Through awe-inspiring science courses,
We help young people discover their place in the cosmos.
Has the pandemic left your child struggling with a passive and uninspired form of education? Through twenty years of home-schooling experience, we’ve developed a highly interactive teaching format designed to spark every student’s flame of fascination. Our online courses don’t simply convey information — they’re dynamic conversations that help students explore our wondrous universe and come to their own conclusions about its meaning.
For fall 2020, we’re offering nine live online courses. To meet the unique needs of every family, class size and meeting frequency are flexible. Class size can range from one to four students, and courses can meet once, twice, or four times per week.
Limited to just four students, our courses feature...
Using highly accessible language & engaging visual media, we help young people discover the most exciting frontiers of science, including the Big Bang, relativity, quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology, systems theory, and neuroscience.
Young people are inheriting a world that’s changing faster than ever. Since we can’t predict the questions and challenges children will face in the future, education must now focus on teaching them to think for themselves and find their own truths.
Instead of fragmenting the world into disjointed disciplines, we weave physics, chemistry, biology, history, art, and psychology together in every lesson. This allows students to see — and experience — the universe as a unified, coherent whole.
We're passionate about helping students...
become fascinated by the cosmos & the role they play in its evolution.
participate effectively in addressing humanity’s current challenges.
become confident adults, who know themselves and their unique gifts.
Explore the Universe with Us!
“To this day, I have not met anyone with as much openness and patience as Ari embodies. He has the amazing skill of making each student feel special and creating an environment in which one actually wants to learn. I honesty cannot imagine what my high school years would have been like without him. He helped me grow as a person emotionally and he gave me the tools I needed to succeed in college. I didn’t realize at the time what impact he would have on my life. I now consider Ari part of my family.”
Arianna • Student for 5 years
Fall 2020 Courses:
17 Classes
Intelligence in the Universe
18 Classes
The Cutting Edges of Science
12 Classes
Making Sense of the Pandemic
20 Classes
The Great Cosmic Adventure
15 Classes
Learning from Natural Systems
11 Classes
What is Life?
11 Classes
What is Science?
10 Classes
What is the Universe?
16 Classes
Humanity’s Possible Futures
0 Classes
What is Astrology?
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To help you determine if a YourCosmos course is right for you, we offer free phone consultations.
The power of embodied, experiential education.
At YourCosmos, we are keenly aware of the limits of intellectual knowledge. While new ideas can be mesmerizingly beautiful, we believe that they often remain impotent abstractions until they seep into the marrow of lived experience. With this in mind, we’ve designed all our courses — and all our classes — to include experiential exercises that help students ground new insights into their lives. Using a combination of introspective journaling, contemplative dialogue with other students, and creative exploration, we give every student the tools they need to embody science’s latest revelations.
“Ari is, in a word, FANTASTIC! Life for my family changed when Ari began teaching my son. My son, who has learning differences, has had many tutors starting in grade school but none has come close to Ari. Ari knows how to convey material. He knows how to get the student involved and taking responsibility. Ari’s skills also go beyond the academic: he weaves philosophy & current events into the lessons and closely follows what else is going on in the student’s life. He teaches the whole student. He was able to give my son, who had been struggling academically, the confidence to master any subject and the desire to do so.”
Becky • Parent
Coming soon:
fabulously interactive self-guided courses
Our unwavering commitment to engaging, personalized education means that, unfortunately, we can only work with a small handful of students each month. To offer this material to a wider audience – at a tiny fraction of the cost – we have spent the last 18 months deep in the mad scientist laboratory, creating highly interactive, self-guided versions of all our courses. Our first course will launch in December, and we plan to release further courses every eight weeks throughout the spring and summer of 2021.
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“Ari’s kind, calming personality and his unlimited knowledge of basically every subject made him not only a welcomed tutor in our home, but a personal mentor to my son and daughter. I will be forever grateful for the personal interest he took in encouraging my kids to stay focused and pursue the careers of their dreams. Today they are doing just that and they are proud to say that they couldn’t have done it without Ari’s guidance, encouragement, and friendship. Thank you Ari for all the support and love you have shown us over the years.”