Breath-Infusion Practice / Visualization

Even though visualization is a practice in yoga and meditation. I do not teach it. It is not part of the inSelf Yoga™ which I teach.

Can students do it anyway?

Sure. We have no objection to students adding or subtracting from what we teach. You have to decide what you will use from whatever process or teacher you have access to. That is natural. All the same what we guarantee is done with our process in mind, not with other systems mixed in.

Everyone is welcomed to describe their process so as to be clear to readers what is being used and the results of such usage. When you describe your experience please give us details about your process even if it includes visualization.

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In relationship to visualization, our main reason for not doing that is due to the stipulation of Patanjali in the second verse of the Yoga Sutras where he practically outlawed visualization and use of the buddhi intellect orb for right analysis, wrong analysis, imagination (which includes visualization) and memory.

Why did Patanjali say about this?

It is best to see the Yoga Sutras to find out.

However in our practice, we wait for something to happen and then we work with whatever energy is accumulated as a result of the breath infusion sessions. We work with what really happens instead of trying to create what will happen.

In cases where something is supposed to be there and it is not there, we accept on the word of the yoga teacher and the yoga text that it is there but we cannot perceive it because of not having develop the higher sensual means of seeing.

We reach invisible things and apply pressure on them, as per the ideas of the yoga teacher and the yoga text, but we do not visualize such invisible object if they do not become manifest to us on one way or the other.