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 3: Skate and Heal – A Deeper Dive into Skate Therapy
In this episode, host Albert Balderas, California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Surf Therapy Facilitator, dives into the healing power of skate therapy — a movement-based therapeutic approach rooted in rhythm, risk, and resilience.
We explore how skateboarding helps regulate the nervous system, unlock emotional expression, and create safe spaces for growth — especially for those who may not feel seen in traditional therapy settings. Albert highlights the impact of organizations like the A.skate Foundation and the Concrete Jungle Foundation, and how skating offers more than tricks — it offers transformation.
Whether you ride or not, this episode is about falling, rising, and finding your flow.