Cheeks, lips, and a mantra said aloud

Kapola

Round the lips like a crow's beak and draw the air in through them, the cheeks fully puffed, the chin towards the notch of the throat, and hold the breath.

Hold to comfort, never to a count. Then let the breath go slowly; after a long hold never throw it out with a jerk. A few times.

Learn it the first time with a teacher in the camp. There are no photographs of it yet; it is in words.

Karṇa

The same, and while the breath is held the fingers close the ears, the eyes and the mouth. The attention inside the mouth.

With an ear that hurts or runs, not Karṇa, only Kapola.

The Gāyatrī · aloud, then whispered

Eleven times vācika, aloud; then eleven upāṃśu, whispered. Between lines the breath through the nose.

Let lips, tongue and cheeks move fully on every syllable. The mouth works, but does not hang open to the air.

The Āditya Hṛdayam · recited aloud

From where you last stopped; the page remembers. No count.

The nose, water, toothpaste, and the dentist

The breath through the nose all day; whenever you notice the mouth is open, simply close it.

Water a little at a time, and after something sweet swish water round the mouth. A fluoride toothpaste.

The dentist once, early, before the pain. A hole already made, only the dentist fills.