LaeKin Burgess MayeRee lesson report #6 for 4/17

In this lesson we started on C4 descending 54321 on the raspberry. I noticed MayeRee had an edgy quality to her voice and guessed this was because of pharyngeal constriction. We tried 54321 on [u] but it was still edgy. I thought if I could get her to release her upper pharyngeal constrictor it would help her sound. I asked for three quick breaths in through the nose to achieve a lower, more energized breath, and hopefully released SPC. MayeRee said that the nose breaths helped a little in her exercises. I asked for blah blah blah on 531 descending. Still really constricted. We moved to her song. I asked her for  the three quick breaths before each phrase. This seemed a little tight so I just asked for a rose breath. We also tried [ngah] descending. I was hoping that these exercises would help her release but I don't know if I was very successful. She said her throat was really tight at the end of our lesson. What she described seemed to be in the vicinity of her SPC and nasopharynx. I wasn't really sure what to do.