Karim Strougo
ZEN Conference President Karim Strougo, Founder and President of the SAFE Convention TM, and Founder and Managing Partner of STEP Center, is also the President of SAFE Academy, the first International Fitness Education Academy in the Middle-East. Karim is also a renowned fitness presenter and an AFAA CEU Provider.

A renowned Fitness Therapist, Karim is also certified in both Group Exercise and Personal Training from the Aerobics & Fitness Association of America (AFAA) and has a long experience in working with clients suffering from medical and/or physiological problems.

Karim is also the creator of QuickSlim® based on his now famous IBM technique (Integrated Body Mechanics®), a revolutionary training method, which helps people drop in size in record time and without dieting!

As an educator, Karim Strougo is the founder and author of the first Egyptian course in fitness education entitled “Primary Certification in Physical Education & Aerobics TM”, which was a revolutionary landmark in fitness education in Egypt and lead to a boom in the number of certified Egyptian instructors. In 2006, Karim also released the first edition of his Personal Training book entitled “Personal Training: A broader look on exercise TM”, which is the official manual for his now famous personal training course by the same title.

In 2009, Karim published a new revised and updated edition of his first course manual, which he renamed “The Professional Group Fitness Instructor’s ManualTM”. This new edition has been almost entirely rewritten to include some of the latest findings and researches in health and fitness worldwide.

In October 2010, Karim launched his new SAFE Academy course “Pilates: The SAFE Way™” and this year, around July 2012, he is planning to launch his fourth book titled “Fluid Yoga”, which will be the basis for the SAFE Academy Yoga Instructor Course..

Karim believes that “With determination, today’s dreams are tomorrow’s reality”.

Tracy Jennings-Hill
Tracy Jennings Hill ventured into her yoga practice after an injury caused the physical challenge of sciatica to arise.  As a way to help maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle she began dabbling in different disciplines of yoga, later discovering the YogaFit style. 

She has studied in Rishikesh, India, the birth place of yoga and now travels internationally teaching yoga.  She understands the value of the mind/body connection, and is a fitness professional, embodying all aspects of the profession, instead of using her BS in Human Resource Management. 

In addition to having completed her R. Y. T., she has been an  AFAA certified group fitness instructor for over 11 years, where she now focuses on indoor cycling, dance, and pre-programmed muscle strength and endurance training. 

She also is an AFAA/ACE Certified Personal Trainer and has managed group fitness programs at several fitness facilities throughout the United States.

Neveen El-Gamal
Neveen El –Gamal is a single Egyptian mother, poet and writer who dares to follow the path of her soul.

In her soul inspired life journey, she has delved beyond the obvious in life, and in doing so has risen above many of the misconceptions of present day conditioned mind beliefs. She has defied both cultural and social pressures to stand up for, and live her beliefs.

Neveen is also a qualified Reiki and Emotrance Practitioner with an insatiable interest and love of Crystals. Individually, she’s helped lightening many people’s spiritual paths. 

Both Neveen and Kerry trust the reality and miraculous wonder of what is not seen by the naked eye.

Kerry Guy
Kerry Guy is an Australian Life and Soul intuitive speaker and writer who tells it openly and honestly as she senses it. 

She has been based in Cairo for over ten years. Kerry has observed life from the perspectives of both East and West, however, she has always lived her life based on heart perception and she’s been involved in helping people become more self-aware of their spiritual and physical well-being for over fifteen years. She believes that life experience is our greatest teacher and is passionate about motivating others to live their lives meaningfully in alignment with their soul’s purpose.

Kerry knows that being human is just a phase our Soul is passing though and that to fully appreciate this phase we must discover enter the Gateway of the Soul.

Like Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio she has always let her conscious be her guide which has in essence led her on a Journey into the Soul, which is the energy of The True Self