The first step-by-step guide to the techniques of Kaula Tantra, the practical path of yoga to enlightenment. Written in the 8th century by the sage Matsyendranath, the Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra records the secret sexual and magical practices of the Yogini Kaula tradition, a tradition that focuses on practical methods for achieving enlightenment. Although the text contains about 60 practices, it is written in a "semi-lighted language" that obscures the secret principles that make the techniques work. It is the role of a teacher to awaken the student to the esoteric meaning of the practices within the text.

Revealing the practices and secret principles of Kaula Tantra with permission from his Snowy Witch, Lalita Devi, Daniel Odier explains each erotic and magical technique of the Kaula in depth. Providing a complete translation of the Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra from Sanskrit, he connects each practice with the text of Matsyendranath and offers vivid stories of his initiation into the practices.

He explores techniques from the complete secret method that yoginis have transmitted directly for millennia, such as how to open the nadis (energy channels of the body). He analyzes the Kaula techniques for acquiring siddhis — magical powers such as the ability to hear distant things or to appear in multiple locations simultaneously — as well as sacred protection and black magic. The author explains how Kaula practices relate to the 8 Red Goddesses, each of which can be found within the 8 chakras and represents a different aspect of the Royal Path of Shakti.

He shares a system of luminous visions for the unification of the practitioner’s body with vibration (rare) and consciousness until there is no difference between the inner world and the universe. Presenting the first step-by-step guide to the techniques of Kaula Tantra, Odier analyzes the practical path of yoga to enlightenment and offers a direct transmission through the liberating power of the written word.