Do You Feel Yourself? is a storytelling podcast exploring women’s relationships with the Mikvah. A Mikvah is an ancient Jewish practice for psycho-spiritual transformation through immersing in sacred water.
This podcast illuminates the female narrative around immersing in the Mikvah, offering a space for personal and collective stories about a ritual that has remained largely private—sometimes isolating, often profound.
Each episode invites listeners into an intimate conversation where vulnerability is honored and spiritual connection is celebrated.
In this episode, Rikki sits down with Rivka Golding to explore Mikvah as a portal for birth, rebirth, and the transitions that shape a woman’s life. From her first mikvah (spoiler alert!) after her wedding, to returning after the birth of her daughter, Rivka shares an intimate story of motherhood, Niddah, female friendships, and finding presence within an ancient, somewhat routine ritual.
Together, they talk about loneliness, female friendships, community, and what it means to reclaim Mikvah as something deeply personal, communal, and feminine.
You can follow Rivka on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivkagolding/ (https://www.instagram.com/rivkagolding/)
If you liked this episode, please follow the podcast and leave a five star rating, it helps this work reach more women. The intro and outro music was generously gifted by Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely. Her prayer songs are deeply moving, and you can offer reciprocity and explore her work at healingattheroots.com (https://www.healingattheroots.com/)
Lastly, if you have a Mikva story you'd like to share, I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at hello@sodi.com (hello@sodi.com).
With much love,
Rikki.
28 May 2026
Beyond Initiation: Owning Your Sacred Practice
In this episode, Rikki sits down with Yocheved Sidof — trauma restorative mystic, teacher, and founder of Ohmek — for a rich and tender conversation about what it means to truly show up to the Mikvah with consciousness and intention. Together they explore the difference between transitions and thresholds, the sacred technology of witnessing versus gazing, and how women can move from initiation into ownership of their own practice. Yocheved also reflects on the unspoken arcs of a woman's life — from adolescence to perimenopause — and how ritual can hold all of it.
You can access more of Yocheved at
https://www.instagram.com/yochevedsidof/ (https://ohmekliving.com/about-yocheved/)
To work with Yocheved:
https://ohmekliving.com/about-yocheved/ (https://ohmekliving.com/about-yocheved/)
If you'd like this episode, please follow the podcast and leave a five star rating, it helps this work reach more women. The intro and outro music was generously gifted by Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely. Her prayer songs are deeply moving, and you can offer reciprocity and explore her work at healingattheroots.com (https://www.healingattheroots.com/)
Lastly, if you have a Mikva story you'd like to share, I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at hello@sodi.com (hello@sodi.com).
With much love,
Rikki.
12 May 2026
When It's Bigger Than You
In this episode we hear from Rivky Hertzel, the Chabad Shlucha of Zambia, Africa. Rivky shares her real-life experience of going to the Mikvah in Africa, her journey into motherhood while working to bring her family to Africa, and her grounding and unique perspective on Mikvah practice through the lens of personal healing, and inspiration from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
You can learn more about Rivky here: https://www.chabadzambia.org/rabbi-mendy-and-rivky
If you'd like this episode, please follow the podcast and leave a five star rating, it helps this work reach more women. The intro and outro music was generously gifted by Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely. Her prayer songs are deeply moving, and you can offer reciprocity and explore her work at healingattheroots.com (https://www.healingattheroots.com/)
Lastly, if you have a Mikva story you'd like to share, I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at hello@sodi.com (hello@sodi.com).
With much love,
Rikki
11 Mar 2026
Founder's Story
In this special episode we hear from the host of this podcast, Rikki Klein. Rikki shares her Mikvah origin story, her passion for bringing deeper consciousness to the Mikvah experience, and her new lifestyle brand called Sodi. You can explore Sodi and join the waitlist here: www.sodi.world (www.sodi.world)
Rikki is interviewed by Tsiporah Gottesman-Bortz a communication expert, coach, and certified Katonah Yoga instructor. You can learn more about her work here: https://www.instagram.com/tsipasana/ (https://www.instagram.com/tsipasana/)
If you'd like this episode, please follow the podcast and leave a five star rating, it helps this work reach more women. The intro and outro music was generously gifted by Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely. Her prayer songs are deeply moving, and you can offer reciprocity and explore her work at healingattheroots.com (https://www.healingattheroots.com/)
Lastly, if you have a Mikva story you'd like to share, I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at hello@sodi.com (hello@sodi.com).
With much love,
Rikki
6 Feb 2026
How Mikvah Changes You
Listen to Rebbetzin Judy Brodt, cofounder of the Yeshiva, Simchat Shlomo in Jerusalem share about her life's journey on a spiritual path, how we mikvah literally changes our consciousness, and attuning to soul our soul assignments. All with deep wisdom and blessings. You can discover more about Judy and her Yeshiva here: https://www.ysstorah.org/ (https://www.ysstorah.org/)
If you'd like this episode, please follow the podcast and leave a five star rating, it helps this work reach more women. The intro and outro music was generously gifted by Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely. Her prayer songs are deeply moving, and you can offer reciprocity and explore her work at healingattheroots.com (https://www.healingattheroots.com/)
Lastly, if you have a Mikva story you'd like to share, I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at hello@sodi.com (hello@sodi.com).
With much love,
Rikki.
6 Jan 2026
How Mikvah Became My Tikkun
For more than 34 years, Timmy Rubin has served as the Director at the Chaya Moushka Schneerson Mikvah in Melbourne. In How Mikvah Became My Tikkun, Timmy shares how immersion—standing naked before God—became a path of healing, intimacy, and spiritual repair. A conversation about water, lineage, sisterhood, and the quiet power of sacred witness. You can connect more with Timmy at http://mikvahchayamoushka.com.au/ (http://mikvahchayamoushka.com.au/)
If you'd like this episode, please follow the podcast and leave a five star rating, it helps this work reach more women. The intro and outro music was generously gifted by Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely. Her prayer songs are deeply moving, and you can offer reciprocity and explore her work at healingattheroots.com (https://www.healingattheroots.com/)
Lastly, if you have a Mikva story you'd like to share, I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at hello@sodi.com (hello@sodi.com).
With much love,
Rikki.
18 Dec 2025
Healing with Our Eyes
In today’s podcast we will be listening to the story of Jenna Zadaka as she shares vulnerably about her own Mikvah experiences during hard times in her life, as well as witnessing a friend immerse before starting cancer treatment.
Jenna Zadaka is an embodiment practitioner, trauma-informed somatic coach, educator in Jewish Mysticism and Mindfulness, author, and ceremonialist. She weaves spiritual, experiential, holistic, feminine, and earth-based wisdom into all of her offerings.
Follow Jenna and learn more about her spiritual embodiment here: https://www.instagram.com/breathandsoul_jenna/
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