Kacee Must
After struggling with her own mental health, coupled with the loss of her sister who took her own life, Citizen founder Kacee Must began a search for meaning. Seeking answers and purpose, Kacee packed up and went to India to spend 3 years living at a formal academy studying Vedanta philosophy. A lifelong practitioner of Yoga, it wasn’t until the academy needed someone to lead the daily 30-minute Yoga session that Kacee stepped into the role of the teacher, and discovered she was born to teach. Upon returning to Detroit, Kacee started Citizen Yoga in 2013 with a mission to improve mental health and prevent suicide, offering yoga as a tool for handling the stresses of life, as inspired by her sister, Miya.
Citizen is grounded in tradition, and is focused on alignment of body, mind and intellect. Always a student, Kacee embraces all schools of yoga, building upon her deep Vedanta foundation finding truth in different traditions, methodologies, and lenses such as Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. Kacee brings to Citizen, and her teaching, the unique gift of helping you redirect your mind to gain insight through asana.
Connect with Kacee!
- Follow Kacee on Instagram @iamcitizenyoga
- Listen to her playlists on Spotify
- Take an in-studio or online live class with Kacee, her schedule can be found here
- Check out her Podcast After Class
- Learn more about Citizen Yoga's Mission
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Blend: Working the Pericardium Line with Kacee
The Pericardium Line, in Chinese Medicine starts at the tip of the middle finger, runs up the inner line of the arm up and ends at the chest. Class will focus on the shoulders, wrists and yes, even your pinky fingers!
Props Needed: 2 blocks + a strap
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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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Blend: Managing Depression with Kacee
This grounding class supports depression management and focuses on opening the chest, shoulders and lower body. Honor your mind and energy body as you embrace this therapeutic and centering practice.
Props Needed: 2 blocks and a blanket
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Blend: Manduka x Citizen with Kacee
In a partnership with Manduka, Kacee teaches a class to yoga students around the world. This is a great introduction into Citizen’s mission of suicide prevention and our alignment-based yoga + philosophy. The first 15 minutes of class will create space in your body. The rest of class will get you...
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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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Blend: The Lung Meridian with Kacee
Cultivating patience in practice, this grounded blend activates the lung meridian, strengthens the core, and opens the hips and the heart.
Props Needed: 1 block and a strap
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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.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Examining our Attachments with Kacee
Kacee dives deep into the concept of attachment as explained in "The Holocaust of Attachment." The discussion explores the conflict between the mind and intellect, the power of developing objectivity, and the pairs of opposites within ourselves that create a unified being. Kacee synthesizes these...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Patterns and Discipline with Kacee
Kacee explores the topics of patterns and discipline as they relate to the mind, body and intellect. This conversation is broaded by defining attachment, the role that ignorance plays and breaking down the meaning of Karma Yoga.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Refining Objectivity with Kacee
In this philosophy discussion, Kacee and Arusha use excerpts from chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita to dissect objectivity. she encourages you to find your armor and the power within your mind to find a higher ideal during difficult times. They'll unravel that path that our minds create through the ladd...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Looking for Blind Spots with Kacee
Kacee guides a discussion centered around illuminating the parts of our lives which are in the dark. This is accomplished by discovering our vasanas, our true nature, and how our vasanas lead to action. The conversation aims to deconstruct the concept of ideal action written in "The Holocaust of ...
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Blend: Drawing Inward
Criss-Cross Applesauce. Lots of Twisting, hamstring opening and crossing the center line of the body in this blend class. Expect to get deep into your IT bands and hips with gomukasana, cow faced pose.
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Blend: Embodying the Lotus with Kacee
Dig into your hips. This class will offer many modifications and opportunities to step into the intensity of a hip stretch. Class is prepping you for lotus pose while in headstand, sirsasana 1.
Props Needed: strap
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Blend: Revolved Bow Pose with Kacee
Experience your edge in this class that moves you towards revolved bow pose. This class will test your balance, core and create space for belly down backbends.
Props Needed: 2 blocks, a strap and a bolster.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Understanding your Values with Kacee
In this philosophy discussion, Kacee defines misery and the representation of fire (tapas & chitta) in the yoga industry while examining the connection between ignorance, selfishness and desire as they relate to our values.
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Coffee + Philosophy: The Virus of Attachment with Kacee
Attachment is a dependency on something outside of yourself for your emotional freedom. In this discussion, Kacee and Glen Calahan from Vedanta Institute LA unravel attachment and create a coping skill to manage your mind and find objectivity through self-reflection. This philosophy class follows...
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Coffee + Philosophy: Digesting Frustration with Kacee
In this discussion, Kacee and the class begin by defining global ethics in a modern world as described in the book "Good Citizens." This conversation highlights the importance of utilizing mindfulness to develop compassion and relieve frustrations.
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Coffee + Philosophy: The Principle of Yin and Yang with Kacee
Ignorance and knowledge, pairs of opposites and techniques for self reflection, are all explored in this thought provoking hour of discussion.
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Blend: The Crown Chakra
Class will focus on Sahasrara, the crown chakra, the Thousand Petal Lotus. This chakra is about higher vision and sight, where you are trying to see something that's really profound for who you are.
Props Needed: 1 block
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Coffee + Philosophy: Sharpening the Intellect with Kacee
Kacee deeply explores what is in a name in this fascinating discussion. This conversation will challenge you to develop your intellect while cross referencing the Tao Te Ching and the Bhagavad Gita.
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Coffee + Philosophy: Center of Self with Kacee
The comparison between attachment and detachment is highlighted in this discussion, with excerpts pulled from the text "The Holocaust of Attachment." The conversation continues by dissecting the meaning of desire and joy and how they're defined in relation to attachment.
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Slow Burn: Immunity Practice with Kacee
Get upside down with this immunity strengthening sequence. With the support of a wall, this inversion based practice will work the meridians of the lung + large intestine, both integral in supporting the overall health and immunity.
Props Needed: 2 blocks and a blanket
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Everyday Core with Kacee
Feeling fatigued and need a restart? Energy is restless or stagnant? This is a perfect sequence to do everyday to alleviate restlessness, stagnation and agitation.
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Coffee + Philosophy: The First
The first coffee and philosophy session from the web! Right when the state went into quarantine Citizen launched their first coffee +philosophy session with Jen Tindle.