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Yoga is the most rapidly growing health movement of today, despite having existed thousands of years already. People attitude towards health, spirituality, way of life and our place in society have changed quite dramatically, as people are looking for answers for their everyday problems. The application of yogic practices will relief number of chronic physical, psychological and psychosomatic diseases. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of yogic practices such as asanas and Surya Namaskara on flexibility and muscular endurance among working women in textile industry. To facilitate the study, 120 working women were selected from a textile unit in Satara, Maharashtra, India. The Analysis of Covariance is used to validate the results obtained. The results of the present study proved that there was significant improvement on flexibility and muscular endurance due to twelve-week yoga asana training and twelve week Suraya Namaskara training compared to the control group. It was suggested that a similar study may be conducted with larger samples, which would support the findings of this study.