Yoga IS Meditation

I'm tired of being called a teacher of yoga and meditation. Yoga IS meditation!

It seems that in recent years, yoga has been decoupled from its meditative foundation, which is, of course, antithetical to "yoga."

Yoga means 'union,' so if we treat meditation as something separate, it is no longer yoga. And yet, fitness studios all over the world seem to have been convinced somehow that asana practice equals yoga. True, asana can be practiced meditatively. But how often is that the case, when there is music playing and students are cued to move rapidly from one pose to the next in a so-called flow? "Vinyasa" is not the same as choreography, although sometimes they resemble each other.