Kenkai Brandon Lamson has trained extensively in Soto Zen and is familiar with a wide range of meditation traditions including Vipassana and Tibetan Buddhist practices. In 2009, he received the Bodhisattva Precepts from his teacher, Konjin Gaelyn Godwin. He is one of the co-founders of the Houston Dharma Collective and teaches meditation in diverse settings such as The University of Texas at Austin,, the Houston Zen Center, and Texas state and county prisons. In 2024, he was ordained by his teacher as a Zen priest in the Soto lineage.