Step 2: Naga Kumbhaka (Breathing Technique)
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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
ओदन-ग्रासवद्-वायुं कण्ठेनापूरयेच्-छनैःतं रोधयेद्-
यथाकालं बध्वा जालंघरं दृढम् कण्ठेन रेचनं कुर्यान्-न्
अग-कुम्भःशिवोदितःक्षुधं जयेत् पिपासां च फलम्-अस्य
समीरितम्
Odana-grāsavad-vāyuṃ
kaṇṭhenāpūrayec-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
