Flight School

The single home for all practice content. Learn to fly through meditation, classes, workbook exercises, teachings, and community.

Freedom Is a Practice

Flight School is where we learn to spread our wings. Through meditation, reflection, and community, we discover that the freedom we seek has been within us all along.

Like the women in the book who found light in the darkest places, you too can learn to turn your constraints into catalysts for transformation.

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Choose Your Practice

Everything in Flight School is a doorway. Start where you are drawn.

Meditations

Guided practices inspired by the teachings in the book. Learn the same techniques that transformed women behind bars into teachers of peace.

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Classes & Workshops

Live and virtual gatherings where we explore the themes of the book together. Break free in community.

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Workbook Exercises

Practical exercises from the Jailbirds in Flight Workbook to move the teachings from the page into your life.

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Teachings

Short teachings, reflections, and talks from the path โ€” wisdom for turning poison into medicine.

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Prison Monastery Practices

The contemplative path at the heart of Jailbirds in Flight: silence, presence, and finding freedom inside any wall.

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Journal Prompts

Deep questions to unlock your own story. Discover the bars you've built and find the keys you already hold.

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The Philosophy Behind the Practice

Flight School is built on the Seven Circles โ€” a vision of transformation that moves from detox and emotional literacy to silence, purposeful work, and what the Greeks called eudaimonia: a life aligned with your deepest calling.

The Seven Circles of transformation: Detox, Emotional Intelligence, Food and Health, Intracultural Communication, Silence and Contemplation, Purposeful Work, and EudaimoniaExplore the Seven Circles
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The Real-World Flight School Program

Flight School is not only a page. It is a real-world program bringing together the practices of Jailbirds in Flight for women in and out of incarceration.

We create environments where meditation, emotional intelligence, somatic awareness, and meaningful work become the soil of a new life. The goal is not to survive a system but to become someone who no longer needs it.

Whether you are inside a facility, returning home, or seeking a deeper path in your daily life, the same practices apply. Constraint is the curriculum.

"The bars could not contain her spirit. The walls could not limit her practice."

Begin where you are. Practice is the path.

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Become Part of It

The practice is only real when it is lived alongside others. Find your way in.

Become Part of It

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