Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx: A Memoir and Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries, is a Buddhist teacher, author and counselor. Trained to teach by Jack Kornfield of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, he has also studied with many prominent teachers in the Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist traditions. Noah offers meditation classes, workshops and retreats nationally and leads groups in juvenile halls and prisons. He holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California. Noah lives in Los Angeles, California.