Yoga Philosophy
Philosophy is one of the cornerstone offerings at Citizen Yoga. Our in-depth understanding of philosophy truly sets Citizen apart in the industry. In each class, we discuss philosophy that ranges from Vedanta, topic lectures, student questions, and other traditional yoga philosophy texts.
Citizen Yoga hosts weekly philosophy discussions led by Kacee and a few other Citizen Teachers. For the live sessions, all levels are welcome to join. Sign up for a live philosophy class on our Citizen Yoga Royal Oak Schedule.
These videos are pre-recorded from past philosophy classes, we recommend you listen as if it was a podcast and get your pen and paper ready to take notes!
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Coffee + Philosophy: You're Never Really Alone with Kacee
In this pre-recorded philosophy session Kacee talks about the difference between aloneness and loneliness. The group explores how sitting in your own loneliness and learning to embrace it allows you the reflection and time to understand the self, realizing that non of us have the "void" that we m...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Exploring the Seasonal Cycle with Kacee
Kacee begins the discussion with an overview of the theory of perception, Prana, and Qi. These foundations lead the discussion to the five elements which lead to our creation and destruction patterns. Each of the five elements connect to a season of life. Noticing each element within us can revea...
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Basics of Philosophy
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Coffee + Philosophy: Being Satisfied with Little with Kacee
This discussion is centered around Good Citizens and The Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities. Kacee contemplates what our desires actually give us and the importance of cultivating present moment. Present moment embodies a home and offers a place of belonging. Furthermore, Kacee discusses the danger...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Gratitude with Kacee
Kacee begins with a chant to encourage dropping into your being. This offers a descent from the intellect to the mind to support a devotional practice. We use this to continue the conversation about embodying your higher ideals and connecting as an individual to the whole.
This video was record...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Doing versus Being with Kacee
The class begins by defining doing versus being. This leads to the conversation of how to take stock of personality and how to be in the present moment. The concept of renunciation is discussed as it relates to right action. As the conversation continues, we relate this discussion to Good Citizen...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Resolving the Ego with Kacee
Kacee and the class dive deep into the interworking of the ego. Through defining ego, love, attachment, and devotion the class deepens their understanding to bring the collective together. Within each of us there is a center that is connected to the whole circumference. Then, we connect these top...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Receipt, Reaction, Response with Kacee
Kacee explores the concept of the three Gunas and the book Good Citizens to explore going from the known to the unknown within the self. We begin observation of the physical body, then the mind, and finally the intellect. Kacee and the class unpack the patterns that we recognize within ourselves ...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Seeing Your Wholeness with Kacee
Kacee begins class with an embodying guided meditation. This leads to deconstructing ideas from the Bhagavad Gita and offering journaling prompts to encourage self inquiry into finding embodiment. We continue with the discussion about right action and defining success and failure. In finding a hi...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Acknowledging our Blind Spots with Kacee
Kacee delves deep into the concept that although we may live in right action to the best of our abilities, we must acknowledge that we have blind spots. By doing this, you develop compassion for others who you perceive as blind and compassion for yourself.
This class was recorded on November 6,...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Yoga for Mental Awareness with Kacee
Kacee begins by defining what we are all here for: yoga. Break open the Bhagavad Gita because today we are studying the three Gunas: three broad mental conditions. Through the use of yoga, we may be able to have more control over these mental states.
This video was recorded November 11, 2020.
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Coffee and Philosophy: Finding Fearlessness with Kacee
Kacee begins by discussing how consistently doing the right thing leads to a fearless mindset. Weaving in the text Bhagavad Gita, we discuss the three Gunas - attva, rajas and tamas. These three fundamental, intermingling characteristics make up the mental temperaments we experience throughout ou...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Detachment + Observation with Kacee
This conversation begins with the parable "Is that so?" that leads to finding the present moment and being in a state of sweet detachment. By doing this, we can be ourselves and be our best.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Universal Suffering with Kacee
Kacee continues philosophy class in a deep discussion about the similarities between suffering and happiness.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Softening your Intellectual Pursuit with Kacee
Kacee begins this discussion by having the class define suffering to synthesize with the knowledge of the Vedanta Treatise and the book Good Citizens. Kacee cautions against thinking in black + white while developing your intellect. The conversation moves through depression, violence, and fear an...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Health and Toxicity with Kacee
Kacee and the class begin by talking about the Chinese medicine perspective on how to tune into where energetic blocks develop. Kacee likens health to free-flowing energy and toxicity with energy that is blocked.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Good and Bad Desire with Kacee
Kacee explains the distinction between bad desires, which cause agitation, and good desires, which are aligned with your overall life purpose. This leads the class into the furthering the discussion about happiness and suffering.
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Coffee + Philosophy: The Source with Kacee
Kacee leads the discussion about religion, superstition, and truth in attempt to find the source of the Self.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Finding Happiness in the Mundane with Kacee
Kacee uses the four noble truths to guide your journey of doing the work and provides techniques to find happiness in small moments of the day - even through moments of suffering.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Perspectives on Suffering with Kacee
Kacee begins with the book Good Citizens to continue the conversation around suffering as she walks through how trauma lives in the body. The discussion progresses to a deep dive into birth, death, and rebirth, and re-parenting.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Seeking Inwards with Kacee
Go inward with Kacee for this captivating hour of discussion, where she dives into the pairs of opposites, personalization and the gunas as they relate to happiness.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Embodying the Seeker with Kacee
Today, Kacee discusses the seeker who distinguishes the real from the unreal. This leads back to discerning attachments. Kacee provides a tool to identify attachments in general actions throughout daily life while citing "The Holocaust of Attachment" and the Bhaja Govindam.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Seeing the Unseen with Kacee
Join us today to bring awareness to parts of yourself that are beneath the surface. Kacee discusses developing the intellect, understanding misalignments, and recognizing attachments.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Exploring the Lung Line with Kacee
Kacee provides a space to explore the associations we have with the self. This conversation dives deep into the states of consciousness through the lens of the Lung Line. In Chinese Medicine, the Lung Line is connected to grief, sadness, and detachment.