Casa Malou is a tantra institute on Castroper Straße in Bochum-Grumme, run by Claudia Tiburczi. It works across two registers at once: a wellness and relaxation side — sound journeys, meditation, yoga, coaching and hypnosis — and the tantra massage the house calls SensualTouch.

The studio's own description of that ritual is unusually direct. A tantra massage, it says, leaves out no part of the body, and is among the most intense forms of passion and closeness, of eroticism and nearness. Skin-to-skin contact makes every massage a sensual one, and the ground of all of it is safety and trust. SensualTouch is offered for women, for men, for couples, and as a four-hands massage — described throughout as an unhurried experience of sensuality with nothing to prove and no expectation to meet.

Alongside the massages the house runs its own seminar evenings, the Handarbeitsabende and Handwerkerabende, and a team of practitioners. Appointments are made in advance, by telephone on the landline or the mobile number +49 152 21972430, or through the studio's own booking page.