Ben Sanford is the founder of Tribal Edge - a training center for primal arts. In this episode, Ben dives deep into the skills and practices humans have been using since the beginning of time, including tracking and awareness, survival skills, healing and combat or conflict skills. Ben shares his own journey to discovering this path, as well as the power of vision questing which has been a part of personal transformation for thousands of years. We go deep & cover a lot in the episode including the relationship between tracking & successful entrepreneurship, learning, healing, training, transformation & whole lot more. Tune in to elevate your Mind, Body & Spirit!

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In this episode you will learn about:

• Primal Arts & utilizing them to encounter your Self

• Tracking, Survival, Healing & Combat

• 4 Archetypes: the Perceiver, the Provider, the Healer & the Protector

• Vision Questing

• 4 Ways of Knowing

• Embodied Learning & Teaching 

• Utilizing sickness & injury to transform 

• Cultivating body wisdom

• Workout recovery protocols

• Relationship between digestion, organs & muscles 

 

Website: tribaledge.life 

 

Key Quotes:

“The Quest is a process of searching & seeking, asking & questing.” - Ben Sanford

“The difference between fasting and starving is basically an intention.” - Ben Sanford

“Grief shows up anytime we have a loss.” - Ben Sanford

 

Resources mentioned:

The Tracker by Tom Brown Jr.

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 

The Master & His Emissary by Ian McGilchrist

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis by John Vervaeke

 

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