about ananda-health

Under the direction of Nina Molin, M.D., Ananda Health Center for Integrative Medicine combines conventional, natural and complementary disciplines to enhance good health through prevention and to support the treatment of disease and illness. Ananda’s comprehensive approach utilizes the best of Western medicine combined with the most current and effective complementary approaches.

Since your physical, emotional and spiritual traits, as well as your social and physical environment affect your overall health, Integrative Medicine treats the “whole person”. All of these aspects are important in diagnosing the root cause of illness, healing of illness and prevention of disease, so you can lead your life with good health, vitality and joy (ananda).

At Ananda Health, western and complementary approaches may include recommendations for laboratory tests or radiological studies evaluating hormone balance, risk of cardiovascular disease, digestive disorders, heavy metal exposure, nutritional and biochemical status, and food sensitivities or Ayurvedic Pulse Diagnosis. Recommendations may include. behavioral modification regarding stress reduction techniques, exercise and diet, as well as, medications; and nutritional and herbal supplements.
Nina Molin, MD


As a physician of Integrative Medicine, Dr. Molin interfaces the science of nutrition, biochemistry and genetics with the wisdom of ancient traditions so her clients can regain and maintain health and sustain long lasting vitality and joy (ananda).

Since June 2000, she has been a staff physician at Canyon Ranch in the Lenox where she lectures and consults in many areas including Integrative Medicine, Women’s Health, Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Preventive Medicine and Ayurveda. Dr. Molin was featured in the 2003 PBS special “Live Younger Longer: The Canyon Ranch Guide to Good Health and Well-Being.” She lectures on health in the community, and has given workshops on Ayurveda at Canyon Ranch and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.

A veteran of both private and academic practice in the Berkshires, Dr. Molin is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine, with post-graduate training in Internal Medicine-Primary Care from the University of Rochester, N.Y. Dr. Molin is board certified in Internal Medicine. She did her post-bac pre-medical studies at Hunter College in N.Y.C.

After graduating The Bronx High School of Science, Dr. Molin matriculated into The University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she received a B.A, in Anthropology. During her undergraduate years, she completed a semester-long internship in The Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center, one of the first women-owned; women directed health centers in this country. Her senior thesis was on how the Self-Help Movement was manifested in that health center. It was this internship that inspired Dr. Molin to be a physician.


Dr. Molin’s introduction to Anatomy and Physiology started at UMASS through dance and movement. She furthered her studies in learning anatomy through movement and body work with the Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler School of Dance in N.Y.C. and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen at The School for Body Mind Centering in Amherst, MA.

As a resident at Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. she was introduced to Ayurvedic Medicine by a friend and began studying with Jay Glaser, M.D. in Lancaster, M.A. and Maharishi Ayur-Veda University. When Dr. Molin’s own health became compromised with what she calls “The Western Triad” of “insomnia, continual fatigue and reflux” she continued to investigate Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine in more depth as a way to heal herself.

She has studied with numerous teachers of Integrative Medicine at The Institute of Functional Medicine and with numerous teachers of Ayurveda including Dr. Shekhar Annambhotla of Ojas Ayurveda Wellness Center and Sri Swamini Mayatitananda of The Wise Earth School of Ayurveda. Under the tutelage of Mother Maya, Dr. Molin has been studying and teaching Wise Earth Ayurveda since 2001.

Dr. Nina Molin served as Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Massachusetts Medical School and was in clinical practice in Pittsfield, MA from 1994-2000

Her joys include dancing, theatre, yoga, travel, and her family which includes her two sons, Willie and Isaac, husband, Dr. Jon Gotterer and dog, Nelly.