Editing Waking Down in Mutuality (section)

===Ma Tam Temple of Being===
In 1995 Saniel Bonder established a nonprofit organization: "Ma-Tam [[Temple]] of [[Being]]."<ref>Bonder, Saniel (1998), The White Hot Yoga of the Heart p. x</ref>
The following year Bonder began holding open sittings in his small apartment in [[Marin County, California]].<ref>Bonder, Saniel (2000), The Incarnation of Mutuality p. 26</ref> He  advocated the notion of "mutuality": a perspective that recognizes the need for the functional hierarchy between student and teacher but endeavors to simultaneously keep sight of the equality between them in their interactions.<ref>Khalsa, Sat Puran Singh (2008)  Journey into Spiritual Maturity: A Thematic Analysis of Transpersonal Development p. 63</ref> Students that attended these sittings spoke about their lives and their own sense of their "awakening process." In turn, Bonder offered counseling and what he termed "spiritual transmission": the communication of what he and his students considered his awakened state through gazing [[meditation]], open conversation, and simply being together.<ref name="History">[http://awakenedmutuality.org/wakingdown_history/ "History of Waking Down in Mutuality"]</ref> 
Bonder then began naming advanced students as fellow teachers and taught with them alongside his partner (and present wife) Linda Groves. He explicitly recognized fellow Waking Down teachers as colleagues rather than subordinates, stating that this was a further distinction between himself and his former teacher.<ref name="Bonder Saniel 2002 pp. 170-171">Bonder Saniel (2002), Sure Fire pp. 170-171</ref>

In 1997 WDM teacher Ted Strauss organized a Waking Down Weekend workshop in collaboration with Bonder and other teachers. Thereafter, weekend workshops became an ongoing activity and staple of WDM work. With a new influx of students, Bonder and other Waking Down teachers developed the first teacher certification-training program in April 2001.<ref name="History" />