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 presence. 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 pathways towards deeper awareness and timeless consciousness.

This memoir is a guide to discernment and personal growth. It traces geography and sheds light on subtle aspects of our times: from clairsentience and energetic distortions to the processes of psyche and spirit.

Interwoven with her own photographs, cross-cultural insight and lived wisdom, this travelogue is written from the vantage point of a German bridging East and West, the mundane and the mystical.

It is an invitation to perceive the magical in everyday life, to reconnect with our emotional landscape and to listen to our inner knowing – a grounded, honest account of pilgrimage, inner realisations and a lived connection with the divine, told with humour and heart.