Step 3: Breathing Technique - Trinetra Kumbhaka🔗

Technique

• 1. Remaining in Druvāsana, Inhale through the left nostril.
• 2. Hold the breath as long as you can judiciously
• 3. Without exhalation, inhale through the right nostril.
• 4. Hold the breath as long as you can judiciously.
• 5. Again without exhaling, inhale through both the nostrils.
• 6. Hold the breath as long as you can judiciously
• 7. Now exhale slowly through the left nostril and relax
• 8. Repeat this Kumbhaka 21 times.

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhithih, Verse 192

सकचष-च्ेग च्पनच्व्च्सनच्ग पनरचेूषनिचमुअ पनूचेिष-ि्भ्न व्रनचत् चथ्नवकव || न्पेर-कुमकण प््सष-न्-िे्ेग न् कसन्दण ||१९||

Sakr̥c-candreṇa cāpūrya dhārya sūryeṇa pūrayet Niyamua pūtayen-nobhyāṃ dhārayitvā yathāvidhi || Trintera-Kumbhakaḥ proktas-tri netreṇa tri siddidaḥ ||192||

Akashic Revelation

One should inhale through the left and hold the breath, followed by inhalation by the right nostril and retain. Then again inhale the breah through the nostrils, and hold the breath systematically (before exhalation). This is Trinetra Kumbhaka by Śiva, which gives three-fold siddhis

Step 4: Triśula Kumbhaka (Breathing Technique)