Step 7: Kurma Kumbhaka (Breathing Technique)🔗

Step 7: Breathing Technique – Kurma Kumbhaka

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप पम्ग Kumbhaka Paddhathih, Verse 79

निनमलुर्लिेत्् प्ठेक्षमष-इव र् नू्िे्चुृष-च ृर्रत कनम्-कुम् स उचूेभवूु' भ्स-वृ्िष-मिु-व्ूौ र्र्वुभौ Nimilonmilane tyaktvā pī ṭhe kāṣṭham-iva sthitiḥ Netrayoś-ca śarīrasya kūrma kumbhaḥ sa ucyate Bhavato'bhyāsa-vaśān-mano-vātau sthirāvubhau

Akashic Revelation

When the blinking of the eyes are controlled and one becomes perfectly steady in the asana like a log of wood and devoid of movements of the eyes and the body, it is called Kūrma-Kumbhaka. With the practice of this Kumbhaka, one

Technique

• 1. Continue to be seated in Mandukāsana.
• 2. Try to stare at one point.
• 3. Do not blink your eyes as much as you can.
• 4. Try to stare at one point and do not blink.
• 5. When you can't anymore relax and

do again.

• 6. Repeat this Kumbhaka 21 times.

attains steadiness of vayu and mind. Note: When you try to stare, automatically the stopping of the breath happens.

Step 8: Relax Just sit with closed eyes for a few minutes

ॐ पगन म् द् पगन न्मदन पगन ््ागु म् दुचूे पगन त् पगन म् ्द्च पगन म् वे्वकृिू े॥ ॐ ृ्रप् ृ्रप् ृ्रप् ॥ oṁ pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇamudacyate | pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate || || oṁ shānti shānti sāntiḥ

"From the space of Completion only Completion comes out. Even when Completion comes out, Completion remains as Completion. When the Completion goes back, Completion remains as Completion".