"The Mission Behind the Movement"
Meet Mainey, Founder of The Soul Dance Experience™
I’m Germaine Cookson,
but everyone calls me Mainey.
With a background in dance, drama, and executive leadership, I’ve spent decades moving people, on stages, in boardrooms, and in life.
But after facing burnout and navigating deep personal loss, I discovered something far more powerful than performance:
Movement as medicine.
That’s what led me to create
The Soul Dance Experience®, a guided somatic journey that helps people stop performing and start feeling again.
If you’re holding it all together, but your body’s holding it all in, the pressure, the pace, the pretending, you don’t need to push harder.
You need space to let go.
I work with women, teams, and leaders ready to release the overwhelm, reset their nervous systems, and reconnect with themselves one song, one breath, one shift at a time.
Why I Created The Soul Dance Experience™
From my heart to yours.
I found myself stuck, in a job that wasn’t right for me, in a season of life that didn’t light me up. So I returned to what always made me feel alive: dance, music, mindfulness, meditation, and somatic healing.
I didn’t plan it.
I just got took a pause and got out of my own way, And The Soul Dance Experience was born.
TSDE is my love letter to the world, a reminder that we don’t need to think our way out of everything. We need to feel. To reconnect with our bodies. To trust our rhythm. To remember the magic that lives within us.
I created this experience because too many women, too many humans, are stuck in their heads trying to solve problems that their bodies already hold the answers to.
Mission & Impact
To help high-achieving women, teams, and leaders reconnect with their brilliance, not through hustle, but through embodiment.
To turn burnout into balance. Pressure into presence. And fear into focused, grounded clarity.
The Soul Dance Experience® meets you exactly where you are, in the overthinking, fast-paced, emotionally overloaded space so many of us live in, and gently guides you back to:
A regulated nervous system
A reawakened spark
A body that feels safe to feel again
Through curated music, guided movement, and emotional release, participants often:
Feel grounded, lighter, and deeply reset
Drop the mask and reconnect with who they truly are
Laugh, cry, breathe, move — without needing to explain why
Leave feeling more alive, more present, more themselves
This is the moment before the breakthrough.
The one where you stop asking “What now?” And start remembering: “This is who I am.”
Why Movement Matters
Intentional movement is one of the most powerful tools for regulating the nervous system and restoring well-being.
It activates the vagus nerve, helping shift the body out of stress and into calm, connection, and clarity.
Movement boosts mood-regulating chemicals like dopamine and serotonin, lowers cortisol, and supports memory, focus, and emotional resilience.
Somatic movement goes a step further, releasing stored tension and patterns from the body for deeper, longer-lasting emotional reset.
Whether you're seeking clarity, focus, or relief from overwhelm, movement isn’t just exercise — it’s a proven reset for your brain and body.
The Soul Dance Experience™
Email: [email protected]
Cell: +1 (403) 922 4633
You can also find me on WhatsApp using the number above.
Location: Based in Calgary, Alberta
Available for Events Across Canada and Worldwide