Christine Bennett, Owner

Christine is the founder and owner of Absolute Wellness Quinte. 

With over three decades of personal experience as a healthcare practitioner (Registered Massage Therapist, Osteopathic Manual Practitioner) Christine has gained valuable understanding and empathy for many of the health and healthcare challenges we face individually and also together as a community in an ever-changing world. 

Christine highly values an active, multi-level team approach for optimal personal and community wellness and opened AWQ to support this belief. 

Certified Meditation & Alignment Coach and Yoga Instructor
Stef Bourke is a 500 hour Certified Meditation and Alignment Coach and a 200 hour Certified Yoga Instructor. In addition to leading mindful yoga flows, she helps others develop their meditation practices and provides practical tools to help her clients experience more mindful moments in their day. 
She loves nature, animals and authentic connection. When she’s not practicing meditation or yoga, she’s outside drinking in the experience of the world we live in. Stef offers meditation and mindfulness classes, hatha, vinyasa and yin yoga classes, sound bath meditations and a variety of meditation-based workshops. Stef is available for group and 1:1 sessions.

Carrie Schaefer has been guiding students since 2010, drawing on decades of personal yoga practice and a passion for mindful movement. She is a registered yoga teacher who leads Yin, Restorative, and Gentle Flow yoga classes, encouraging students to slow down, connect with their breath, and tune into what feels right for their bodies. Her classes offer a grounded, compassionate space for building strength, balance, and inner calm. Carrie is also a Consulting Hypnotist, HypnoBirthing Educator, and QHHT Facilitator, supporting deeper mind-body healing for those interested.

AnnMarie Wolf has been living and teaching yoga in Belleville since the spring of 2019. After retiring from heading up the Department of Health and Wellness at Keswick H.S. AnnMarie pursued her passion for yoga and accumulated accreditation for 500+ hours of Yoga Teacher Training.  Her mission is to empower older adults to embrace the joy of movement thereby adding vitality to their lives.  She has a broad experience base including enjoying teaching at a variety of yoga studios in Toronto and in Belleville. Post-retirement she also taught a selection of courses in Kinesiology and Fitness Leadership at Sheridan College for 10 semesters.

AnnMarie has a BSc. in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo, Teaching Certification from University of Western Ontario, M.Ed. in Exercise Physiology from The University of Virginia and PhD level accomplishments in Human Physiology, Biochemistry and Anatomy as a graduate student in the medical school of the University of Virginia.