IMPACT OF ASTANGA YOGA AND KAYAKALPA PRACTICES ON SELECTED PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLE AMONG MALE GERIATRIC PEOPLE

Abstract [English]

According to traditional Indian culture, the life span of human being is a hundred years (Holger R. Stub., 1982). The Dharmasastra, as given by Manu – the law giver, the life span of a man is divided into four stages. As’rama, a Sanskrit word, refers to the period in which a person remains in a certain role. ‘S’rama‘’ signifies the efforts needed to carry out a role and the vowel ‘A’, connotes the time at which such efforts begun and the time from which such efforts are no longer required. The study was undertaken with the aim to observe the impact of astanga yoga and kayakalpa practices on selected psychological variable among male geriatric people. For this study totally 45 male geriatric people were selected as subjects from Chennai. Their age ranged between 60 to 70 years. They were divided in to three groups. Experimental group I –, Experimental group II- astanga yoga with and without kayakalpa practices and group III –control group (no intervention). The data was collected from three groups prior to training and after 6 weeks of astanga yoga with and without kayakalpa practices. Analysis of covariance was used to find out the significant difference between the three groups. The level of significance at 0.05%. The results proved that the regular astanga yoga with kayakalpa practices helped to significantly reduce the psychological variable in stress.