Robyn Landis is an author, public speaker and folk singer from the northwestern United States. At age 25 she wrote a book called Bodyfueling which was published by Warner Books and became a surprise bestseller. "Bodyfueling" is a term she coined and has used to promote her philosophy of increased health and happiness through knowing the important details about how your body works and the important interactions between nutrition and exercise. Bodyfueling is an approach to health and fitness that emphasizes a thorough understanding of how the human body uses food and reacts to exercise. It places a heavy emphasis on breaking away from "diet thinking" and encourages people to concentrate instead on eating for performance, eating in accordance with your levels of physical activity and increasing your level of physical activity in many cases. Simply stated, Bodyfueling advocates "eat more, exercise more" as a key to fitness rather than "eat less, exercise more", which Landis indicates is a recipe for disaster.
From 1989-1999 she studied traditional herbal medicine with Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa. This led her to co-author a second book called Herbal Defense in 1997 with Khalsa, also published by Warner Books.
Landis writes on a range of topics; principally: health and fitness, ecologically conscious shopping, green living, sustainability, natural remedies and eco-political activism.
Also a songwriter and musician, she began performing professionally in 2005. Her gifts and skills as a writer, applied to songcraft, earned her quick recognition. Since 2005 she has accrued nearly 50 songwriting awards and honors. She and co-writer Larry Murante won the Grand Prize, Folk category /Session 1, in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (2009). Landis also won first place at Woody Guthrie Folk Festival (2006), second place in the Unisong International Songwriting Competition (2006), a Telluride Troubadors honorable mention (2008), and was a Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist (2009). She tours nationally and teaches songwriting at festivals.