• S.Amuthambihai
• Dr.P.Sivagnanam

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of slow suryanamaskar practices on breath holding time and respiratory rate among school girls. To achieve the purpose of this study, 30 school girls were randomly selected as subjects from the Kendriya Vidyalaya School, Meenambakkam Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Their age were ranged from 12 to 15 years. The selected subjects were randomly divided into two groups such as group ‘I’ underwent slow suryanamaskar practices (n=15) and group ‘II’ acted as control group (n-15). Group ‘I’ underwent slow suryanamaskar practices for six days in a week and one session per day and each session lasted for 35 minutes for six week. Group ‘II’ was not exposed to any specific training but they were participated in regular activities. The data on breath holding time was measured by Nostril clip method (seconds) and respiratory rate was measure by manual method (counts). The pre and post tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior to and immediately after the training programme. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the dependent‘t’ test and Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) for each and every selected variable separately. It was concluded that the slow suryanamaskar practices group had shown significantly improved in breath holding time and respiratory rate among school girls. However the control group had not shown any significant improvement on any of the selected variables such as breath holding time and respiratory rate.

Slow Suryanamaskar Practices, Breath Holding Time, Respiratory Rate, School Girls

"Effect of Slow Suryanamaskar Practices on Breath Holding Time and Respiratory Rate among School Girls", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.684-687, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812994.pdf

"Effect of Slow Suryanamaskar Practices on Breath Holding Time and Respiratory Rate among School Girls", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp684-687, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812994.pdf