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Analysis of Effect of Yogic practices: - An empirical study with
reference to static and dynamic flexibility among school childrens
Himanshu Chintan,
Research Scholar Bhagwant University and Dr. Atul Dubey (Research Guide)
Abstract
Yoga has been in practiced for around 5500
years and it has shown strong presence in
India. Previous literature has also enough
evidence of the practice of the yoga in India.
Realizing the importance of physical fitness
and sound health now a day’s every school is
conducting the Yoga session for the
children’s studying in their schools, so that
they can understand the benefits of yoga and
its usefulness in their day to day life. My
intention of writing this paper is to analyze
the pre and post impact of yoga exercise in
creating static and dynamic flexibility among
school childrens.
Key words: - Yoga, Physical fitness,
flexibility of yogic practices
Introduction
The yoga and its importance in our life is not
new, the yoga has been in practice for around
5000 years in India. Due to fast changing
lifestyle and shortage of time we are not
doing any physical exercise and this lead to
development of the various diseases which is
not good for our normal health. Today has
taken different shape:- Some treat yoga as a
medium to cure diseases, some treat yoga as
source to maintain physical postures, some
treat it as a medium to bring mental peace
and so on. With this we can say yoga has
taken different shapes and it depends upon
individual how he takes it out. Ram Dev
Baba is known as a father of modern yoga
and he is the person who brings revolutionary
change in the yoga. Ram Dev Baba became
one of the iconic face all over the world for
his contribution in brining awareness level
among the people living in the different part
of the world. Yoga itself is a science as well
as art which have strong evidence in curing
and maintaining the physical and mental
health of the individuals. Realizing the
importance of the yoga many eductational
institute has introduced yoga as a subject for
their students. In this the researfhe want to
find out the awareness of yoga among the
school going children and its importance in
their day to day life. The practice of yoga is
acting as an alternate source of curing many
critical diseases.
Literature Review
Sangeetha Vinod Sudhakar B (2011), In their
finding stated that the yoga help in changing
physical, mental, and overall wellness of the
individual who are practicing yoga in their
day to day life. The author also stated that the
yoga also help in removing the stress level
among the employees. Srivastava (1985) in
his study on yoga find that the yoga help in
moderating the stress and job anxiety.
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(Feuerstein, 1998). During review of
literature stated that the Patanjali an ancient
Yoga sage defines yoga as techniques which
are used to maintain the fluctuation of mind
and help in reaching the reality of the true
self. Sahasi, Mohan and Kacker (1989)
during the research regarding the
effectiveness of yogic teaching in
management of anxiety found that the
anxiety level decrease in the case of the
patient who are practicing yoga. Rao (1995)
in his paper stated that the scientific
significance of Yoga is to maintain the
psychological stress and help in attaining the
mental peace. Patil and Telles (2006) in his
finding stated that the mediation techniques
developed by Vivekanand Yoga Anusandhan
Samsthan, Bengaluru, is more effective in
attaining the mental peace as compared to
other form.
Objectives
1. To find the effect of yogic practices on
flexibility.
2.To find out the comparative picture of
effect of yogic practices on static & dynamic
flexibility.
Research Methodology
The primary data was collected with the help
of practical classes and based on the
observation of yogic practices and its pre and
post effect. The sample size is 80
respondents. 40 girls and 40 boys. The survey
was conducted in the various schools of
DAV. The place of research work is Ajmer (
Rajasthan). The sampling techniques were
random sampling. The data is analyzed by
computing the descriptive statistics and
comparative statistics; Paired T-Test, Mean
and Standard Deviation. The level of
significance chosen on the basis of
hypothesis is 0.05.
Analysis and Interpretation of Data
1. Mean and standard deviation (Pre-post test) of static flexibility test of Shoulders (Girls)
Nature of
Test
N Mean
Standard
Deviation
Pre Test 40 12.57 1.76
Post Test 40 13.46 1.58
Table:- 1 Mean and standard deviation (Pre-post test) of static flexibility test of Shoulders
(Girls)
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The means and standard deviations for pre
and post test of Static Flexibility Test- Shoulder, Class XI (Girls) it was found that
the score of the subjects was normal as per
the national standards in pre test, difference
is very significant as the score is in seconds
centimeters, hence it could be said that the
yogic practice has improved the static
flexibility-shoulder of the subjects. The
standard deviation in pre and post test was
more or less same which suggests that the
scores did not variate much among the
subjects in pre as well as post test being from
the same age group and sex.
2. Mean and standard deviation (Pre-post test) of static flexibility test of Shoulders (Boys)
Nature of
Test
N Mean
Standard
Deviation
Pre Test 40 12.53 1.01
Post Test 40 13.18 0.77
Table:- 2 Mean and standard deviation (Pre-post test) of static flexibility test of Shoulders (Boys)
The means and standard deviations for pre
and post test of Static Flexibility Test- Shoulder & Wrist, Class XI (Boys) it was
found that the score of the subjects was
normal as per the national standards in pre
test, difference is very significant as the score
is in seconds centimeters, hence it could be
said that the yogic practice has improved the
static flexibility-Shoulder& Wrist of the
subjects. The standard deviation in pre and
post test was more or less same which
suggests that the scores did not variate much
among the subjects in pre as well as post test
being from the same age group and sex.
Table:- 2 Mean and standard deviation (Pre-post test) of static flexibility test of Shoulders (Boys)
3. Mean and standard deviation (Pre-post test) of static flexibility test of Ankel
( Girls)
Nature of N Mean Standard
