Immediate effect of shashankasana maintance for half-an hour on energy levels, stress and anxiety level on females

Abstract

Background: Modern life patterns affect our health in different aspects physically, psychologically, and socially. There is a need for increasing people awareness about the effect of modern life to control the effects of the patterns of life. Promoting healthy lifestyle includes proper eating, physical activity, and better way of communicating and socializing in the community. All these have positive impacts which we can easily get in practising yoga. Yoga will reduce the risk of getting so many diseases which resulted from our day to day lifestyles. Methods and Material: All subjects were recruited from S-VYASA University, Bangalore who were doing Yoga Instructor Course (YIC) and interested to take part in the study. All of them were assessed in many occasion for state trait anxiety inventory (STAI) Results: This study shows that there is a significant change in the respiratory rate, pulse rate, Bhramari time, Area, stress and anxiety which was p<0.05. Conclusion: This study clearly showed that the practice of the Shashankasana for 30 mins has improved various physiological variables like Respiratory rate, pulse rate, stress and bhramari time. Key Words: GDV, BP, PR ,Oximeter ,RR ,ND , Bhramari time