Ujjayi Level-3 || Ujjayi Pranayama || Ocean Breath || Victorious Breath || Breath of sound ||

Ujjayi at Level-I & Level-II can be performed for as long as one wants to without much restrictions. This discipline, however, changes as we enter Level-III & Level-IV which require another level of discipline. With Ujjayi -III, we enter the realm of Ujjayi Pranayama.
Ujjayi Pranayama Level-III Method
1. Ujjayi at Level-III corresponds with Ujjayi at Level-I. Perform your Ujjayi breathing as you will do at Level-I while sitting with your spine in a neutral position.
2. After inhalation in Ujjayi, hold your breath, block your nostrils with right hand using Pranav mudra so that you are blocking right nostril with right thumb and left nostril with right ring finger.
3. Bring your chin to the chest to perform Jalandhar bandh
4. Be there for as long as you can, holding your breath (below capacity)
5. Raise your chin parallel to the floor
6. Release the finger lock from the left nostril
7. Exhale in Ujjayi from the left nostril alone
8. This is one round
9. Repeat few rounds of Ujjayi as per your comfort

As you move from breathing in Ujjayi to 'breath retention', you start moving into the space of meditation and the benefits which was anyway multidimensional in nature with the breathing alone takes you to a much higher level now.