about

Eréndira Jiménez Esquinca (she/they) is a queer, Mexican-born, San Diego-raised human, who currently lives on the unceeded Kumeyaay land she grew up on.

With 20 years of formal and informal experience as both student and teacher of Spirit, Eréndira’s work emerges from the experimental and experiential—a throwing of the Self into moments that yield art, spirituality, and self-expression.

Decolonial in both the undoing of oppressive histories (individual and shared) and the writing of new, collective, liberatory futures, they center the dance between story, practice, community as a way to assist individuals and communities in creating space for ever-evolving Selves.

Artistically, Eréndira fuses a variety of medium’s—visual art, photography, book art, textiles, poetry, short-form essays—and plays with the space between form and formlessness, the material and the spiritual, the practical and the mystical.

Her work points to themes of transformation, liberation, and flourishing as it emerges in the individual, moves through the communal, ripples out into the collective, and returns to the Self in a circular and spiraling motion though time and space, past/present/future, microscopic to macrocosmic.

They hold a Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, an M. A. in Spirituality from Bellarmine University, and continue to operate as an independent scholar/spiritual anthropologist of sorts.

She is currently engaged in personal study of a shifting collective spiritual landscape, the impact of an emerging generation on conceptions of structure and tradition, the reclamation of identity/belonging/purpose through the fusion of mean-making systems, and the ways metamodernity can support the transformation of spiritual communities.

You can find Eréndira playing and curating at Spirit School, playing with money at Portal, and holding Spirit space for a variety of humans.