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This study investigates the executive functions of adolescent girls, evaluated by Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Self Report Version (BRIEF-SR), and the effect of yogic intervention of the adolescent girls� executive function skills. We evaluated 50 adolescent girls, between the ages of 12 and 15 years, with control diagnosed of any physical health disorders or neurological disorders, any medication or treatment which alters the functions of the nervous system. Results of the paired-samples t-test show that mean Global Executive Composite (GEC) differs before Yogic Intervention (M = 127.94, SD = 11.75) and after yogic intervention (M 95.58, SD = 12.15) at the .05 level of significance (t = 23.91, df = 49, n = 50, p< .01, 95% CI for mean difference 29.64 to 35.08, r = .68). On average Global Executive Composite (GEC) was about 5.44 points lower after yogic intervention. It shows that Yogic intervention helps adolescent girls in removing of obstacles that hamper the executive functioning of our systems and improves the perspective of their life. These results add to prior research findings which indicated that diverse activities have been shown to improve girls executive functions like computerized training, aerobics, martial arts, and school curricula. In the sequence we found yogic intervention programme contributes to the development of adolescents and additionally support the hypothesis that yogic intervention programme plays a significant role in developing executive functioning skills.