Bridging innovations in sports, education and nutrition effect of simplified kundalini yoga on selected physiological and pyschological variables among women engineering students

The philosophy of yoga is “caring, sharing and empowering”. Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root “YUJ” which means join, unite, and merge. Good health enables people to enjoy present life and has the opportunity to achieve the goals they have set for themselves. Women are equally capable doing of all the duties of men. Women should be given special comforts appropriate to the nobility of their sex. Apart from the physical nature of life, yoga provides beneficial effect to mental health also. Different breathing exercises or techniques are there to calm the mind and brain, offering inner peace and ability to face and deal with any problem. Today, more than before in the history of humanity, people are facing lot of stress. There is an unprecedented rise in psychosomatic and mental illness. This evolution results in loss of individual identity, happiness, freedom and peace. It is the union between a person's own consciousness and the universal consciousness. Yoga is a method of learning that aims to attain the unity of mind, body and spirit through these three main yoga structures: exercise, breathing and meditation.