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I have seen and read about tilting a bonsai either in a training pot or grow box. when tilted is it to stand back and get a perspective on repotting or positioning,or is to guide the roots to grow a different direction? If I may I want to sneak one more question, what could I do to stimulate shoots at the base of my azalea. thank you.

You tilt a pot when you are planning to work on it, to see whether a different planting angle might be better. After working on it, if you have not replanted it at the new angle, you do it to get it to grow/get used to the new angle.

Typically, azalea needs not stimulus at all to sprout at the base. For all {deciduous} plant species goes: A good haircut will stimulate branches in all sorts of places.

leatherback wrote: After working on it, if you have not replanted it at the new angle, you do it to get it to grow/get used to the new angle.

Please note that, when you do this, you have to make new holes in the pot on the lowest point. Otherwise your tree may die because of root-rot.

I am actually intending this tilt method for a 25 year old beautiful juniper with a 2 inch trunk that crawled horizontally for about 7 inches till a hard turn and branch and foliage push, I removed it from a yard at neighbors house that was getting a major landscape redo. this method applies for junipers as well as azalea correct?