Adelphi University welcomes Sifu Mike Pekor, who will present "T"ai Chi Ch'uan as a Physical Manifestation of Taoist Philosophy," on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Ruth S. Harley University Center Room 313, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. The event is sponsored by the Adelphi Asian Studies Department and is free and open to the public.

Sifu Michael Pekor, gold medalist and grand champion in T'ai Chi Ch'uan for form and "push hands," will discuss numerous aspects of this martial art. Featured in Newsday, Michael Pekor, a certified hypnotist with an M.S. in sports psychology, will explain T'ai Chi Ch'uan's broader value as a philosophy and physical practice that can help westerners "escape the world of imagination" and live in the present. As Pekor explains, "Through performing the movements gently with a relaxed attention focused on the bodily felt sense of stretching and expanding, the conscious analytical faculty of the mind is abandoned and the intuitive 'natural mind' given space."

To learn more about Michael Pekor and his practice of T'ai Chi, please visit http://www.taichili.com. For more information about this event, please contact Dr. Cristina Zaccarini, co-chair of the Department of Asian Studies, at (516) 877-4788, or zaccarin@adelphi.edu.