Most importantly, yoga meditation teaches the participant to be calm, and to block out the distractions of the outside world. Once a state of calmness has been achieved, the participant is free to think about God in a deeper way.
Well, what I discovered was, you can do the same thing with prayer,duh
prayer and meditation are the same thing they all affect the same brain areas.
Each yoga stretch is symbolic of something and the average lay person doesn’t know what that something is, yoga and kundalini energy,
Even masters will tell you not to try to attain kundalini without their assistance, I know what can happen and it is terrifying.