Consciousness researcher · Biofeedback pioneer · Author
For 35 years, Bethany Gonyea, MS, has used biofeedback and EEG to map the vast forest of human consciousness, showing people in real time exactly how the mind moves the body. She leaves these books as “breadcrumbs” in that vast wilderness, teaching you to train your inner state the way an athlete trains for a sport. By following her trail, navigating your own mind ceases to be a mystery, and feeling incredible stops being a matter of luck—it becomes a masterable skill.
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The books
Spiritual technology for real-world results
Bethany describes her books as “breadcrumbs in the forest”—she leaves a luminous trail left behind to guide you through the beautiful, untamed wilderness of your own consciousness. Each page is a marker of wisdom meant to help you navigate your inner depths, quiet the shadows, and ultimately emerge into a clearing of profound joy and empowerment, where you can simply feel incredible.
Book one · Available now
A Step By Step Program To Heighten Consciousness for Daily Happiness
Decades of consciousness study, distilled into a step-by-step training program you can actually follow. Systematic explorations that take you deeper into yourself, so you feel well on purpose.
Book two
Using The Friction of Our Most Challenging Relationships To Cultivate The Pearl of Heightened Consciousness
The people who test you most can become your greatest training partners. Learn to use heightened consciousness skills to level up through your most difficult relationships.
Book three · Coming soon
Lose Your Ego. Gain the Infinite. Step Beyond Control into the Big Love That Catches All Who Dare to Fall.
The latest in the Consciousness Athlete Series, and Bethany's boldest exploration yet. Stay tuned… the best is yet to come.
The simple truth at the heart of her work
Athletes train their bodies. Musicians practice their scales. Almost no one is taught to train their nervous system. Yet we can all feel fabulous, once we understand the simple process and train on the inside.
Her story
In college, a severe pain disorder forced Bethany to change careers. The plan she had for her life was gone, and the pain was not going away on its own.
So she did something radical. She made her own pain her biofeedback instrument and became, in her words, “intolerant of feeling miserable.”
She focused her mind and watched her pain levels. Every time they dropped, she took it as a clue she was “doing something right,” and did more of it. Mind first, then body. Over and over again.
Ten years after college, her pilgrimage ended with Bethany running 4 miles every day, without pain. What she learned on the way became the Consciousness Athlete body of work she teaches today.
Biofeedback
Biofeedback makes the invisible visible. When you change your focus, the instruments change with you, live, on screen.
Over 35 years and hundreds of private and public sessions, Bethany has invited people to call on the power of focused, healing intention. And she has watched the same thing happen again and again: objective instruments showing that our minds have an immediate and profound impact on our bodies.
Interactive · Mind Mirror EEG
As an advanced Mind Mirror EEG practitioner, Bethany has examined the brainwaves of advanced meditators as a practitioner for the Monroe Institute's Discovery Program. Her favorite part is watching someone's brainwaves live, coaching them into more satisfying, nourishing states, then helping them carry those states into daily life.
The state Consciousness Athletes train for
Beta, alpha, theta and delta all present and balanced on both sides of the brain. Clear and alert, yet open, intuitive and deeply calm. This is the state Bethany coaches people into, and then teaches them to live from.
Book a call about seeing your own brainwavesAn illustrative animation inspired by the Mind Mirror EEG display, not a live reading.
The method
A method for confidently using your body as a biofeedback instrument of consciousness and grace. Bethany trains people to influence their autonomic nervous system to sustain heightened awareness, and their energy field to sustain expansion. It is very like an athlete training for a sport, or a musician practicing for a performance.
See your inner state on a screen, then learn to steer it. Your body becomes the instrument that tells you when you're on track.
Move on purpose from stress and static into calm, focus and expansion, the same shifts she watches live on the Mind Mirror.
Systematic consciousness explorations that take you step by step deeper into yourself, so you come out feeling fabulous.
Train your energy field to expand, and to stay expanded, so heightened awareness lasts beyond the meditation cushion.
Use your body as the instrument. Pain, tension and mood become feedback, not just problems.
Apply focused intention to calm your autonomic nervous system and change state on purpose.
Practice like an athlete until heightened states hold longer, steadier and deeper.
Carry those states into your work, your relationships and your ordinary Tuesday.
Expanded consciousness generates sustained joy.
Try it now · 60 seconds
Before you read another word, step into the quiet forest of your own consciousness. Click “Begin 60 seconds” below and give your nervous system just one minute to find its authentic rhythm: breathe in and watch as the light expands, and breathe out and watch it soften.
Notice the jagged lines of stress dissolve into perfect coherence. If you feel peace settling in, know this is only the beginning.
Breathing is merely a doorway—a simple entry point into the sublime.
Beyond this first breath lies an infinite expanse of love and well-being, an eternal current that we habitually block with the noise of daily life. Stepping through the door is easy, but staying there requires discipline for true mastery. This moment is your first breadcrumb, a living taste of what Bethany trains: an elite training of your consciousness. By learning to skillfully anchor your intention in your nervous system, you build the stamina to sustain this inner gorgeousness, training your mind the way an athlete trains for a sport, until dwelling in pure ecstasy is no longer luck, but your natural state of being.
That calmer feeling? That's a state you just chose. Imagine what training it could do. Start with the books
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Her organization · NUMINOUS
NUMINOUS is a 501(c)(3) interfaith spiritual organization founded by Bethany Gonyea, MS. It offers public lectures on biofeedback training, intention and prayer research, and spiritual practices for heightening consciousness.
Bethany's mission for NUMINOUS is to cultivate a group of meditators who are passionate about using positive intentions to benefit humanity. It is also the home of the Resonant Peaceful Cities Project.
Bethany's four-month, comprehensive program for honing the skill of intention, step by step.
Explore the classes 02Learn how your most challenging relationships can become your most powerful spiritual training.
Explore the classes 03Conversational gatherings, open to the public, on spiritual and intentional living, facilitated by Bethany.
See what's on 04From 2018 to 2023, Bethany championed four city-wide research projects on interfaith healing intention for peace.
Read the researchNUMINOUS · Resonant Peaceful Cities Project
After watching the power of intention inside the body, Bethany studied prayer and intention research: what happens when we send intention outside the body.
That research inspired the Resonant Peaceful Cities Project, sponsored by NUMINOUS, where Bethany is Founding Director. It brings people together in intentional coherence meditation for peace, one city at a time.
It is a project that has never been done before, and a few paradigm shifts ahead of pop culture. As a practical visionary, Bethany has to live what she teaches to bring it forward.
Bring it to your cityOne city at a time
Meet Bethany
Bethany Ann Gonyea, MS, has spent her life exploring one question: how do we train ourselves to feel physically and emotionally well, and stay there?
Her understanding of intention is unusually granular because she has navigated her own consciousness and steered others for decades. She didn't just study these principles in textbooks; she forged them deep within her own nervous system, honing her skills and testing their validity through years of intense personal challenge. It is this gritty, street-tested advice—hard-won in the trenches of real life—that people find to be her most memorable, relatable, and quotable guidance.
After releasing several impactful audio programs over the years, she is stepping back from her community-building work to document decades of deep study in her Consciousness Athlete Series. Leaving a trail of “breadcrumbs” through the vast forest of human consciousness, her mission is massive, deliberate, and global: to bring this empowering conditioning to as many people as possible, teaching them that sustaining love and infinite well-being is not a matter of luck, but a masterable, athletic skill that anyone can accomplish.
Heightened consciousness is an equal-opportunity realm. In the etheric, we are all perfectly equal. Our well-being has absolutely nothing to do with race, education, or financial status—it is the birthright of every single one of us.
Work with Bethany
See your own states on screen, learn how to shift them, and leave with practices to carry them into daily life.
Book a 15-min call 02Step-by-step training to reduce emotional and physical pain, steady your nervous system and sustain heightened awareness.
Start training 03Coherence, intention and the science of well-being, delivered with research and memorable street wisdom.
Book Bethany to speak 04Bring intentional coherence meditation to your city, community or organization with NUMINOUS.
Partner with usContact
Private sessions, speaking, Peaceful Cities partnerships, media, or the launch list for the next book. Tell Bethany a little about what you're looking for.
