Karma, Chai & Consciousness

A German Woman’s Pilgrimages in India and Tibet:
Sacred Adventures, Inner Alchemy and Awakening

A travel memoir with photographs.
Featured places include Vrindavan, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Puttaparthi, Mount Arunachala (Tiruvannamalai), Badrinath, Ladakh, Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash.
Paperback: 224 pages
International Edition (English): ISBN 978-93-5469-700-5
India Edition (English): ISBN 978-93-5759-010-5
German Edition (Deutsch): coming soon
eBooks: coming soon
Audiobooks: planned

This book is for readers who:
– feel drawn to India, Tibet or sacred travel
– are interested in consciousness beyond belief systems
– value awareness and discernment
– practice yoga and meditation
– do the inner work of healing, self-regulation and self-discovery
– enjoy cross-cultural memoirs (expats, third-culture lives, East-West bridge)
– sense that something deeper is unfolding in our time
This book makes a thoughtful gift for truth seekers, yogis, travellers and visionaries.

Some journeys take us across continents. Others take us home. A few do both. When I first arrived in India, I thought it was just for a visit. Today, fifteen years later, I’m still here, living in the Himalayas…

Karma, Chai & Consciousness grew out of years of travel across India and Tibet, to places as mystical and monumental as the questions we carry within. Whether in bustling towns like Vrindavan, Haridwar, Rishikesh and Tiruvannamalai or in the majestic stillness of Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar, I describe pilgrimage as an inner and outer journey beyond religious labels, open to deeper awareness and timeless truth.

This isn’t a checklist of holy sites. It’s a memoir about perception and transformation. And by revisiting certain power spots over time, I noticed how my view of them and of myself changed. You’ll feel the shifts in these pages. In this sense, my book becomes a guide to discernment and an exploration of what sacred places can evoke within us. It traces geography and sheds light on subtle aspects of our time: clairsentience, quantum fields, energetic distortions as well as processes of psyche and spirit.

Written from the vantage point of a German woman living in India and bridging East and West, the mundane and the mystical, I share what pilgrimage can cultivate in us: courage, a sense of humour, humility, equanimity, self-discovery and a felt connection to the divine.

The real pilgrimage begins wherever consciousness awakens. May this travelogue offer cross-cultural insight, invite you to perceive the extraordinary in everyday life and to trust your own inner knowing.

CONTENT:

Preface
Introduction

PART I – PREPARATION
Types of Power Spots
Potency of Pilgrimage
Legacy of Liberation in Bharat

PART II – PILGRIMAGES
1 | Vrindavan : Love’s Playground
2 | Haridwar : Gateway to the Gods
3 | Rishikesh : Ganga & Celestial Staircases
4 | Puttaparthi : Beyond Hot & Cold
5 | Mount Arunachala : Pure Isness
6 | Badrinath : Mysterious Yogi
7 | Ladakh : Past Life Flashbacks
8 | Rishikesh : Catharsis & Alchemy
9 | Lake Manasarovar : Recognition Beyond Time 
10 | Mount Kailash : The Pilgrimage of Pilgrimages
11 | Mount Arunachala : Multidimensional Recalibration
12 | Kumbh Mela : Cosmic Orchestrations
13 | Mount Arunachala : Signs of Kaliyuga
14 | The Divine : Closer than Your Breath

PART III – PERSPECTIVE
A Word of Caution
Closing Reflection

Acknowledgments
About the Author