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.
We found 2 episodes of Track Your Life with Boyd Varty with the tag “botswana”.
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The Great Dance
November 28th, 2024 | Season 4 | 16 mins
botswana, boyd varty, bushmen, great dance, kalahari, story hunter, storytelling, tracking
There is a beautiful feeling to driving into the middle of nowhere, and frankly anywhere west of Hukunsi is the middle of nowhere. The land is vast and empty. White desert sand, tall camel thorn trees, rolling plains of dry grass, that just goes on and on and on. The temperature gauge on the vehicle gives a casual outside reading of 46 degrees at three in the afternoon.
We bump along dirt roads into a wildlife concession roughly the size of Switzerland that not a single tourist visits. This land is not even game reserve, it's simply the Botswanan wild lands.
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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.