. Helping someone see their own worth and build a business that reflects it—that’s the most meaningful work I do.
And underneath all of it: love. That might sound abstract, or like a platitude but it’s not. It’s the most concrete thing I know. My deepest experiences in practice and in life have pointed to the same truth—love is everything. I try to build from that foundation, even when it’s messy and imperfect.
Legacy — If I Retired Tomorrow, What Would People Miss Most?
I think they’d miss the permission. So many of the people I work with—teachers, healers, coaches—have been told in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that their work isn’t “real” work, that they should have a backup plan, that wanting to thrive financially somehow taints their calling.
What I do is hold up a mirror and say: This thing you do? It matters. And you deserve to build a life around it. People tell me that’s the thing that shifts first—before the strategy, before the pricing, before the marketing plan—just the experience of someone seeing them clearly and saying yes, this is real, and you can do this.
I think they’d also miss the Yoga Nidra. I’ve guided thousands of people into states of deep rest and awareness, and the transformations I’ve witnessed are extraordinary. When someone discovers that the peace they’ve been chasing has been inside them all along—that never gets old.
I work with people in a few ways:
For practitioners and anyone curious about deep rest and awareness, I offer Yoga Nidra classes, an internationally recognized teacher training, and retreats in places like Tuscany, Italy.
For conscious entrepreneurs—yoga teachers, therapists, coaches, healers, creatives—I offer Business Blueprints (a strategic roadmap for your business) and ongoing mentorship programs.
My book Waking Up with the Yoga of Sleep publishes later this year—a comprehensive guide to Yoga Nidra, consciousness, and the practice of waking up to your true nature.
Pricing:
- Customized Business Blueprint $1997
- Business Accelerator Course $997
- Personal mentoring 4k/$6800
- Yoga Nidra Teacher Training $1997
- Retreat to Tuscany $2395
Contact Info:
- Website: https://ScottMooreYoga.com
- Instagram: @scottmooreyoga
- Facebook: @scottmooreyoga
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-moore-432953107/
- Youtube: @scottmoore512
