The annual fall festival Peak into Peterborough is returning Saturday with an emphasis on healing arts with the new event Peak into Wellness.
Brianna Graves and Ivor Edmonds, the founders of Sága, are launching Peak into Wellness, which Graves says is “a celebration of community vitality.” The event is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Parish Hall of the Unitarian Universalist Church on Main Street in Peterborough.
“Peak into Wellness is one special component,” said Ginks Leiby, Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce office volunteer. “They are partnering with us and I am thrilled that they are.”
Graves, who has a background in marketing, said she and Edmonds created Sága to make people more aware of what healing modalities are available in the region and to create a hub for healers and wellness practitioners in the area.
“We’re trying to bring folks together and create opportunity,” Graves said. “Everybody’s doing something awesome and they are all doing it on their own.”
Sága previously held a month of free yoga on Sundays in Depot Park during the summer.
“[Peak into Wellness] really started when Pelagia Vincent from Depot Square reached out. She was interested in having free yoga at Peak into Peterborough,” Graves said. “We said, ‘Yes we can definitely do free yoga, but we definitely think we can do better.’”
Peak into Wellness includes offerings from local healers and wellness practitioners who plan to offer reiki, tuning fork healing, energy balancing sessions, meridian readings, healing gemstone jewelry, delicious fall treats and nutrition consultation, energy-inspired interior design, tarot card readings and more.
“There is something for everyone,” Graves wrote in an announcement. “Like a nourishing ‘self-care drive-through for the soul,’ visitors can spend an hour at Peak into Wellness and enjoy a massage, an energy treatment, a free demo class, a nutritious snack, and also meet the entrepreneurs behind interesting local wellness businesses.”
Peak into Peterborough this year includes hayrides and live music throughout downtown, craft and food vendors, restaurant and food specials throughout town, art exhibitions, merchant sales and tent sales, a farmer’s market, a photo booth, pop up dance performances, the “Doggie Costume Parade” and pumpkin painting with Franklin Pierce University students.
Peterborough Fire and Rescue is holding a touch-a-truck event in the Guernsey building parking lot and plans to hold its Golf Ball Drop, a fundraiser for the department’s firefighters’ association, on the Guernsey building common at 4 p.m.
Also included this year is a volunteer fair. Anyone interested in volunteering can stop by the volunteer fair in Putnam Park to learn about different area nonprofits and their volunteer needs. The volunteer fair will also include a scavenger hunt and a chance to win a prize.
Peak into Peterborough is free, includes free parking, is rain or shine and runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in downtown Peterborough.