BETHANY ANN GONYEA, MS, is the Founding Director of NUMINOUS, sponsor of the Resonant Peaceful Cities Project.

For 30 years, Ms. Gonyea has invited people to invoke the power of focused healing intention to facilitate health and well-being during hundreds of private and public biofeedback sessions.  Biofeedback is essentially the art and science of intention, and it continually demonstrates through objective instrumentation that our minds have immediate and profound impact on our bodies.

Ms. Gonyea understands the mind-body connection intimately as she explored it to heal herself from a severe pain disorder that forced a career change in college. Bethany made physical pain her “biofeedback instrument” and became “intolerant of feeling miserable.” Instead, she focused her mind and used her diminishing pain levels as a clue that she was “doing something right.” Her pilgrimage culminated in her ability to run 4 miles daily without pain. In the process, she has continued developing her Consciousness Athlete body of work. She is passionate about teaching others how to reduce both their emotional and physical pain levels through skilled biofeedback and subtle energy work.

After watching the power of intention inside the body, she studied prayer and intentional research for sending intentions outside the body. Her research pursuits inspired her to start The Resonant Peaceful Cities Project.  Although she often cites current intentional research findings, she loves to offer what she calls “hard-earned gritty street advice” not found in published papers that can only be gleaned from years of living from conscious intention and awareness. As a result, people often find her “street” advice the most practical and memorable.

Bethany’s perspective of intention is unique as she has gained her granular understandings of how it works by having the courage to live by intention as she sifts through the complexity of human nature while accepting her massive mission to bring this empowering information to as many people as possible across the globe.

As a practical visionary, Bethany must live what she teaches to bring a project forward that has never been done before and is a few paradigm shifts away from acceptance of pop culture. 

Bethany has been pioneering the states of consciousness and internal processes required for what she refers to as the Consciousness Athlete Lifestyle, a method for confidently using the body as a biofeedback instrument of consciousness and grace.  

She teaches individuals how to become Consciousness Athletes, which means training people to influence their autonomic nervous systems to sustain heightened states of awareness and their energy fields to sustain expansion. Her process is very similar to athletes training their bodies for a sport or musicians practicing for a performance.  

After releasing several audio programs over the years, Bethany finally took time away from her community-building work to document thirty years of study of consciousness in her first book, Become A Consciousness Athlete – A Step By Step Program To Heighten Consciousness for Daily Happiness, which can be found on both Amazon and Audible. 

Stay tuned for Bethany’s next book to be published in late 2023, Dealing With Difficult People For Spiritual People – Using The Friction of Our Most Challenging Relationships To Cultivate The Pearl of Heightened Consciousness.