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We believe that Music & Sound are the Medicine of the future and the future is NOW!!
This year we are super exited to make one of our dreams come true... A Gong Camp / Sound Healing Gathering / Chill out Jamming with friends by the River / A sharing of Grounding and Connecting Practices / Time for Music, Art, Movement, Nature, where we can release doing and drop into being. We have called it the "Sound Medicine Festival", and it is happening from 21 to 26 June 2023!!
Join us and our Guests for 4 full days of Gongs, Movement and Sound Healing in a celebration of life at the banks of the River Genal, in Andalucía, Spain! Celebrating the Summer solstice, where we will weave our dreams into being with threads of Sound.
Our aim is to share the use of sound and music as medicine in our daily lives. A time to disconnect from your routine and connect with your essence and wellbeing.
The Festival will take place at a beautiful spot at the banks of the Genal River. A peaceful heaven where you can feel the power of nature and all the elements caress your soul.
During this Festival we will have several special guests, who also happen to be dear friends, offering their art as part of the programme. Each of them professionals and masters of their offerings, which aim to connect you with you body and feelings through breath, movement and sound. Creating a space where you can release and empower yourself.
The Program:
Day 0 - 21 June
Arrival in the afternoon, any time after 3pm.
7pm Opening Ceremony
8.00pm Sacred Sound Ceremony with Tom & Abby
Day 1 - 22 June
Morning Program
9:30am Yoga & Sound - with Abby & Tom
11:30 am Gong Playing workshop - with Tom Soltron & Abby Delsol
1:00pm "Deep Experiential Heart Breathing" - with Alicja Eiliakas
Afternoon Program
5:00pm Cacao Ceremony - Tone of Life & Friends
6:00pm Drumming Circle - All together now!!
Evening Program
9:00pm Concert - Bartoš Eiliakas
Day 2 - 23 June
Morning Program
9:30am Tensegrity - with Lukas Med aka El Coyotee MEDicina
11:30am Intuitive EcoArt - with Aga Strauss
1:30pm Singing Bowl Workshop - with Tom Soltron
Afternoon Program
5:00pm Freedom Dance & Meditation - with Tom Soltron & Abby Delsol
6.30pm Plant Alchemy - with Africa Nieves
Evening Program
9:00pm Concert - Maggie Maggowan & Friends
Day 3 - 24 June
Morning Program
9:30am Yoga & Sound - with Abby & Tom
11:30am Intuitive EcoArt - with Aga Strauss
1:30pm Vocal Freedom Workshop - with Abby Delsol
Afternoon Program
5:00pm 5Rythms - with Beata Eckert
6:30pm Gratitude Circle - with Alicja Eiliakas
Evening Program
9:00 Concert - Tone of Life & Guests
Day 4 - 25 June
Morning Program
9:30am Body symbolism & Sound - with Beata Eckert
11:30am The Art of Sound Healing - with Tom Soltron & Abby Delsol
1:30pm Yoga Nidra - with Abby Delsol
Afternoon Program
5:00pm Freedom Dance & Meditation - with Tom Soltron & Abby Delsol
6:30pm Open Mic
Closing Ceremony
Evening Chill out zone - After Party
Monday 26 June
Time to go Home - Leave site by 11am
As well as the above programmed events, we will have a number of other activities happening alongside. Some of what will be on offer, weather dependent: Singing Bowls in the Water experience, Walk in nature to learn about medicinal and edible wild plants, Handpan workshop, Flute playing workshop, Entertainment for children, Jamming, Women's circles...
Each day you will have the opportunity to enjoy a Gong Siesta. Traditional in warmer countries, we will compliment this rest time with a soothing Gong Bath offered in the early afternoon, after lunch. Each day the Gong Siesta will be offered by a different person or team. If you would like to be part of the Siesta team contact us
This gathering is for all ages. Families are welcome!!
Our daily practice is to connect deeply with nature and listen to her inner song, through the birds, the wind, the river and all the beings that inhabit this earth. Our mission is to gather with like minded people, who practice and search for new ways of connecting, with themselves, with nature and with humanity as a whole. Sustainable living woven together by the threads of Music and sound.
Sound Medicine Festival was borne of a dream...
Meet the dreamers: Tom Soltron & Abby Delsol of Tone of life
Just click on our names to read more about us...
Nature informs how we create and perceive sound. Over the years, there have been multiple systems set up to unify sound, often in a Western context and understanding of hertz, and universal tunings to them. We rely on earlier and more primal origins of sound based in nature and the elements (air, fire, water, ether, earth.), and our direct relationship with it.
Sound Medicine Festival is that return to a more primal, intuitive and felt way of perceiving the vibration that unites and heals us. We live in a modern world, with many new technological tools available to make sound, to share sound, to measure sound.... basically to 'science' sound and encapsulate everything into a concept or a system. It seems we have forgotten how to feel sound, how to bypass the mind and trust our most primal sense of intuition and non-analytical hearing... everything has to be explained, and what we overlook is that sometimes the explanation is just strengthening our mental approach and distancing us from just 'Feeling' though our skin, ears, eyes, nose, mouth and above all Heart.
This is a time to dance together, make music together, make art together, create ceremony together, experience the healing power of Nature and Sound together.
Meet our Friends:
Lukas Med aka El Coyotee MEDicina
“I am already given to the power that rules my fate. I cling to nothing, so I have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will See. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle To be Free” -Carlos Castaneda
My first encounter with the Path of the Heart began in 2001, when accidentally a book, called “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, landed in my hands. This was the beginning. After finishing all Carlos books, it was time for the experience and practical work of the Unknown. I met my first teacher, and the encounters with the other side, plus Magical Passes (Tensegrity), which I practice and teach until this very day, began. Again, this was just an another beginning. I felt I have started on the path which will never end and I loved it. The year 2012 arrived, and with its new beginnings, with few brothers, we have created “The Men Drumming Circle” in Warsaw. Spending time in a sacred circle with brothers made me realised about the little dream that I had: going to Mexico and follow the stories of Carlos Castaneda and maybe find descendants of Toltecs. In 2015 the dream came true and I went for the 3-month journey to Mexico and Peru. I found the Huichol people, the descendants of Toltecs, set in the circle with their elders, met with the marakame, and much more. This journey changed me forever. I came back a different, but the same person, the person, which my heart always knew I had been. This is the path of the heart, which i am traveling, traversing, looking breathlessly and now I am sharing it with you and invite you to experience your own. Are you ready?
Tensegrity: Magical Passes are the series of movements delivered from ancient shamans of Mexico and transformed into Tensegrity by Carlos Castaneda to unlock, move and balance stuck energy in our bodies. Tense and integration which is hidden in the movements creates strong, positive vibrations use to silence our mind, free our potential, strengthen our bodies, remove toxins and give us courage to live our lives full-on. Power of the silenced mind, opens the door to perceive with our Heart. Teaches us to listen to the guide inside, to the healer, the master.
Alicija Eiliakas
Guide and facilitator of therapeutic, experiential and self-development seminars and classes, opening up spaces for participants to experience deep realizations and transformations.
In her practice, through many years of professional development, spiritual explorations and personal experiences, Alicija develops original workshops, practices, rituals and transformational processes with great love and respect for the uniqueness of each participant. Creating a safe loving space in her work both with groups and individual clients.
In her practices she accompanies the person towards their authentic being, helping them to remember who they really are.
She calls herself a mediator between the human personality and the Essence, helping to experience the guidance of the Soul through the connection with the deepest layers of the subconsciousness and the expansion of consciousness. She invites the participant to experience this during her shared practices which include "Deep Experiential Heart Breathing", "Body Wisdom" dance meditations, cocoa ceremonies, "Gratitude Circles", personal rituals and sessions that come to her from what she calls Soul guidance.
Alicija is a professional psychologist and psychotherapist (existential therapy, dance movement, art and sound therapy). After many years of studying and learning from various teachers she now shares what she received from her personal experiences.
For the past fifteen years together with her husband Richard they share the Path of Healing sound in the Baltic countries. Together with their sons Lukas and Bartoš, they created the musical project "Sound Mystery" and play meditative concerts of healing music. Many years ago, they founded the healing sound and psychology studio "The Art to Be", later, with the desire to create a Home of Heart that people can visit all year round, they created a space for magical experiences - the retreat center "Dragonfly Land".
Beata Eckert
For many years Beata has been deepening various techniques of conscious work with the body, movement improvisation, dance, sound and meditation. She is a teacher of 5Rythms®, a masseuse and an instructor of Dance Improvisation, Body Symbolism and Experimental Dance Theatre. She conducts workshops in Poland and abroad and participates in various types of artistic projects.
Bartoš Eiliakas
Is a young instrumental music composer from Lithuania. Specializing mainly in keyboard instruments he connects the world of acoustic and digital sound. By using a synthesis of pianos, gongs, various string instruments, voice and electronica, he creates beautiful soundscapes that put the listener in a trance of bliss. Bartoš creates music with the intention of giving a unique experience for the listener. Instead of just giving music to hear, the audience is invited to participate in a journey through inner emotions, visions and everything that comes in the moment. With the aid of various rituals, cacao ceremonies, guided meditation or most importantly music, the participants are led into a deeper state of being and are encouraged to look inward.