It seems like the right time to be reflecting on Sauca – cleanliness. It’s the end of a season of eating and drinking, a time when attention goes to turning over a new leaf in the new year. This year has been particularly hard on my body and I have failed to practice cleanliness a lot. Working on the election was physically and emotionally exhausting. Even though I managed to maintain my yoga practice right up until the last week or so, when get-out-the-vote season takes over everything else, I still ate the wrong foods, drank more alcohol than I would normally, and my entire life was overtaken by work. Focusing on one particular outcome naturally builds attachment to outcomes – so there’s some lack of cleanliness in the mind that flows from that. The aftermath of the election has been even worse. I resorted to a lot of comfort eating and drinking, failing to re-integrate exercise into my life, the kind of coping mechanisms that might feel good in the moment, but only...