I started practicing yoga about five years ago in the middle of a great personal and professional crisis. I came to yoga, to leave my problems behind and looking to be happy. I was fortunate to find a great teacher who gave me my first flow class. At the end of it I was in pieces, but I felt complete, aligned and in perfect peace with myself. Since that day I have not stopped doing yoga. Yoga changed my life.

In parallel and in a similar way sustainability reappeared in my life. As a student I dreamed of becoming an environmental lawyer. While on vacation at an aunt’s house on my way back from an exchange at a university in the United States that taught environmental law courses, I met my first mentor: a lawyer specializing in insurance law. Many years later I had become a risk and insurance specialist and was leading commercial teams and even held a position as president of an American multinational reinsurance company in Colombia.

But something was missing in my life, and I was not happy. I was no longer enthusiastic about what I was doing and through the constant practice of yoga I understood that professional success did not guarantee happiness, and that more than achievements and material gratification, what I needed was a purpose in life.

My boss at the time (thank you, Carlos), who did not know what to do with me, started to tell me to review how we could help renewable energy companies and why we did not bring from abroad risk and insurance products that would help companies to counteract climate change.

I dove headfirst into the subject without being qualified to do so. I began studying climate change and renewable energy and reviewing and designing risk products for energy companies, the agricultural sector, sustainable mobility and construction, and a whole nascent range of green professionals. Eventually I founded Green Risk Solutions (GRS), a company that seeks to transfer the risks of a renewable world, and every day I try to amplify with my clients, prospects, friends, in the media, in networks, on my blog and at events what the insurance and financial sector can do to facilitate a greener, socially responsible world where growth is sustainable.

Me tiré de cabeza en el tema sin estar calificado para hacerlo. Empecé a estudiar de cambio climático y energías renovables y a revisar y diseñar productos de riesgos para empresas de energía, del sector agrícola, de movilidad y construcción sostenible y una naciente gama de profesionales verdes. Con el tiempo fundé Gestión de Riesgos Sostenibles (GRS), empresa que busca transferir los riesgos de un mundo renovable, y todos los días intento amplificar con mis clientes, prospectos, amigos, en medios, en redes, en mi blog y en eventos qué puede hacer el sector asegurador y financiero para facilitar un mundo más verde, socialmente responsable y donde el crecimiento sea sostenible.

I discovered two life purposes (yoga and sustainability) ) by walking a path guided partly by choice and partly by chance.

In Buddhism we talk about Dharma (the duty one must fulfill in life) and recently Jay Shetty, an English author, defined it as follows: Dharma = Purpose + Utility + Expertise¹.

At GRS and in my yoga practice we always talk about sustainability. We want to talk about what you or your company can do to be more sustainable and via examples and testimonials what other things are being done well in Colombia and the world in this matter.

Every day I think about how to unite my two passions (yoga and sustainability) to serve others. I welcome any suggestions because I believe that change starts with you and just as I now give yoga classes to my friends who pay me with tea and good talks, I would love to put Dharma in my work and help, from what we know how to do, to companies and people who share a vision of a sustainable world.

However, if you just want to do yoga, give me a call. I am happy to practice with you or invite you to one of my classes.