‘Yoga'A way of Stress Management

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practices (suryanamaskar and meditation) in mental stress management of women school teachers of Coochbehar district, West Bengal. For the purpose of the study 60 high school teachers were purposefully selected as subject, their age ranged between 25 to 35 years. The selected subjects were divided into two equal groups, namely experimental and control groups. The experimental group gone through six week practice for suryanamaskar and meditation, whereas control group was not gone through to any training. Pretest and post test data were collected by the help of International stress management association questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by the using of ‘t’ test at 0.05 level. The regular yogic practices significantly helped in mental stress management of the school teachers.