THAT WHAT IS | Niels Radtke
THAT WHAT IS .com is an online Awakening Platform exploring Non-dual Consciousness and the Human Experience offering an Integral approach to Pre-modern Hatha Yoga and Meditation, Cleansing and Healing, Classes, retreats and Workshops, Coaching and Mentoring within the realm of Amazonian Plant-Medicine, Non-duality, Yoga Science, Ayurveda, Medicinal Food, Books and Scripture, Medicinal Sound, Music and Awakened Beings and of course the future life stories that will unfold as the Universe keeps evolving..
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Niels Radtke (1972) has been since early childhood in awe of life’s wonders and mysteries growing up in a world of music, butterflies, horses, frogs and spiders.
This wide open wonder has led him through a life journey of discovery into the raw and wild dynamics of Life.
Most of his youth and young adult life in Belgium Niels has been navigating through the human potentials of creativity from sculpture to choreography, music, dance, contemporary fashion, digital culture and visual arts but also through some severe depressions and addictions.
In his midlife Niels decided to face these dark forces and ancestral traumas he was struggling with despite the joy and clarity that defines the light in his personality.
He left everything behind and started a journey around the world through the human condition and non-dual consciousness.
His healing path lead him through practice and study of Ayurveda, 11th century premodern Hatha Yoga, Vedic Psychology, Tantra, Integral Theory and Psychology by Ken Wilber and classical and modern Advaita Vedanta from Adi Shankara, Ramana Maharshi, Swami Chinmayananda and Adi Da Samraj in India, Portugal, Mexico and Peru.
Niels obtained a total of five Yoga Teacher Certifications (RYT 500) and thousands of hours yogic practice in forests and mountains.
At some point in this journey Niels was called in by the Master Plants and he decided to follow this call deep into the Amazon jungle in Peru where he started dieting intensively within the Noya Rao lineage guided by Shipibo Maestro Rono Lopez near Iquitos. During his dietas Niels learned a lot about developmental psychology, trauma and spiritual growth directly through the plants themselves and recognized these teachings in the understanding of Gabor Mate’s compassionate Inquiry.
This unique experience brought him to join the team of the Temple in 2022, where he shares his Integral approach of Eastern, Shamanic and Western practices within the time-proven Shipibo healing vortex that defines the Temple of The Way of Light. Niels also started dieting with Maesto Jose Sanchez Lopez to deepen his understanding and healing of ancestral trauma in the individual and the collective.
Do explore my offerings like Integration Sessions, read my Stories as well as upcoming retreat dates and workshops.
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THAT WHAT IS tells the story about this journey, the teachings I went through, the strong moments of awakening, the wonderful places I have been to, my beloved teachers and most the amazing people I have met around the world. But not only as today I am ready to give back the healing and the teachings I received
YOGARAO is an Integral fourfold approach to worlds most powerful holistic Medicinal and Spiritual practices: Pre-modern Hatha Yoga, Holistic Ayurveda, Non-Dual Vedanta, Developmental Psychology and Shipibo Vegetalismo precisely woven into the shape of a step by step integral evolutionary retreat.
“When our center of gravity shifts from seeking to finding, from the search to surrender, everything opens up. Our experience of life becomes full and deep and mysterious. There is a profound release of existential tension. We do not need to be convinced anymore and as a result we discover a profound mind-transcending trust both in ourselves as individuals and in Life itself. Having let go of all known reference points we are in free-fall, as if we have jumped off a cliff without any need or desire to land anywhere.”
— Peter Bampton, The Fire in The Heart