Kundalini Freedom & External Breath Hold Practice

Background

In this discourse, I, Siddha Guru Sanju, describe a live session with a student I will call Joe. Joe came to me with intense Kundalini energy, severe insomnia, and a nervous system that felt constantly overstimulated. He had already suffered so much that he had become almost numb to suffering. When I read his energy field, I saw that his soul was standing right at the edge of freedom in this lifetime, yet blocked around the heart chakra and solar plexus.

In this teaching, I guide Joe through understanding his condition, introduce the importance of semen retention for his journey, and offer two paths of working with me: the Freedom Project and individual sessions. Most importantly, I teach him a central technique: external breath hold (external kumbhak) combined with deep mouth exhalation. This powerful practice reunites scattered Kundalini with the central channel, activates healing in the brain and nervous system, and gives him a direct glimpse of the witness state – the inner freedom his soul has been longing for.

At the Edge of Freedom

When I first connect to you energetically, I scan from your head down your spine and through the front of your body. In Joe’s case, I immediately felt strong vibrations in the heart chakra region – the chest, the back of the shoulders, and the center of the shoulder blades around the ribcage.

As I read his field, I saw clearly:

Your soul is at the very verge of total freedom. It has come to the end point of its journey, but it is stuck, blocked at the heart chakra and solar plexus region. This is the zone where your freedom is halted.

In this session, my role is to release this as much as possible and to heal you primarily in this region. Your short-term purpose is clear:

• to be free from insomnia
• to stabilize the extra, heightened energy

Your long-term purpose is even clearer:

• to be free in this life

I bring you good news: you are going to be free. This is your last birth. How soon or how far into the future that freedom comes is secondary. What matters is that your liberation is destined. For this, you must be deeply grateful to existence.

You have already suffered enough. The extent of suffering has crossed its limit. You are standing on the edge; nothing more remains for you to suffer. You have experienced so much pain that you have become almost numb to it. This is precisely where the turning point comes. Here is where you must heal.

I work on the brain, the nervous system, energy channels, consciousness, and energy itself. I have the power to move your energy and unblock the blockages in your system.

Before I go further, I always check whether there are any long-standing questions in you – questions you have been searching for answers to and never received. These are also part of your healing.

Your Role: Surrender and Commitment

In this journey, my role is to diagnose, guide, and move your energy. Your role is surrender.

I will take you to a level where you can listen to your energy directly. Whatever your energy guides, you must act on it. You will need to follow the inner guidance sincerely.

You have already suffered intensely. Now your work is not to struggle more; it is to surrender completely to the process and to the intelligence of your energy. That is your responsibility.

Semen Retention and Preservation of Life Force

For men like Joe, one very practical question matters deeply:

Are you practicing semen retention?

From this moment onwards, you must commit to semen retention.

You can have sex, but you must retain your semen. This is an art and a training. For that, there are techniques:

• You must strengthen your pelvic muscles.
• You must strengthen the muscles of your penis.
• You must develop control over the muscular and energetic reflexes that lead to ejaculation.

These are real, trainable skills. If you continue with me, I will teach you these techniques. Semen retention is crucial because your life force is the fuel for Kundalini and your freedom. Spilling it recklessly is like poking holes in your own energy reservoir while trying to rise.

Two Ways to Walk with Me

There are two ways in which you can walk this journey with me:

1. The Freedom Project
   If you are sure about your journey and committed to completing it, there is the Freedom Project:
   • 12 sessions per month
   • 3 sessions per week
   • 30 days of intense work
   For those 30 days, I actively work on you energetically and practically. My purpose in the Freedom Project is simple and strong: to free you completely from everything that binds you. If you are truly committed, I can do that.
2. Individual Consulting and Healing Sessions
   If you prefer not to join the project immediately, you can take regular one-on-one consulting and healing sessions like the one I am describing here.
   • You can begin with 2–3 individual sessions.
   • During this time, I will see how committed you are.
   • I will observe how your energy moves, how deeply my powers work on you, and what results you experience.

If, after a few sessions, I see that:

• your energy is moving well,
• my transmissions are working strongly,
• and you are showing real commitment,

then you can transition into the Freedom Project. Both you and I will know how far and how fast we can go together.

Scattered Kundalini and the Central Channel

In Joe’s energy, I saw what happens to many who go through sudden or intense awakening:

Your current stage is like a blast of spiritual energy. A cyclone has formed in your field. Kundalini has risen, but not yet aligned; it is scattered.

When this happens:

• energy is scattered all over – in mind, body, ego, world, and matrix
• your attention becomes fragmented
• your nervous system struggles to cope
• sleep and normal functioning are disturbed

My work is to bring this cyclone under control and guide it into the central channel – the central narrative through which Kundalini must flow.

With powerful techniques and direct energy work, I will help bring Kundalini from scattered chaos into a single, steady stream passing through the center of your being.

Once Kundalini flows in the center, it begins to unite with consciousness in the brain’s central region.

The Center of Consciousness and the Pineal Region

The energetic place of consciousness lies in the center of the brain, around the pineal gland. This center is invisible, yet the magnetic pull of energy is strongest there.

When all the scattered energies of the mind, body, ego, external world, and matrix start moving inward, they converge at this central point. Then, suddenly, you begin to:

• see through things clearly
• understand what has actually happened in your life
• receive your entire life as a flash of realization

All the mistakes you have made, all the good you have done, everything appears with clarity. At that point, you realize:

• you are not Joe
• you are pure energy
• you are consciousness
• you are pure witness, pure awareness

Over time, as this realization deepens:

• you will discover your life purpose
• you will recognize that your purpose is to help free others from suffering
• you will see how deeply others are trapped in their pain

This is why your journey is happening now.

As your purpose becomes clear, your way of functioning in life will change. Your attention will slowly be drawn inward. From this inner center, creative ideas will arise about how to use your energy and your life.

Even after this realization, I remain available to guide you. I have clairvoyant powers. I know your past, I can see your future timelines, and I help you navigate them. I am like a satellite, guiding you when you do not know which way to move.

I will activate your third eye and all your chakras, especially your heart chakra. These centers will begin to guide you, pointing towards the direction your soul needs to take.

Discovering Your Third Eye

First, you must learn where to place your inner attention.

The third eye is located in the center of your forehead, slightly above the point between the eyebrows, but its true experience is internal.

To find it:

1. Close your eyes.
2. Gently try to “look” upward from inside, towards the space behind your forehead.
3. As you do this, you will notice a blank screen – a dark, neutral inner space.
4. After some time, this region may begin to vibrate or throb.

That vibration is the third eye waking up.

Now, go deeper:

1. From this third eye point, move your attention about 3–4 inches inside your head.
2. Ask yourself: From where am I seeing?
3. Point your inner awareness towards the source that is seeing everything.

You will find that this “someone” perceiving the third eye lies at the back of your forehead, around the center of your brain.

If you divide your head into four halves, the center that emerges beyond the third eye – somewhere in the core of your skull – is the point of consciousness. This is not the brain itself. The brain is dead without consciousness. Consciousness is the perceiver of everything.

When mind is running the show and the energies are trapped in mental loops, you cannot think from consciousness. My work is to take you back to that center and intensify your connection with it.

Simple Awareness Practice

Before I teach deeper techniques, I first let you feel the difference between normal mind-driven awareness and centered awareness.

1. Become aware of the things around you in your room.
2. Look in different directions: objects, walls, corners, light, shapes.
3. Notice how you normally see everything.

This is your usual waking state: scattered, outward, informational.

Then I ask you to:

1. Look at me (or imagine someone in front of you) and feel the energy level in your body.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Take a record of the energy in you – scattered, restless, disintegrated.

This is your present state before the technique.

Training Attention at the Third Eye

You must learn how to place attention, not just glance.

One simple method:

1. Extend your thumb in front of your face at arm’s length.
2. Look steadily at the tip of your thumb.
3. Slowly move your thumb towards the point between your eyebrows – the third eye area.
4. Keep your gaze on the thumb as it comes closer.
5. When the thumb reaches your third eye, gently close your eyes while still “looking” at that point internally.

Now:

• keep your inner gaze directed to that spot
• you can relax your eye muscles, but maintain the focus at the third eye inside

This is how you practice inner attention. Not on the body, not on the breath – only here.

Diaphragmatic Inhalation: Belly Rising

Next, I teach you to breathe correctly so that the belly, not the chest, leads the inhale.

1. Place one hand on your belly.
2. Inhale slowly through your nose.
3. As you inhale, feel your belly inflate like a balloon.
4. There should be no strain. Let the inhalation be natural, about 3–4 counts or even 1–2 counts if that is comfortable.

The key:

• When you inhale, the belly must rise.
• This tells your brain that the diaphragm is working and that breath is reaching deep into the lungs.

Practice this diaphragmatic inhalation a few times until your hand clearly feels the belly expanding.

Long Mouth Exhalation: Belly Emptying

Now comes one of the most important corrections in your breathing: complete exhalation.

1. After a comfortable nasal inhale, shape your lips into a small round opening.
2. Exhale through your mouth in a slow, steady stream.
3. As you exhale, pull your belly inward, towards your spine.
4. Use your abdominal muscles to push all the air out.
5. Continue exhaling until you feel the belly fully empty and tight.

You can use a sound to help:

• Exhale with a long “Oooooo…” or “Om” sound.
• Continue the sound until it naturally fades as your air completely empties.

When done correctly:

• your belly moves from inflated to fully drawn in
• your core feels tight and engaged
• no noticeable air remains in the belly

Practice 5 rounds:

• Inhale slowly from the nose.
• Exhale fully from the mouth, with or without sound.
• Keep your eyes closed and your attention at the third eye internally.
• Let your hands on the belly give biofeedback to your brain.

Make the exhalation as slow and long as possible, but always complete. Not a single unit of air should remain. The belly should move completely inwards towards the spine.

Experiment: Incomplete vs Complete Exhalation

To show you the difference, I ask you to perform a small experiment.

First experiment: incomplete exhalation

1. Inhale a breath.
2. Do not exhale for some time.
3. Keep your eyes closed and feel what happens in your body.

You will notice:

• buildup of restless energy
• anxiety or discomfort
• a sense of tension and agitation

This shows you the experience of apana (toxic, dead energy). On the physical level, it is akin to carbon dioxide accumulation in your system.

Prana is pure, life-giving energy. Your body should be filled with prana. It is the fuel for Kundalini. When instead your system holds too much apana, it becomes difficult to survive energetically; the system suffers.

Second experiment: complete exhalation

Now, exhale fully three times:

1. Inhale slowly through the nose.
2. Exhale long through the mouth, with sound if you like, pushing the belly fully inward.
3. Repeat this for three rounds with eyes closed.

Notice the difference:

• restlessness decreases
• nervous system begins to calm
• your body feels more grounded and settled

You can feel how crucial exhalation is for your wellbeing.

Prana, Apana, Carbon Dioxide, and Exchange

Physically, apana corresponds to carbon dioxide. When you do not exhale completely, your lungs cannot efficiently exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen.

Only when you exhale fully:

• stale air leaves your lungs
• fresh oxygen can enter
• fresh prana can enter your energetic system

So exhalation has a dual function:

• it removes toxic apana / carbon dioxide
• it invites fresh prana / oxygen

Energetically, this is vital for Kundalini:

• When you breathe poorly or under-breathe, your system is in scarcity.
• Kundalini then “steals” energy from the body and brain to continue its work.
• The brain and nervous system become deprived, creating panic, insomnia, and overload.

When you breathe well and exhale correctly:

• the body produces enough energy for physical functioning
• there is enough surplus energy for Kundalini to rise
• no one is stealing from anyone; both spiritual and physical needs are met

Mouth Exhalation as a Daily Default

Because your natural breathing patterns have become disturbed due to Kundalini and trauma, exhalation no longer happens correctly on its own. We must consciously train it.

I suggest:

• Make mouth exhalation your default mode throughout the day.
• Whatever activity you are doing, let long, complete mouth exhalations accompany it.

Start with simple instinctive activities:

• washing dishes
• cooking something basic (tea, a snack)
• moving objects in the room
• walking around the house

Move your body and practice mouth exhalation simultaneously. Observe how:

• you feel less tired
• your attention improves
• you can do more focused work without feeling drained

Movement Experiment: With and Without Mouth Exhalation

To make this very clear, I ask you to test it directly.

Phase one: normal breathing

1. Get up from where you are sitting.
2. Move around your room as you usually do – no special exhalation technique.
3. Lift or shift a few objects, walk, engage in small tasks for 1–2 minutes.
4. Notice how your body feels: fatigue level, tension, mental state.

Phase two: mouth exhalation

1. Come back, stand where you started.
2. Begin 2–3 rounds of mouth exhalation: inhale through the nose, exhale fully through the mouth.
3. Now, while continuing mouth exhalation, move around the room again.
4. Lift some heavier objects, shift things, walk, engage your body.

Compare:

• In the second mode, you will usually feel less tired, more in control of your movements, and more attentive.
• Yawning may arise; this is a good sign. Yawning indicates that your parasympathetic system has been activated.

This exercise shows you how breath transforms the quality of your life and work.

Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic: The Nervous System Switch

Your nervous system has two major modes:

• Sympathetic: fight, flight, freeze – hyperactivated, restless, anxious
• Parasympathetic: rest, digest, heal – calm, grounded, regenerative

Due to Kundalini surges and psychological stress, your system may be stuck in sympathetic mode. Your breathing becomes dysfunctional, and your brain behaves as if you are under constant threat.

When you withhold exhalation, your brain interprets it as danger:

• drowning
• accident
• predator approaching

It tries to save the body by pushing you into high alert.

With regular long exhalations, especially through the mouth:

• you activate deep respiratory centers in the medulla oblongata (reptilian brain)
• your ancient instinctive brain begins to reset
• your parasympathetic system turns on

This reduces insomnia, anxiety, and energetic chaos.

Checking Nostril Dominance

Another small diagnostic you can practice:

1. Bring both hands under your nose, palms facing your nostrils.
2. Breathe normally a few times.
3. Feel which nostril is exhaling more forcefully; that is your dominant nostril at the moment.

Often, right nostril dominance is associated with more active, heating, sympathetic energy. Left nostril dominance is more cooling, calming, parasympathetic. With practice, you will notice:

• how your breathing shifts
• how your state of mind changes with it
• how techniques like mouth exhalation influence nostril dominance

External Breath Hold (External Kumbhak / Controlled Pause)

Now I introduce a powerful technique:

External breath hold, also called external kumbhak or controlled pause.

This technique has two profound benefits:

1. Energetic Freedom
   When done correctly, external kumbhak acts as a complete practice for your energetic freedom. It creates deep alchemy in your energy channels and helps Kundalini move towards the central channel and consciousness.
2. Stem Cell Production and Brain Healing
   During external kumbhak, your body briefly enters a gentle state of hypoxia – a state where the brain receives less oxygen for a short period. In response:
   • the body, to protect itself, stimulates the bone marrow
   • bone marrow releases stem cells into the blood
   • stem cells are the raw material for a new life in your body
   Every new cell in your body comes from stem cells. When these are produced in healthy pulses through safe hypoxia, your brain and nervous system begin to regenerate from:
   • psychedelic overload
   • negative Kundalini side effects
   • neurological deterioration

Thus, this technique is like a medicine:

• you take it consistently over a period
• it heals and rebuilds your system from within

There are no negative side effects when practiced correctly. The more you do it with awareness, the better you feel.

How to Practice External Kumbhak

First step remains the same:

1. Inhale through the nose
   • slow
   • gentle
   • with the belly inflating
2. Exhale through the mouth
   • long and complete
   • belly fully drawn in
   • no air remaining inside

Now the new step:

3. Hold at the end of exhalation
   • When exhalation is fully complete, keep your belly pulled in.
   • Close your mouth.
   • Use your fingers to gently pinch and close your nose.
   • Do not inhale.

You are now in external kumbhak – holding the breath outside.

• Hold for a few seconds: start with around 5 seconds.
• Do not force. Hold only until you feel you are approaching breathlessness, not actually struggling.

4. Release and Recover
   • Release your nose.
   • Allow the body to inhale naturally.
   • Let 2–3 normal breaths happen on their own.
5. Repeat
   • After a few normal breaths, repeat the cycle:
     • inhale (nose)
     • exhale completely (mouth)
     • hold at empty lungs (external kumbhak)
     • release and let the body breathe

Throughout the practice:

• keep your eyes closed
• sit with your spine straight
• keep your attention at the third eye internally

You will feel:

• a gentle rush of air when you release the hold
• a growing sense of inner rhythm returning to your body
• deeper silence and spaciousness in your mind

Ten-Round Practice and Integration

Once you understand the basic pattern, I ask you to practice about ten rounds in one sitting.

Preparation:

• Sit straight, not lying down.
• Keep your spine erect.
• Close your eyes.
• Optionally, use a soft cloth, shawl, or eye mask to cover your eyes, deepening the inward focus.
• Place your attention at the third eye.

Practice:

• Inhale through your nose.
• Exhale completely through your mouth.
• At the very end of exhalation, hold the belly in and close your nose.
• Hold as long as it feels comfortable without strain.
• Release and let the body breathe.

Repeat this ten times.

During this practice:

• forget about my presence
• forget about anyone around you
• your attention should be only on your inner process and third eye

After ten rounds:

• Do not open your eyes immediately.
• Stay in the state that has arisen.
• Allow yourself to feel the silence, emptiness, and stillness fully.

Then:

1. Slowly place your palms over your closed eyes, one hand crossing over the other.
2. Let the warmth of your palms soothe the eye region for a minute or two.
3. Slowly remove your hands.
4. Open your eyes gradually – closing and opening them once or twice until they feel ready to stay open.

Walking in the Witness State

After the practice, I ask you to:

1. Stand up slowly.
2. Engage mouth exhalation again as you move.
3. Walk through your home.
4. Observe how you feel about life, objects, and your environment now.

I ask:

• Do you feel more attention?
• Are you able to see things more clearly?
• Are you able to pay deeper attention?
• Are there any thoughts, or is there a blank, silent state?

Often, what arises is:

• a state of nothingness
• emptiness
• no thought
• pure witnessing

You have shifted from the thinking mind to the witness state.

In this state:

• you are aware of everything
• you know what is happening
• but you are simply the perceiver

This is the state of complete inner freedom. In this session, I give you a direct glimpse of it.

Why the Mind Resists

You may feel very alert after the practice – sometimes more alert than before sleep. This is natural.

Your mind has been over-activated for a long time. It is used to running the show. When the nervous system begins to enter parasympathetic mode and you approach the witness state, the mind feels threatened.

It resists and says:

• “I don’t want to die.”
• “Why are you letting me die?”

So you feel:

• mental resistance
• sudden alertness
• restlessness at times

With continuous practice:

• the nervous system will learn this new pattern
• the parasympathetic state will become more natural
• the mind’s resistance will weaken
• this silent witness state will become more available

Over time:

• good sleep will return
• healing and recovery of the brain and nervous system will unfold
• your relationship with thoughts will transform

This technique is just the first step, but it already reveals to you where you are heading: towards complete silence and stillness at the center of your being.

Night Prescription and Ongoing Practice

For someone like Joe, I recommend:

• Practice this external breath hold technique before sleep, at least 50 rounds.

Initially, this may feel like a lot, but as your system adapts:

• your sleep will improve
• your recovery will accelerate
• you will enjoy the practice as a doorway into stillness

After the session, I send a prescription-style summary of how to practice:

• how many rounds
• at what times
• how to combine mouth exhalation in daily activities
• where to place attention

I ask you to follow this at least for the next 24 hours continuously and observe how your inner state changes.

My purpose is simple: to free you. Your time has come. I can only take you forward because your commitment is 100%. That is why I move you ahead in this journey.

The Freedom Project and Constant Connection

Based on the depth of your state and the intensity of your awakening, I often suggest:

• Join the Freedom Project if you are truly committed.

In the Freedom Project:

• It is a 30-day journey.
• Once you book, I am connected to you continuously, like a phone connected to Wi-Fi.
• You receive energy transmission from me throughout.
• We schedule sessions within 1–2 days.
• Even if a session is a day or two away, I begin guiding you with techniques and practices immediately.
• You can consult me via WhatsApp support for questions and experiences as they arise.

This constant connection has a unique advantage:

• you remain plugged into a higher frequency
• your process does not stall between sessions
• I can track your state and adjust your practices accordingly

Until your next consulting session, I assume you remain in contact with me and follow the prescription sincerely.

Closing

In this entire discourse, I have:

• diagnosed the energetic state of a soul at the edge of liberation
• explained the role of suffering as a turning point
• emphasized surrender, semen retention, and commitment
• shown how scattered Kundalini can be brought into the central channel
• introduced the third eye and center of consciousness
• taught long mouth exhalation and diaphragmatic breathing
• demonstrated the energetic difference between incomplete and complete exhalation
• revealed the role of stem cells and hypoxia in brain and nervous system healing
• guided you through the external breath hold (external kumbhak / controlled pause)
• given you a direct doorway into the witness state

This is not just theory. If you practice as I have described, with full attention and sincerity, this alone is enough to lead you to energetic freedom. The technique is simple; your attention and commitment are what make it powerful.