Women face numerous barriers to being physically active including caring responsibilities, body image and perceptions of safety. Change needs to occur at the societal levels to address current gender roles and how they can limit women’s abilities to be physically active maintain health (World Health Organization 2009). Yoga asana are psycho-physical practices to culture body and mind (Rose and Thomas 2010). Yoga has been practiced in India for over two millennia and spread throughout the globe. It increases flexibility, physical fitness and general health. It lubricates the joints, ligaments, and tendon. Maintains correct posture, strengthens the weak parts of the body and control the body weight. Kundalini yoga derives its name through a focus on awakening Kundalini energy through regular practices of meditation, pranayama, chanting mantra and yoga asana. The practices of kriyas and meditations in Kundalini yoga are designed to raise complete body awareness to prepare the body, nervous system and mind to handle energy of Kundalini rising. Simplified Kundalini yoga or SKY is a physical, mental and spiritual discipline packaged by Vethathiri Maharishi for developing strength, awareness, character and consciousness. It includes physical exercises, kundalini meditation, kayakalpa exercises and introspection. Both asanas and practices of simplified Kundalini yoga increases flexibility significantly after sixteen week of training on college women students. Flexibility was measured using sit and reach box and unit of measurement was in inches. Analysis of co variance (Ancova) was applied to find out significant difference among the groups. If F ratio was found to be significance Scheff`s post hoc test was applied to find out the significant difference between the adjusted paired mean.
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