Yoga as Meditation

In the class, I attend it is only one hour long, so we do not really have time to include a proper meditation into our practice. Although, Stevee does have us do I guess kind of a mini-meditation at the beginning. We will close our eyes and she tells us to focus on what we want to get from practice that day or what we went to accomplish. In a way, this is sort of similar to meditation, but because of time constraints, we can only do this for a short period. If we had a longer class I'm fairly sure that Stevee would definitely incorporate some type of meditation into the class.