Some journeys take us across continents. Others take us home. A few do both. When Vanya Rani first arrived in India, she thought she was coming for a visit. Fifteen years later, she’s still there, living in the Himalayas and realising how her entire life turned into a pilgrimage.

Karma, Chai & Consciousness is not a checklist of holy sites but a book about perception and transformation. It grew over years, shaped by travels through India and Tibet – places as mystical and monumental as the questions we carry inside. Free from religious labels, Vanya explores paths towards deeper awareness and timeless consciousness. By revisiting certain power spots over time, she noticed how her view of them and of herself changed. You’ll feel the shifts in these pages. 

This memoir is a guide to discernment and personal growth. It’s a book for anybody interested in consciousness beyond belief systems. It traces geography and sheds light on subtle aspects of our times: from quantum fields and energetic distortions to clairsentience and the interplay of psyche and spirit.

Vanya’s travelogue is written from the vantage point of a German woman bridging East and West, the mundane and the mystical – interwoven with her own photographs and cross-cultural insight.

It is an invitation to reconnect with our emotional landscape and to listen to our inner knowing. It is an honest account of pilgrimage, aha-moments and lived wisdom, told with humour and heart.

Featured places include Vrindavan, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Puttaparthi, Mount Arunachala (Tiruvannamalai), Badrinath, Ladakh, Manasarovar and Mount Kailash.