How to have fun at press events alone

Kate Lindsay describes navigating press events alone as a freelancer, rejecting traditional networking advice in favor of a self-focused approach. Instead of forced mingling, she advocates doing the event exactly how you want—treating it as personal experience rather than professional obligation.

Teaching:
• Students forcing themselves into 'correct' poses mirror forced networking—both miss the point of genuine practice
• The Mysore room as solo event: you're alone in a room full of people, make it yours rather than performing connection
• Cue dropping the performance of practice—what would your asana look like if no one were watching?
• Theme: the difference between being alone and being lonely in your practice, how solitude enables authentic engagement

Writing seeds:
• Essay on practicing alone in a room full of people—the Mysore paradox of solitary work in collective space
• Post contrasting networking-style yoga (teacher shopping, pose collecting) with practice as genuine solitary inquiry
• Piece on what it means to 'go full-send selfish' in practice—when self-focus becomes the most generous thing
• Short reflection on the pressure to 'connect' in yoga spaces versus the freedom of doing it exactly your way

Idea map:
• Systems literacy: recognizing when social scripts (networking, community-building) obscure rather than support actual practice
• Attention as practice: the event becomes practice when you stop performing connection and attend to direct experience
• Embodiment over performance: dropping the 'correct' way to do events/practice in favor of what's actually present
• Practice as method: using solitude strategically rather than treating it as a problem to solve through forced interaction

Source: https://embedded.substack.com/p/how-to-have-fun-at-press-events-alone