Boyd Varty: How To Find Where You Truly Belong | The Align Podcast: Revisited

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by Boyd Varty in a revisited episode of The Align Podcast. Boyd is a tremendous man with such vast amounts of knowledge on wildlife, and the array of emotions in the human experience. He’s been on a rollercoaster throughout, and he’s gracious enough to share his learnings with you here.

Boyd tells us of his time growing up in South Africa, how the safari connects with the human experience, his extremely traumatic experiences, his transformation with Martha Beck, moving through trauma, natural ways to soothe yourself, and what transformation looks like for you.

Thanks for tuning in. Don’t forget to share this one with your friends and family, Boyd shares such a wild amount of knowledge and beautiful perspectives, worthy of only the best.

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I hope you enjoy this episode, and I’ll see you again next week!

Enjoy the phenomenal, Boyd Varty.

More About Boyd:

Boyd Varty is the author of two books, The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life and his memoir, Cathedral of the Wild. He has been featured in The New York Times, on NBC, and in other media and has taught his philosophy of “tracking your life” to individuals and companies around the world.

Boyd is a wildlife and literacy activist who has spent the last ten years refining the art of using wilderness as a place for deep introspection and personal transformation. He grew up in South Africa on Londolozi Game Reserve, a former hunting ground that was transformed into a nature preserve by Boyd’s father and uncle—both visionaries of the restoration movement. Under his family’s stewardship, the Reserve became renowned not only as a sanctuary for animals but as a place where once-ravaged land was able to flourish again and where the human spirit could be restored. When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment, he went to Londolozi to recover.

Boyd has a degree in psychology from the University of South Africa. He is a TED speaker and the host of the Track Your Life podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together
0:06.7	the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind,
0:10.7	body, and movement. Today's conversation is with a good friend, Boyd Varti.
0:16.4	Boyd is a legendary storyteller. He is the author of a Lion Tracker's Guide to Life.
0:24.7	He is a pretty mystical human being.
0:29.3	He grew up in South Africa, and he has been leading people on safaris you could say
0:37.6	tracking lions among other large dangerous creatures and has extracted incredible insights along the way.
0:46.0	This conversation gets into healing deep trauma, emotional trauma,
0:52.0	gets into how to tap it into nature, why that matters, gets
0:56.5	into some really amazing stories that Boyd is just so brilliant sharing.
1:01.7	This is a throwback episode from about a year ago. I wanted to
1:05.4	bump it back up because I just like it so much so folks that are new to the
1:10.0	podcast I wanted to bring it back up for them and if you've already listened to it.
1:15.0	I think it's worth listening to it again because boy it is just so dang brilliant.
1:18.5	Thank you guys so much for subscribing. Thank you for reviews. Thank you for doing you. Let's get to it with my guy, Boyd Vardi.
1:29.0	Good to be here. Thanks. That's a nice way to start.
1:37.2	Pretty cool. It's fantastic. Yeah. It's a beautiful research. You know it makes me think sometimes when you if you watch prey species when they get hunted so they go through different
1:46.6	levels of awareness the first level is they see the animal and you feel their
1:50.8	whole body tighten see the predator then want to keep eyes on the predator and start to alarm call.
1:57.5	And then if they get chased in any way, they'll run away, they'll make sure they get to a good fair distance away, and then the first thing they do is they take a deep breath out.
2:10.0	And you see them like that out breath totally resets then and yeah so it's just
2:18.2	beautiful to watch that like long out breath immediately interstate back of
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