Yesterday, between looking at the latest reports on the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, I prepared a class on Saucha. Saucha is the first of the Niyamas — the principles of action towards the self (normally these are deemed a code of ethics, but I’m not an ethicist and do all I can to avoid such loaded terminology). Saucha in yoga means cleanliness, or purity, which is generally understood in the…
