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The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of vethathri maharishi's yoga techniques on selected psychological variables among diabetic patients. To achieve the purpose of the present study, forty five diabetic patients those who are working in Vidyaa Vikas Educational Institutions, Tiruchengodu, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 35 to 45 years. The subjects were divided into three equal groups of fifteen subjects each. Group I acted as Experimental Group I (Kayakalpa Yoga with Meditation), Group II acted as Experimental Group II (Simplified Kundalini Yoga with Meditation) and Group III acted as Control Group. Hematological variables such as RBC, fasting plasma glucose and post prandial plasma glucose were assessed in lab. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. The three groups were statistically analysed by using analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA). In case of significance of mean difference was observed on the criterion measure, as a post - hoc test, the Scheffe's test was applied to find out which pair of group is high among the others. The result of the study reveals that there was a significant improvement in the experimental groups on selected hematological variables when compared to the control group after the completion of twelve weeks of kayakalpa yoga with meditation and simplified kundalini yoga with meditation