Chandrika was born in Switzerland (1954), and went to Primary school until Matura in Aarau. For her studies she moved to Fribourg and graduated "magna cum laude" in psychology (Lic. Litt.Psychoology). She has worked as a school psychologist in Switzerland.

Her life changed when she visited Osho in Pune in 1976 and became a Sannyasin with the new name Ma Anand Chandrika, which means blissfull moonlight.
She undertook intensive studies in therapy and eastern wisdom with Buechi, Hellinger, Casriel, Painter, Orr, Barnett, Lowen, Veeresh D. Yuson and others.
In 1978 she founded and led a large Sannyas community in Switzerland for seven years. In 1984 she graduated in Meditation from RIMU as Sambodhi, M.M., D.Phil.M., Acharya.

Since 1985 she is living in the Osho Humaniversity in the Netherlands. After training with Veeresh, which first began in 1977, she graduated as a Humaniversity Therapist in 1987. She was first director of the community for four years and then director of group organization for seven years.
Since 1998 she is an Executive Director of the Humaniversity. She is a Professor in Humaniversity Therapy and is the Vice President of the university.

She met her husband Dharmaraj A. Carrivick in 1996. They married in 2001 on holidays in Australia and are living together in the Humaniversity.

She trains Humaniversity Therapists, and still practices as a group leader in Humaniversity Therapy, especially in Primal issues.
She is the Leader of the AUM Meditation Leader training and of the Sex Counsellor training. Twice a year she leads the Tan-Ju training, which is an emotional and social education for teenagers.

Chandrika is a championship prize winner in archery. She trained in Hap Ki Do and is an Osho-Do instructor, the Martial Arts system of the Humaniversity.

She enjoys children, cooking, ikebana flower decoration, photography, sculpting and painting.(See mandalas)