yoga and meditation are they the same

My journey with yoga so far has brought me to a lovely place ,  a place of  peace and love.
I cant describe how i feel it is just beautiful., i feel as if i am walking on air.
I had no idea  yoga could  do such a thing !
In the beginning   i thought yoga was just a natural  way  to get in shape, but as i see now yoga is so much more.
i have thought for a while now that yoga and meditation are one and the same, so i researched this and discovered in a way they are,  they both have the same target   to reach . but  in entirely different  ways, this target is to self enlightenment . Meditation shapes your spiritual self , where  as yoga shapes, sculpts your body  on the outside and massages your internal  organs and muscles  on the inside.
I tell James Iam going to do a yoga workout, i say i am going to pamper myself for a while because  in the end that is how i feel, all that i need after my pampering is a good old fashioned facial which i do at home and then i feel fabulous.
I hate waiting for that hour to pass after i have eaten   to do yoga  because i want to get straight into it.
I didn't wait for that hour once  and i felt my meal coming  up  my throat  so never again  it was so uncomfortable ! it taught me a lesson a big one
don't rush!

Here is something to ponder on.

No one is enlightened
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" Enlightenment is the spontaneous recognition
that there has never been anything as a "you" or a "me"
instead there is only the unfolding of Buddha- nature
the persistent idea of being a "me" obscures our true
impersonal identity. the illusionary  separate self
is  no more than a passing  cloud
traversing the great open sky
of our deeper being."


NAMASTE.

(photos by James and chelle green}