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The aim of present study was to find out the effect of yogic practices on selected Psychological variables of obese school boys students. Design of the study was Experimental design. The study was formulated as pre and post test random group design, in which purposely thirty obese boys students were selected from two schools of Chembur area of Mumbai and were divided into two equal groups namely experimental group and control group. Experimental group underwent 12 weeks of yogic practice of weekly 5 days one hour in morning session. Control group was kept sedentary. The pre test and post test were conducted on the selected psychological variables such as Anxiety, Self Confidence and Depression administering standardized test such as State Trait Anxiety Inventory, Self Confidence Questionnaire, and Depression Questionnaire respectively. To find out the significance between the pre and post test means of control and experimental groups the ‘t’ test were applied for evaluation of the school obese students. The Yoga training program had showed significantly demotion in anxiety, depression and improvement in Self Confidence of school boys students.