BioTra; a world first in health, wellness and performance.

What is BioTra?

BioTra integrates three pillars - modern biophysics, evolutionary biomechanics, and psycho-spiritual understandings - offering a whole human approach to optimise health in the modern world. It combines scientific rigor with practical applications, empowering individuals to align with nature and improve well-being.

How did BioTra come to be?

Founded by Nathan, Nick, and Ryan, BioTra is born from a shared mission to address the root causes of chronic illness. Combining expertise in biophysics, biomechanics, and psycho-spiritual understandings, they offer a revolutionary system that restores harmony between humans and nature. Each founder brings a unique perspective, blending science, movement, and mindfulness into a unified approach.

What is our Mission?

To revolutionise and simplify health by reconnecting individuals to nature's principles through innovative, actionable strategies. BioTra aims to combat chronic illness by transforming environments, both internal and external, and sharing practices that harmonise the dominant influences within the human system.

What problem do we solve?

We address the rise of chronic diseases caused by the disconnection between humans and their natural environment. Modern living has disrupted the balance of light, water, and energy critical for health, it has sedated a system designed for movement, and it has overstimulated and distracted a being that requires balance, leading to widespread metabolic, neurological, psychological, spiritual and physical dysfunctions.

How do we aim to solve it?

We provide education, immersions, and tools that restore alignment with nature. By emphasising the biophysics of living systems, we empower people to create environments and adopt practices that regenerate health rather than deplete it. By providing time efficient routines that optimise physical capacity, we empower people to move well and enjoy their body. And by offering maps for internal understanding which bridge ancient wisdom with modern living, we empower people to understand how they can feel at peace within themselves whilst fully engaging with the modern world.

BioTra; a world first in health, wellness and performance.

What is BioTra?

BioTra integrates three pillars - modern biophysics, evolutionary biomechanics, and psycho-spiritual understandings - offering a whole human approach to optimise health in the modern world. It combines scientific rigor with practical applications, empowering individuals to align with nature and improve well-being.

How did BioTra come to be?

Founded by Nathan, Nick, and Ryan, BioTra is born from a shared mission to address the root causes of chronic illness. Combining expertise in biophysics, biomechanics, and psycho-spiritual understandings, they offer a revolutionary system that restores harmony between humans and nature. Each founder brings a unique perspective, blending science, movement, and mindfulness into a unified approach.

What is our Mission?

To revolutionise and simplify health by reconnecting individuals to nature's principles through innovative, actionable strategies. BioTra aims to combat chronic illness by transforming environments, both internal and external, and sharing practices that harmonise the dominant influences within the human system.

What problem do we solve?

We address the rise of chronic diseases caused by the disconnection between humans and their natural environment. Modern living has disrupted the balance of light, water, and energy critical for health, it has sedated a system designed for movement, and it has overstimulated and distracted a being that requires balance, leading to widespread metabolic, neurological, psychological, spiritual and physical dysfunctions.

How do we aim to solve it?

We provide education, immersions, and tools that restore alignment with nature. By emphasising the biophysics of living systems, we empower people to create environments and adopt practices that regenerate health rather than deplete it. By providing time efficient routines that optimise physical capacity, we empower people to move well and enjoy their body. And by offering maps for internal understanding which bridge ancient wisdom with modern living, we empower people to understand how they can feel at peace within themselves whilst fully engaging with the modern world.

The Founders of BioTra

Nick Dawe

Dr Nicholas Dawe is the co-creator of the Biotra Approach, a groundbreaking methodology combining modern biophysics, psycho-spiritual depth, and a refreshingly practical answer to the modern dysfunction of mind and body. Co-Author of the Biotra book, co-founder of OOVIT and OOV Education, and director of ALTR, a leading functional neural chiropractic practice, Nicholas has spent decades at the forefront of human performance.

A multiple-time Australian champion and national representative, Nicholas began elite-level athletic training at just nine years old and remains an active and competitive force at 36. His unique experience as both a high-level performer and educator, teaching medical practitioners worldwide since the age of 25, gives him a rare ability to translate complex health science into simple, impactful tools for real people.

Deeply passionate about biophysics, spiritual exploration, and nature-based health practices, Nicholas lives what he teaches. Whether it’s breathwork in the forest, plunging into ice baths, or teaching his children how to thrive, his mission is clear: return powerful, effective, and inexpensive health solutions to the hands of individuals, where they belong.

Nick Dawe

Dr Nicholas Dawe is the co-creator of the Biotra Approach, a groundbreaking methodology combining modern biophysics, psycho-spiritual depth, and a refreshingly practical answer to the modern dysfunction of mind and body. Co-Author of the Biotra book, co-founder of OOVIT and OOV Education, and director of ALTR, a leading functional neural chiropractic practice, Nicholas has spent decades at the forefront of human performance.

A multiple-time Australian champion and national representative, Nicholas began elite-level athletic training at just nine years old and remains an active and competitive force at 36. His unique experience as both a high-level performer and educator, teaching medical practitioners worldwide since the age of 25, gives him a rare ability to translate complex health science into simple, impactful tools for real people.

Deeply passionate about biophysics, spiritual exploration, and nature-based health practices, Nicholas lives what he teaches. Whether it’s breathwork in the forest, plunging into ice baths, or teaching his children how to thrive, his mission is clear: return powerful, effective, and inexpensive health solutions to the hands of individuals, where they belong.

Nathan Siles

Nathan Siles is the co-creator of the BioTra Approach, where his most advanced biophysics strategies are seamlessly woven into a groundbreaking and accessible framework designed to build foundational health and elevate the body’s innate capacity for resilience, energy, and longevity. He is the co-author of BioTra – An Approach to Healthy Living in a Modern World, founder of It’s Now You Health Consulting, and co-Founder and director at BioSpectral Systems; a trailblazing organisation redefining health through the science of light.

With unmatched expertise in both visible and non-visible light, BioSpectral delivers world-class education, services, and technologies that enhance human performance, prevent chronic disease, and unlock true longevity. Their approach is rooted in cutting-edge biophysics, specifically full-spectrum light, circadian biology, and mitochondrial function, addressing health disruptions at their source by rebuilding cellular energy, and optimising the brain, eyes, hormones, nervous system, and immunity.

Nathan’s mission is to awaken a new, decentralised health paradigm, where light is biology’s original signal, the environment is medicine, and human potential is restored from the inside out.

After surviving cancer as a baby at just 8 months old, which left him legally blind, and a second diagnosis at age 24, Nathan chose not to accept limitation. Instead, he became his own preventative medicine doctor, proving that even those with so-called “permanent” disabilities can live fully, thrive deeply, and break through any ceiling placed upon them.

Nathan’s work isn’t just about science, it’s about transformation. As a speaker, educator, and retreat facilitator, he fuses lived wisdom with biophysical insight to empower others to reverse disease, reclaim energy, and unlock lasting vitality. With every talk, protocol, blog, course, and conversation, Nathan offers a powerful reminder: the body is not broken, nature holds the answers, and health is not a privilege, it’s our birthright.

Nathan Siles

Nathan Siles is the co-creator of the BioTra Approach, where his most advanced biophysics strategies are seamlessly woven into a groundbreaking and accessible framework designed to build foundational health and elevate the body’s innate capacity for resilience, energy, and longevity. He is the co-author of BioTra – An Approach to Healthy Living in a Modern World, founder of It’s Now You Health Consulting, and co-Founder and director at BioSpectral Systems; a trailblazing organisation redefining health through the science of light.

With unmatched expertise in both visible and non-visible light, BioSpectral delivers world-class education, services, and technologies that enhance human performance, prevent chronic disease, and unlock true longevity. Their approach is rooted in cutting-edge biophysics, specifically full-spectrum light, circadian biology, and mitochondrial function, addressing health disruptions at their source by rebuilding cellular energy, and optimising the brain, eyes, hormones, nervous system, and immunity.

Nathan’s mission is to awaken a new, decentralised health paradigm, where light is biology’s original signal, the environment is medicine, and human potential is restored from the inside out.

After surviving cancer as a baby at just 8 months old, which left him legally blind, and a second diagnosis at age 24, Nathan chose not to accept limitation. Instead, he became his own preventative medicine doctor, proving that even those with so-called “permanent” disabilities can live fully, thrive deeply, and break through any ceiling placed upon them.

Nathan’s work isn’t just about science, it’s about transformation. As a speaker, educator, and retreat facilitator, he fuses lived wisdom with biophysical insight to empower others to reverse disease, reclaim energy, and unlock lasting vitality. With every talk, protocol, blog, course, and conversation, Nathan offers a powerful reminder: the body is not broken, nature holds the answers, and health is not a privilege, it’s our birthright.

Ryan Barraclough

Ryan Barraclough is the co-creator of the BioTra Approach, providing the nature based psycho-spiritual philosophy that stands alongside the evolutionary biomechanics and modern biophysics. Ryan's passion for whole human health, along with his keen interest in movement and environmental vitality, allows him to be a bridge between worlds where science and spirituality begin to make sense of one another. Ryan is a co-author of the BioTra book, co-founder of the Embodied Man Institute (NFP), organiser and lead facilitator of The Gathering of Men, and a practising psychotherapist and counsellor.

A continuing student of nature based medicines, spirituality, embodiment pathways, therapeutic interventions, and philosophy, Ryan is forever eager to explore and pioneer avenues for humans (including himself) to live a life that feel self inspired and supportive of the wider community. Ryan aims to live in a generative way, with a focus on being of service. With a background in elite sports performance, Ryan walks with a capacity to inspire and uplift those he works with, and holds hope that as humans we can feel peaceful within and positively purposeful in the world. Due to his wide scope of lived experience, Ryan has knack for making complex concepts accessible and easy to understand, both theoretically and practically. Ryan's passion resides in revealing how the mystical resides in the mundane, allowing every moment to an opportunity of joy.

Ryan really honours and values the human existence, enjoying time with his partner, family, gardens and pets. His goal in life is to fully inhabit the human experience and believes that spirituality is best lived in the household of everyday life. He aims to be here now.

Ryan Barraclough

Ryan Barraclough is the co-creator of the BioTra Approach, providing the nature based psycho-spiritual philosophy that stands alongside the evolutionary biomechanics and modern biophysics. Ryan's passion for whole human health, along with his keen interest in movement and environmental vitality, allows him to be a bridge between worlds where science and spirituality begin to make sense of one another. Ryan is a co-author of the BioTra book, co-founder of the Embodied Man Institute (NFP), organiser and lead facilitator of The Gathering of Men, and a practising psychotherapist and counsellor.

A continuing student of nature based medicines, spirituality, embodiment pathways, therapeutic interventions, and philosophy, Ryan is forever eager to explore and pioneer avenues for humans (including himself) to live a life that feel self inspired and supportive of the wider community. Ryan aims to live in a generative way, with a focus on being of service. With a background in elite sports performance, Ryan walks with a capacity to inspire and uplift those he works with, and holds hope that as humans we can feel peaceful within and positively purposeful in the world. Due to his wide scope of lived experience, Ryan has knack for making complex concepts accessible and easy to understand, both theoretically and practically. Ryan's passion resides in revealing how the mystical resides in the mundane, allowing every moment to an opportunity of joy.

Ryan really honours and values the human existence, enjoying time with his partner, family, gardens and pets. His goal in life is to fully inhabit the human experience and believes that spirituality is best lived in the household of everyday life. He aims to be here now.