Efficacy of Yogic Practices for Promotion of, Mental Health, Physical Fitness of Urban House Wives
Keywords:
Mental Health, Physical Fitness, YogaAbstract
The study to evaluate mental health, and health related physical fitness, of Urban House wives were
randomly assigned to 8 weeks of yoga training. Students self-report measures of mood, anxiety,
perceived stress, resilience, and, Psychological well-being through assessment and their physical
fitness. Evaluation measures revealed that yoga participants showed statistically significant
differences to controls on measures of anger control, emotions, memory power, Psychological wellbeing
and fatigue/inertia, the Yoga group showed improvements. Results are implementation
of yoga is acceptable, and has the potential of playing a preventive role in maintaining mental health,
Psychological well-being and health related physical fitness.
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