David Chernikoff, MDiv, LCSW, Certified Sage-ing Leader (CSL) is a meditation teacher, spiritual counselor, and life coach who taught psychology and meditation at Naropa University for many years.

In the early 1980s, he worked at Ram Dass’s Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, then became the director of Mesilla Valley Hospice in Las Cruces, N.M. David later spent three years in Nepal doing public health development work for the Seva Foundation and studying with Tibetan Buddhist teachers.