Tone of Life is a sound healing group comprised of Tom Soltron and Abby Delsol. They teach people to feel and transform through the tones that are unfolding in their lives through creating, receiving and sharing sound practices. For over 20 years Tone of Life has toured the world offering training, workshops, events and concerts to share Sound as healing, therapy and medicine. Their methodology is woven from lifetimes of study and immersion in the philosophy, science and practice of Sound. This has come through their family lines, their teachers, personal inquiry, curiosity, travel and play.
Today Tom and Abby are based in the Andalusian mountains in Southern Spain where they host retreats from their Tone of Life Center. Tone of Life also created, in 2006, the Tone of Life Gongs brand in collaboration with master gong maker Johannes Heimrath. Producing the highest quality Gongs, Bell Plates and accessories for use in Sound Healing, understanding the needs of practitioners around the globe. They invite you to experience sound as medicine.
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ABOUT THE PRACTITIONERS
Abby Delsol
Love and lineage, life’s struggles, and a triumphant emergence of Sound have guided my path since early childhood. I grew up o the grid in north-central Patagonia, Argentina. My mother was a West Indian healer and bodyworker, and my father: an aristocratic Londoner. This pairing lent itself to going back to the land, and living o the grid. I was infused at an early age with a wisdom that connected anatomy, music, and the healing arts. Like most young adults who grew up in the proverbial middle of nowhere, I left the family practice to lean into the more mainstream way of life, and returned for a long while to England.
In 2001, I began the journey back to Self, endeavoring a two-year immersion in Shamanistic studies, and began to use the drum and rattle to help people reconnect with fractured parts of their being. Further studies in life and death rituals enabled me to deepen my practices. In that process, I happened upon a gong bath at a festival in England. It was like someone switched everything o, and the relief was infinite, and my journey deepened. Practices that came to me through birth lineage began to collaborate with modalities in Sound and Yoga, leading me to study deeply with German Garro in Argentina. Back in my childhood home, I was able to support the work my family had begun at our holistic healing center. The community around the center grew, and we began receiving teachers we met along our journeys in Europe. One of those experiences was arranging the rst gong training in Argentina in 2004. This particular experience launched the gong into a new audience and the practice of sound healing in that region. In 2006, my sister and I brought the rst gong workshop to Barcelona. The love for the gong spread quickly, and for a number of years, we continued to organize yearly workshops both in Argentina and the UK.
In 2011, I invited Tom Soltron and Don Conreaux to take part in a tour of Argentina and Uruguay, where Tom facilitated a number of Sacred tone Improvisation workshops. There was a particular magic in these workshops and a synergy that called us to work together. We began offering concerts and sound baths in multiple cities across the globe, collaborating with Sound practitioners local and international, The synergy and partnership was born, and Tom and I continued the work by offering concerts and sound baths, including three world tours.
Over the years to follow, we would cultivate curricula for retreats, workshops, and trainings. Together, we integrated the healing connections of Sound and movement to support others in their journeys into Sound and healing. We are humbled to have supported thousands of people across Europe, Asia, and South America (as well as the US and Canada) to open themselves to the power of Sound Medicine.
Tom Soltron
Our journeys to understanding ourselves can be so overwhelming- they are just a tiny fraction of the process and experiences that we choose. I have made it my mission in life to support these journeys, and do it through the very tunings that have supported me.
Here’s my story:
I was born in communist Poland. It was a very dierent time than now. I spent much of my time thinking about far-o destinations. Much time was spent riding trains to the outer reaches of geopolitical zones – as far as they would let me- in my case it was to the edge of Russia. I relished in where I could go, the exotic being at the edges of the rail line politically available. The sounds of the trains on rails were my rst soundtrack. There was the clanking of the train on the rails, the sensorial experience of the smoke in the cars, and the stories of people. So many stories shared, always. Between the sights, sounds, smells, and narratives, a slower and expansive sense of time emerged. I loved this depth of sense, and found it as much experiencing the church’s organ as I did playing punk music as a teenager. In reverence to Spirit or in rebellion, shooting out words with two or three ris, the healing power of Sound consumed me. It would be well into adulthood when I would be invited back to the healing power of Sound and Nature in companion.
Many years into adulthood, I was presented with a life-threatening diagnosis. That kickstarted, as it does for many of us, a healing journey that continues today. I began with physical practices, then practices that combined Sound with the body, and now, the space between nature, Sound, and body have found their right relationship. These practices have ultimately led me to a more naturalistic way of treating the body and the mind, in companion with Nature. A big turning point came in 2002, when I experienced my rst Gong concert. Without question, it changed my perspective, my proprioception, and a new channel opened. I developed a relationship with Don Conreaux and we soon began a collaboration. We began to tour, and over time, I incorporated multiple instruments into my practice: the guitar, piano, and indigenous percussive, wind, and string instruments. I led multiple world tours with other Sound practitioners, and began to record my own music. In 2006 in partnership with Johannes Heimrath, we began to make our own line of Gongs.
2011 Abby Delsol invited me to Argentina, where we met for the rst time. The rest was actually not history, as it lives to this day. We have been collaborating with the seeds that we were given from Don Conreaux, Johannes Heimrath and others along the way, and have been sharing gongs, as well as indigenous instrumentation, and developing new instruments since. In the few years to come, Abby and I co-created the methodologies of sound and movement that comprise our trainings and retreats today. The full system is something to behold. The compendium aligns where the sound that comes into the body, where it emerges from the body, and the movement that integrates it all. The experience is one of healing, that takes all the roads that have been traveled, the searching, and the resistance, back to the centre and into the whole.