When I was working as a ski instructor in Vermont, we were explicitly told you must ask the person if they were ok with touching them (except if there was danger or an emergency), but for routine corrections or demonstrations you were required to ask "are you ok with me touching your knee, ankle, etc". Some religious sects do not allow any contact between an unrelated male and a female.
Relax Pooj, you could have been in the next article titled "Teacher forces student into multiple sexual escapades", but no, you found a way out of it, good job!