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Jung objected to yoga being done by ordinary Westerners only so far as it was likely to affect their psychic control. He did not object if they had been properly prepared by a trained analyst who could remove their psychoses and neuroses. This was what I understood him to say at our personal discussion in 1937. In his Collected Works, Volume 11, "Yoga and the West," he makes a short statement on this subject: "I do not apply yoga methods in principle, because in the West, nothing ought to be forced on the unconscious. . . . On the contrary, everything must be done to help the unconscious to reach the conscious mind and free it from its rigidity."

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 530