Meet The Founders
Gary Simmons, TH.D.
Gary Simmons, TH.D. is a renowned peacemaker and spiritual leader whose teachings and ground-breaking Mission-centric Ministry Coaching program is transforming church organizations and helping church leaders energize their spiritual communities and expand their capacity to carry out their mission with greater integrity and congruence.
Jane Simmons, TH.D.
Rev. Dr. Jane Simmons holds a doctoral degree in Theology from Holos University Graduate Seminary and is an ordained Unity minister. Since her ordination in 1999, Jane has ministered in four Unity churches in Canada and the United States, as well as serving as the Teen Ministry Coordinator for Unity Worldwide Ministries. She is the 2020 recipient of Unity’s Light of God Expressing Award. She has served as an associate professor at Holos University. She is a member of the adjunct faculty at Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute, teaching credit classes online. She is currently the co-instructor, along with her husband, Dr. Gary Simmons, of the online Integral Ministry Practice Certificate Program.
Dr. Rima Bonario
Dr. Rima Bonario is a best-selling author, shadow work practitioner, workshop leader, and ceremonialist dedicated to serve those awakening on the spiritual path through online and in person programs. Dr. Rima holds a doctorate in Transformation Psychology and has studied extensively in body-based processes that bring about trauma resolution and greater embodied sovereignty.
DR. GARY SIMMONS
Dr. Simmons is an ordained Unity minister having served the Unity movement for over 40 years; pioneering 3 Unity churches, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Association of Unity Churches International, and as a VP at the Unity Worldwide Ministries home office and an adjunct faculty member of Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute.
He is the author of The I of the Storm: Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace, a Unity bestseller, now in its thirteenth printing, The Soul’s Conspiracy, and is published in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Gary’s work in applying integral principles to evolving church organizations is also cited in Wilber’s book, The Four Turnings. His most recent work, Integral Ministry Practice: A New Architecture for Spiritual Community, has a foreword by Ken Wilber.
Simmons is co-founder of Quantum Living and co-creator of the Quantum Process, a shadow work system that focuses on healing and integration.
He served as co-minister with his wife, Rev. Dr. Jane Simmons, at Unity Spiritual Center in Spokane, Washington for nearly six years, where they have been intentionally moving from minister to mission-centric ministry.
Dr. Gary holds a 4th-degree black belt in taekwondo. He is an experimental aircraft builder and pilot, currently completing his fourth airplane. Gary and Jane are retired from pulpit ministry and now live in Kettle Falls, WA, in their tiny house, just 30 miles south of the Canadian border.
JANE SIMMONS, TH.D.
With a passion for heart-centered personal and cultural transformation, Jane is committed to helping bring forth a kinder, more compassionate world and is Unity’s 2020 recipient of the Light of God Expressing Award. She is a co-founder of Quantum Living and co-creator of the Quantum Process, a shadow work system that focuses on healing and integration.
Jane is the author of the book You Can’t Sleep Through Your Awakening – a combination of personal memoir, shared stories, psychological study, scientific learning, and spiritual discourse. You Can’t Sleep Through Your Awakening is an exploration of what it actually means to wake up and includes tools that contribute to the awakening process.
Jane is a co-founder of The Art of Quantum Living, with its transformational 21-day practice called The Quantum Living Process™, which weaves together the latest research emerging from neurobiology, developmental psychology, and quantum science with the wisdom of the world’s mystical traditions to offer a powerful path to personal evolution.
Jane is a powerful speaker, writer, workshop facilitator, trainer, and educator with a focus on virtual online learning. With a passion for heart-centered transformation, Jane is committed to helping bring forth a kinder, more compassionate world. As a facilitator for the Alternatives to Violence Project, Jane has worked in communities, schools, and prisons, assisting others in developing skills to manage conflict in order to help bring about a world that works for all.
She resides in Kettle Falls, Washington, with her husband, Dr. Gary Simmons, and their dog, Jedi.
DR. RIMA BONARIO
Rima E. Bonario, Th.D., is an author, workshop leader and soul coach who is passionate about accelerating personal, professional, and planetary transformation.
With 25 years of executive and management expertise, and lifelong spiritual leadership development, Dr. Bonario joined forces in 2008 with renowned peacemaker Dr. Gary Simmons. Together they founded Quantum Living to support individuals and New Thought organizations in building a world that works for all.
Dr. Bonario earned her doctorate in Transformational Psychology from Holos University Graduate Seminary, where she designed a research study to quantify the shifts in consciousness created by The Quantum Living 21-day Shadow Work Practice.
Her research work earned her the Gold Medal Emerging Scientist Award from the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine. She also holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Communications and Leadership from Seton Hall University and has many years of experience as a communications expert and as well as leadership development expertise.
Rima’s most recent offerings focus on supporting women in deepening their embodied feminine presence.
She brings her compassionate heart and thoughtful insight to her work, weaving together a safe and sacred place for her clients to experience programs that include elements of myth and archetype, ritual and ceremony, and Soul/shadow work. Her vulnerability and deep sharing make her teaching style deeply accessible and profoundly impactful.
Her Amazon best-selling book The Seven Queendoms: A SoulMap for Embodying Sacred Feminine Sovereignty, captures her belief that every woman can learn to open to, receive, and conduct her inherently feminine forms of power. In she shares the Seven Queen archetypes and their 14 shadow expressions and potent practices for healing from the past and integrating soul-level wisdom so that readers can lead turned on lives of soulful delight, making the world better by their embodied feminine presence and our purposeful contributions.
In addition to her doctoral studies, Dr. Bonario has studied with Soul Mentor Sera Beak, Master Energy Teacher Lynda Caesara, Toaist Healing Master Mantak Chia, and Master Tantric Educators Tj Bartel and Charles Muir.
Rima resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband Tobias and her daughter Sophia.