‘Channel breaths’ ortsalung¹ and ‘magical movement’ ortrülkhorare distinctive Tibetan mind-body practices in which breath and concentration of the mind are integrated with particular body movements. They have been part of spiritual training in Tibet since at least the tenth century ce. The globalization of the twentieth century has not only allowed many of the Eastern mind-body practices to take root in the West, but some practitioners have also adopted what anthropologist Joseph Alter calls practices of ‘modern medical yoga’ (2005). At the turn of the twenty-first century, a randomized controlled clinical trial using channel breaths and magical