Eyes are the window to the soul, which, to clairvoyant sight, reveal the qualities of a person’s consciousness.
Breath and energy relates to energetic centers in the body, the channels Ida and Pingala. We can learn to see this energy in us through spiritual senses, but not through rolling our physical eyes.
The exercise you mentioned is not something we practice in this tradition. But whenever students listen to very complicated lectures on Kabbalah and Alchemy, we often see eyes roll!