Mel Ash is a Zen teacher, writer, artist, and performer with a lifelong passion for transformative experience and cultural change. Previously authorized as a Dharma Teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen, he left this tradition to join the Unitarian Church. Mel Ash continues to teach workshops nationally on Zen, Beat spirituality, and alternative psychology.

Mel Ash, a dharma teacher at the Providence, Rhode Island Zen Center, has ten years’ experience in both recovery and Zen Studies