Volume : 11, Issue : 3, MAR 2025

THE ROLE OF YOGA IN STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR STUDENTS

DR. VASISTHA A. KHODASKAR

Abstract

Yoga is an essential tool for students to manage stress, as it provides a holistic stress management program of physical postures, breathing exercises and mindfulness, all together creating a whole 'integral' program. Academic pressures, social challenges, extracurricular demands, all these and more leave students stressed out, and it adversely affects their mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. Mindfulness practices and yoga have been shown to reduce cortisol levels in the body and promote relaxation, helping with the body’s stress response, while mindfulness practices can improve students’ self awareness, to recognize and manage stress triggers. Meditation and breathing exercises increase oxygen flow while calming the nervous system and helping your achieve body and mind clarity and balance, and physical postures enhance flexibility, posture and body fitness and helps to eliminate physical symptoms of stress such as tension and fatigue. As a simple option to implement every day, yoga in school or outside of school is effective at making these tools attainable to students who are in need of increased focus, emotional regulation, and resilience. Therefore, students who practice yoga are able to deal with obstacles more brilliantly and perform better at school and in life.

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