Volume : 9, Issue : 2, FEB 2023

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON YOGA FOR GLOBAL WELL-BEING (Shree Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal, Amravati (M.S.) INDIA)

EFFECT OF YOGA PRACTISES ON SELECTED PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF B.ED. STUDENTS OF AMRAVATI

DR. KAVITA N. WATANE

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to see the effect of some yoga practices on selected physiological parameters of B.Ed. students’ of Amravati. For this purpose researcher has selected twenty (N-20) B.Ed. students from Shri Shivaji College of Education, Amravati (Maharashtra). The age group of the students was ranged between 20 to 25 years. B.Ed. students were selected with the help of simple random sampling methods. The B.Ed. students were gone through six weeks of yoga practices under the guidance of a qualified yoga teacher at Yoga centre of Shri Shivaji College of Physical Education, Amravati. Practice sessions were conducted five days a week during the morning hours for sixty minutes for a total duration of six weeks. Practice session concludes: Prathana for 5 min, Surya Namaskar (12 step method), Asanas – Postural exercise sessions – included – Trikonasana (Triangle postures) – Veerasana (warrior posture) – Padahastasana (forward bend posture) – Chakrasana (wheel posture) – Sarvangasana (shoulder stand posture, head stand posture) – Halasana (plough posture) – Paschimothanasana (posterior stretching) – Padmasana (lotus posture) – Vajrasana (ankle posture) – Ushtrasana (camel posture), Breathing practices – Kapalabhati – Ujjayi (breathing with a hissing sound), Pranayama (5 repetitions each) – Nadi shuddhi pranayam( alternate nostril breathing) – Bharamari pranayama (humming bee breath) – Mukh-bhastrika in vajrasan (bellows type breathing) and Meditation. Physiological parameters are as follows: Heart rate (measured manually, Breathing rate (measured manually) and Vital capacity (measured by peak flow meter. To see the effect of some yoga practices on selected physiological parameters researcher applied mean, standard deviation, mean difference to determine the difference between pre-test and post-test means of group. When a difference was found in mean researcher applied ‘t’ test asses the significant difference between the means of pre and post test. Result shows that on the basis of mean difference there was differences between mean of pre & post test of physiological parameters of B.Ed. students’. To see these differences were significant or not at 0.05 level of significance. Researcher further calculated ‘t’ test which shows that there is significant difference between pre & post test of breathing rate and vital capacity as the calculated ‘t’ values 2.517 & 6.369 was greater than tabulated ‘t’ value 2.024. Heart rate shows insignificant differences as the calculated ‘t’ values 1.605 is lesser than the tabulated ‘t’ value 2.024. The results shown in the study are inconclusive because it is well known that regular yoga practices decreases heart rate and breathing rate. In the present study, yoga practices resulted decrease in heart rate and breathing rate but heart rate was found not to be significant and breathing rate was found to be significant, whereas vital capacity was increased and it was found to be significant.

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