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 7: From Breakdown to Flow: Movement as Emotional Alchemy"
In this powerful episode, host Albert Balderas, California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Surf Therapy Facilitator, explores how intense emotions like grief, anxiety, stress, and anger can be transformed through movement.
Using the frameworks of skate and surf therapy, Albert shares how we can move these energies through the body — not to escape them, but to alchemize them. This is a conversation about nervous system regulation, emotional rhythm, and finding flow after the fall. Because sometimes, healing doesn’t begin with stillness — it begins with motion.
Breakdown isn’t the end. It’s the beginning of transformation.