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Menstrual disorder includes irregular periods or dysmenorrhoea (painful periods), anything that interferes with the normal menstrual cycle, causing pain, unusually heavy or light bleeding, or missed periods. Typically, a woman of childbearing age should menstruate every 28 days or so unless she's pregnant or moving into menopause. But numerous things can wrong with the normal menstrual cycle, some the result of physical causes, others emotional. These include amenorrhea, or the cessation of menstruation, menorrhagia, or heavy bleeding, and dysmenorrhea, or severe menstrual cramps. Nearly every woman will experience one or more of these menstrual irregularities at some time in her life. The study was undertaken with the aim to observe the effect of yogic practices with and without diet modifications on selected psychological variable as stress among Adult women with oligomenorrhea . For this study totally 45 female students were selected as subjects from Sholinganallur, Chennai. Their age ranged between 25 to 35 years. They were divided in to three groups. Experimental group I –yogic practices with diet modifications, Experimental group II- yogic practices without diet modifications and group III –control group (no intervention). The data was collected from three groups prior to training and after 12 weeks of yogic practices with and without diet modifications. Analysis of covariance was used to find out the significant difference between the three groups. The level of significance at 0.05%. The results proved that the regular yogic practices and diet modifications helped to significantly reduce the psychological variable stress.