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The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of yoga on flexibility and resting heart rate among engineering students. It was hypothesized that there would be significant differences on physical variables due to the effect of yoga among engineering students. For the present study the 30 male engineering students from BIT campus, Anna University, Tiruchirappalli were selected at random and their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. For the present study pre test - post test random group design which consists of control group and experimental group was used. The subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups of fifteen each. Group ‘A’ underwent yoga only, group ‘B’ have not underwent any training. The data was collected before and after twelve weeks of training. The data was analyzed by applying Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) and scheffe’s post hoc test. The level of significance was set at 0.05. It was observed that the six weeks of yoga have significantly improved the flexibility of engineering students. It was observed that the six weeks of yoga have significantly reduced the resting heart rate of engineering students.