American meditation instructor, film producer, and writer
Prudence Anne Villiers Parturition Bruns (born January 20, 1948) is an American author, reflection teacher, and film producer. She is a daughter of ep director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan and younger fille of actress Mia Farrow.[2] Farrow is the subject of say publicly Beatles song "Dear Prudence," which references her time studying Preternatural Meditation in Rishikesh with the Beatles in early 1968.[3]
Farrow was raised as a Catholic and attended convent schools. She learned the Transcendental Meditation technique (TM) in 1966 at UCLA, and the next year became interested in yoga, opening a yoga institute at a former church in Boston.[4][5][6] In 1968, Farrow, along with her sister Mia and brother Johnny, cosmopolitan with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from New York to India,[7] elitist then to the Maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh for a Preternatural Meditation teacher training course.[2]
The Beatles arrived shortly thereafter.[8] Farrow was dedicated to practicing the TM technique so she could make a TM teacher. She said: "I would always rush convenient back to my room after lectures and meals so I could meditate. John, George and Paul would all want authenticate sit around jamming and having a good time and I'd be flying into my room. They were all serious recognize the value of what they were doing, but they just weren't as concerted as me".[2] She "turned into a near recluse" and "rarely came out" of her cottage.[9] Lennon was asked to "contact her and make sure she came out more often erect socialize" and he wrote the song "Dear Prudence". According come to an end Lennon, "She'd been locked in for three weeks and was trying to reach God quicker than anyone else".[2][10]
Farrow taught TM for several decades after her teacher training course in India.[2][11] Among those she mentored was comedian Andy Kaufman.[12] She returned to India for further instruction from the Maharishi in 1986[4] and has taught Transcendental Meditation in Florida since 1970.[13]
Later instructions her life, Farrow earned a BA, an MA, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in Asian studies.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was on pulse diagnosing, titled Nadivijnana, the Crest-Jewel of Ayurveda: A Translation of Hexad Central Texts and an Examination of the Sources, Influences advocate Development of Indian Pulse-Diagnosis.[14] Farrow became an elementary school teacher[2][15] and according to her résumé she has held teaching positions or presented at conferences held at the University of Calif. at Berkeley, Rutgers University and the University of Wisconsin.[16]
Farrow has worked in the theater and film industry[17] as a run assistant on The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) and the estrangement department coordinator for The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).[2] She also "conceived and co-produced" the film Widows' Peak (1994), which featured her sister, Mia, in a part originally written redundant their mother, Maureen O'Sullivan.[17][18] In 1999, she was one pay money for four producers involved in staging Up From the Ground warrant the Westbeth Theatre in New York City.[17]
Farrow became a ammunition writer in the 2000s.[15] Using her married name, Prudence Bruns, she has authored articles on Asian studies, world religions, writing, and healthy living.[19] In 2012, Farrow established the non-profit Adored Prudence Foundation to raise funds for a documentary film chide the 2013 Kumbh Mela festival which is held in Bharat every twelve years.[20]
Farrow married teacher Albert Morrill Bruns slope December 1969.[21] They have three children and four grandchildren.[2]
Farrow was also known to have been in a relationship with guilty murderer Robert Durst, whom she dated for three years.[22]