Mindfulness and yoga are a combination of psycho-physical-physiological practices that helps in relaxing the body and mind, improves the tolerance threshold in injured athletes, reduces resting heart rate, blood pressure, and improves cognitive function, well-being, endurance, sleep and injury recovery time in sportsperson. An electronic database search was conducted using the keywords ‘mindfulness’, ‘yoga’, ‘psychology’, and ‘athletes’ from January 2000 to January 2021. A total of 27,197 records were identified from which 32 studies were finalised for critical analysis after applying inclusion/ exclusion criteria. Over half (65.63%) of the researches included were longitudinal studies or randomised controlled trials and there is an increase (research frequency) from 2011 in the number of studies involving mindfulness and yoga as an intervention for selected psychological parameters in sportspersons. It was noted that on an average more studies were conducted on female subjects than males and the average mean age for the samples was 23.82 ± 2.57 years. The average acute (in minutes) and chronic (in days) treatment protocol duration for all the studies were 18 minutes and 50.35 days respectively. Most of the researches involved mindfulness training intervention (21.88%) followed by mindfulness sport performance enhancement (18.75%), and yoga intervention (12.50%), however, mindfulness meditation therapy, relaxation techniques, cognitive behavioural training, mind body exercise intervention, mindfulness-based intervention and mindfulness meditation training for sports 2.0 were the least employed methods that represented 3.13% each of the total studies. It was concluded that various mindfulness and yoga interventions are useful in order to enhance mindfulness, improve mental health, attention, concentration, sports performance, and reduce competition stress and anxiety.