Track Your Life with Boyd Varty

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.

Last night in the Delta

November 7th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  7 mins 22 secs

african sky, anticipation, boyd varty, bushmen, commitment, connection, delta, elephant, enlightenment, essence, everyday tasks, healing, heat, human connections, intimate reflections, kalahari, landscapes, love, master tracker, planner, reflection, ritual, sacred trance dance, sanctuary, story hunter, storytelling, strategic planning, strategy, survival, trek, untamed, wild

Our organic plans to meet with the Bushmen people are coming together. I am ready and excited to learn from the Bushmen people - who are renowned trackers and people of the land.

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.

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.