Submitted By : Mrs Chaya M S
To : The Department of Yogic Science, Bangalore University

Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate whether there is any change in BMR of people leading yoga life style and actively practicing yoga for a minimum period of six months, at a residential international yoga education and research center at Bangalore when compared to (1) with predicted value of FAO/ WHO (1) ,(2) compare the BMR of non-yoga practitioners with that of the available literature of BMR of people of Bangalore and physically active, residential volunteers (who are working for the organaisation and students who are undergoing various courses) N (yoga) = 52 and NY (non-yoga) = 46 in SVYASA, Bangalore. The non-yoga persons are those who are not practicing yoga (asana, meditation and pranayama) and yoga group are those practicing yoga (asana, meditation and pranayama). The result suggest that the BMR in absolute terms is significantly lower P<0.001 when compared to nonyoga group. The mean BMR of the entire yoga group was significantly lower compared to the predicted values. The BMR of non-yoga group was comparable with that of the available literaure of BMR of Bangalore city (2). The BMR of entire group of men (BMI 18.5 To 25) was 6% lower and women(BMI 18.5 To 25) was 12% lower than that of published in the paper of Ferro Lussi(2) on Bangalore dwellers. This study suggests that the metabolic efficiency of the yoga group, due to decreased arousal response and also supports the recent views and agrees with the estimates of predictions of (non-yoga group) FAO/WHO/UNU equations for Indians.

Key Words
Basal metabolic rate, metabolic efficiency, predictive equations, basal hypo metabolic rate, Yoga. With that of predicted values(2). Body weight and height were measured in 98 healthy,