Background: Yoga is a traditional practice from the ancient Indian culture and is considered to be the sign of holistic living. That focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. Super brain yoga is adapted from “Thoppukarna yoga” which practiced for a period of several months has a positive impact on social behavior in children with Autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders. Objectives: the study aimed to assess the level of knowledge on super brain yoga and to assess the effectiveness of super brain yoga on working memory among the nursing students. Materials and Methods: Quasi- experimental research design was adopted for this study. 80 first year and second year students were selected as samples by using simple random sampling technique .out of which40 in experimental & 40 in control group was allotted. The data collection instrument consists of 2 parts,Demographic variables & N-Back Test for memory function. Results and discussion: The results of the present study demonstrated the effectiveness of super brain yoga on working memory was revealed by the paired t-test 1back calculated value t-3.36 was statistically significant at the level of p>0.05. 2back calculated t’ value was 6.57 and calculated t’ value of 3 back test was 4.88 with the level of significance p<0.05.

Super Brain yoga, n back test, Working memory