How many people sat with Synchronized Presence on Sunday 20 September?

One.

On Sunday 20 September at half past seven, three phones were registered for the sit. Two of them belonged to the founder. The third belonged to a yoga studio owner in Dublin who had also done the 07:30 breath that morning. She is the first person outside the team to sit with the app twice in a day.

Last week the number was seven, and all seven were our own devices on a table. So the true count went from zero to one. We said we would publish it whatever it said, and this is what it says.

What was running around that one person, for anyone who wants the plain accounting: a small search campaign in London that showed 54 times and was clicked 5 times, a Sunday advert on Instagram and Facebook that spent three euros and thirty-six cents, and a Meetup group with two members, one of whom marked herself as going. Two hundred and forty-three studios and centres received a letter; fourteen answered.

The sit itself is unchanged. Every evening at 19:30 and every morning at 07:30, whoever opens the app sits at the same minute: a recorded voice, then silence, and a live count of who is there. Nobody leads it.

Next Sunday’s number will be here on the Monday.

Written with an AI writing tool and read by a person before it appeared here. Synchronized Presence is a community, not a publisher: the sit is the point, the reading is optional.

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