Some of you may be interested to know the background to the Throat Deconstriction Programme, so I thought I would include just a little about it. 

I first came across a version of this in the early 2000s. I was booked onto a tour and just before the tour began, I came down with severe laryngitis. Stupidly - because I know better! - I went ahead and did the tour anyway. I felt I had to, as I was the backing vocal section leader and other people were relying on me. I thought the laryngitis would go away in a few days, and that I'd be able to nurse my voice along until the tour was over. 

Long story short, the laryngitis didn't go away and I ended the tour with my voice totally trashed. I feared that I had caused irreparable damage and went to see an ENT specialist, who confirmed severe bruising but no other damage. He referred me to a speech-language therapist, and she told me that I was in for a 6-week recovery process and that I wouldn't be singing any time soon. She then showed me the exercises that eventually became the Throat Deconstriction Programme. After just 3 days of doing the exercises, my voice started to come back, and within 2 weeks I was singing "normally" again (albeit not through my complete 4-octave range and not with the volume turned up to eleven). After 3 - 4 weeks my voice was completely recovered and I have never looked back. That was the one and only time in my career that I'd done my voice damage, and I never want to do it again.

To me, the recovery felt like a miracle, because I had been barely able to speak and couldn't sing at all, but as it turned out it wasn't a miracle: it was Alexander Technique (which could also be called a miracle of sorts). Aspects of the exercises had caused me to adjust my alignment and open and relax the throat by means of what AT practitioners call The Whispered Ah. Now this on its own is a terrific exercise, but when you incorporate the other elements of the Throat Deconstriction Programme, that's when the magic really starts to happen! 

I have refined the programme over the years, using it with my own students, all of whom have reported significant benefits. Even if your throat isn't chronically constricted, but for example if you're tired, or maybe feeling the effects of too many gigs in a row, it will help. The sooner you address the problem, the sooner it gets resolved.