Track Your Life with Boyd Varty

How it started

August 8th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  9 mins 26 secs

african bushveld, ancient art form, anonymity, londolozi, martha beck, oral tradition, safari guide, shamanic art, shamanism, story hunter, storytelling, wilderness

Story Hunter is an exploration of the art - and the magic - of storytelling.
A person who can tell a story is gifted with the ability to help people understand and feel. A storyteller is an instrument for meaning.

This show is an album of stories, and thoughts about stories. It is my hope that by sharing in my stories, you will you will become the architect of your own.

Expedition 6 - The Source

July 30th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  9 mins 25 secs

guardian, leopard, mpumalanga, shamanism, source, south africa, water

Once in the far north of Kruger national park's pafuri area I found a clear pool of spring water rising out the earth.
The pool was surrounded by three huge ebony trees and a giant eagle owl flew out from under the deeply shaded branches as I approached. The presence of the owl adding some intangible sense of spirit to the place.
The water was crystal clear and bubbling happily out the earth. As I knelt to put my lips to the water I felt like I was being let into some great secret.
My body took on the shape of an animal drinking lips to the water……and an archetypal connection millions of years old ran like a current through me. I like the wild animals of that wild place I was drinking from the secret source.