Step 6: Naga Kumbhaka (Breathing Technique)🔗

Step 6: Breathing Technique Naga Kumbhaka

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Technique

1. In Mandukāsana, inhale and swallow the air very slowly like a morsel of food. Do it judiciously as long as you can.

• 2. When you are full, hold.
• 3. When you can't hold, exhale very slowly.
• 4. Repeat this Kumbhaka 21 times

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप पम्ग Kumbhaka Paddhathih, Verse 77 & 78

ओदि-ग्सवदष-व्चनुकणथेि्पनरचेचष-छिै् ून रुवचेदष- चथ्क्लन बध् ज्लनरन दृमषकणेि रेचिन कुच््िष -िषअग-कुम् कृवुनदू् ्वुन जचेूषनपप्स्न च फलमष-अत सम्ररूमष Odana-grāsavad-vāyuṃ kaṇthenāpūrayec-chanaiḥ Taṃ rodhayed-yathākālaṃ badhvā jālandharaṃ dṛḍham Kaṇṭhena recanaṃ kuryān-n aga kumbhaḥ śivoditaḥ Kṣudhaṃ jayet pipāsāṃ ca phalam asya samīritam

Akashic Revelation

One should swallow the air slowly into the throat like a morsel of rice, retaining it to the capacity, with firm application of Jalandhara bandha and then expel it from the throat. This is Naga Kumbhaka explained by Shiva. By this practice one is able to control hunger thirst.

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