In present study, this study was undertaken to investigate the properties of
yoga on improvement of mental and physical health on the lower income
bracket females. Total 21 of participants undertook the control and yoga
therapy intervene once weekly (80 min) for 12 weeks, respectively. For
analysis the metal health status, the STAT-1, K-BDI and RESE surveys
were obtained from all of participants. The physical health status
observations were on the body weights and body mass index (BMI) and the
physiological biomarker were on total reactive oxygen species (ROS) and
total antioxidant capacity using ferric reducing ability in plasma (FRAP)
assay by serum or plasma smaples. The result showed that yoga program
significantly attenuated the abnormal ranges of mental health status as
normal levels, compared with control group. The physiological bio markers
such as ROS and FRAP were also considerably improved in yoga therapy
group as compared with control group, but not affected physical health
status. In the present study supports that yoga therapy program is suitable
to the improvement of mental and physical health on the national basic
livelihood security recipients females. Moreover, these results suggested that
yoga therapy program could be applied to welfare-program for improving the
mental and physiological health status on the lower income bracket females.