With the New Year rapidly approaching, a lot of people are thinking about health. Some people might be considering joining a gym, while others are making vows to strengthen their minds or work on their mental health.

The first-ever Sage Fair is coming to London, and creators Val Nicholson and Krysia Kwiatkowski hope it will help attendees focus on the health of their bodies, minds and spirits.

"It's a bohemian marketplace where you can find a bunch of resources — products and services — for the body, mind and spirit that you would never find just walking around on the street," explained Nicholson.

After attending similar fairs in Toronto, Nicholson and Kwiatkowski saw the importance of attracting a wide variety of vendors. "We worked really hard to keep it really varied for our exhibitors and for the people coming," explained Nicholson. "That's one of the things we found really bad about the other body, mind and spirit (fairs in Toronto) — it was 10 exhibitors all doing the same thing all in a row. It was boring, and you'd pay $20 to get in."

Nicholson and Kwiatkowski took great care to ensure that wouldn't happen at the Sage Fair. "We have no overlap — we actually turn people down if we already have a vendor that covers what they have."

After making the decision to hold a fair that focused on total health, the friends realized something else: "We wanted to make our event very eco(-friendly)," said Nicholson. "Then we started seeing how closely intertwined the body, mind and spirit community is with everything that's eco and green. For us, those two communities kind of melded together." The Sage Fair will be entirely powered by Bullfrog Power, a green energy company. Bullfrog will cut off energy to the Canada building at the Wester Fair District where the Fair will be held and will feed its own wind and solar energy into it.

Along with over 50 vendors at the Fair, there will be a number of workshops as well. At 8:15 p.m. on November 25 and 5:15 p.m. on November 26, Eco-Comedienne Victoria Stewart and her friend the Mom-ic (Mom Comic), Rose Giles, will entertain audiences with their unique brand of eco-comedy. Local author Bethany Butzer will teach audiences about stress management at 2 p.m. on November 26. There are 20 workshops throughout the three days of the Fair, ranging from free yoga classes to holistic health to belly dance instruction and much more. Check the Sage Fair website for the full schedule.

The Fair begins on November 25, running from 5 to 9 p.m. It continues the next day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and then ends on November 27, running from 12 to 5 p.m. The first 300 or so visitors each day will receive a swag bag full of goodies from Fair sponsor Lush and various vendors. It takes place in the Canada building of the Western Fair District (900 King St.). Admission for students is $5, or $8 for adults. Kids 12 and under get in for free. For more information, go to sagefair.com.