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Abstract- Prehypertension is a warning sign that you may get high blood pressure in the future. High blood pressure increases your risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, coronary heart diseases, and kidney failure. there is no cure for high blood pressure, but thereis treatment with specific diet, life style modification, exercises, and medications. The purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence of pre hypertension and stress among Raja yoga practitionersas they are using a spiritually oriented peaceful life style along with healthy swathik food, adequate physical exercises and Rajayoga meditation. Total of 155 sample between the age of 20 -70 were screened. The tool used were socio personal data sheet, Cohen�s perceived stress scale, anaroid type of BP apparatus, measuring tape and weighing machine to assess stress, BP and BMI. The findings showed that 50.2% subject had normal blood pressure, 23.2% had elevated blood pressure, 13.55 had stage I hypertension and only 12.9 had stage 11 hyper tension. None of them identified as hypertensive crisis. Regarding the stress the result showed majority of the sample (68.39%) had no stress or normal stress,23.8 had moderate stress and only 7.75% had high stress