The Wellness Surf & Skate Podcast
Welcome to The Wellness Surf and Skate Podcast — where therapy meets the tide, pavement meets healing, and wellness flows through movement.
Hosted by Albert Balderas, a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Surf Therapy Facilitator, this podcast explores the intersection of mental health, nature-based healing, and board sports like surfing and skateboarding. Each episode dives into topics like surf and skate therapy, somatic practices, emotional alchemy, community healing, and the power of play.
Whether you’re a therapist, a skater, a surfer, or a soul seeking connection, you’ll find stories, strategies, and soulful insights to help you move through life with more presence, resilience, and stoke.
Healing doesn’t have to happen in stillness. Sometimes, it happens in motion.
New episodes weekly. Let’s ride.
The Wellness Surf & Skate Podcast
Episode 2: Introducing Surf Therapy + The Power of Blue Mind
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In this episode, host Albert Balderas, California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Surf Therapy Facilitator, introduces listeners to the transformative world of surf therapy — a nature-based therapeutic approach rooted in presence, motion, and connection to the ocean.
We explore the definition of surf therapy through the lens of the International Surf Therapy Organization, and how being in the water activates calm, clarity, and nervous system regulation. Albert also breaks down the concept of Blue Mind, the meditative state our brains enter when we connect with water.
If you’ve ever felt healed, grounded, or renewed just by being near the ocean — this episode will help you understand why.
Your healing might already be waiting at the shoreline.