Join us as for a special Second Chance Month guided discussion of the new book Jailbirds in Flight: Everything You Wanted to Know About Enlightenment in Prison But Were Afraid to Ask by Nicole Daedone, hosted by editor Courtenay Lapovsky and Marla Moffet!
RSVP IS REQUESTED: We are asking you to RSVP in advance so we can make the necessary arrangements for seating, coffee, etc.:
ABOUT JAILBIRDS IN FLIGHT
Nicole Daedone entered federal custody on charges tied to her life’s work—the teaching of Orgasmic Meditation—and found herself inside the “belly of the beast,” the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. What she encounters there is a nation’s shadow made visible, and within it, an unexpected field of grace.
Daedone meets women of immense courage and wit—OGs, hustlers, ministers, mystics—and even correctional officers whose quiet humanity breaks through the steel divide. Each holds a fragment of forgotten wisdom. Together, they turn the fluorescent corridors of confinement into a living monastery. Between commissary sushi rituals and midnight sermons, they find freedom begins long before the gates open.
Written from inside MDC, this book is a love letter to the human soul and a call to restore the sacred in our most forsaken institutions. With startling tenderness and conviction, Daedone shows what happens when we treat prisons not as wastelands of punishment, but as the bedrock of liberation for a nation.
Nicole Daedone has given the copyright, all book proceeds, and related rights this book to the Jailbirds in Flight Trust, so her story can keep benefiting others. The Trust money is shared between some of the women she was incarcerated with, some of whose stories helped inspire some of this book and the non-profit Unconditional Freedom which runs the Art of Soulmaking and Guards to Guardians.
ABOUT COURTENAY LAPOVSKY
Courtenay Lapovsky has been immersed in the Erotic path since 2012 and practicing meditation for nearly 30 years. With a Master’s degree in Education and her role as editor of Jailbirds in Flight and The Eros Sutras, she brings both rigor and intimacy to her weekly sutra study.
Courtenay is known for her humor, vulnerability, and storytelling, qualities that make the teachings of Eros feel personal and immediately relevant. Her classes invite participants to discover how the Sutras can illuminate and transform their daily lives.
ABOUT MARLA MOFFET
Marla Moffet is the Director of Yoga and Practice at Unconditonal Freedom. A 500-hour yoga instructor, massage therapist, and Ayurvedic bodyworker, Marla has been studying healing arts in some form for more than 20 years. Marla earned her BA from Rice University in French and studio art/art history and MAs from NYU in Teaching French as a Foreign Language and Teaching English as a Second Language.
She’s taught yoga at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C., New York University in Paris, and the largest women’s prison in the U.S. A mover her whole life, Marla is happiest when practicing yoga, chanting, or dancing.