Figure 1 shows the trial profile of the 1228 subjects who attended the motivational lectures. Two hundred twenty-six subjects who satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria, were selected and randomly allotted to two groups: Y and PE. The reasons for drop-out of 53 subjects are shown in the figure. Data on 84 subjects in the yoga group and 89 in the control group were available for the final analysis. Table 3 shows the demographic data. There were 80 females and 93 males within the age range of 17–62 years. The mean ages were 28.7 ± 11.6 years for the Y group and 30.8 ± 11.9 years for the PE group. They belonged to
different categories such as college students, employees,

business people and housewives. There were ten subjects with low scores, 156 subjects with moderate scores and seven subjects with high scores on the VAS. Table 4 shows the changes after the intervention in the two groups. The scores on VAS in the Y group (59.77 ± 7.51 to 57.36 ± 6.20) showed a significant decrease (P = 0.01). There was a nonsignificant increase in the PE group (58.71 ± 9.25 to 59.93 ± 8.63). There was a significant difference between the groups (P = 0.013) on ANCOVA considering the pre- values as covariates. RMANOVA for interaction between males and females (P = 0.68) and the two age groups (P > 0.50) showed no significant differences between groups.