Students undergo a lot of stress and mental depression during their exams and other competitions. Other than exams, students have to cope with many other things like packed schedules, coursework and competition, etc. Spending a lot of time in front of the computers with poor postures can lead to headaches, back pains and other health problems. Simple yoga practices can help students overcome all these problems. Yoga helps students to control the stress and anxiety by reducing cortisol, which is the main stress hormone. Daily practice of yoga can help students improve concentration and mental clarity thereby making them to excel under pressure.
To Improve Brain Power: Yoga helps students to keep their brain, body and soul in balance. Yoga can help in improving the creative faculties, concentration and retention power. Shirsa asana and Sarvanga asana helps increase the blood flow to the brain thereby improving the performance of the brain and memory.
Benefits of yoga for students:
- Beat exam stress.
- Increases confidence.
- Improves memory.
- Better concentration.
- Relaxation.
- Increased strength (mental & physical).
- Inner peace.
- Revitalization.
 Some of the best yoga asanas for students are janushir asana or the head to knee pose, dandasana or the staff pose, paschimotana asana or the posterior stretch, hal asana or the plough pose, padmasana or the lotus pose, sukhasana or the easy pose, mala asana or the garland pose and sarvanga asana or the all organs pose.
Yoga is not just for self-help of students but also aides in improving their overall life style. Yoga helps in improving the students’ attitude towards themselves and improves their behavior and physical health. Yoga helps student to realize their power to concentrate and ability to achieve things. Yoga helps in improving musculoskeletal and cardio respiratory health. Yoga can be a better solution who is suffering from insomnia. Yoga controls high blood pressure, anger, headaches and keeps the body energized.