My Story

Namaste. My name is Kamya, and you may know me from my travel page: Wandering Kamya. A journey that took me across the entire world - discovering myself, ancient cultures and the worlds of higher consciousness.

Typing this from Varanasi, feels surreal.

Because this journey has been so diverse, so full of experiences - I've barely had time to process anything for about ten years. But we all have to start from somehwere, so here's my story

Growing up in England and renouncing the conventional world

I grew up in England and completed my Masters in Economics from the University of Warwick with distinction. I also completed a B.Sc in Economics from Loughborough University with distinction, and completed work experiences in investment banking (Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays Capital).

After completed my postgraduate degree, I really felt like I couldn't see my future in the City of London. I was all set to enter the world of investment banking full time, and even reached the final round of interviews for McKinsey - but I left everything at the end of 2015 to return to India.

Initially, I thought I would take a gap year to travel. My soul was seeking the raw experience of life, beyond my textboks. Though my spiritual journey had started in 2011 (in this lifetime), I wanted time to discover myself. So I started my first solo travel journey to Cambodia. 2 months in South East Asia.

At the time, I was doing online economics tutoring to support myself. I had online students in England and would work whilst I travelled.

In 2016, I discovered the world of Instagram. Not only was I craving to share my various travel experiences, but I also enjoyed the process of content creation. In 2017, I bought my first camera. The official start of my travel blogging journey, where I grew organically and travelled across multiple countries.

Adventuring across the planet

From 2016 onwards, I travelled continuously as a digital nomad. Working from my laptop, creating content - and absobing all the travel experiences that I could. I travelled across Europe, Asia, America, Japan and Hawaii. This was one of the best times of my life, full of madness, adventure and rapid transformation.

I spent many months in Bali and in Koh Phangan, discovering the new age spirtiuality community. This was my first introduction to the world of shamanism, the knowledge of spiritual plants and healing modalities.

This opened up so many things for me, and in 2019 I travelled to Peru and sat with the indigenous shamans in Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies. These ancient rituals awakened my dormant ancestal memory, and played a massive role in helping me understand my own Vedic traditions from a deeper level.

In 2020, when I had to return to India from Koh Phangan, I knew that something was about to fundamnetally change. I also unravelled the various truths about this 'matrix' world that I once considered normal, including the realities of Hindu civilsiational history and persecution that were actively being supressed.

Kashi, the world's most ancient city

For many years, I sought out how to make impact for Hindu civilisation. I knew that only online activism or sociopolitical avenues were not enough; and that change had to come from the deepest levels of consciousness that I had already access in multiple ways through my travelling journey.

I engaged with the world of the 'Indic Rennaisance' for some time, before realising that many of my ideas or visions were not being fully understood. Yet Kashi Vishwanath had other plans.

From 2021, I started to engage deeply with Kashi - discovering a lost world of my ancestors that I had no idea existed. As someone who was always seeking out the mystical, the land of Kashi drew me further.

Across the course of 5 years, I held many group yatra trips. Conducted many workshops, and shared the magic of Kashi with my audience. Kashi showed me the most beautiful depth of the ancient world, but also revealed the shadow.

The creation of Indiralaya Foundation

As the issues of Indian society started to creep at me - be it the plastic pollution, the dilution of ancient knowledge even in a place like Kashi, the corruption and treatment of women, I realised that if I really wanted to make change - I had to stay. 

I had to stay, and change it. One food offering at time. One lecture at a time.

Because Kashi, is the whole universe. It is the body of Shiva. If anything changes here, it changes across the entire universe. And indeed, the state of our tirth kshetras is a state of the world as a whole.

To change these issues, we needed to overturn the entirety of unconscious capitalism - and that effort had to happen at the karmic level. Not simply the intellectual one. 

Moreover, it really devastated me that I could just fly back to Bali and have 15 organic restaurants to eat in, but here, I was yet to find even one. Even one organic vegetable source. Whilst the peak of the trillion dollar wellness industry was capitalising on these very same Vedic traditions - the indigenous Hindu lineages and tradition keepers, could not even access pure food.

The first conscious danam I held was during the Mahakumbh of 2025 (once in 144 years!). Distributing organic rice, lentils and ghee and educating locals. This moved me deeply, since I was bridging so many worlds. Bridging the pinnacle of ‘wellness’ with the people from whom the world had taken it from. Bridging economic barriers, bridging social barriers and creating access to nutrition and ecological knowledge.

When I visited my first Gurukul in Manikarnika ghat with Gir cow ghee, I realised that most of these children were eating pure, real ghee for the first time in their life. As of now, we have already distributed over 500L of pure ghee across temples and families of Kashi. Organic honey, rice, and offerings in Annakshetras.

This journey is not just my journey, it's all of our journey. It's the journey of of human civilisation remembering it's ancient ways of life. It is the protection of dharma, of mother nature, and of our soul.

Jai Kashi Vishwanath
Jai Gaumata
Jai Maa Tara
Jai Shri Ram