Laury Ostrow calls himself a light entrepreneur, delving into the realms of the creative imagination, looking for artifacts to bring back and share. He is an American Transcendentalist working in the realm of business. His life’s work has been to bring the image of spirit into form.

In the 70’s, founder of Guitars Friend, purveyor of American acoustic folk instruments, he discovered the Martin OM guitar, a guitar of the 1930’s that even Martin had forgotten. He put together the luthiers to hand build it and reintroduced it. A few years later Martin re-issued it and soon the entire guitar world realized that this guitar had magical dimensions of sound and sensitivity.

In the 80’s he found a clothing design feature from the 13th century, the gusset, and created Chi Pants, pants of legendary comfort. Chi Pants had a meteoric rise with a near biblical fall, including earthquake. Over 500,000 of them were sold.

In the aftershocks of the Loma Prieta earthquake he was forced to close Chi Pants. He moved to a remote hot springs in northeastern California where he rested, renewed and reinvigorated himself through life on the river and with Nature. “riverrun past Eve and Adam.”

During this same time he involved himself in two imaginative projects. One was Time Wave Zero, a fractal modeling of time as a vortex winding down as we speed up. The other is a unique perspective of the human heart. Not as a pump, but as a rhythmic impulse vortex momentum booster. Bringing further home the idea that Life does not work under pressure, but rather through an effortless process of re circulation through cooperation and partnership.

He brought Chi Pants back in the 1995 as he also became a father and at home dad. Times had changed, now organic cotton and hemp were available. Forming a strategic partnership with Men’s Wearhouse, he helped bring sustainable clothing to a wider audience, once again taking the role of visionary in the marketplace.

He has now made another discovery, a slow-wave discrete-element torsional-line kinetic sculpture he named DANCING HELIX™. Bringing together all his experience in design, manufacturing and marketing, to offer a window into the world of the formative patterns of Nature.

He studied practical Alchemy with Frater Albertus at the Paracelsus Research Society in Salt Lake City in the 70’s. He studied holistic health with Dr Bernard Jensen in the 80’s and spent many years with Joseph Campbell delving into the stories of our ancestors. His latest mentor was Terence McKenna, gaining new perspectives into where we might have come from, how we got to where we are and where we may be going.

Along the way he traveled through much of the Middle East, Greece and Europe in the mid 60’s and studied Chinese in Taiwan and journeyed throughout Japan in the late 60’s. It was back to the land and farming in central Michigan the 70’s and then homesteading in Northern Idaho in the late 70’s and early 80’s. His next move was to Northern CA. to teach holistic health education. The mid 80’s was Santa Cruz and a house on the cliff alive with the Monterey Bay. An earthquake shook him to the river Achuma east of Mt. Shasta. Now, Marin County, with a ten-year old son and the challenges of modern family life. The way surely has been a changing way.