The Union is a yoga studio and community hub located in the heart of Toronto's beautiful Cabbagetown district.
It offers friendly support to facilitate the health of Cabbagetown’s social network through stress-reduction programming and creative connections, in an open environment.
About the Founder
Maggie O'Connor is on a journey to refine her role as a visionary cultural innovator! She marvels in the magic of weaving a tapestry of her experiences as a social justice activist and entrepreneur, honouring each opportunity, challenge and learning as a dynamic thread therein.
As founder of The Union, she identifies as a feminist designer and equality counselor on issues of community engagement. She is fascinated by potential to develop inclusive and co-operative business sustainability. In her work to facilitate consciousness, Maggie embraces the role of her attraction to the power of the healing arts, in a commitment to shifting paradigms of oppression, by modeling her values to support and educate others.
In 2009, Maggie was acting curator of a Photographic Arts Exhibit at Yoga Festival Toronto, and is a researcher, project manager and web master for Someone.ca. She also chairs Cabbagetown2.0, the new Public Space Committee of the Cabbagetown BIA, founded upon ideals of social inclusion, education and ecological and economical. Most recently, Cabbagetown2.0 and the Cabbagetown BIA have engaged Sunarts Design architecture firm to design a new streetscaping plan designed to magnify the harmonious qualities of the community.
For Yoga Festival Toronto 2010, Maggie will be stepping up and out to manage the Acorn Fund, a granting program for non-profit yoga startups! Visit www.yogafestivaltoronto.org for more details.
Her favourite teachers include: Dennison Smith, Matthew Remski, Gill Wortley, Cal Clements, Diane Bruni, Blakie Baber, Deb Parsons, and Christi-an Slomka. These teachers come from these lineages: Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar and Anusara. She also looks forward to learning more from Christina Richa Devi, Gitta Bechsgaard, Mark Whitwell, Scott Petrie and Michael Stone, as inspired during Yoga Festival Toronto 2008 & 2009.
