Rosalyn Berne grew up in Philadelphia PA, before moving with her family to Amherst, Massachusetts. Her adult years have mostly been spent in central Virginia where she is a professor at UVA. She has travelled internationally for study, work, and touring, to various parts of East and South Asia, Central and South America, West Africa, and Europe. Rosalyn has authored five books, with a sixth forthcoming in July 2025 and the sequel to her novel currently in progress. As an intuitive interspecies communicator, she is particularly attuned to equines and cetaceans.

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In 2012, Rosalyn was riding on horseback, crossing the Arenal River in Costa Rica. She fell off into the river and when she got up and back on she could hear and communicate directly with that horse. The whole story of her newly discovered gift is recounted in When the Horses Whisper. The YouTube video below features Rosalyn Berne, author of When the Horses Whisper, explaining what she does when communicating with horses.