Jezaree is often referred to as a teacher, lifestyle optimist, yogini, writer, and free spirit. She believes that life provides plenty of time to find our passions and live fully. Her mission is to help healthcare professionals and health conscious individuals improve their lifestyle and fitness so that they can spread the light and help others.

Hi Friend! Thank you so much for visiting my site and for making the choice to be proACTIVE in your health and fitness. If there is anything that I know for sure, it's that our health goals are on-going and ever-changing due to life's ups and downs. It has taken me years of persistent small steps to get to where I am today and I'm honored to be in a position to help others grow.

Often times my clients and students they are surprised to hear that I grew up in rural Nevada and spent my early adult years as a Wildland fire fighter. It was a very fun stage in my life that I wouldn't trade for anything. During those years, my love of outdoor recreation grew tremendously and gave me the foundation I continue to build on today. Fire fighting allowed me the opportunity to travel and backpack much of South and Central America. It was also then that I began on my journey as a holistic health provider, which I believed would allow me to travel and work anywhere in the world. Little did I know what kind of door I was opening.

In 2008, I moved back to Arizona to pursue several more years of schooling in Holistic Healthcare, which I feel is an unending sea of information. I bounced around working in Holistic Health centers, fitness centers, under physical therapists and other professional physicians. I taught yoga, provided services in hypnotherapy, massage, stretch-therapy, life coaching and energy work. However, it was not until the Fall of 2011 that the scattered pieces of my life started to come together.

I opened Active Lifestyle Therapy, LLC in Tempe, AZ with the intention of working solely for myself (a life-long dream). I am fortunate to work on athletes, from high school to the pros, weekend warriors, outdoor enthusiasts, yogis and many healthcare professionals. I value my clients and my students and I care about their successes. I love that I get to know who they truly are, what they truly want and can help them set up the pieces to efficiently work towards their goals. I am passionate about helping others work through their mental and emotional road blocks and help them create new belief systems that support their lifestyles.

Currently, I teach Massage Therapy at a massage school as well as run a very busy business based in the heart of Tempe. I am so grateful for every passing day and realize that there is always more to learn and new ways to improve so that my work has a greater impact on those who need it and empowers those who have so much to offer others.

I believe that this career path found me, more than I went out looking for it. I originally went to massage school so that I could travel. While I still have dreams of seeing the world, I find that I have a purpose to be of service to others; to empower others to succeed.

I have struggled in health, in loving myself, in setting realistic goals, in dedicating myself to the process and forgiving myself when I fail to meet my own expectations. Hell, I still struggle sometimes. However, I have committed to learning tools that help me bust through my own limitations and I have seen dramatic changes in myself as well as clients over the years.

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