Nina Usha Rachel Molin, MD
As a physician of Integrative Medicine, Dr. Molin interfaces the science of nutrition, biochemistry and genetics with the wisdom of the ancient traditions of Wise Earth Ayurveda® so her clients can regain and maintain health and sustain long lasting vitality and joy (ananda). She founded Ananda Health Center for Integrative Medicine in 2003.
Since June 2000, Dr. Molin has been a staff physician at Canyon Ranch in Lenox where she lectures and consults in many areas including Integrative Medicine, Women's Health, Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Preventive Medicine and Wise Earth Ayurveda®. Dr. Molin was featured in the 2003 PBS special “Live Younger Longer: The Canyon Ranch Guide to Good Health and Well-Being" and has been a two time guest on The Joan Hamburg Show (WOR-NY). She lectures on health in the community, which has included the Annual Sinai Academy Lecture Series in Pittsfield, MA and the Women's Health Care Conferences for Women Health Care Providers in Williamstown, MA and has given workshops on Ayurveda at the NOAH Center in Great Barrington, MA, Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Cranwell Resort in Lenox, Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.
A veteran of both private and academic practice in the Berkshires since 1994, 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, NY. Dr. Molin is board certified in Internal Medicine and had served as Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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 and later, decided to do her post-bac pre-medical studies at Hunter College in New York City.
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 NYC and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen at The School for Body Mind Centering in Amherst, MA.
As a resident at Highland Hospital in Rochester, NY she was introduced to Ayurvedic Medicine by a friend and began studying with Jay Glaser, M.D. in Lancaster, MA 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 many teachers of Ayurveda including Dr. Shekhar Annambhotla of Ojas Ayurveda Wellness Center.
In 2002, Dr. Molin read "The Path of Practice" by Sri Swami Mayatitananda (Maya Tiwari), founder and Spiritual Head of The Wise Earth School of Ayurveda and felt she found her teacher and has been practicing and teaching Wise Earth Ayurveda®, ever since.
Her joys include teaching Wise Earth Ayurveda®, dancing, theatre, travel and her family which includes her two sons, Willie and Isaac, husband, Dr. Jon Gotterer and dog, Nelly.
