Track Your Life with Boyd Varty The Snow Leopard
Mar 5, 2026
A desert tracking journey that swaps trophy-chasing for the mystery of absence. Tales of navigational mishaps, a brown hyena sighting, and finding lion tracks in red sand. Reflections on the desert's vast stillness and how silence confronts addiction to sensation. Wilderness is shown as a doorway to inner quiet and gratitude.
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Lost In The Ravine And Facing Stillness
- Boyd describes getting lost in a vast Namibian ravine while searching for lion tracks and feeling the desert's profound silence.
- The wrong ravine, fresh jackal and hyena tracks, and two-and-a-half hours spread out alone create the context for his confrontation with inner stillness.
Stillness Reveals Addiction To Sensation
- Boyd realises his lifelong addiction to sensation came from fearing stillness and feeling like 'nothing' when quiet.
- The desert's emptiness forces confrontation with that fear, revealing seeking behaviors driven by needing something to happen.
Emptiness That Pulses With Fullness
- The desert's 'meaning' is its very emptiness; its stillness pulses with fullness, making presence reveal life's gifts rather than lack.
- Boyd's gratitude for existence and simple things reframes the experience as abundant, not void.
