About Luka Barba

Luka Barba founded Deeply Rooted Healing Traditions in order to serve the women and families of her community by providing the traditional care so often absent during the powerfully transformative postpartum period. By following the wisdom of generations of women around the world, Luka is able to uplift, empower and support new mothers as they bring life into our world. 

By bringing her training and ancestral intuition to the forefront, Luka honors the sacredness of birthing and the postpartum period, and helps her clients tap into their own intuition and  forgotten capabilities, allowing them to heal and thrive. Her work with mothers, newborns and families uplifts and supports them physically, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually. 

At the foundation of Luka’s work is a focus on generational and lineage healing as she helps clients integrate and somatically process birth imprints (also referred to as birth trauma). Integrating these experiences allows individuals to avoid passing traumatic experiences forward into their future experiences as well as into future generations. 

This work is Luka’s calling in this lifetime. Her medicine to the world. The birth of her two daughters, ignited this Remembrance and True Knowing. Her desire to create a full spectrum care for women and babies led her to becoming a UCSD Certified Lactation Educator + Counselor, Registered Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (specializing in Mom and Newborns), Holistic Tongue Tie Specialist, Certified Innate Postpartum Care Provider, and as of 2023, Assistant Teacher to Innate Postpartum training. As well, as steep herself in the wisdom and practices of traditional communities such as belly binding, yoni steaming, Abdominal Womb Massage. Luka is currently enrolled as a member of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (BCTA/NA) and has been studying from pioneers of Pre and Perinatal Psychology since 2016, as it’s been one of her passions and continues to this day. Luka is a educator for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), PPNE and a Somatic Trauma Practitioner.

Luka’s dedication to her work is on behalf of the birthing mothers, their babies, families, communities, and to Earth Mother herself.

Certifications & Training

• University of California, San Diego - Certified Lactation Educator Counselor. Grace L. Miller, Ed.D.

• Certified Innate Postpartum Care Provider with Rachel Garcia Seliga.

• The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching - Prenatal and Perinatal (PPNE) Certification Program, Pre and Perinatal Birth Psychology

• Birth Trauma Resolution with Dr. Dennis Hartenstein

• LifeShapes Institute - Professional Certification Training, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (700 training hours) with Mary Louise Muller RCST, RPP, M. Ed. and Christopher Muller RCST, RPP.

• The Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America - registered as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist.

• Upledger Institute International - CST1, Los Angeles, California.

• Being with Moms & Babies - Biodynamic Beginnings with Debra Bochinski MN, CPM, RCST, HHP.

• Working with Moms & Babies - Biodynamic Beginnings: Transitions in the Postpartum Period with Debra Bochinski MN, CPM, RCST, HHP.

• Craniosacral and Infant Breastfeeding - Alison K. Hazelbaker PhD, IBCLC, FILCA, CST-T, RCST, PPNE

• Plagiocephaly - Alison K. Hazelbaker PhD, IBCLC, FILCA, CST-T, RCST, PPNE

• Torticollis - Alison K. Hazelbaker PhD, IBCLC, FILCA, CST-T, RCST, PPNE

• Visceral Biodynamics - The Peritoneal Organs - Advanced Course with Mary Louise Muller RCST, RPP, M. Ed. and Christopher Muller RCST, RPP.

• Institute for Birth Healing - Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body with Lynn Schulte, PT

• Lymphatic Mojo - Lymphatic Drainage with Perry Nickelston DC, NKT, SFMA

• La Matriz Birth - Postpartum Belly Binding with Tema Mercado CPM

• Sacred Pregnancy - Sacred Belly Bind

• Traditional Abdominal Womb Massage taught by Maria Eugenia Gobbato, Midwife and Holistic Body Worker

• Postpartum Pelvic Physical Therapy taught by Lynn Schulte, Physical Therapist, specializing in the holistic treatment of the postpartum body

• Abdominal Womb Therapy - Women's True Healing Certification Program with Marcia Lopez