Some journeys take us across continents. Others take us home. A few do both. When Vanya first arrived in India, she thought she was only visiting. Fifteen years later, she is still there, living in the Himalaya and realising that her entire life has become a pilgrimage.

Karma, Chai & Consciousness isn't a checklist of power spots to be ticked off. It's a memoir of perception, transformation and discernment. Through her journeys to sacred places in India and Tibet, Vanya describes pilgrimage as an inner and outer journey beyond religious labels, open to deeper awareness and timeless truths.

Part travelogue, part reflection, this book is also a guide to personal growth. It traces geography and sheds light on subtle aspects of our time: clairsentience, energetic distortions, processes of psyche and spirit as well as insights into our multidimensional reality. So yes, this is sacred travel, but without spiritual glamour or easy answers.

Written from the vantage point of a German living in India, the book bridges East and West, the mundane and the mystical - interwoven with her own photographs and cross-cultural insight.

Karma, Chai & Consciousness invites readers to notice the extraordinary in everyday life, reconnect with themselves and listen to their own inner knowing. It is an honest account of pilgrimage, aha moments and lived wisdom, told with humour and heart.