Victoria Moran, RYT-200, director of Main Street Vegan Academy, is a yoga teacher, certified life coach, and holistic health counselor. She is the author of 14 books on well-being, compassionate living, and eclectic spirituality, including the best-selling Creating a Charmed Life, Shelter for the Spirit, and Lit from Within. Victoria hosts the Main Street Vegan Podcast and is a cofounder of the Compassion Consortium, an interfaith online spiritual center based on ahimsa, the respect for all living things. A yoga student for more than 50 years, she trained in her early 70s as a yoga instructor and raja yoga instructor. 

Victoria earned a bachelor’s degree in comparative religions and in 1985 wrote her first book, Compassion the Ultimate Ethic. Her latest book is Age Like a Yogi: A Heavenly Path to a Dazzling Third Act. She appeared twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show and was listed by VegNews magazine among the “Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors.”

Victoria's spiritual adventures include three years at the Theosophical Society's US headquarters, volunteering with Tibetan refugees in Nepal and India, and producing the 2019 documentary, A Prayer for Compassion.