Track Your Life with Boyd Varty

Day 6 - Myth Making Tree Trickster

April 7th, 2020 | Season 1 | 12 mins 28 secs

crocodile, lalela, lawrence van der post, man, myth, tracker, wildebeest

Let me tell you an ancient story I just made up. Try and listen with the wild part of you. Listen close and push your rational mind away, a myth is a lie about the truth.
This is a myth about Lalela, the Wildebeest and the Man.

Day 5 - Why is Simplicity So Complicated?

April 6th, 2020 | Season 1 | 11 mins 50 secs

ngorongoro, presence, robinson crusoe, simplify, stillness, wildebeest

So many people feel like they are living their life behind a pain of perspex. I’m certain this is related to complexity and convenience. If you want more life: simplify, simplify, simplify. All over Africa where there tends to be less stuff I feel more generosity. The stillness is however confronting. Without the news of the world insights arise. Somewhere inside I’m still trying to grow up and overcome the ten year old.

Day 4 - Safety Third

April 5th, 2020 | Season 1 | 14 mins 15 secs

buffalo, bushbuck, camp life, elephant, giraffe, mind of god, monkey, nyala, rhino, running, safety

Today I will run through the bush like people have always done. There are tricks to running in the African bush.
Its good to run when its how and animals are less active. There are three phases to being safe when running in the wilderness. Phase 1: Mindset and awareness you live in that is forward thinking, route planning, route assessment, knowing the terrain, local knowledge. Phase 2: How you handle the dangerous situation. Phase 3: The safety itself as a result of the first two phases.

Day 3 - Watch Out For The Small Things

April 4th, 2020 | Season 1 | 11 mins 37 secs

buffalo, camp, caterpillar, mike boon, rhino, zambezi

Boyd enters day 3 hot on the tracks of a rhino to try and find them. He details how he is arriving with humility to the greater rhythms of nature and developing an intimacy with his family place. Then things go south...

Day 2 - A Somewhat Anxious Ape

April 3rd, 2020 | Season 1 | 21 mins 37 secs

anxiety, baboon, hyena, thich nhat hanh, treehouse

Boyd enters Day 2 of his 40 Day, 40 Night immersion and talks about everything from hyenas arriving at camp to the emergence of anxiety, Thich Nhat Hanh's books on Fear and understanding how the Bhudda beset by demons under the groves may just have been a mind not allowed to rest in itself.

Day 1

April 2nd, 2020 | Season 1 | 21 mins 4 secs

africa, boyd, londolozi, mystics, preparation, tracker, varty

Day 1 from the Treehouse is now live

40 Days & 40 Nights Preparation

March 29th, 2020 | Season 1 | 18 mins 28 secs

africa, books, boyd, londolozi, mystics, preparation, tracker, varty

Boyd begins preparing for his immersion into the wilderness, discusses books he is planning on taking out with him and reflects on the impact of the weather.

40 Days & 40 Nights Introduction

March 26th, 2020 | Season 1 | 24 mins 34 secs

africa, boyd, londolozi, mystics, tracker, varty

What am I spending 40 days and 40 nights alone in the African wilderness?