Education and Career
Farrow taught TM for several decades after her TM teacher training course in India. Among those she mentored was comedian Andy Kaufman. She returned to India for further instruction from the Maharishi in 1986. She has taught Transcendental Meditation in NW Florida since 1970.
Farrow earned a BA, an MA, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley after majoring in South and Southeast Asian studies. Her doctoral dissertation was on pulse diagnosis, titled Nadivijnana, the Crest-Jewel of Ayurveda: A Translation of Six Central Texts and an Examination of the Sources, Influences and Development of Indian Pulse-Diagnosis. After obtaining her doctorate, she became an elementary school teacher.
Farrow has worked in the theater and film industry. Farrow worked as a production assistant on The Muppets Take Manhattan in 1984, and was the art department coordinator for The Purple Rose of Cairo in 1985. She also "conceived and co-produced" the 1994 film Widows' Peak, which featured her sister, Mia, in a part originally written for their mother, Maureen O'Sullivan. In 1999, she was one of four producers involved in staging Up From the Ground at the WestBeth Theatre in New York City.
Farrow became a magazine writer in the 2000s. Using her married name, Prudence Bruns, she has authored articles on Asian studies, world religions, ayurveda, and healthy living. In 2012 Farrow established the non-profit, Dear Prudence Foundation to raise funds for a documentary film of the 2013 Kumbh Mela festival held in India every twelve years.
She has presented at conferences and held teaching positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Rutgers University and the University of Wisconsin.
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