Track Your Life with Boyd Varty
How wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize the essential ingredients in a meaningful life.
About the show
Somewhere deep inside, you know what your gift, purpose, and mission are. Boyd Varty, a lion tracker and life coach, reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize these essential ingredients in a meaningful life. Know how to navigate, don’t worry about the destination, and stay alert. These are just a few of the strategies that contribute to both successful lion tracking and a life of fulfillment. Trackers learn how to use all of their senses to read the environment and enter into a state of “greater aliveness.” When we learn to find and follow our inner tracks, we learn to see what is deeply important to us.
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Episodes
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Pride
October 31st, 2024 | Season 4 | 12 mins 19 secs
adventure, african sky, aliveness, archetypal energies, botswana, boyd varty, consciousness, footsteps, hunter-gatherer, kalahari, lion tracker, lion tracking, majestic creatures, master tracker, mastery, otto james, perseverance, pug marks, pursuit of complexity, simplicity, spiritual liberation, story hunter, storytelling, wilderness
At sunrise, we cut the tracks of a male lion.
This episode follows our pursuit of this majestic animal through wild and dangerous terrain. Deep down, I feel my own hunter - a desire to compete and survive. I feel a million-year-old drive to find what I'm tracking. I feel how in the wild, there is no margin for error. A mistake out here can mean instant death. And this proximity to real death is paradoxically full of life.
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Power of the pack
October 24th, 2024 | Season 4 | 14 mins 55 secs
africa, boyd varty, lion tracking, londolozi, safari, story hunter, storytelling, track your life, wilderness
Our first morning of tracking in the Delta starts early - following the tracks of a lonely hyena track with lacklustre enthusiasm. Suddenly, our morning takes an exhilarating turn and the energy of the group shifts, as we find ourselves on the trail of a pack of Wild Dogs - also known as African Wolves, or Painted Wolves.
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Into the Delta
October 17th, 2024 | Season 4 | 13 mins 46 secs
The Okavango Delta is an incredible natural phenomenon that can be seen from space. When we land in Maune, we meet up with two fellow trackers, and graduates of the Tracker Academy, Otto James and Innocent Ngwenya. Personally, there is something very satisfying as a tracker to meeting up with other elite trackers on the edge of a massive wilderness. I couldn't be more excited. There is a feeling of adventure in the air.
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Simplicity is abundance
October 10th, 2024 | Season 4 | 9 mins 47 secs
abundance, adventure, alex van den heever, boyd varty, camping, kalahari, londolozi, simplicity, storehouse, story hunter, storytelling, tracker academy
Imagine a time when nature was our storehouse. When we knew how to share and to simply be.
We knew we didn’t need much for our expedition to the Kalahari. For the Bushmen people, food surpluses are not prominent, as the environment itself acts as a storehouse - imagine a sense of deep psychological abundance and knowing you will always be provided for. -
The expedition begins
October 3rd, 2024 | Season 4 | 13 mins 39 secs
We are going into a rare place in modern times. We are going back to the wild.
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A story apart
September 19th, 2024 | Season 4 | 38 mins 14 secs
andreas sitole, boyd varty, david rattray, leverage, londolozi, morgan housel, stories, story hunter, storytelling, tracker academy
When I was working as a safari guide, I would notice that a story could always shift the group's energetic momentum towards you, which is important when you are guiding. More than being a momentum shifter, a well-crafted story could, in the right moment, be profoundly transcendent.
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The personal collective
September 12th, 2024 | Season 4 | 12 mins 13 secs
african bush, boyd varty, depression, lion tracker, lioness, lions, londolozi, personal collective, safari guide, story hunter, storytelling, universal energy, universal truth
If you have begun the journey of becoming a Story Hunter, you have become a character who finds characters, switched on your attention, learnt to see with the right kind of eyes, become someone who can create context. You are now ready to touch the core of what makes the story elevated. I call it the personal collective.
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The unseen solitary path
September 5th, 2024 | Season 4 | 8 mins 10 secs
There is a deep chasm between the making of art and the experiencing of it. When I am in that chasm - a solitary path - I know I must face the resistance in the now, knowing what it can give in the future.
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Seek out characters to become one
August 29th, 2024 | Season 4 | 13 mins 42 secs
boyd varty, characters, kruger national park, namibian beer, namibian desert, stories, story hunter, storyteller
I have found that remote places are often the natural habitat of wild characters.
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Nothing bad ever happened to a Story Hunter
August 22nd, 2024 | Season 4 | 16 mins 22 secs
africa, boyd varty, lion tracking, londolozi, renius mhlongo, safari, story hunter, storytelling, track your life, wilderness
Being lost is part of being found.
In this episode, I share an experience of being lost while tracking lions in the wild African bushveld. -
Stories are attention
August 15th, 2024 | Season 4 | 11 mins 28 secs
40 days and 40 nights, adventure, boyd varty, buffalo, londolozi, story hunter, storytelling, tracking, tree house, wild stories
How it looked to Amber - Stories are attention. If the truth is stranger than fiction, then the art of storytelling is not to make something up, but rather to really see what is there. Reality, if you look close enough, is almost always hilarious.
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Be someone stories happen around
August 8th, 2024 | Season 4 | 11 mins 48 secs
adventure, story hunter, storytelling
If you are to become a Story Hunter you must live stories. You must find a way to say yes to life beyond the known.