Producer Jamila Wignot

When sweaty, barely covered bodies bend and twist in tight space in a yoga class, boundaries can get blurry. What one person may consider a well-intentioned hands-on adjustment to a yoga pose can seem inappropriate to someone else. The combination of physical touch, spirituality and power dynamics have made the contemporary yoga studio a complicated place at a time when there’s heightened sensitivity around issues of consent.

On the latest episode of “The Weekly,” we explore why some of us are willing to go along with things in a yoga studio that we might question outside of one. And why many of these methods have gone unexamined for so long.

Our reporter Katherine Rosman, an avid yogi herself, talks with women who have accused Krishna Pattabhi Jois, the renowned guru of Ashtanga yoga, of humping them, grinding against them and fingering them through their yoga pants under the guise of instruction.

Though Jois died in 2009, his influence in the yoga community remains. And the practice of hands-on adjustments in contemporary yoga can create confusion between teachers and students — especially when there hasn’t been a discussion about consent.