This Comic Proves You Have No Excuse Not To Meditate

You can do it anywhere, any time.

When artist and author Yumi Sakugawa was 23 years old she realized that meditation could help ease her depression.

Yumi Sakugawa

Yumi's self-portrait

So she decided to start making art about it.

"Making comics about meditation and mindfulness is my own way of anchoring myself deeper into my practice, to visually articulate for myself and for others what it means to embody the emptiness and inner silence that create openings for your true essence to shine through," she writes in There Is No Right Way to Meditate (And Other Lessons).

One idea she wants to spread is that anyone can meditate, any way they'd like. Here's how:

There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons is available now.

(All images excerpted from There is No Right Way to Meditate Copyright © 2015 by Yumi Sakugawa and published by F+W Media, Inc. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. Illustrations by Yumi Sakugawa.)

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