Welcome
to a place where we value:
Cognitive Liberty
Bodily Sovereignty
Wholeness and Love
The freedom of all people to think how they please and rest in social beliefs of best alignment to themselves.
The right to autonomy in our decisions and respect of our individual physical boundaries.
Recognizing people as emotional, mental, physical and spiritual beings who deserve to be honored.
"Cycle awareness, conceiving, pregnancy release, and birth are events of the womb that provide women a sacred connection to our direct line of ancestors. Support from a radical birth keeper may help you access the transformative power of these experiences, ease pain, and gain meaning. I believe everyone should have a wise woman in her community to provide evidence-based information, continuous and intentional support, and nourishing care through these journeys. I would be honored to walk with you."
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Gracie Ota, Sacred Lines LLC
OFFERINGS
Sovereign Childbirth Education
This offer is for the woman or couple looking to understand birth in order to feel ready, prepared, and truly excited for their own unique journey. You will learn how birth works, what your highest vision is for your family and how to work it into reality. You will learn the framework of sovereign birth, logistical home birth planning, and trouble-shooting. We will meet one-on-one in-person or online, for 3 separate sessions lasting an hour each.
$100 for 3 sessions
Nourishing Postpartum Care
Nurturing motherbaby in creation of a truly abundant First 40 Days. The birthkeeper helps the mother integrate her birth story, ritualize the postpartum time, assist with newborn care, feed the family nourishing meals, do light housekeeping tasks and meal prep, grocery shopping for the family, and care for the mother through presence, touch and wisdom sharing. Shifts last 2-3 hours, but schedules are curated on an individual basis.
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Additional Services :
Placenta Processing (Tinctures, Capsules, or Burial)
Herbal Teas
Fresh Flower Delivery
Meal Delivery
Sitz Bath Herb Blend
$25/hr | Ask me about chef bundles
Birth Trauma Debriefs/Birth Story Integration Sessions
​A generational healing necessity for mother’s carrying birth trauma of any magnitude. Book a session with me to unpack your birth story, tell your story medicine, be heard and witnessed by someone who understands birth, get feedback, and move towards clarity and integration of your birth story. We will meet one-on-one in-person or online for an hour per session.
$33 | 1 hr sessions
Check Back For Info On Childbirth Education Classes Coming Summer 2025!
About Me
Gracie Ota
Birth Keeper
Foreshadowing the course of my life, as a little girl I was either in my backyard playing under the trees or taking care of my baby dolls. Plants and babies were always my thing. In 2015 I unexpectedly attended my first birth. I supported my friend through her labor, witnessed the magic of a child's first breath and the door to birth work opened up for me. Since then I have been in awe of all things birth, the mother-baby bond, and the sacred ancestral line mothers have formed throughout time.
I graduated with a degree in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability from CSU Fort Collins in 2018 and spent the following year traveling and farming in Hawaii. There I was able to link my education with my intuitive knowing about what was true and healthy for the earth. Birth and land stewardship and cultivation have so much in common to me, and are the psychic and material "roots" of our humanness and our earthly-ness. So in 2020 I began working as an urban organic vegetable farmer for GoFarm Colorado and took a full spectrum doula training through Doula Trainings International.
2021 was the year I became a mother! This journey has shown me that birth and the course of our life should be imagined with no holding back. I stopped believing that the options laid out in the mainstream was the best options I could get. The matriarch created in me now knew better. So, I made the leap in 2023 and joined Freebirth Society's Radical Birth Keeper School. This was TRANSFORMATIVE and I have shifted my work from fierce defender doula to wise, trusting and autonomous sister. The support and coaching of a radical birth keeper can remind you of the constant connection of all the parts of ourselves (spiritual, emotional, physical and mental) and give you the capacity to manifest beauty and meaning in your birth and your journey to parenthood or re-parenthood. True power awaits every woman willing to claim it. And so it is!
The Hormonal Magic of an Undisturbed Birth
When your baby is ready to be born, corticotropins are released from your baby's adrenal gland and those hormones reduce progesterone (smooth muscle relaxer/contraction inhibitor) and activate the oxytocin receptors that have been rising on the lining of the uterus.
Oxytocin is often called the love hormone, and is released from the mothers pituitary gland when the baby puts pressure on the cervix (lowers into the pelvis.) This hormone creates more contractions/sensations which work to knit the top of the womb together and melt away the cervix at the bottom. This hormone also aids in bonding, breastfeeding, and mothering success.
When we work hard (labor) endorphins are released in the body. Endorphins reduce stress and relieve pain, often with a sedative effect. This may result in the blissful or out-of-this world, closed eyed and altered state that women enter in the depths of "labor land."
Transitioning to the birth of the baby, catecholamines aka adrenaline/nonadrenaline come into play to give focus and energy to the mother for the actual birth. It is associated with alertness in the baby and is an important hormone for the birth to progress and occur.
These hormones happen in an almost magical dance, perfectly unfolding if a mother is allowed to spontaneously go into labor, and experience her birth process in a safe, familiar environment (home) and around people who respect her process and the very crucial hormones at play.
Interventions, drugs, fear, abrupt environment change, bright lights, loud or rude people, lots of people, having to have logical thoughts and rational discussion or arguments will interfere and disrupt if not completely undermine the hormonal blueprint. Inductions deny the possibility for the baby to be ready for labor and release the hormones needed to prepare the uterus. The synthetic medication Pitocin that is often administered in the hospital shuts off the bodies natural oxytocin production. When an epidural is placed, endorphins drop and deny the body its many mental and physical benefits. Having adrenaline released too early by leaving the home or someone acting harshly towards the mother will deplete the adrenaline needed during transition, resulting in what we often see as "failure to progress."
When protecting the hormonal magic by planning an undisturbed birth, women can experience physiological, uninhibited and ease-full births. That is my dream for all families.
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Written by Gracie Ota
Resources: Yolande Norris-Clark and Sarah J. Buckley
