Life Style Assessment of Indian Yogis

About Book: This book is based on a research study conducted with the objective to Profile Indian Yogis of five different yogic practices on their selected life style responses. Another objective of the study was to compare Indian Yogis of five different yogic practices by their selected life style responses. Life Style Assessment Inventory by Anspangh Davids, Michael, H. Hamrich and Frank D. Rosato was adopted to collect data for Life Style Assessment. The static group comparison design was used for the study. Five groups were made as Hatha Yogis, Raj Yogis, Japa Yogis, Mantra Yogis and Nada Yogis comprising of 50 subjects each. Life Style Assessment consisted of Physical Assessment, Alcohol and Drug Assessment, Nutritional Assessment, Social Wellness Assessment, Spiritual Wellness Assessment, Emotional Wellness Assessment, Stress Control Assessment & Intellectual Wellness Assessment. To Profile Indian Yogis of five different yogic practices on their selected life style responses, Descriptive Statistics were used. To compare Indian Yogis of five different yogic practices by their selected life style responses, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used at 0.5 level of significance.

Dr. Bharat Chandra Thakur is an outstanding yoga expert with experience of more than 20 years. He run yoga schools in more than 15 countries. He has written several books. Lt Dr. Rajeev Choudhary is working as Assistant Professor at Banaras Hindu University, India. 12 years of teaching and research experience.67 publications on his credit.