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 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 is not a checklist of holy sites, but a memoir about perception, presence and transformation. Through her journeys to sacred places in India and Tibet, Vanya explores paths to deeper awareness and truth. 

Part travelogue, part reflection, this book is also a guide to discernment and personal growth. Beyond religious labels, it traces geography and sheds light on subtle aspects of our times: from quantum fields and energetic distortions to clairsentience and processes of psyche and spirit.

Written from the perspective of a German woman 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.

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