Step 2: Breathing Technique - Naga Kumbhaka🔗

Technique

• 1. In Durvāsana, swallow air very slowly and let the air go little by little like eating rice morsel by morsel.
• 2. One you are full, immediately contract the throat, place the chin on the chest.
• 3. Hold the breath in this posture as long as possible. When you can't hold anyumore, exhale through the throat, through the mouth. 4. Repeat this Kumbhaka 21 times.

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhathih, Verse 77 & 78

ओदि-ग्सवदष-व्चनुकणथेि्पनरचेचष-छिैण ून र्वचेदष- चथ्क्लन बध् ज्लनरन दढमषकणेि रेचिन कुच््िष-िष अग-कुमण कृव्नदूण ्वुन जचेूषनपप्स्न च फलमष-अत सम्परूमष

Odana-grāsavad-vāyuṃ kaṇthenāpūrayec-chanaiḥ Taṃ rodhayed-yathākālaṃ badhvā jālandharaṃ dṛḍham ||77

Kaṇṭhena recanaṃ kuryān-n aga kumbhaḥ śivoditaḥ Kṣudhaṃ jayet pipāsāṃ ca phalam-asya samīritam ||78

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

Step 3: Trinetra Kumbhaka (Breathing Technique)