The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.