Monthly skating review: progress and goals adjustment

I'm thinking to review my training and progress monthly, in order to adjust my goals, my efforts and my training schedule. Last month I was injured and I skated very little so I have very little progress to look at, and my only goal was to heal...  Still it seamed a good opportunity to work on posture, musicality and expression as I do the home rink ice show rehearsals and I'm also talking a contemporary dance lesson once a week.

As i didn't skate that much, I had more time to read and watch skating. I came along some great adult skater blogs, and I followed the US Adult National Championship on icenetwork.com. That made my think once again about my progress and goals.

For next month or so, my first goals is to allow myself to heal. I have a soft tissue (ligaments and tendons) injury at my left hip for about a month.  Supposedly it helps to exercise lightly, but it doesn't seam I know how to skate lightly. So I plan to skate just 3 times a week so I'll have at least one rest day between the skating days, and to take it easy. Work on posture, that's it!

Second goal, get as much as possible out of the adult group number in the  ice show (things like learning the choreography faster, performing, smiling while skating, controlling the nerves, and as a technical goal to put my scratch spin in). I know at least half of the skaters and i know we'll have fun.

As my main goal is still to progress, I suppose if  I would feel good, I would be back at my previous training schedule with the focus on testing pre-juvenile MITF and 2 bronze dances.

As I'm not feeling 100% I'm thinking maybe is a good time to think about balancing skating with other activities. A year ago I redirected all the free time I had into skating, more exactly I gave up my 3 times a week yoga practice. I don't love yoga as much as I love skating, but my body sure loves how it feels after doing yoga. I'm actually afraid to start yoga while injured but I want to look for a way to have at least 2 days of a different exercise than skating. I'm still registered to the modern dance class for 6 weeks, so hopefully I can add something to that, like ballet. I wanted to take ballet for a long time...