Abstract :
The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of astanga yoga practices on general health status and wellbeing of employees. To achieve this purpose a sample of 40 employees were selected at random from Chennai from the age group of 30-40 years. They were divided into two equal groups. Experimental group is astanga yoga practices group, and the other acted as control group the pre test was conducted to all the two groups in sit and reach test for Flexibility and Dr.Latha Sathish Questionaire for Stress. The Astanga yoga practices was given to the experimental group and for the period of 12 weeks for five days per week. The training load was fixed based on pilot study, but the control group was not given any type of training. After 12 weeks of training the post test was taken from all the subjects. The pre and post test was conducted for flexibility and stress at the end of each session and data was recorded. Analysis of covariance was used to test of significance. The results of the study reveals that the efficiency of the flexibility and stress improved significantly (p>0.05).
Author Name : M. Raju & Dr.V.Duraisami
Keywords: Astanga Yoga Practices, Flexibility, Stress.
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