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The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of yogic breathing intervention programme on stress among adult men. To achieve the purpose of this study, twenty (n=20) male adult were randomly selected from St. John's College, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu, India. The age of subject's was ranged from 18 to 22 years. The selected participants were randomly divided into two groups such as Group 'I' underwent yogic breathing intervention programme (n=10) and Group 'II' acted as control group (n-10). Group 'I' underwent yogic breathing intervention for five days and one session per day and each session lasted between 45-50minutes for six week period. Group 'II' was not exposed to any specific training but they were participated in regular activities. The data on stress were collected and administered by standardized questionnaire such as Everly and Girdano's Questionnaire respectively. The pre and post-tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior to and immediately after the training programme. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the dependent- 't' test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) for each and every selected dependent variable separately. It was concluded that the yogic breathing intervention group had shown significantly improved in stress. However, the control group had not shown any significant improvement on any of the selected variables such as stress.