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The present study was conducted to assess the effect of Pragya Yoga Vyayam on Academic Anxiety among High School Students.For this study, 80 students were selected from the Nav Jeevan Higher Secondary School with age ranging from 14 to 17 years.All Students from stander 9 th or 11 th .Data collection permission was obtained from the principal of Nav Jeevan Higher secondary school, Vadodara.In this study, to measure Academic Anxiety level, The Academic Anxiety Scale (Atieq UI Rehman and M. Abid Siddiqui) was administered to assess the level of academic anxiety.The total number of 44 items on this scale in this study, random sampling was used.All students filled Academic Anxiety scale questionnaire before and after the Pragya Yoga Vyayam.All participants practiced Pragya Yoga exercise for 40 minutes on 5 days a week, for three-month.Data was analysed by using paired sample t-test.The result showed that Pragya yoga Exercise lead to significant Reduction of Academic Anxiety among high school students (p<0.01)indicating utility of these Yogic practices in high school students.