Twenty-Year Anniversary Picnic Celebrates Phillips School of Massage's Contributions to the Local Community of Nevada City/Grass Valley. The public is invited to participate.

Phillips School of Massage will celebrate twenty years of educational excellence and community service programs. The party will be held outdoors at a property on Gold Flat Road in Nevada City and will be a gathering of alumni, instructors, their families and other friends of the school.

Participants are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch/dinner and their own chairs or blankets for an evening of dancing and activities such as massage, intuitive painting, horseshoes and more. Live music will be provided by "Smuggling Donkeys," a band of local musicians whose debut rock/jazz performance on the 4th of July at the Nevada County Fairgrounds was enthusiastically received.

Although the Western medical field has traditionally been conservative and resistant in it's consideration of methods viewed as "alternative", the Phillips School of Massage has contributed to the local medical community’s acceptance of massage through development, over the past two decades, of innovative bodywork programs which interface with the medical community,

Phillips, in partnership with Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital has one of only a few hospital based Oncology Massage Internship Programs in the country. Students are able to work directly with patients who are receiving treatment at the Cancer Center as well as with those patients’ caregivers and/or family members.

These massage sessions help many oncology patients cope with the side effects of radiation or chemotherapy treatments and provide much needed compassionate touch to those who are suffering with this potentially devastating illness.

Another program that is ongoing at Phillips School of Massage is the Combat Veteran’s Massage Clinic. This program provides a place of safety and caring for those veterans suffering from and being treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The gratitude from these delightful men is unbounded as the emotional wounds that live within them are gently addressed by receiving massage in a controlled setting.

During each training session the school sends students to local convalescent care facilities to provide hand and arm massages to the residents of those facilities. And, Phillips hosts a sports massage clinic in which the school offers complimentary sports massage to athletes. Along with these various community services, Phillips School of Massage participates in many events and fairs, volunteering at the Relay for Life and other local events.

Phillips School of Massage is grateful to be able to share these services with the community and invites you to share in the celebration of this past twenty years of compassionate professionalism through bodywork education. Please call for directions and to RSVP.