Sometimes when meditating there is a feeling of leaving the body and flying. Not that the body actually moves, it is an inner sensation as if the spirit leaves the body for a while. In the female there are some special connotations:
Klimt catches the feeling of freedom to voyage…………..
A couple in stone but voyaging lightly. from cave 16 Ajanta
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Tara. Statue in British Museum.
Tara is a female meditational entity (yidam) used in Vajrayana buddhism as an aid to meditation, so leading to emptiness ad salvation.