Welcome to the Be Resilient Project

The Be Resilient Project is an inclusive and supportive wellness website that strives to improve the well being and stamina of our communities. Our safe and effective exercise and lifestyle programming reinforces the importance of being physically active to reduce stress and practicing mindfulness for mental clarity. It also encourages connectedness for emotional support. We also provide trustworthy health and fitness information for your self-care and a supportive social network to enhance the quality of your daily lives. Let us guide you to be resilient during these challenging times.

About The Team

We are a dedicated and experienced team of professional coaches, healthcare practitioners and wellness ambassadors that is focused on protecting our community’s well-being. We believe prevention is fundamentally a more cost-effective way to promote health and longevity. Our coaches specialize in healthy aging with backgrounds in functional movement, adaptive training, strength and conditioning, and mind-body movement practices such as Yoga and Pilates.

Coach Steve

Steve Bonnel is the publisher of the Be Resilient Project and an advocate of ancestral health principles. He is committed to helping others understand how diet, lifestyle, and our environment can shape human health. Steve is also a certified personal trainer, group fitness instructor, and running coach who specializes in functional movement. He enjoys helping people of all ages and physical abilities overcome their barriers to living a healthy, more fulfilling life.

Steve has a B.A. degree in Documentary Studies from Sacramento State and a background as a photojournalist. Throughout his career as a photographer, and for the past 10 years as a health and fitness instructor, Steve has worked closely with numerous people from diverse backgrounds. His relationships with the public and communities he has served has guided him throughout the development of The Be Resilient Project.

When Steve isn’t coaching or with his family, you can usually find him outdoors walking or running the Davis greenbelts, or enjoying other recreational activities with friends.

Coach Dan

Dan Porter has been a professional Personal Trainer for the past 12 years now. He was introduced to weight lifting in his early teens by one of his older friends that needed a lifting partner. From the basement of the Sacramento YMCA they lifted iron, talked to other lifters, learned, practiced, and fell in love with exercising. Since then he has earned a number of health and fitness certifications and has become a well-respected coach throughout the Sacramento region.

Dan sincerely cares about your experience as much as the outcome you achieve. He won’t give you a reason to abandon your biological need to stay active. Instead, he will encourage you to find the intrinsic motivation that will help you pursue a lifelong active lifestyle. Dan strongly believes that coaching is not about performing, but about educating, collaborating, and communicating the best of his skill set, no more no less.