The building itself is a grade II listed Arts & Crafts country house set in 10 acres of woodland with excellent views of the beautiful Ceiriog Valley. Located in a commanding position over the valley it lies four miles from Llangollen just over the border into North Wales and is twenty miles south of Chester, eight miles north of Oswestry  Shropshire.

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It is easily accessible from the M6 and M56 motorways via the A5 and A483, thus making it ideally situated for its role as a peaceful retreat away from the stresses of urban life. Although relatively remote, it is easily accessible by road and rail from Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and their airports.Traveling time from London by train is typically 2 hours 48 minutes via Chester.

 

 

Tan-y-Garth Hall Retreat is owned by The International Hermeneutic Society (IHS) and run by it's members on a voluntary basis.   

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The IHS began life in the late 1950’s in Liverpool. It was founded by Khen Ratcliffe and his teacher, Eugene Halliday. Ratcliffe was devoted to making Halliday's teaching accessible to a wider group of people and to this end he established the charity and oversaw the opening of Tan-y-Garth Hall in 1972  with the help of a group of supporters from Merseyside. He served as its first Director of Studies and Secretary of the Society. He was succeeded as Director after his death in 1992 by Donald Sinclair Lord, who also also taught by Halliday.

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​Other notable teachers associated with the Hall over the years include, Gordon & Pam Smith of Faith House on the Wirral, David and Zero Mahlowe of Parklands in Bowden Cheshire (the centre where Halliday lived and taught), Lynne & Richard Samuel-Perry of the Yoga Centre Oswestry and Dr. Alan Roberts, who along with his wife Vedah, were founding members.

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Both Halliday and Ratcliffe defined yoga after it’s Sanskrit source, meaning 'union' or 'yoking', and interpreted this as "union or yoking" with the divine. i.e. the process by which the individual works to be re-united with the ultimate source of their being. So yoga in this, as well as in the more more commonly understood sense in the west, remains the core of our work. Hence our work brings together yoga in the eastern and western traditions.