Depression is a common mental disorder affecting all age groups, gender and socioeconomic status in India and across the world. Globally, the burden of depression has been rising and major depressive disorder (DD) was the third leading cause of disability in 2015. Estimated global prevalence of depressive episode/DD varies from 3.2% to 4.7%. Yoga has become increasingly popular outside India during the past fifty years. According to the 2017 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), yoga was used in the past 12 months by 14.3 % (35.2 millions) of US adults. Although reported prevalence rates vary by country as well as the reporting time frame and the criteria for duration or frequency of yoga practice, reports that compare use over time consistently find increases. Certain sociodemographic characteristics of the study population can be related to the response to yogic intervention which has been studied in the previous studies. And this article describes the sociodemographic profile of patients of Major depressive disorder receiving adjuvant yogic intervention in a tertiary care hospital.