What is "navigates"

Usage examples of "navigates".

Oblivious to everything and everyone around her, she navigates her way behind the bar, takes a bottle of klee from the shelf, and lurches off again.

Sandra navigates the stormy seas of corporate "sensitivity exercises," cellular-phone proposals from her trendy ex-boyfriend Billy Ray, Flip's interoffice petition-of-the-week, and the company's incomprehensible new requisition forms, while vainly trying to determine what started the hair-bobbing fad of the 1920s, until all the confusion leads her into a joint project with Bennett working with not monkeys but sheep (she figures it'll give her a good feel for herd behavior).