Alosha Lynov is a Bio-Architect who combines the principles of Earthships, the vision of Antoni Gaudí, and the elegance of Sacred Geometry to create autonomous Living BioShelter Organisms—self-heating, self-cooling, and self-sustaining structures.
He founded Bio-Veda Academy of Bio-Architecture for the purpose of educating and empowering people to design and build their own eco-homes. To date, the academy has provided hands-on video courses in ecological construction and water self-sufficiency to more than 3,500 students worldwide.
With over 25 years of experience, Alosha has dedicated his career to integrating biomimicry, permaculture, and sustainable technologies into architecture. His unique approach emphasizes biomimetic forms and systems that are structurally stronger, more cost-effective, and more harmonious with natural landscapes than conventional building methods.
Alosha’s path began in the late 1990s, initially working with spandex sculptures for event design. In 2007, he trained in Mexico at a flying concrete workshop, where he mastered the creation of Gaudí-inspired ferrocement shells. He later applied this knowledge to his own land, building a 700 sq. ft. seashell-inspired structure and developing a fully self-sufficient ecosystem.
His work has taken him across five continents, where he has studied with global experts and taught workshops in BioTecture, permaculture, and water self-sufficiency. Today, his focus remains on developing and teaching innovative building techniques that enable individuals and communities to live sustainably and resiliently.
The understanding and knowledge and concepts are really important... but
The understanding and knowledge and concepts are really important but the material is very dated and culturally narrow. The format is very lack luster which I forgive but it does make it slow going. More graphics and illustrations and even some animations would help a lot.
Getting a little better but still, It’s liked reading a that lacks depth. It’s regurgitated info and sentiments about the world’s problems. Longing for deeply applicable wisdom, guidance, plans… more of the specifics from decades of experience and less of the same old philosophically and idealistic narratives
Interesting and well-structured content with good practical application. Adding videos would be a great improvement, and the manual could benefit from more detailed information or an expanded explanation of the video content.
Has interesting info, but seems to jump around....not super cohesive or well organized. It will reference plants/ideas in answers and on tests that were not mentioned earlier. Strange.
I took the Sylvotherapy Practitioner Certification Course. For an introductory course it was a good value at 70% off but I have several caveats. This is an introduction only and as such I was bothered by the last module focusing on how to advertise and start up a business. You could quite literally be incapable of identifying any tree species in your area before setting up a business. I feel it would have been much more efficient to focus on the role a guide takes and how to facilitate sessions with a diverse population of clients, what being trauma informed means, practicalities of running courses in the woods, off trail, on trail, on public land, on private property, etc, the importance of first aid training, the importance of indigenous local to you tree and forest lore, safe foraging protocols...I could go on. Give us fully cited readings and a bibliography of books to read early on in the course. A lot of the info is from books over 20 years old and/or problematic books that have been challenged both scientifically and by Indigenous communities. The last module really should have laid out the areas that people needed to address as continuing education before they started selling their services. There's a valid reason why without the educational credentials you can't touch the term "therapist" where I live and this will not qualify you to use it. Still with my own background as an educator, with art therapy trainingm and as a wildcrafter with over 30 years experience I did get ideas about transforming my outdoor forest school experiences into things I can share multi-generationally as well as with people in hospice which is what I wanted to be able to do.
I find it frustrating when things are referenced but not described. An example would be the meridians. If it is important enough to include, then there should be more information. The exhaustive list of meridians without any diagrams renders it useless. Are we supposed to memorize all of the names, but not know where they are? If someone hasn't done a lot of study already, several of the references don't mean anything. The course should be fully self-contained, which means I don't have to consult other resources to understand what is presented.
Lots a good information for plant references, but not what I was expecting. I expected more information/guidance on setting up and delivering a forest therapy session.
Course ties a lot of techniques together, buy more importantly the philosophy behind is more important, sadly our municipal and other codes prevent a lot of progress to a sustainable living. Need more political change to move away from capitalist ideology.
I like the content, the format is pretty dry and boring
The content in this course is great. I expected to have videos with instructors teaching, using powerpoint and other media. This course is presented via PDFs that you can read or listen to audio of someone reading it. So, it is a little dry / boring from that perspective.
Provides some good information but not much added value compared to a book
This course is like reading/listening a book divided into modules, with a quiz. No videos or other methods of learning, no invitations examples either. It did spark my interest in couple of new things, like the different types of phytoncides that certain trees emit more than others etc. so I've been diving deeper and researching independently while reading through this course so I guess it did the job it was intended.
A lot of repeated info. Quite obviously written by AI and not someone who is passionate about the topic. Thankfully I have a background in herbalism as there are a lot of technical terms that the average learner would not understand - they are not explained at all
