International Journal of Yoga, Physiotherapy and Physical Education

Authors
KE Meenakshi, Dr. V Ponnuswamy

Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to investigate about different perspective of yoga and its role in overcoming fear of death and enhancing quality of life. Yoga is certainly not a new topic that is being in a discussion and advantages of yoga has been emphasized since time immemorial. Yoga techniques have ability to improve well-being, spirit, thoughts, mental focus, and stress balance of an individual. This study has been conducted through the both primary and secondary data which means it uses literature study as secondary data and quantitative research as primary data. This research collects data for quantitative study by conducting survey method. Here, researcher provides the closed ended questionnaires to 105 participants who are the practitioners of SKY Yoga. The study will be conducted with two groups of SKY intervention (52: SKY I) and (53: SKY II). A validated 53 set of LEIPAD-CLFD questionnaires was made to report the sensations in both sides from the baseline to five visits at 7 week interval. The data is obtained from the selected respondents is to be analyzed by using SPSS programming in order to obtain conclusion to the proposed study. The results of the study reveal that, SKY yoga helps in overcoming the fear of death of self, fear of death of others and fear of dying of self and fear of death of others who practice it. This study concludes that, Mahamrutyunjaya Mantra is most effective mantras which helps people to know their actual state of being and simultaneously eliminates fear of death and dying.