Background
Doctor Duckworth was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at the Kototama Institute (1977–1987), earning a Certification of Completion in 1980, a Diploma in 1982. And a D. in Kototama Life Medicine in 1987.
Doctor Duckworth was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at the Kototama Institute (1977–1987), earning a Certification of Completion in 1980, a Diploma in 1982. And a D. in Kototama Life Medicine in 1987.
He has provided public and professional instruction in Mexico, California, New Mexico, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and throughout Missouri for the past 35 years. This was the only doctorate degree earned of the 107 graduates of the Kototama Institute. In 1980, he was invited by Doctor M. Masahilo Nakazono Osensei to join the teaching faculty at the Kototama Institute where he taught until the basic program ceased in 1985.
In 1988 he became a licensed tutor in New Mexico.
In 1986 he started the School of Inochi Resources in California, and he co-founded with M.M. Nakazono Osensei the Inochi International Studies Program in Mexico in 1987. He specializes in Kototama Pulse diagnosis, Pediatric acupuncture, "Tama-touch", Kappo, women"s medicine, and in Kototama Sound.
He discovered the Kototama Pulse configuration (1982–1986) and created "Tama-Touch", a tactile therapy of the Ki Kei Meridians in 2009. Doctor Duckworth"s studies and practices over the past four decades have included traditional herbal and folk medicine of the Southwest, midwifery and emergency medical services.
He has been an Emergency Medical Technician Instructor, Red Cross First Aid Instructor, and Code of Professional Responsibility Instructor.
His certifications include NCCAOM, Licensed Acupuncturist (LAc), and National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Recently he has published several articles in the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine
"Concerning Kototama Life Medicine and Merdian Therapy"s Evolution"
"Kappo: Giving Back Life"
"Traditional Way, Rest in Peace"
"Poems of the Student"
"From Apprentice to Journeyman and Beyond"
"Kyo and Jistu, Ho and Sha"
"Kototama Inochi Meridian Therapy: Procedures and Protocols". Personal life
His practice, Natural Life Therapy Clinic, is a "family-centered service".