“yoga” comes from a Sanskrit root “yuj” which means union, or yoke, to join, and to direct and concentrate one's attention. A continuous practice of yoga enhances strength, endurance, flexibility and facilitates which is characterized by friendliness, compassion, and greater self-control, while cultivating a sense of calmness and in form of overall performance i.e. well-being. Overall performance of the students is based on the quantity and quality of learning attained in a subject or group of subjects after along time period of instruction, extra co-curricular activities like cultural, sorts, general awareness, etc. Excessive stress affects students overall performance. Improvement in academic performance and alertness has been investigated in various yogic studies. The present paper is specifically aimed to assess the effect of yoga and meditation on overall performance of the students through fundamentals of ethical lifestyle [Physical, Work Ethics, Community Work and Spiritual] on the development of consciousness. For creating a feel of better well being and life satisfaction among the society through scientific justifications based on alteration of pattern of psychological and medical parameters. The Statically results are very optimistic in yoga and meditation practice can alter an individual ’s social, self, physical and emotional well being. It also indicates that practitioners yoga with spiritual intentions reported significantly high erpsychological well being compared with practitioners doing yoga alone. Results suggest that yoga with meditation is a positive addition which can be an effective way to help students cope with stress and focus on concentration for specific task.

Therapeutic Effects, Meditation, Consciousness, Academic Performance