Step 5: Breathing Technique – Kūrma Kumbhaka🔗

Technique

• 1. In Durvāsana, without blinking the eyes, fix your eyes on one point.
• 2. Hold your breath. Not using the hands, just using the mind.
• 3. W h e n y o u c a n n o t h o l d anymore. Relax.
• 4. Repeat this Kumbhaka 21 times.

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhathih, Verse 79

निनमल्ननलिेत्् प्ठेक्षमष-इव नसनूणिे्च्ृष-च ृर्रत कनम्-कुमण स उरूेभवू्'भ्स-वृ्िष-मि्- व्ूौ नसर्वुभौ

ṇimīlon'mīlane ṭhyakthvā Pīte āśtam īva ṣthithihi । ṇethrayośca ṣarīrasya ūrmakumbhas-ṣa ūcyathe ॥79॥

Akashic Revelation

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