The performance scores of children (aged 11 to 16 years) in verbal and spatial memory tests were compared for two groups (n = 30, each), one attending a yoga camp and the other a fine arts camp. Both groups were assessed on the memory tasks initially and after ten days of their respective interventions. A control group (n = 30) was similarly studied to assess the test – retest effect. At the final assessment the yoga group showed a significant increase of 43% in spatial memory scores (Multivariate analysis, Tukey test), while the fine arts and control groups showed no change. The results suggest that yoga practice, including physical postures, yoga breathing, meditation and guided relaxation improved delayed recall of spatial information.

The practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) was shown to improve academic performance in university students . While the above study examined how meditation influenced the process of remembering, a subsequent study examined the effects of a combination of yoga practices on hemisphere-specific memory tasks . Groups trained in yoga showed a significant increase in spatial test scores at retest, but no change in verbal test scores, suggesting that yoga breathing improved performance in a right hemisphere– specific memory test.

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