Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 aims to “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages”. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2018) Well-being refers to a dynamic state in which people are able to develop their potential for better productivity and positive relationship for the contribution in community. At present, people face various challenges due to sudden COVID-19 pandemic and risen technological advancement that effects individual’s holistic development which is an important stage starting from birth of everyone’s life,. Since ancient times of about 5000 years ago, peoples used yoga (meditation, pranayama, different asanas, etc.) for maintaining their holistic wellbeing. Some literatures emphasized that Hatha and Vihangam yoga show better connectivity with wellbeing. Present paper aims to systematically review the studies related to promoting wellness among students through yogic practices that are helpful to ensure the Sustainable Development Goal-3. The method of review focuses on secondary sources of data using electronic databases like Google scholar, PubMed (NLM), science direct, JSTOR, Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane Central (Wiley) research gate etc. More than 40 published studies show the evidences supporting a benefit of yogic practices on well-being of students.
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