Step 4: Kūrma Kumbhaka (Breathing Technique)
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Step 4: Breathing Technique –
Kūrma Kumbhaka
Technique
- Remaining Parāśana, fix your sight at one point like third eye.
- Stop blinking your eyes.
- Hold as long as you can.
- When you cant hold, relax.
Note: By staring, automatically your breathing will stop. Then relax. This will automatically increase your concentration power.
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Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण
Kumbhaka Paddhathih, Verse 79
निमिलोन्मिलने त्यक्त्वा पीठे काष्ठम्-इव
स्थितिर्नेत्रयोश्-च शरीरस्य कूर्म-कुम्भःस उच्यते
भवतो'भ्यास-वशान्-मनो-वातौ स्थिरावुभौ
Nimīlonmīlane tyaktvā pīṭhe
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
attains steadiness of vayu and mind.
