Pratibha Singh, Trayambak Tiwari, Anil Kumar Yadav, Indramani L. Singh, Tara Singh and
Anju L. Singh
Banaras Hindu University, Varanas
Suryanamaskar or Sun salutation is an ancient Indian method of offering prayers to the
rising sun in the morning with a series of physical postures with regulated breathing
aiming at range of physical, mental and spiritual benefits. The present study examines
the effect of Suryanamaskar on attentional network among normal healthy participant.
Thirty healthy participants (Agerange =20 – 27 years; Mage = 24.30 years, SD = 1.76) were
taken from the Shiva Yog and Research Welfare Foundation, Varanasi. The participants
were given the training of suryanamaskar regularly for 60-days (30 min/day). The
attentional network performance measure of the participants was obtained before
and after the suryanamaskar training sessions. Results showed that suryanamaskar
practice improved attentional network performance of the participants. The finding
also suggests the beneficial effect of suryanamaskar on attention network in terms of
increase in alerting effect and executive control effect